Mountgarret Shoot

Introduction to The Mountgarret Shoot: 2026-2027 Season

Edd Morrison and his wife Poppy have now taken on the Lease from Frank Boddy. Edd also owns and runs Dalesport Sporting Agency Selling Grouse days on 30 + Moors across Northern England he also jointly runs S.M. Bolton Ghyll and is very much looking forward to this coming season.

The Mountgarret Shoot is made up of two North Yorkshire Estates.

Mountgarret Estate covers 1,900 acres and Nidd Estate 2,100 acres. Both Estates combined total area of 4,000 acres and run together just north of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.

The land is best described as rolling countryside with woodlands established over many years to produce quality sporting birds. These are complimented by areas of well-placed wild bird cover which produce a variety of drives.

Our young team of Keepers led by Callum McIntosh who is assisted by Tom Hesmondhalgh and Fred Kay have shown what can be achieved with hard work and dedication. In addition, we have an excellent team of beaters and pickers up who have shown they can present some testing birds.

To ensure your days are run as smoothly as possible our Shoot Hosts, Edd Morrison, Olly Rycroft, Stuart Thompson and Debbie Clayton make up our team on the ground.

Finally, everything is co-ordinated by Edd’s resilient and patient Administrator Diane Russell (Rusty) who is always there to help.

We offer days to remember with a combination of testing birds in convivial company with delicious meals and refreshments. All set in Gods own County, our beautiful North Yorkshire Countryside.

A day with The Mountgarret Shoot is “Just how a Proper Driven Shoot Day should be” or should I say, this is what we always try to achieve!

There is no doubt that driven game shooting is increasing in popularity and am delighted to see more ladies and young people are taking up our sport.

So, what is different about our Shoot. Although we welcome full teams, we particularly cater for single guns and small parties. We encourage novice guns to join us providing they have had some clay shooting experience and have an experienced shot or one of our loader/instructors standing with them. We would be disappointed if an individual gun joining us for the first time did not feel at home within a few minutes of arrival.

Planning the days is a challenge as everyone seems to have quite different priorities. We plan each shoot day just how we would expect it to be if we were in the line of guns. The following is how we would hope our shoot days will be but as always anything can happen!

For the shoot to be hosted in a relaxed no rush manner with refreshments throughout the day.

To shoot with a convivial team of like-minded people.

Once on your peg not to have to wait ages for the birds to show. A mix of pheasant and partridge achieves this.

To be presented with testing birds but not impossible, spread over the whole line of guns on each drive.

To have fellow guns who are selective and respect their neighbour’s birds.

To be able to work dogs at the end of a drive without the birds already being picked by the pickers up.

To have a tasty lunch with decent wine not cheap plonk!

There are many other aspects of a shoot day but if we can achieve these, we are sure everyone will go away happy.

We hope this gives you an idea of what to expect. However, we must never forget we are always faced with our unpredictable weather and wild creatures. So, some days will certainly be better than others.