Grouse shooting is a fun and traditional sport that rural people like to do, usually the terrain on a grouse shoot is heather because thats where they spend all their time, and they even sleep it it.
On a Grouse shoot their are usually a few different people. their are the Game Keepers, who organize the shoot, control it and breed and make sure the birds are in tip top condition. Then there are the beaters, who beat the grouse out of the heather towards the guns in their buts. Then their are the picker ups who have their highly trained gundogs which are trained to pick up the birds, and some are traind to flush the birds out of the heather. And then their are the most important men of all, the guns (the men that pay to shoot) The guns pay anything from £50 - over a £1000 for a days shooting. Gun can expect to shoot fromm 50 bird to about 500.
Shooting is quite an expensive hobby. At tiny, tiny shoots you can pay about £50 per gun per day and then there the average shoot where you pay about £250 - £700 and then there are the big shooting estates like Chatsworth, Balmoral etc, where you pay over £1000 per gun, per day, But places like chatsworth and balmoral have an extremely high quality of game, intresting shot, beautiful scenery and hospitality.
Usually you can take your gundog or the picker ups have them, these are highly traing dogs, trained to retrieve your dead game. the best gundogs are ones with soft teeth, there are loads of gun dogs and here are a few, labradors, springer spaniels, cocker spaniels, german pionters, vizzlas, the most common by far is the labrador. |
