GROUSE SHOOTINGGrouse shooting for the first time is an exhilarating experience! You have heard all the stories and you are anxious not to let yourself down by missing too many or even worse making a dangerous shot. The environment for grouse shooting is strange but surprisingly comfortable as you look out from your stone built butt onto beautiful heather clad hills unfolding before you.
Nothing can prepare you for the adrenaline rush as contour-hugging grouse propel themselves downwind straight at you like a swarm of bees.
You have been taught from an early age never to shoot low and so the first covey whizzes by unaddressed – your apprenticeship has begun!
The red grouse is a fascinating and frustrating bird, living on heather moorland and indigenous to the North of England, Scotland and to parts of Wales. Grouse cannot be artificially reared and released successfully so it can genuinely be said that all grouse are completely wild and like all wild creatures the grouse population is determined by the ability of the bird to reproduce successfully. That success is dependent on a range of factors – condition of stock, habitat, predation and level of parasites and of course weather. With good management and keepering it is possible to optimise all of these factors but nothing can be done to control the weather, which at critical times has a significant influence on breeding success.
Forecasting the likely success for grouse shooting every season is difficult and it is not until the July counts have been completed that a realistic indication can be made.
Going grouse shooting is the most exhilarating driven game bird shooting you can have but it is not like taking a day’s pheasant shooting where numbers are guaranteed. Having decided you want to bring your group to shoot grouse click here for details on where and when
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