26 April 2022, 02:54
Hunt InterUK game shooting 2022/23 season
Looks like the UK will be doing around 30-50% of its usual shooting this winter. Bird flu from France where eggs are purchsed and brought over has stopped exports.
01 May 2022, 21:37
HistoricBoreCertainly the early Partridge shooting from September will be scarce, but pheasants in October and November may well be OK. Prices are shooting up (excuse the pun) and some shoots may require steel shot, which does not suit my pre-war shotguns with 2.5" chambers and full choke. I may have to get one of these over-under thingies...
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I may have to get one of these over-under thingies...
How dare you....
Take that back, take it back right now!!
02 May 2022, 11:12
Charlie64.
Just back from a week of corvids and pigeon in the UK. Game season is looking bleaker than bleak! One Suffolk farm that typically rears 3 million (yes 3 million) birds from eggs, has not received a single egg from France this year due to avian flu in France.
None of the shoots have put out prices yet and many have cancelled all shoot days already. Talk is that a couple of the high bird Devon shoots are looking at around GBP 75 - 85,- a bird.
2022 game season will be high bucks for those that shoot!
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02 May 2022, 17:30
Hunt Interquote:
Originally posted by Charlie64:
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Just back from a week of corvids and pigeon in the UK. Game season is looking bleaker than bleak! One Suffolk farm that typically rears 3 million (yes 3 million) birds from eggs, has not received a single egg from France this year due to avian flu in France.
None of the shoots have put out prices yet and many have cancelled all shoot days already. Talk is that a couple of the high bird Devon shoots are looking at around GBP 75 - 85,- a bird.
2022 game season will be high bucks for those that shoot!
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Sure is Charlie. We are doing quite a few driven days in Hungary now for 30 euro bird