- Location
- fakenham-norfolk
What are people paying beaters for this season,and how is the HMRC position being resolved ?
Beaters 2013/14 seaon
- Thread starter uztrac
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I used to get 15 pounds and a can of beer when I was 13 at local shoot. Happy days.
Jackson4
Member
- Location
- Wensleydale
not sure but i was offered £45 a day/ grouse and was told tax was paid? Cant get my own work do though.
- Location
- Cirencester
I gather on the grapevine that some commercial shoots round here don`t have many beaters at all so far this season after being asked to go on the books.
- Location
- Kenilworth
Don't quote me, but I was told if the guns pay the beaters, rather than the shoot it's a way around it.
+1 but it was a can of top deck beaters day shooting and £20 a day but were happy days as you say
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was always great crack. Was quite exciting guns getting shot over your head and lead raining down on you. Cheap thrills.
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I think the pay is around £25 a day inc lunch, shoot pays the tax.
Dr Evil
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Was only £10, a can and a brace at the end, and a beaters day when I was beating- probably 17 seasons ago now...
@agricrob
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I get £25-£30 depending on which shoot im on. Shoot pays the tax.
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
£25 + grub - but its getting to the stage where that won't pay the beaters fuel. They seem to come for miles, and there aint many youngsters now at all.
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
I take loads back each time - only 100 bird days, but the guns only want a brace, as do most of the beaters it seems so I live on the bloody things in winter, I hate waste.
- Location
- North West England
Pay has been reduced to cover the cost of paying HMRC so we have been told and is now below what we got 15 years ago. While I never expected to make a profit from beating, I draw the line at me subsidising the shoot. It now doesn't cover the cost of diesel to get there, round the shoot and back, so we are sadly not bothering any more.
Mydexta
Member
- Location
- Dundee/angus
When I last went beating we all had to sign a sheet once you had received you're pay. It must have been a really famous shoot as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Alex ferguson were regularly part of the beating team according to the sheet.
I was told this was for tax reasons. Have things changed
I was told this was for tax reasons. Have things changed
Gatehouse Farm
Member
- Location
- Kent
Both of the shoots I go on we the guns pay the beaters. We have the same amount of beaters as guns. Each gun pays £25 to one of the beaters.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Like the sound of all the middle aged women! can't be worth it for 25 pound, doesn't seem much compared to what guns are paying.
I'm wondering where to put all the pheasants I do get, where the dogs aren't going to get at them It's a small local farm shoot, so it's not costing much in fuel, and my first go at doing this sort of thing. My dog knows what she's doing, so she won't be an embarrassment, even if I prove to be, standing there sniffling that I've to put this bird out of its misery.
I'm not sure if there's any other women on these particular shoots, but I could be the youngest (mid twenties) if there aren't any children/teens there.
I'm told beating was a particular favourite of the perpetually unemployed, topping up their benefits. Whether there's been a crack down this year, I have no idea. I was talking to a fellow picker up - it's about £30, on the bigger shoots and a brace or two, or it was last year, and he would be losing £5 of that to tax.
It's a small local farm shoot, so it's not costing much in fuel, and my first go at doing this sort of thing. My dog knows what she's doing, so she won't be an embarrassment, even if I prove to be, standing there sniffling that I've to put this bird out of its misery. I'm not sure if there's any other women on these particular shoots, but I could be the youngest (mid twenties) if there aren't any children/teens there.
I'm told beating was a particular favourite of the perpetually unemployed, topping up their benefits. Whether there's been a crack down this year, I have no idea. I was talking to a fellow picker up - it's about £30, on the bigger shoots and a brace or two, or it was last year, and he would be losing £5 of that to tax.