Will game shooting go ahead this autumn?

[Trigger Happy]

What do you guys think, will it be allowed? Decisions about purchasing birds and equipment will soon need to be made.

Personally I think the commercial shoot is buggered this year, too risky, no one willing to give deposit, no money about in business for luxury expense.
Will anyone want / be allowed to sit in a gun bus or beater wagon?

I am more interested in the smaller syndicate, however we still need to make a decision on the birds soon, I know it is months away but who knows......

 

[spin cycle]

i think everything is buggered

 

[Fendt516profi]

The syndicate on our land has paid a deposit on birds guns have paid there deposit but now some are pulling out and wanting there deposit back. It could end up been very expensive decision

 

[Nithsdale]

Unpopular opinion, I'm aware...

But I'll be glad to see a rest from the birds, keepers, beaters and guns this winter. They are nothing but a bloody nuisance here

 

[Hampton]

Most shoots around here, particularly the large commercial ones, are having a year off

 

[Pilatus]

Perhaps a season to return to just a friends and family only shoot, relying on what nature provides as we did years ago.
Not many birds but not much expense either.
If you have gamekeeper/s to pay you have a financial problem, so no comment if you are in that situation.

 

[Boysground]

Have been told of lots that have cancelled the season, apparently 1 of the massive local shoots has cancelled. The knock on of this seems to be people looking for shooting. Game farms are asking for large deposits. No decision yet on this farm. I wouldn’t be surprised if nothing happened but maybe something on a much smaller scale.

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[DRC]

Our small syndicate had a discussion via our WhatsApp group, and have decided to hedge our bets and order half the birds we normally have. We never start early in the season anyway. We had to make an early decision, as the chap supplying the birds wanted to know in good time.

 

[happycows]

We put 500 down here on small friendly syndicate of 12 paid guns and 2 free guns for landowners, feed for wild duck flights and good show of snipe/woodcock usually.
Had call from our poult supplier today saying orders need to be placed by next Friday with 50% deposit this year as such uncertain times. Everyone keen but at £300 each for 10 days with a 45/50 mixed bag what’s not to like.

 

[Boysground]

We put 500 down here on small friendly syndicate of 12 paid guns and 2 free guns for landowners, feed for wild duck flights and good show of snipe/woodcock usually.
Had call from our poult supplier today saying orders need to be placed by next Friday with 50% deposit this year as such uncertain times. Everyone keen but at £300 each for 10 days with a 45/50 mixed bag what’s not to like.

This year could be the season for small
syndicates and family shoots. Social and numbers not important. Proper game shooting.

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[Brisel]

My little syndicate is still going. 500 poults put down, that's all. Business as usual. It's not avian flu!

The head gamekeeper where I work has lots of nervous keeper colleagues on commercial shoots. The owners still plan to have their days though.

 

[Dog Bowl]

A VERY large estate very near me has cancelled their upcoming shoot season. They dont want to commit to the birds etc when they wont be having many foreign folk booking up to shoot.

 

[michael N123]

Unpopular opinion, I'm aware...

But I'll be glad to see a rest from the birds, keepers, beaters and guns this winter. They are nothing but a bloody nuisance here

Nothing worse than having land you don’t have the shooting rights for

 

[gone up the hill]

What do you guys think, will it be allowed? Decisions about purchasing birds and equipment will soon need to be made.

Personally I think the commercial shoot is buggered this year, too risky, no one willing to give deposit, no money about in business for luxury expense.
Will anyone want / be allowed to sit in a gun bus or beater wagon?

I am more interested in the smaller syndicate, however we still need to make a decision on the birds soon, I know it is months away but who knows......

Not a hope.

If your lucky they may have ended the lockdown just in time for a bit of rough shooting next Jan.

 

[Doc]

I hope not.
I can’t ever understand the attraction of feeding some birds on a site, flushing them from the same site with some dogs and shooting them as they try to escape. May as well just put some domestic chickens in a wood and blast away. At least they may even get eaten by the shooters rather than ‘disposed’ of.
Its a joke of a hobby really.

 

[Pilatus]

My little syndicate is still going. 500 poults put down, that's all. Business as usual. It's not avian flu!

The head gamekeeper where I work has lots of nervous keeper colleagues on commercial shoots. The owners still plan to have their days though.

So how is the last sentence of your post going to work ?

 

[icanshootwell]

I hope not.
I can’t ever understand the attraction of feeding some birds on a site, flushing them from the same site with some dogs and shooting them as they try to escape. May as well just put some domestic chickens in a wood and blast away. At least they may even get eaten by the shooters rather than ‘disposed’ of.
Its a joke of a hobby really.

The trouble is chickens don,t get up to high, it would be a blood bath. But seriously, shooting a storming high bird that your dog brings back to you don,t get much better than that.

 

[Nithsdale]

Nothing worse than having land you don’t have the shooting rights for

If I could, I'd pay well over the odds to buy this place just so I could enjoy telling the gamekeeper where to shove his f**king birds. He isnt even employed by this estate... Carrys on like he is the laird

 

[Brisel]

So how is the last sentence of your post going to work ?

If they can get birds they will have a few days. So many unknowns.

 

[faircomment]

Going ahead as per with our syndicate, even been paying deposits for let days. Not sure how anyone can expect a season if they don’t back their shoots at this stage.