The long dry spells this spring and summer have made for marvellous game clay days, and many of you joined us to have a go at faux pheasant, partridge and duck.
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February 28, 2010 – 5:00 pm
Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work
We start booking shooting for one season before the previous season closes, and are in full swing planning for the season to come by the time March becomes lamb-like.
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By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, grouse, Hebrides, outer hebrides, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock
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September 3, 2009 – 7:00 am
The best piece of canine wisdom I have been given is that the time to train your dog is the off season: using it during the season is more likely to undo training than perfect it. That said, what with trips to Texas, South Africa, and beyond clogging the first months of the off season, [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged clumber, Clumbers, cocker spaniel, dog, grouse, lab, partridge, retrieving, spaniel, spaniels, Springer spaniel, training
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Many of you have shot simulated game, whether I’m the one flinging clays over your head, or you’ve tried it with somebody else. We’ve just trialled a new venue and format for these fun out of season days, and can now offer 4 species simulated game days from spring next year.
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By Howard
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Posted in Corporate Entertainment, Driven Shooting, Events
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Also tagged Driven, duck, Game, game days, grouse, hospitality, landscape, new forest, partridge, pond, Sim Species, simulated game
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By the start of August, fluffy week old chicks have morphed into stroppy teenagers, ready for putting to wood. After all, in five weeks time the partridge season opens, and in 11 weeks the pheasant season starts.
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By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged conservancy trust, covey, farming methods, foxes, game and wildlife, gamekeeper, genetic diversity, old chicks, partridge, pheasant season, poults, predation, wildlife conservancy
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Some keepers stress on the day, berating the beaters as they race around trying to ensure that the birds are moving in the right direction and the right numbers to provide guns with the perfect day’s sport. Others spend their summers stressing over the chicks in the rearing field, clucking around like mother hens
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By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Uncategorized
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Also tagged brood, Catch, driven pheasant, field, Keeper, nipple drinkers, partridge, pegs, rearing, season, Shed
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As you stand on your peg waiting for the high bird of the day to glide over you (and hopefully fall at your feet), stop to consider the commitment and effort of the keeper who got it there.
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The rain has put paid to my attempts to bag that muntjac, and I have resorted to gazing out the window at the moist pheasants in the Keeper’s laying field for amusement.
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By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged bag, Byzantis, Egg, Keeper, Michigans, Muntjac, rain, season, wood
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March 28, 2008 – 11:03 am
Our peripatetic habits and Blackberry addiction make email (through the form below) the best way to reach us.
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By Christopher
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March 26, 2008 – 10:29 am
Between August and January, driven shooting can take the adventurous gun to fabulous locations all over the British Isles.
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By Christopher
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged boar, Britain, British, Driven, duck, grouse, gun, Howard Day, Hunting, Lewis Snipe, novices, package, partridge, quail, rabbit, Scottish, Shoot, Shooting, snipe, sportspeople, team, UK, USA, woodcock
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