The first crowdfunding

Syndicate shoots are quite common now. This is one result of heavy taxation among our landed proprietors, and without syndication many of our best sporting estates would simply not exist as game preserves.

But it would be wrong to assume that the commercialisation of something that was once produced gratis by squires for their guests is invariably praiseworthy.

When sport is bought at so much per season, at so much per week or so much per brace, a tang of the marketplace enters into the transaction, and part of that delightful casualness vanishes which once characterised the shoots of wealthy landowners.

Variety of forms

Syndication in this connection has a variety of forms, the most usual of which can be found where seven or eight sportsmen combine