Wanted: High pheasant shooting

howarduk

Can anyone out there recommend a really good high pheasant shoot in Ireland?

clivej

howarduk wrote: »

Can anyone out there recommend a really good high pheasant shoot in Ireland?

I heard there one on Mount Leinster is that high enough for you?
Its the highest mountain in Wexford.

howarduk

Thanks!! don't suppose you have any contact details

pullandbang

Try Slane Castle - there's supposed to be a few really good high drives there.

whitser

coolatin in wicklow is a good shoot. i've done walk up and driven there and had some excellent shooting.

quackquackBOOM

i didnt think slane sold days i think its just the same syndicate all year round last i heard anyway

pullandbang

quackquackBOOM wrote: »

i didnt think slane sold days i think its just the same syndicate all year round last i heard anyway

You could be right. A phone call to the head gamekeeper would probably put you right. I'm sure there are days when all members of a syndicate can't make it and a day for a gun is up for sale. I got a day many moons ago at a shoot in Essex through taking up a space on a syndicate that wasn't going to be used that day.

It wasn't me!

How much do those shoot days tend to set you back, just out of curiosity?

pullandbang

It wasn't me! wrote: »

How much do those shoot days tend to set you back, just out of curiosity?

Don't know prices today but the one I was at was based on 9 guns shooting a max of 150 birds and it cost Stg£250 per gun. That worked out @ Stg£15 per bird shot.
Mind you that was a few years ago. One of the guns at that particular shoot spends an average of £25,000 per season on driven shoots!:eek:
I was there on a Wednesday and he'd been to a 500 bird shoot on the Tuesday, a 250 bird shoot on the Monday and another on the previous Saturday!

Chopperdog 2

Howard,

Driven shooting has taken a bit of a hit in Ireland in the last few years with the cessation of shooting on two of the estates that provided some of the best quality birds in this country.

Both the Nire Valley and Shelton Abbey have stopped driven shooting. Both were primarily syndicate shoots but did let days to roving guns.

To follow from what a fellow poster stated, Coolattin is a commercial shoot that provides birds of intermediate quality, not the highest of fliers but with plenty of bag filling drives, sadly a little too reliant on the poor Mallard to bring up the numbers.

Slane is a tidy little shoot but let days are a fairly rare commodity.

The prime driven shooting is now between Ballinacor and Castle Howard Estates in Co. Wicklow. Again, both are primarily syndicate shoots and I have been lucky enough to have shot as a guest at both shoots.
Johnsons drive at Castle Howard has shown the best birds I have seen in Ireland, with a very high cartridge to hit ratio and phenomenol quality birds.

Expect to pay €45 to €50 per bird at this level, but as they say, you get what you pay for.

Another estate that is coming up a little in the world is Crooked Wood shoot in Co. Westmeath, the price is around €750 to €850 per gun day with bags from 150 to 250 depending on the day.

Good luck with your sourcing, pm me if I can be of any further help to you.

www.game

Shelton Abbey is still up and running
very good day there last year
very testing birds

td5

check out Drumbanagher estate shoot on google very high birds in co Armagh

wicklow 21

Just in responce to chopperdog 2 reply i beat on colattin shoot it has great high birds. I have talked to many people who shot there and have been very inpressed with the shooting and many have called the duck shooting the best in ireland or the best they have ever had and this is not just from irish shooters many come from britian and some from america and other parts of europe as well. I also dont think if it was as bad as you make it sound that it would be meantioned on the K club website. It is also reasonable priced compared to some of the other shoots you meantioned. Maybe you just had a bad experance near the end of the season but i can asure everyone it is a very good shoot.

ronn

recommend castle howard was beating there today, great set up super high birds,and plenty of birds

elius

No a little of topic but heres a pic my dad took in the mid 70's of my grandad and himself going beating uncles etc in there to..

ronn

didnt see any of them there today,:D:D:D;)

elius

ronn wrote: »

didnt see any of them there today,:D:D:D;)

And thats for shore...

deeksofdoom

Ballynatray estate outside Youghal has some pretty high birds at the moment.

td5

Drumbanagher Estate Co Armagh This Shoot produces very high Pheasants & Ducks . Check out their site Drumbanaghershoot.co.uk

Harry Nash

Shelton is a syndicate shoot but sells a few days here and there shooting with the syndicate . It has high driven pheasants some of the best in Ireland if interested contact me