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Evening everyone, I am looking for some new beaters this year as some of the old guard we have are retiring from doing most days we hold, and poss looking for some extra flankers to assist us this coming season, if you would like any details please PM me for further details, we usually have a keepers day as well if stocks permit, we had a cracking season last year breaking all records. Many thanks

Hi Kelvin, Best thing to do is apply to one of the gamekeeping college's like Sparsholt or Newton Rigg and gain some extra qualifications and you'll prob get a placement on a shoot as part of your course, you'll get more experience working with headkeepers or beat keepers on shoots and maybe just maybe you could get taken on once college is finished, speaking from experience a lot of jobs you see advertised nearly all ask about experience, its not all about shooting vermin, its bloody hard work and can be very long hours,I'm not saying you won't get a job without going to college but it will make it easier to get a job in the keepering world, I hope you find yourself a job even a part time one just helping out, the more experience you get the better.

There is no minimum height for the ladder traps but I have two running now one 8x6 and the other 6x6, and there working fine, we have made the holes big enough for the crows to drop in but you need to hang mesh down either side of the ladder to make it harder for them to fly back up and attempt to get out of the ladder also both ends of the ladder blocked off or they climb up the sides and out, I'm not telling everyone how to do it as everyone has a way what works best for them but this what works best for us and were catching now.

Evening all, I know its probably been asked before, but what size ideally is the holes in a ladder trap for carrions to drop through, many thanks.

Anyone come across any fox cubs yet?

Had Kings game cover chaps out today, doing soil tests and talking about improving our crops, they will send out a full report in the next few days regarding what the different plots need and we are getting a bespoke seed package for each plot, as we had the same trouble as some of the posts above regarding crops becoming flat before Christmas, I know it will cost us but if we do it right our crops should be shootable right through the season as were fairly exposed where we are and get hammered by wind in the winter months.

Just out of interest what breed of pheasant do you guy's release on your shoot and your reasons for choosing that breed, you hear so many stories regarding these "wonder breeds" nowadays, personally I think its just down to management and the topography of your land.

If anyone is interested from roughly 9-30am until 3-00pmish Newton Rigg college is having a workshop day about a few different things including gamebird welfare and disease issues, then as far as I know the afternoon is talks by guest speakers including Lindsay Waddell from the shooting times and a few others from the shooting world. I should mention the workshop day is tomorrow 4th March.

As the title says we are having our Christmas clay shoot this coming Sunday the 22nd December, it is a 50 bird sporting shoot with various bottles down to 10th place, there will be food on the day as well as cartridges, the ground itself is strictly fibre wad only. The shoot will start at 10-30am and last entries taken at 2-30pm. The price will be £15 first entry followed by £12 re-entry, the ground will be signposted from the village of Greystoke on the day of the shoot, if you require any further info feel free to PM me. I will also be posting this on our facebook page. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a great new year, Good shooting wherever your at.

Evening all, As the title says I am looking for a couple of beaters to assist us this coming Saturday, I know its short notice but a few of the regulars are away this weekend and I am short, so if your interested PM me and hopefully sort something out, beaters with dogs preferred please, we maybe have a space for a picker up to, we are located near melmerby in Cumbria. Many Thanks.

As the title says we have to cancel this bank holiday mondays clay shoot as the heavy snow and large drifts have blocked some of the ground and the whole access road we apologise and have no other choice, but the next shoot will be going ahead on the 7th April as we will have the snow cleared by then if we don't get anymore. If you require any info about the next shoot on the 7th April let me know on here or our facebook page. Thank you.

As the title says we have no choice to cancel this coming bank holiday mondays clay shoot as some of the ground and the whole access road are cut off due to heavy snow and large drifts we apologise but it can't be helped and the next shoot is on the following sunday 7th April by then we will have the snow cleared if we don't get anymore and hopefully see you on the 7th April. If you require any further info on the following shoot please let me know via here or on facebook. Thank you.

The RC50's are a 3" shell, the Hull Solway are ok but lack the firepower of the big shells in my opinion, my top choice by far is Winchester XX BB's best shell ever made its a pity Winchester stopped producing them you may get a similar load from Winchester in a turkey load or something in lead.

I used RC40's last season on decoying and had good results with them and will def use them again, as for RC50's top shell for when your flighting geese in scotland inland.