February 10, 2013 – 10:32 am
Another season closes in the UK and I think one word sums it up: WET. Right from the get go we should have known it was going to be one of those years. The glorious 12th became the thrilling 13th with the way Sunday fell. It should have been obvious that any season starting on [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged black powder, duck shooting, game birds, moors, pheasant shooting, pheasants, pointer, season, snipe, yorkshire dales
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October 19, 2011 – 9:05 pm
The glorious 12th came racing up on me like a steam train, leaving disarray in its wake as I tackled Yorkshire, Croatia, the 19th century and the Sussex downs in rapid succession. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged black powder, flintlock, grouse, isle of lewis, Mini-driven, partridge, pheasant, quail, Shoot, Shooting, Yorkshire
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February 17, 2011 – 10:35 am
I make no apologies for dusting off this old chestnut and republishing. When the loonies, kooks and crazies stop asking questions that would require the publication of numerous volumes to answer, I’ll leave this one in the archive. Until then… Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work We start [...]
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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, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent
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January 30, 2011 – 9:47 pm
Before you start shaking your head about the cost of foreign travel (never mind sporting holidays) and cleaning your weapons in preparation for mothballing, have a look at Outside Days out of season sporting breaks. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Misc, Packages, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged antelope, Argentina, Croatia, decoying, Doves, Flyfishing, Gemsbok, Mongolia, Outside Days, partridge, pointers and setters, quail, River, Sea Trout, Shooting, South Africa, stalker, Texas, trout, wildebeast
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January 23, 2011 – 7:03 pm
My passion for wild birds in wild places has led many of you astray. While it’s a stretch to call parts of Norfolk wild, the woodcock that flock there to avoid the winter cold had me dragging out my windproofs and the guinea pigs for a couple of walked up days earlier this month. RSS [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged consecutive shots, left and right, migratory, Norfolk, passion, scenery, Sporting, wild bird, wild birds, wild places
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January 2, 2011 – 10:09 pm
When it comes to birds, we pride ourselves on offering the extremes. Our quail and woodcock packages in Croatia are no exception. If, as the dog days of summer roll around each year, you contemplate the sorry state of the British summer and rusty shooting skills in the face of the Glorious 12th and beyond, [...]
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Also tagged Croatia, Croatian, dog days, dogs, english pointers, Europe, hunting ground, migratory quail, partridge, pointer, pointers, pointers and setters, quail, Shooting, villa by the sea, Walked
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The Outside Days Easter Egg Hunt took us a little further afield than normal this year: three intrepid guinea pigs and I spent Easter weekend in Norfolk (much to No.2′s disgust). Keeping an ear to the ground may have left me with a bad back, but it did mean I heard about some fantastic wild [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged duck, ducks, Great, Norfolk, Outside Days, Shoot, snipe, sport, Wild, wild bird, wild birds, woodcock snipe, Yarmouth
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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. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
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, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent
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September 9, 2009 – 7:00 am
Fortunately, excursions to the Outer Hebrides aren’t made or broken by the weather…for dour folk, the Hebrideans are weather optimists: whatever comes next, it won’t be the same twice. Very like the sport. After grouse, the odd snipe or passing plover, and a whatever the collective noun is for 3 salmonid species, we’d stretched FlyBe’s [...]
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Posted in Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Fishing, golden eagles, grouse, Hebrides, Lewis, loch, midges, mink, mink trapping, outer hebrides, peregrine, plover, pointer, pointers, scottish national heritage, sea eagle, Shooting, snipe, trout, Walked
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I hate to shop. My wife is an expert. I love fieldsports and gatherings of what the Americans call ‘likeminded individuals’. Each year, Number Two takes advantage of this and uses the CLA Game Fair to kit me out from top to toe for the coming season. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact [...]
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Posted in Events
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Also tagged CLA, clumber, Fair, fieldsports, Game, John Bye, sport, Sporting, stockings, tweeds, year
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