Duck shooting in United Kingdom

Sutherland, United Kingdom

The Gledfield Estate is based just outside the village of Ardgay. At the heart of the estate is Gledfield House, a beautiful 18th century mansion house. The estate extends to just over 5000 acres of moorlands, lochs, mountains, rivers and forestry. We offer red stag and hinds stalking, evening duck flight shooting and salmon and trout fishing. There are two holiday cottages available for shoot parties, one accommodating up to 4 and the other up to 6 people, with dogs also welcome at a small additional charge. Sporting prices displayed here do not include accommodation - please do contact us and we can arrange a tailored package for you. Shooting days or weekends can be arranged for individuals or small parties, you will be accompanied by the estate Stalker or Gamekeeper. Please contact us via email or telephone in the first instance to discuss your sporting requirements. We look forward to welcoming you to the Gledfield Highland Estate.

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We are not sporting agents that send you, we are hosts that take you to experience a week of driven shooting together.

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The Ripley Castle Shoot (Introduction by Mark Eddon) The Ripley Castle Shoot, Nr Harrogate in North Yorkshire, is a traditional driven game shoot where true sporting values still exist. Me and my wife sarah were lucky enough to have taken on the lease of Ripley Castle and Hob Green shoots for which there reputation goes before them. We will be carrying on in the same traditional manner with a relaxed and leisurely pace to each day allowing guns to take in the fantastic setting and surroundings of Ripley Castle. The land is best described as rolling countryside and parkland with woodlands established many years ago positioned to produce good sporting birds. These are complimented by over 100 acres of game cover which has improved the sporting quality of our birds over the years. There are over 20 main drives with a larger number of smaller drives which can be very testing. We release approximately 50% partridge and 50% pheasants. All reared from eggs or day old chicks on our rearing field at Ripley. There is a beautiful lake in the Park at Ripley Castle which produces some very testing duck and geese. We have one dedicated duck drive which is not your normal duck drive. It is only shot if all the guns on the day wish to shoot duck. Once you have tried it you will want to shoot it again. We principally cater for single guns and small parties with Exclusive Days for full teams. Our days are sold by the gun per day and we normally exceed the bag with no overage charged. We offer a variety of days with bags from 200 to 400 birds plus a few 150 bird days. Our average bag through the season is 240 birds. We are starting the day with breakfast in Ripley Castle. We plan to shoot 2/3 drives in the morning with drinks breaks. At mid day we will have a break for soup and pies. After a further 2 drives in the afternoon, the day ends around 3.00 p.m. with a late lunch. We recommend a 4 x 4 vehicle although well maintained estate roads connect most drives. We also have a courtesy pickup available each day with a driver. If you require this, some prior notice would be appreciated. The days are run at a leisurely pace with walking to each drive kept to a minimum. You are most welcome to invite a non shooting guest just to enjoy the day and there is always plenty of time between drives to work your dog. Although we will plan ongoing changes each season it is most important that we maintain past traditions, as you will experience when you visit. I look forward to your joining the Ripley Castle Shoot for a driven game shooting adventure.

Kent, United Kingdom

FORMAL DRIVEN SHOOTING ACCOMPANIED WALKED-UP & ROUGH SHOOTING NO-FRILLS MINI-DRIVEN DAYS Dear Followers of GunsOnPegs and the Morghew Shoot, It's nice to see us once again featuring in the GunsOnPegs / Lycetts 'Most Viewed Shoots of the Year' Survey. For the 2026/27 game season, we are offering a full programme of formal driven, mini-driven and accompanied walked-up/rough shooting over the Estate's 2000 + acres of arable and woodland. In the interest of saving you a lot of scrolling ... If you are a SOLO GUN or enquiring for a group of friends to join a driven shoot on a SATURDAY, we can currently accommodate you on the following days: 24th October (1 peg only) 7th November (1 peg only) 19th December (1 peg) If you would like us to list another formal driven shoot during the forthcoming season, please get in touch, and if there's sufficient demand, we will try to oblige. If you are enquiring about a driven shoot for a team of ten on a WEEKDAY, we can accommodate you throughout October and November. If you are seeking accompanied walked-up and rough shooting on a SATURDAY, we can accommodate you on: 10th October 17th October 26th December (Boxing Day) 9th January 16th January If you are seeking accompanied walked-up and rough shooting on MONDAYS TO FRIDAYS, we can accommodate you throughout the season. And if you are interested in our new 'Strictly No Frills' Mini-Driven shooting, we can entertain you on the followingSaturdays: 28th November, 12th December and 2nd January 2027 FORMAL DRIVEN SHOOTING Obviously, this is our flagship offering. On Saturdays from October until the early days of January, we offer formal driven 80-bird days for up to 10 guns, shooting mainly pheasant and a few duck. The Estate lays on a full team of beaters and pickers-up, and the price includes sloe gin and canapes at 11.00am, and claret and coffee at lunchtime. Days begin with tea and coffee, and end with tea, coffee and Victoria sponge cake. Guns bring their own field lunch, which is consumed in the Estate's stunning neo-medieval hall - complete with roaring fire. Transport is provided in our 1968 Unimog gun bus, a relic from the cold war. Cost for the 26/27 season is £550 plus VAT per Gun. We reserve several of our Saturdays for roving syndicates, but many of our driven days are what we call 'Strangers' Days' on which pegs are sold individually, thus offering solo guns and small groups of friends an opportunity to enjoy formal driven shooting on Morghew Park. ACCOMPANIED WALKED-UP and ROUGH SHOOTING There has been an explosion of interest in rough shooting over the past few years, and we probably offer more accompanied walked-up and rough shooting than any other Estate in the south-east. We assemble teams of between two and seven Guns on all weekdays and some Saturdays throughout the season. Accompanied by one or more of our gamekeeping staff, Guns enjoy a day's walked-up and rough shooting on what is a fully stocked, fed and keepered Estate. Quarry includes five pheasants per Gun, or ducks if shot on one of the upland ponds, plus unlimited snipe as well as pigeons, crows etc. Days can end with a wild duck flight on the Estate's marshland reservoir, for which we make no promises, but where there is also no bag limit. Guns drive around the Estate in their own cars, and given the fine condition of Estate roads, there is no need to bring a 4x4. We don't recommend it, but a bicycle will get you around quite comfortably. For the 26/27 season, the cost ranges from £260 + VAT per Gun on Mondays through Thursday, to £270 + VAT on Fridays and £300 + VAT on Bank Holidays and all available Saturdays. Whereas twenty years ago, nobody would dream of booking accompanied rough shooting until the season was well underway, some Guns are now starting to reserve rough shooting months in advance. I take this as a welcome indication that accompanied rough shooting is no longer the poor relative of driven shooting, but rather a demanding discipline that is highly valued by a growing following of our most experienced Guns. 'STRICTLY NO FRILLS' MINI-DRIVEN SHOOTING For the 26/27 season, we're going to launch a new format that sits somewhere between formal driven shooting and our 'accompanied walked-up and rough shooting'. On three or four Saturdays this season, we're going to offer a 'strictly no frills' mini-driven day for between six and ten Guns, with target bags of 42 birds for teams of six Guns, rising all the way to 70 birds for teams of ten. (Multiply the number of Guns by seven birds each to arrive at the overall bag) These days will be priced at £510 inc VAT per peg. We will offer pegs on these days to both teams and solo Guns, and we hope to get at least six Guns on each of the nominated Saturdays. In the event that we get fewer than six Guns, the day will be downgraded to an 'accompanied walked-up and rough shoot', and Guns will receive a partial refund. In this way, every Gun who puts his or her name down for a mini-driven day is guaranteed to get some shooting. The Saturdays we've nominated for 'no frills mini-driven shooting' are 24th November, 12th December and 2nd January 2027. BACKGROUND and HISTORY of the ESTATE Morghew Park is one of the Kent's ancient Estates and can trace its history and many of its boundaries back to 968 AD, a century before the Norman Conquest, when its sale for 1450 pence was witnessed and signed by Edgar, arguably the first King of all England. It is located near Tenterden, Kent, and covers more than 2000 acres of arable and woodland, with a pleasing mixture of Wealden upland (small fields, hawthorn hedges and oak standards) descending steeply in places onto traditional marshland. Recently, Morghew Park has absorbed the acreage of Palstre Court Farm, which takes the Estate up onto the Isle of Oxney for the first time. This is an interesting piece of land, having been a Roman settlement, and was more recently gifted by William the Conqueror to his brother Odo, Earl of Kent and Bishop of Bayeux, in the years following 1066. Other landholdings gifted to Odo at this time include the entire manor of Benenden. Our land is in a ring-fence, meaning that the Estate is not bisected by any public roads, and several of the drives are around a mile from the nearest public road. Morghew Park is renowned for the warmth and friendliness of its hospitality, its tidy agricultural operation and the beauty of the unspoilt views available from many of its drives. AND FINALLY ... The Morghew Shoot is a popular local institution with a remarkably loyal following for all its shooting formats. The Morghew gamekeepers and shoot captains regularly quiz our Guns on what they most value about the shoot. Over and above the obvious qualities without which no shoot would be popular, three characteristics get mentioned time and again. Firstly, the friendliness of the whole team involved in a day's shooting, from the landowner, gamekeeper and shoot captain right down to the youngest beater. Secondly, the unspoilt beauty of the Estate and its distant views, some of which reach all the way to Fairlight and Hastings on the South Coast. And finally, the high level of organisation, which means that our days, with very rare exceptions, run like clockwork. If you're interested to find out more about any of our three shooting formats, I'll be more than happy to drive you around the Estate for half an hour. Just send an enquiry via the GunsOnPegs website. Regards, Tom Lewis

Lancashire, United Kingdom

Pilling Shoot is run by the Holden family, owners of Hy-Fly Game Hatcheries Ltd, which is based on the edge of Morecambe Bay in Lancashire. We are one of the largest game farms and produce top quality pheasants, ducks and partridges which are renowned for their flying ability. We can shoot a variety of different species which included Pink feet Geese, Teal, Pintail, Widgeon, Snipe, Pigeon, Canadian Geese, Mallard, Pheasants, Red leg and English Partridge. The bag will be mainly mallard. The day is based on a 300 bird day shooting with a line of Ten Through September and October, we can organize dog training days and Dog Trials in our well-grown Fodder beet crops. POA. We can accommodate single guns or a full teams - please contact me if the date you would like is not been advertised - I can also put you on our database and send you a regular email with the latest availability. There is excellent accommodation nearby which offer a good discount to our shooting clients. Please contact me for details.