Mr pigeon Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hi guys just wondering how much people are paying or charging per bird this season. We have a nice little shoot with some reasonable birds and on our only sold day we charge £30 a bird. A shoot up the road is charging £37 a bird. We are in West Sussex is it the same elsewhere? Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 £37 a bird but if a duck drive is included we charge £34 atb Evo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerzone Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 £30-£42 per bird. The £30 stuff is average, £42 place I beat on are awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cockerman59 Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Syndicate shoot so 18 X £400 = £7200. Average bird shot per season, 350 to 400 therefore £7200/375, so normal about £19.00 a bird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Syndicate shoot so 18 X £400 = £7200. Average bird shot per season, 350 to 400 therefore £7200/375, so normal about £19.00 a bird £19 a bird is probably below cost when all expenses are taken into consideration. If not I would be very interested to see the figures. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) Cockerman has now kindly forwarded his figures and they do stack up. 18 man syndicate sharing the work, beat and stand so no beaters to pay and with the guns doing the work so no keeper to pay. Just showes what can be done with a good hardworking syndicate. My own costs last year were from memory around £23 and that was at 40% return. A Edited October 31, 2014 by Alycidon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Location is a big factor in cost per bird, if your stuck between a couple of big shoots you'll gain birds and costs will be lower, similar to being a pheasant paridise in the middle of a desert, no where to leak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggone Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 (edited) Cockerman has now kindly forwarded his figures and they do stack up. 18 man syndicate sharing the work, beat and stand so no beaters to pay and with the guns doing the work so no keeper to pay. Just showes what can be done with a good hardworking syndicate. My own costs last year were from memory around £23 and that was at 40% return. A . If its a stand one beat one you only take part in half the shooting which doubles the cost? Andy Forget all that, I think I'm talking out my btm Edited November 1, 2014 by Doggone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Cockerman must be getting free rent to produce birds for that money, very good value. Ur generally around 7-7.50 a bird so by the time ur only shooting 30-40% plus rent and any other costs on top if ur anywhere near low to mid £20's ur doing pretty good Doggone i imagine u mean u get half the shooting so ur sort of right (50 bird day ur team should shoot 25ish birds) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 We have similar or better figures to cockerman but free rent and wheat does help, small syndicate putting down 300 or so on 600 acres. All the work done ourselves so the only real costs are the birds and pellets and a bit for maintaining pens. Usually shoot close to 200 a year over 4 days but may do better this year as we started off with 95 on the first day In our case the farmer is a mate and he gets as many guest guns as he likes so it gets him a lot of shooting in return so a bit of a bargain all round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Cockerman must be getting free rent to produce birds for that money, very good value. Ur generally around 7-7.50 a bird so by the time ur only shooting 30-40% plus rent and any other costs on top if ur anywhere near low to mid £20's ur doing pretty good Doggone i imagine u mean u get half the shooting so ur sort of right (50 bird day ur team should shoot 25ish birds) There is a rent figure included in his figures. Nothing for keeper, beaters, insurance, very modest amount for fuel, nothing for catering ( from memory) . Just birds, rent, feed, repairs to equip, fuel. There are no game crops so that again helps costs as these are expensive to establish and maintain. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cockerman59 Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 A friend and i do all the keepering, feeding etc for free, for that I get all year round dog training ground, no beaters it's walk 1 stand 1, what insurance do you think I need, fuel is for pulling the gun and beating cartes around which we share with a neighbouring shoots. Guns bring there own dinner, apart from boxing day when we do a stew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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