Game Shoot

A game shoot is live quarry shooting. Common UK game birds are pheasants, Partridges and Grouse.

The game shoot is much more formal than simply walking with your dog alongside the hedgerows, and is usually run on large country estates or by a small group of friends that form a syndicate that rent a block of land from local farmers in order to run their own game shoot.

On the shoot day, a team of shooters, or Guns, line out at numbered pegs. Meanwhile, under the gamekeeper's instructions, a group of beaters and their dogs move through areas of woodland or covert, flushing the game ahead of them. Compared to clay shooting running or going to a game shoot can be very expensive because of the organisation and number of people involved in a shoot of this sort, the cost to the Guns is considerably higher than in the other types of shooting.

The aim is to get the birds to break cover and fly high over the line of Guns to shoot providing sporting shots. Shot game is retrieved quickly by a picker-up at the game shoot who sends his/her trained gundog to where the shot game falls. The game is then usually sold on to local game dealers, or shared between the guns and beaters.

Other good Game Shoot links
http://www.gunsonpegs.com