Setting up your own shoot from scratch
Feb 09, 2022
4 minutes
This time of year always brings a brief flurry of enquiries to the GWCT advisory team from people who have found a bit of ground and want to set up a shoot. So what do you need to do to turn this dream into a practical reality?
The first thought is usually to build a pheasant pen, but there are other considerations even ahead of that. Is the ground suitable? You will need at least some gamebird habitat, even if only a few hedgerows and a patch of scrub. An odd sunny hollow is a help, too, but nowhere is a complete write-off. In most cases, releasing some pheasants is a good place to start, but four decades as part of the GWCT
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