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Name: Adstockfields Farm Shoot
Location: Buckinghamshire
Weather: Strong wind
Terrain: 1,200 acres, many arable with some grassland, about 30 acres of woodland and small spinneys.
Covercrops: Four acres of maize and conservation mixes, to be expanded this coming season.
Drives: Six in total, five on the day: Percy’s Policy, The Old Cover, Barn Field, Round Hill, Minis Spinney.
Guns: Matt Grange, David Grange, Eddy Bulman, Chris Morris, Richard Haynes, Richard Brown, Dennis King, Fergus O’Kelly, Phil Mathews.
Bag: 33 pheasants, seven partridges.
If you could gather a database of all the land that is used for shooting in the UK, most of it would fall into the category of DIY or farmers’ shoots. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of part-time gamekeepers looking after and rearing a…