Next years shoot

[defender]

What are other shoots doing in relation to next season ?
In many cases bit is a huge investment in birds and other costs with a potential no return. I don't think the early season will be open and even if it is the clients will be facing a huge restriction in income in many cases with profits, bonuses and share income cut, will shoot spend be a casualty ?

 

[Pilatus]

What are other shoots doing in relation to next season ?
In many cases bit is a huge investment in birds and other costs with a potential no return. I don't think the early season will be open and even if it is the clients will be facing a huge restriction in income in many cases with profits, bonuses and share income cut, will shoot spend be a casualty ?

One of my wife’s clients have cancelled next years shoot.
They fear the guns may pay their deposit yet pull out at the end. So no poults being purchased.
The game keeper will be occupied with other duties on the estate.
A draconian measure but may be a sensible move.

 

[gone up the hill]

What are other shoots doing in relation to next season ?
In many cases bit is a huge investment in birds and other costs with a potential no return. I don't think the early season will be open and even if it is the clients will be facing a huge restriction in income in many cases with profits, bonuses and share income cut, will shoot spend be a casualty ?

No hope of any shoots next winter.

Vaccine wont be ready for at least 12 months, by the time they get enough to use on the elderly etc will be another 2/3 months at least, then it needs time to work.

NZ put out overnight that they will be going into full lockdown within days and people should prepare for it to last 2 years.

So if things are slightly lifted it will be at least 18 months before that happens.

For balance

In Devon/ Somerset yesterday confirmed cases went up by one in each county, there are 56 confirmed cases between the two county's out of a population of some 1.3 million...

 

[Hilly]

Shooting luxury forget it .

 

[gone up the hill]

Shooting luxury forget it .

Sadly it will mean even more jobs lost but there is no chance of any shoots next winter going ahead unless this virus isn't half as bad as what they are claiming it to be like ( which the latter is what the evidence suggests is the case )

 

[Boysground]

Unfortunately I just cant see there being any shooting season. The game farms are not in in a position to produce much I would think the financial risk is too great. Let alone the country being in a state where we can meet on a shoot.

bg

 

[Hilly]

It’s beyond job money it’s life n death .

 

[gone up the hill]

It’s beyond job money it’s life n death .

Without money you will end up with a lot more deaths.

Make no doubt, the economic fall out of this will be so bad if it goes on for 1/2 years that the deaths from the economic impact will be a lot more than the virus itself.

 

[Hilly]

Without money you will end up with a lot more deaths.

Make no doubt, the economic fall out of this will be so bad if it goes on for 1/2 years that the deaths from the economic impact will be a lot more than the virus itself.

I know but they are helping money wise , it’s a nightmare

 

[tepapa]

Without money you will end up with a lot more deaths.

Make no doubt, the economic fall out of this will be so bad if it goes on for 1/2 years that the deaths from the economic impact will be a lot more than the virus itself.

The virus will kill the elderly and others with underlying illness.
The economic crash will kill all ages of society and definitely an unintended consequence. I wonder if they'll put the deaths down to Corona or suicide since Corona will be the cause same as people now dying from Corona yet are suffering with an illness.

 

[gone up the hill]

I know but they are helping money wise , it’s a nightmare

Will end up very little help in the end and the people that really need it wont get it.

And if this shutdown goes on for one/ two years there will be no businesses or jobs and they will have to bail out the country for years, no way they can do that in the longterm!

 

[gone up the hill]

The virus will kill the elderly and others with underlying illness.
The economic crash will kill all ages of society and definitely an unintended consequence. I wonder if they'll put the deaths down to Corona or suicide since Corona will be the cause same as people now dying from Corona yet are suffering with an illness.

Yep I know its utter madness.

isolate the elderly/ ill people until a vaccine is ready and let the rest of use carry on with normal life ( with the 2 + meter rule etc )

 

[Hilly]

Will end up very little help in the end and the people that really need it wont get it.

And if this shutdown goes on for one/ two years there will be no businesses or jobs and they will have to bail out the country for years, no way they can do that in the longterm!

No one knows the answer , it’s a horrendous situation.

 

[arcobob]

I normally shoot 20 days per season but this year i have decided to pull out altogether. A very large percentage of guns fall into the vulnerable category and likewise the beaters. The guns can travel around independently but not so the beaters. The social side is perhaps more important than the shooting and that will be non existent. We are all taking a financial hit but the time to pull out is now before the costs escalate further. Life is going to be terribly boring I am afraid but I still have the will to live..
A number of shoots in my area seem to be going ahead at this stage and I sincerely hope that they do not regret it but I will look on with envy if it all pans out OK. Some are saying that the government cannot stop them going ahead and I have my doubts about that. Anyway it may not be down to the government by then.

 

[gone up the hill]

No one knows the answer , it’s a horrendous situation.

They are certainly going to be bailing everyone out for years.

Just not sustainable to be locking everything down for 2+ years!

By then there will be no clothes/ supplies of parts etc for anyone and then what?

 

[gone up the hill]

I normally shoot 20 days per season but this year i have decided to pull out altogether. A very large percentage of guns fall into the vulnerable category and likewise the beaters. The guns can travel around independently but not so the beaters. The social side is perhaps more important than the shooting and that will be non existent. We are all taking a financial hit but the time to pull out is now before the costs escalate further. Life is going to be terribly boring I am afraid but I still have the will to live..
A number of shoots in my area seem to be going ahead at this stage and I sincerely hope that they do not regret it but I will look on with envy if it all pans out OK. Some are saying that the government cannot stop them going ahead and I have my doubts about that. Anyway it may not be down to the government by then.

If they can ban people from even going for a day out at the beach then they can certainly ban you from holding a shoot.

People don't seem to understand that you will have no rights to do anything without permission from the government before long from the looks of it.

 

[Sid]

Yet more misinformation.
Population of
Devon is 1.1 million
Somerset 965k

In Devon/ Somerset yesterday confirmed cases went up by one in each county, there are 56 confirmed cases between the two county's out of a population of some 1.3 million

Your only 700k out.

Get your facts right!

 

[Hilly]

They are certainly going to be bailing everyone out for years.

Just not sustainable to be locking everything down for 2+ years!

By then there will be no clothes/ supplies of parts etc for anyone and then what?

Fuk cloths I’ve had the same cloths for 20 years . People are going to have man up to an extent .

 

[gone up the hill]

Fuk cloths I’ve had the same cloths for 20 years . People are going to have man up to an extent .

That was just an example lol, but there will be a hell of a lot of things that supply of will run out of before long if this carry's on for years.

 

[Hilly]

That was just an example lol, but there will be a hell of a lot of things that supply of will run out of before long if this carry's on for years.

Yes it’s going to be horrendous .