Duck shooting in Berwickshire

Berwickshire, United Kingdom

Chirnside Hall offers a wide variety of shooting with pheasant, partridge, grouse, duck and pigeon. Whether you are a full team of 8-10, a small group with 2-4 guns, or a lone gun, we can offer you the very best of Scottish shooting tailored to your requirements. Our established shoot is run by Christian Korsten with his 2 keepers and a good-humoured, experienced beating/picking-up team. Chirnside shoot days are warm and friendly, offering you unrivalled sporting birds and countryside. Chirnside Hall shoot is a popular choice for shooting parties from all over the world. Many guns return to us year after year to enjoy our <a>sporting packages</a>. We aim to provide an enjoyable and memorable day for all, from the novice gun to the more seasoned field sportsman. We can tailor-make a package for you, and arrange everything in-house. After a day’s shooting or hunting, your evening meal will be served in our private hunting room where you can recount the day’s events over a good glass of wine surrounded by hunting trophies from around the world.

Berwickshire, United Kingdom

Approx 3000acres with woodland, shelter belts, reed beds, moorland ,ponds and burns.The woods are all with good ground cover and plenty of wind fall so dogs are welcome. This is a Saturday D.I.Y. shoot with help from the members on work days these are not compulsery and no penalty if you can't make it (accept a bit stick from those that can).We start the season in AUG  with  a walk up day or two on a small grouse moor.Sept after feeding up we can flight duck and OCT sees the start of our walk and stand days with a maximum of two teams of six guns . We have a choice of fourteen woods/shelter belts to drive we have at least six drives in a day no fantastic high birds but they are sporting !.At the end of the day if you want and have the stamina you can flight wild duck on the many burns and the ponds in the areas that we feed.We keep the overheads down by not having any beaters other tha a few youngsters who beat for free also we do not provide any lunch   As we have a large area to shoot over on alternate Saturdays we rough shoot over the dogs in the areas we don't visit on the walk and stand days. Feb/March we shoot over ferrets and roost the pigeons as for the rest of the year we are on the place most Saturday's .

Berwickshire, United Kingdom

The Thirlestane Castle shoot is on the South West edge of the Lammermuir hills around 30 minutes drive South of Edinburgh. Situated next to the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Lauder, the shoot starts at around 700 feet above sea level and rises quickly to around 1100 feet.With mature woodland and bracken banks Thirlestane lends itself to showing tremendous sporting birds and all of the drives provide a range of shooting for all abilities to enjoy the sport. New for the 2019 season there will be luxury accommodation within the castle,with its rose-pink sandstone and fairy tale turrets Thirlestane Castle is one of the oldest and finest inhabited castles in Scotland.This magnificent castle has held a key strategic role in the military and political history of Scotland and has been home for the Maitland family since the 16th century. A selection of unique dining spaces and several luxury apartments within the castle complete this historic house. Drives such as The Face,Michaels,and the Spur are famous for both the quality and the quantity of birds they provide. Thirlestane Castle is next door to our shoots at Longcroft,Lylestane,Burncastle and Tollishill enabling us to provide several days of back to back shooting if required. With the new shooting lodge at lylestane just completed and perfectly situated in the middle of the shoot.We now have the perfect accommodation to complement the fabulous shooting.Lylestane House has been finished to the very highest quality and is the perfect place to stay,comfortably accommodating up to 8 couples in fabulous luxury.You are looked after exceptionally  by house manager Carolyn Campbell and her staff and you can't fail to have a great experiance. In addition to Lylestane house we also have the option of another magnificent lodge,owned by the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland,Burncastle Lodge is a bespoke lodge which sleeps up to 10 couples in superb comfort in a stunning location only a few hundred yards from some of the best drives in the country. We also have several excellent hotels within 30 minutes drive with The Roxburghe Hotel and Golf course,Tillmouth Park,The Dryburgh Abbey and Burts being the pick of the bunch. As welll as the fabulous Driven shooting that we can provide at Thirlestane we also have some great Rough shooting with good mixed bags and usually a lot of Woodcock in December and January. We can also provide some excellent Roe Deer Stalking which can be combined with Pigeon shooting both in late Summer and Spring.

Berwickshire, United Kingdom

Wooplaw and Torwoodlee shoot covers some 3,500 acres of undulating countryside in the Scottish Borders, only 45 minutes south from Edinburgh. It rises from 500 feet above sea level to approx 1,200 feet, with a good variation of drives mainly from mature woodland and conifer shelter belts with an average of 150 birds per day mostly pheasants but you can expect to pick a few partridges on a number of drives. There are over 15 drives and ones such as Craigs, Herne Hill ,Bee Hives, Face and Well Wood produce birds of superb quality ,speed and height. Guns meet for coffee in the morning with a typical day consisting of four or five drives with a break for elevenses and a stop for a homemade lunch around 1.00pm. Guns are encouraged to bring along well behaved dogs and partners. The syndicate is captained by Charlie Anderson, an able and organised host, with many years experience running shoot days and has a full time gamekeeper in it's employment.  The syndicate shoots a mixture of weekdays and Saturdays and consists of nine guns with vacancies available for this coming season. We now offer accompanied roe deer stalking and wild duck flights.