Price per Pheasant

[reggiegun]

Hi,

 

I run a small shoot, we put down 1200 pheasants .It is looked after by 9 guns all working lads. With the price of feed this year, we are thinking of putting on a paid day for 8 guns.

What in your opinion would be a fair price per bird shot. I am thinking along £16 per bird, I have been offered £800 for 8 guns for an 80 bird day, I feel this is too cheap.

Your opinions please.

 

 

Reggiegun

[Guest stiv24]

£1600 wouldn't be out of the way

[Crouch valley]

Hi there I think £16 is far too cheap £20 a bird min as the average is £26 a bird you can always advertise it free on guns on pegs. As for £800 they are having a laugh we used to sell a walked up day for £150 a person a day

[fluke2]

Paid £24 a bird last year 8 guns shot 156 birds so £3744 + 100 tip

so 480 each,the price included a buffet lunch and a drink at the end,

personally I would run two days one for decent money and let

these guys clear up at the end of the season nothing lost then, if

they only shoot 20 or 30 keep thier bill at 800 quid.

[MattSoanes]

Personally i think you should be looking to get £20 - £22 per bird. Was paying £16 per bird 10 years ago!!

[AdamHall]

think the shoot i beat on charges about £25 per bird and think thats about the going average

[al4x]

what you need to ask yourself is what amount do you want to recoup, a bit depends on the land and whether you lay on beaters and make it formal and have the birds for an 80-100 bird day. The going rate is towards £25 a bird however if you are looking to do it as a one off and cash in hand and to cover feed costs then its what you are happy with. I'd say £800 was far too cheap, double that realistic if you lay on an ok day but you do open yourself to the stresses and strains of a let day and never keeping everyone happy.

[Scully]

According to another website which 'Guns on Pegs' were advertising on prices varied between £24 to £35 per bird for Pheasants.

[Highlander]

I guess if you looked hard enough you'd find driven pheasant shooting for sale at £18 but not £16 and at that price I'd query how good (or bad) they might be, the costs are pretty fixed per bird unless you get into huge numbers.

 

Round here, East Anglia, the prices vary from £20 cheapest and that's exceptional to over £32.00 + VAT! Personally I don't think East Anglian pheasants are worth over £28 unless you've some exceptional ground (and there is some) but the partridges are something else!

[Kit]

Hi we do a paid day for 9 guns at £1600 for a bag of 80 no ground game.

The guns get a bacon sarnie and soup at lunch then tea and cake etc at the end they supply any booze.

3 drives in morning 2 after lunch dependant on bag

Make sure the shots are counted as we had one drive 176 shots for 9 birds

Make sure that you have plenty of pickers up as every bird counts

Have a buffer amount of birds plus or minus 5%.

Make sure that the guns know extra will be charged if they shoot over the bag

Give the gun captain an option of the last drive if the bag has been reached before this drive as it is annoying to have a bill for extra birds sprung on you at the end of the day

Tell the chap who offered you £800 to go and have a lie down in a darkened room as he is suffering from extreme wallet tightness

Work your costs out

Grower £310 per tonne

Wheat £200 per tonne

ACs in feed £7

Fubenvet £70

Poult £3.10

Tonic for birds,pen repairs,fuel for ATV,insurance BASC I hope,new feeders water system repairs and cleaning,Grit, beaters(possible £20 per day pickersup possible £30)etc,etc,etc

The atmosphere for a bought day is fifferent for doing it with a syndicate as the guns EXPECT SHOOTING of a certain quality.

Do not undervalue your efforts

Kit

[fortune82]

I pay £25 a bird on fairly flat land around East Yorkshire. Up in Scotland I have paid up to £32 a bird for REALLY high birds! Having said that I did flinch a bit at the end of the day!

[charver]

Hi,

 

I run a small shoot, we put down 1200 pheasants .It is looked after by 9 guns all working lads. With the price of feed this year, we are thinking of putting on a paid day for 8 guns.

What in your opinion would be a fair price per bird shot. I am thinking along £16 per bird, I have been offered £800 for 8 guns for an 80 bird day, I feel this is too cheap.

Your opinions please.

 

 

Reggiegun

 

try £250 a gun for a 80 bird day

[WGD]

What you're offering would come under the description "mini-driven" in the market, you don't say whether you are putting on breakfast, lunch, transport etc but £22 - £25/bird is about right; don't under-sell it but be sure you can deliver that bag with birds of appropriate quality if you are charging the same rates are commercial competitors.

 

Edit: just noticed this post is months old

Edited March 14, 2011 by WGD