I've been shooting in Great Britain all my life since I was sort of, you know very very young
I'm from a farming background
so there has always been a shoot on the farm at home
we progressed into game farming some twenty-five years ago which sort of then
got us involved in shooting too a heavy extent
we ran other shoots before this one which we gave up over the years
and ended up here. I moved down here
25 years into to Devon from Shropshire
we've been developing here since then
this is a type of day that
that as a sportsman you really enjoy the birds are high, challenging
you can pick and choose one's that you want to shoot but there really is something here for
everybody
it's always our to give people a challenging bird to shoot when they come
here and it's not just
the shooting it's the package of being in the hotel hope you like before being
by the sea
and the general scenery
we sort of give people shooting that hopfully some
experience that they weren't sometimes find anywhere else
the defining feature of the shoot here has to be the dramatic landscape beautiful
stark cliffs
launching up into the clouds really dense and deciduous woodland
lots of natural cover, plenty places pheasants and partridges to hide
and then all of a sudden they're on you you got a split second to make a
decision to shoot
and the birds are flying so fast and so high
that often you've shot them without even knowing put your gun up
take a bird give it lots and lots of lead break the gun put the gun back up then you see the
bird fold behind you
the dramatic scenery here in the dramatic cliff faces
really do give an outstanding bird
well i'm quite new to shooting
yeah is pretty challenging, but I got there i think a
couple times so hunting is very good like nothing I've been on before
I think every shooting team is different obviously we get lots
of groups of people coming here to shoot
who have known each other for years and shot for years travel around the
countryside and various parts of the country shooting
and
i think is hugely important that they do have fun day out
you know we have all sorts of stories of what goes on and jumping into the sea and
and having good nights out the night before
you know them being ready for the next day everybody we've got a cheerful
team of people working for me that we have developed over the years
I think that we have tried to create a very relaxing atmosphere
to hope it comes over as that
in the last drive I'm hoping to connect with more birds
the difficulty here is they break from so many different places
just when you think you've got the time the distance the lead that you need
to be given
a bird will pop about 20 yards higher, you don't recognize it and then suddenly behind
so if i could try and tie all the lessons i've learned today and have one outstanding drive
that would be great but in reality I still think you'll be missing a few more than
I shoot
i'd like to think that our birds are reasonably challenging
most people, if they're coming out the drive saying well that was a good shoot
god that really tested me that's that's what that's what I want to hear
I shoot quite a bit and this is certainly humbled me I think my favorite
part of the day was the second drive I shot reasonably well
on the first drive missed a few and took me a while to shoot birds but on the second drive i had the shoot captain stood
behind me say there's always a little bit of additional pressure
and he was very complimentary got my shooting
managed to get two of the best hen birds I've shot all season
landed the birds nice and close to get his dogs to pick the birds up and he said
it's very unusual for to go to carry birds back from that peg so he was
very very compliment about my shooting which doesn't happen normally in the
company friends there
more honest than that said I was very generous and certainly helped to make my day
it's all about camaraderie and
the country way of life
but for sure or the shootings was ever banned it would be a disaster
for the countryside