Simulated shooting is not only a great way to keep in the groove over the spring and summer, but a great day out as well. More and more estates are laying on simulated shoots, while dedicated sim set-ups are increasingly popular. With the ability to present a wide variety of simulated targets, from driven grouse to rabbits to extreme-range birds - and everything in between - there’s plenty to challenge you. At a fraction of the cost of a day’s driven shooting, and typically with several thousand clays put over the gun line, sim days are also a great option for people looking to progress from sporting clays to driven game shooting. Here are a selection of the best simulated shoots around the UK.
Simulated game shoots in Scotland
Fife
Teasses, a well known driven shoot with a great reputation, lies in the rolling hills of North East Fife at around 600ft providing good topography for simulated shooting, With our traps positioned at the top of their drives, they can simulate all quarries from high pheasants to driven grouse and everything in between. Full hospitality included is included and they can cater for teams of between 5 and 20 guns.
Simulated shoots in Wales
Powys
Bryngwyn Estate and has been rated in the top ten simulated game shoots in the UK. The day replicates a traditional driven game day with high pheasants, partridge, pigeon and driven grouse with a choice of 16 drives and includes full hospitality in Bryngwyn Hall - a full cooked breakfast, mid-morning snacks and drinks, a three course lunch in the house, and afternoon tea. You and your party can stay overnight in Bryngwyn Hall, which is run as your private house party and includes a delicious four course dinner.
The topography of the land and variety of the drives - from parkland, woodland, authentic grouse butts, and high mountain terrain - means you'll be challenged from start to finish. They can cater for teams of 10 - 20 guns, with availability for single guns and full teams.
Simulated game shoots in the North West of England
Cumbria
Graythwaite Estate Sporting offer extreme simulated game days, with five drives running exactly like a real shoot and all at the fraction of the price. Your skills will be tested on a variety of exhilarating simulated quarry, all while enjoying the beauty of The Lake District. With backdrops for miles and elevenses held at numerous lakeside locations, you will not be disappointed. They can cater for teams of 8-16 guns.
Simulated game shoots in the North East
North Yorkshire
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Thimbleby Estate lies within the North York Moors National Park, in an idyllic rural setting. Well known for their first class game shoot, the estate comprises some 3000 acres of grouse moor, farmland, deep valleys and steep wooded areas.
Thimbleby's simulated game days run all year round. Set in a variety of drives across the Estate including open ground, woodland and on the grouse moor, these days are very similar to a game day, but shooting clays instead of game. The Thimbleby simulated grouse drives provide guns with a unique and exciting challenge. Clays, cartridges and hospitality are all included in the price - bookings are full full teams of 8 guns.
Northumberland
River and Moor's venues are chosen for their true likeness to a game shooting venue. The hardened shooter and novice alike can come away feeling they have had a great experience.
A typical day will be a bacon roll and coffee on arrival, a high pheasant drive, a grouse drive from temporary butts - so realistic you can even shoot behind - followed by elevenses in the field and a partridge drive. Lunch is served in marquee and if you can move after a feast, there is another high pheasant drive. These days work well for roving syndicates, corporate days and stag and hen parties. Gun hire is available along with tuition for beginners. Days normally consist of 12 guns with six shooting and the other six loading, then swapping half way through the drive.
East Yorkshire
Shoot simulated grouse from a line of 8 stone butts. Plus pheasant, partridge, duck and rabbits all on the same day and out of season!
Set in the Yorkshire Wolds, the day begins with morning coffee and drawing for pegs in the newly purpose built shooting lodge. Refreshments are provided throughout the day and as you would expect, lunch is included.
Raisthorpe Flyers provides bespoke simulated clay pigeon shooting days for corporate parties and private groups for teams of four or more guns.
Simulated game shoots in the East Midlands
Derbyshire
Harboro Rocks Simulated Game Days offer challenging, exciting and realistic drives. All the fun none of the feathers! Good food and drink throughout the day with like-minded people helps the the friendly atmosphere and shooting tales flow. The day includes pigeon, partridge, pheasant and grouse drives.
Each team of 15 guns will be presented with approximately 6000 varied "birds" on different drives.
Shropshire
Set amongst ideal shooting country, on the Shropshire & Worcestershire borders. David Beardsmore Simulated Game days offer a party of 12 to 24 guns an unforgettable shooting experience with first class hospitality. The drives consist of Grouse, Partridge, Duck, Pigeon & High Pheasant, with 9000 clays over the line on each day. Single pegs available
West Midlands
Worcestershire
A great day out on a beautiful country estate with first class hospitality including breakfast. With more than 7,000 clays presented over a variety of different drives, you will experience some of the best Simulated Game days in the Midlands. Set in a mix of arable land and mature woodland and populated with numerous pools and riverside valleys - the perfect landscape to provide you with excellent, challenging shooting. Full teams only, for 16 guns.
Simulated shoots in East Anglia
Suffolk
Montgomery Sporting offer some of the finest simulated game days in the eastern counties. Teams of 8 - 16 guns are welcome, with a minimum of 6000 clay per day. First class hospitality is provided throughout the day. Full teams or single guns are welcome. Dates available 7 days a week all year round.
Norfolk
Quidenham Estate offers simulated game days all year round six days a week, also offering bespoke corporate days, hen/stag parties, and warm up days before the shooting season begins. Each team of 4-8 guns will be presented with a minimum of 6,000 varied clay targets replicating the best game birds in East Anglia, along with first class hospitality including tea and coffee, traditional Elevenses, a two course lunch and Afternoon Tea.
Drives include simulations that will get your heart pumping from fast grouse in butts, high pheasant over woodland rideways, nippy partridge over arable ground and curling ducks.
Cambridgeshire
Set in the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, and no more than 50-miles from the centre of London, Six Mile Bottom's simulated game days provide an unforgettable experience, replicating the excitement of a real game shoot. The shoot boasts a line of realistic grouse butts and an English partridge drive.
Simulated shoots in the South West
Wiltshire
Based in the Wylye Valley in south Wiltshire, Stockton is a downland environment where once on the farm there are no roads or houses. A mixture of woodland and grass valleys provide plenty of variety for simulated drives. Each drive is different from the previous one, either over downland, valleys or woodland rides, simulating pigeons, grouse, pheasant partridge and rabbits so there is no same-ness to the day. The price includes unlimited cartridges and full hospitality.
New for spring 2021. Making use of some of the stunning terrain that is shot during the game season the shoot offers fabulous shooting with some truly jaw dropping views of rolling Wiltshire countryside. Teams of 14 to 18 guns can be accommodated with Fridays being our usual shooting day though we welcome enquiries for other days of the week.
Gloucestershire
Brimpsfield has a number of valleys cutting into the hills surrounding the main house, so we can and do produce some superb simulated game days for 15 people offering around 3,000 - 3,500 clays in total.
Cotswold Fieldsports provides simulated clay shoot days which are as close to a game shoot day as possible to extend the enjoyment of shooting into the summer months in the beautiful Cotswold countryside. Their days are generally suited to more experienced guns, however they welcome less experienced guns and newcomers when accompanied by an instructor.
Starting at the local pub with breakfast provided, each day begins with a briefing before moving on to shoot a couple of drives before elevenses. The clays are designed to simulate driven pheasant and partridge and more drives will be shot after the elevenses break.
Devon
Sporting agent Butler del Prado can arrange simulated shoot at Medlan, a sporting estate that is in Devon. Coupled with excellent hospitality and in-house menus the days will replicate every aspect of a game shooting day with thousands of challenging targets presented to the waiting gun line. Single pegs and full teams of 16 available.
Somerset
Top quality simulated game days between Taunton and Exmoor catering for full teams, small groups and individuals on all dates as well as for corporate events and partes. Using the same drives as are used for live quarry during the season, Somerset Driven Shooting uses state-of-the-art game trailers and flurry launchers to simulate fast low grouse, snappy partridges and high driven pheasants.
Simulated shoots in the South East
Oxfordshire
Truly Simulated brings an entirely new concept to the world of simulated shooting. Utilising two custom made five trap systems, each atop a 35 metre mobile lift, they are able to replicate the feel of a real day's shooting in a way that has never been seen before. Not only can they present targets that actually simulate what a pheasant or partridge would do, but the lifts and terrain allow them to make each drive its own unique challenge. They aim to make your day as realistic as possible with most of our pegs 25-30 yards apart and drives lasting up to 20 minutes.
Located a little over an hour from London, lies one of England's prettiest villages and Estates: Great Tew. This quintessential English estate has a renowned game shoot that gives rise in the spring and summer months to a superb simulated shoot, offering a variety of drives like no other. From coveys of partridge, to high pheasants that even the West Country would be proud of. Then meet the whirly grouse on Raven Hill moor before finishing your day with an exhilarating duck flight.
Berkshire
Shefford Park Simulated Game days feel exactly like the ‘real deal’ and can be just as much fun. They consist of 4-5 drives of fast and furious clays, which provide high excitement and plenty of good humoured competition. The days are broken up with elevenses in the field and a delicious BBQ after shooting.
Hampshire
The wonderful Thruxton shoot is Hampshire's ultimate simulated clay day. A typical day will start with breakfast at the lodge, followed by a quick safety briefing with all of the shooters.
You will then head down to the first shooting area, stunning rolling banks perfect for driven clays simulating pheasants, duck, partridge and grouse. You will shoot two drives then stop for for elevenses followed by another two drives. The day will then end with drinks & cake back at the lodge usually finishing around 14:30. A full team of guns will be shooting at over 5,000 targets over the day. Teams of 8-20 with Individual pegs or full team bookings available.
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