Starting off with plenty of very good partridges, the drive gradually built to a crescendo of really challenging pheasants. Everybody was on such a high that it seemed only fitting to blow hunting calls at the end
VAYNOR PARK is the sort of shoot that gives shooting a good name. Its reputation spreads all the way to Argentina and New Zealand, but today’s team of guns had travelled a mere 4,000 miles to mid-Wales from Alberta in Canada. The shoot is one of the Bettws Hall group established by farmer and gamerearer Gwyn Evans nearly 30 years ago, which has gradually evolved into a comprehensive game-shooting business.
Now it is a shooting adventure that can only be described as magical. Guns stay at Bettws Hall, in its original 200-year-old farmyard, which the Evans family has gradually restored and converted. As I arrived in the dusk, lights sparkled everywhere, reflecting in the ornamental pond and highlighting bronze sculptures. Next morning the first frost of autumn misted the parkland grounds rolling down to the lake. It was almost a wrenchKim Murry, one of the guns alongside her husband Bob, told me: “We shot at Bettws yesterday and it was beautiful.”
