Cold Aston GLOUCESTERSHIRE
“Every day’s a good day.” That is always headkeeper Olly Cope’s answer whenever anyone asks him how a day’s shooting has gone. And he means it. Olly loves his job at Cold Aston, where over 11 seasons he has turned a small syndicate shoot into the renowned partridge haven it is today. Eleven years of hard graft, vision and attention to detail have resulted in a shoot famous for its consistently high, fast and well-presented birds.
The geography helps too, of course. While much can be done to make a shoot on flat ground entertaining, there is no doubt that a few ups and downs certainly make the job of delivering challenging birds over the Guns that little bit easier. Welcome to the Cotswolds. One hundred and eighty million years ago this area was under the sea, but thanks to tectonic plate movement tilting the seabed upwards and then glaciers grinding out valleys during the Ice Age, we
