Gabriels Farm

Gabriels Farm was the old Edenbridge and Oxted show ground. Now in the present day has been transformed into the countryman's home. It is a working family farm with our Sussex beef heard of cattle. Incorporating pheasant shooting by introducing Shaw’s of mixed woodlands as shelter belts dividing the 350 acres into manageable fields for grazing.

We also planted a smaller Christmas tree and popular wood to provide suitable warm cover for the peasants and their four separate release pens to be based in. All the woodlands are now matured for the pheasants to fly at treetop height out and over to our lake complex.

We are a family shoot. Each drive has different characteristics and provides interesting shooting from woodlands and rough brambles and grasslands to the river and our lake complex which gives us the perfect opportunity to watch our dogs work in and around the water, picking up.

The shoot is divided into two teams of nine aside where each team alternate turns to shoot one drive then beat the next over 6 drives.

A typical shooting day commences at 9.30 for 10.00 am with our safety talk then divides out to our first drive. After this drive finishes we meet up for tea/coffee and cake. Then proceeding to the next drive.

We use a logarithmic spiral formation to encourage the birds to return home and the guns to return to the cars ready for the second part of the day.

Duck shooting, the guns will be shown to one of our two duck ponds where all the guns surround the pond. Each shoot day one of the duck ponds will be flushed over the guns.

To conclude our days shooting we gather in the farmhouse for a late hot lunch and to reminisce over our good day out.