Driven shooting cost

[London Best]

1 minute ago, nic said:

 

I seem to be busier after retirement than before !   🙂

Yeah! I know when I retired I was picking up/loading/stalking/shooting sometimes 4/5/6 days a week all Winter.

[grahamch]

A pal has just been quoted £48 per bird for a localish 100 bird driven day on a shoot he's not been to before.

Seems an incredible price to shoot pheasants, or is the new norm?

If it was me I wouldn't pay it and do something else. 

 

[Scully]

16 minutes ago, grahamch said:

A pal has just been quoted £48 per bird for a localish 100 bird driven day on a shoot he's not been to before.

Seems an incredible price to shoot pheasants, or is the new norm?

If it was me I wouldn't pay it and do something else. 

 

If there was say, six guns and four drives, that’s eight birds he can shoot throughout the day in total, without being greedy, or two birds each per drive.
Irrespective of the cost, no, I wouldn’t do it either. 

[nic]

1 hour ago, Scully said:

If there was say, six guns and four drives, that’s eight birds he can shoot throughout the day in total, without being greedy, or two birds each per drive.
Irrespective of the cost, no, I wouldn’t do it either. 

your maths seems out.  

100 bird day over 4 drives = 25 birds per drive  6 guns so 4 birds per drive plus a spare or 16 birds each for the day.

[Scully]

1 hour ago, nic said:

your maths seems out.  

100 bird day over 4 drives = 25 birds per drive  6 guns so 4 birds per drive plus a spare or 16 birds each for the day.

😂 Thanks. Maths never was my strong point; I even checked it before posting and even now can’t be bothered to check it again! 
I still wouldn’t shoot there. 🙂
 

[Walker570]

I spoke with a friend today and he had been told by a game farm/shoot owner that day old partridges had been advertised at £6 a piece and one or two estates where charging £60 a bird.  Obviously with the shortage due to bird flu then there are unscrupes who will try to milk it .  As said , just don't deal.  Overall the days I have booked have not risen more than about 8% on last year.    Some estates have been left scratching around trying to buy birds. 

For me, there is far more to a day than just killing birds so I am not a bird counter. With the peg system on smaller days then on one or two drives you may be out of it but that is how it goes. I always say that part of the pleasure of a day for me is anticipation....am I going to get a few on this drive ?  I look at a day from a good breakfast through to tea and cakes at the end with meeting some new people and maybe getting a few that I can put in my memory bank and then I ask myself if that was good value.   I see what someone spends watching a bunch of fellas kicking a bag of wind about and that puts a positive answer on my shoot days.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

I received an email from our shoot today stating all was in hand and the prices were confirmed as the same as last season!

[Lloyd90]

On 27/05/2022 at 14:27, Scully said:

😂 Thanks. Maths never was my strong point; I even checked it before posting and even now can’t be bothered to check it again! 
I still wouldn’t shoot there. 🙂
 

The maths may be a bit out, but the reality is, there’s more likely to be 10 guns on a lot of shoots I’ve seen. 
 

Meaning you get to shoot 10 birds over the whole day. 
 

4 drives will be 2.5 birds averaged per drive, that’s if one of the other guns doesn’t mop up a load and fill half the bag. 
 

£480 plus tip for the privilege. 
 

I’d rather go rough shooting, but places are even getting greedy for that, wanting several hundred pounds a day to shoot wild areas where they don’t even put down any birds or any feed. 

[WalkedUp]

19 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:

The maths may be a bit out, but the reality is, there’s more likely to be 10 guns on a lot of shoots I’ve seen. 
 

Meaning you get to shoot 10 birds over the whole day. 
 

4 drives will be 2.5 birds averaged per drive, that’s if one of the other guns doesn’t mop up a load and fill half the bag. 
 

£480 plus tip for the privilege. 
 

I’d rather go rough shooting, but places are even getting greedy for that, wanting several hundred pounds a day to shoot wild areas where they don’t even put down any birds or any feed. 

That’s more of expensive than an entire season on my shoot! £425 for the season, you could join and just shoot 3 or 4 days (of the 12) and still have good value. 

[Scully]

19 hours ago, Lloyd90 said:

The maths may be a bit out, but the reality is, there’s more likely to be 10 guns on a lot of shoots I’ve seen. 
 

Meaning you get to shoot 10 birds over the whole day. 
 

4 drives will be 2.5 birds averaged per drive, that’s if one of the other guns doesn’t mop up a load and fill half the bag. 
 

£480 plus tip for the privilege. 
 

I’d rather go rough shooting, but places are even getting greedy for that, wanting several hundred pounds a day to shoot wild areas where they don’t even put down any birds or any feed. 

I wasn’t even aware you could buy a days rough shooting! 

[enfieldspares]

On 27/05/2022 at 16:42, Scully said:

If there was say, six guns and four drives, that’s eight birds he can shoot throughout the day in total, without being greedy, or two birds each per drive.
Irrespective of the cost, no, I wouldn’t do it either. 

Yes. It's always been a question of "up goes half a crown, bang goes a shilling, down comes sixpence" that's for sure.

I can see why some shoots try and promote a duck drive, or two duck drives, and so on. Better return that pheasant. But not for me. £50 to shoot a duck? Daft!

Will it ever get less expensive? Probably not. So 2022's £48 will look cheap in comparison to 2027's £96! Syndicate shoots are the way to go.

But for an odd single day although more expensive per day it's cheaper as you pay your £600, as a one time cost, have you day, go home. No worries about the feed bill or any of that.

Edited July 8, 2022 by enfieldspares

[marsh man]

22 minutes ago, Scully said:

I wasn’t even aware you could buy a days rough shooting! 

You can buy just about everything Scully to do with all forms of shooting from Rough shooting , Pigeon shooting , Woodcock shooting , Inland goose decoying , Coastal wildfowling , Shooting over your own dogs / Pointers and the list go on .

We used to do two back to back days after Woodcock but we no longer do those days as the boss don't like to see to many Woodcock shot.

We have done small driven days for a stag do prior to getting married .

And last season we had three Frenchmen come over for three days rough shooting at three different places , these were really nice guys , took us in the estates pub and fed and watered us ( three of us ) and was more interested in variety rather than the size of the bag .