Well guys,


I have booked this trip and just had 5 cancellations in a group of 9, so there are a few spaces that I need to fill!! We increased the Grouse days this year and made them unlimited bags with no overage. We will be shooting all four days (3 Grouse and 1 250 bird Partridge day) at Invercauld which is just a stunning estate. The grouse days are no limit days and we are guaranteed a minimum of four drives. Judging from the reports we have been getting the hatches are superb this year and brood numbers are well up so we expect some serious sport of 100+ brace days.

It really is a great week of shooting and socialising in a magnificent setting as several members here will attest to. You will be able to shoot a pair of guns on the grouse if you wish and we will arrange loaders for you if needed. I have a demonstration video coming soon.

This is a fully catered week and the only extras you will have are the keepers tips at the end of each day, and your loaders tips. We will arrange your firearms import for you and contrary to what many believe it is actually very easy to bring your shotguns to the UK. If you would like to borrow something to shoot with here that can also be arranged.

Let me know if you have any questions.



Hunt: Scottish Driven Grouse and Partridge Shooting
Dates: 26th September 2016 - 2nd October 2016
Outfitter: Athina Sporting
Location: Kincardine Castle Royal Deeside, Scotland
Arrival & Departure Point: Aberdeen Airport
Price: £10,00 per hunter & £2,500 per observer
Availability: 5 Spaces Left

Athina Sporting Contact Details

Address:
Athina Sporting
1st Floor, 106-108 High St
West Wickham
Kent
England
BR4 0ND

Email: Info@AthinaSporting.com or Kiri@AthinaSporting.com

Telephone: 0044 (0) 20 8289 3322



















This is how quick they are:

Grouse















You have to be ready for them!!





Rgds,
Kiri

Wow, very nice! I'd have to practice sipping tea with my pinky extended :-)

With incoming birds like that, what guns, loads and choke are you using?

Bucket list hunt for me... just need to make the time.

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Originally posted by Zephyr:
With incoming birds like that, what guns, loads and choke are you using?

Zephyr,

In the video above I was shooting a composed pair of 28" lightweight 525 Brownings although I would say that some fast handling lightweight 30" guns would be best as they would allow you to pick the back birds faster. You need to attack them otherwise they are on you and the angle changes are to quick to keep up with.

Grouse show up any flaws in your form so ratios under 3:1 are considered good and 2:1 or below is a real good bit of shooting if there is a "breeze" helping them along!!

As for chokes it is a personal thing. I was shooting one gun with modified and improved modified (half and three quarter) and the other gun was skeet and skeet. I saw no difference in what I killed with either gun. The only difference I see is in the choice of shell at distances over 30m. I have been shooting the Black Gold 32g of 5's and they are exceptional on grouse and high pheasants, to the point I got rid of all my other shells.

Dig shoots everything with a 130 year old damascus barrelled hammergun that has [what I call] negative choke!! He kills grouse at incredible ratios better than anyone I have seen.

Rgds,
K

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Originally posted by bwanamrm:
Bucket list hunt for me... just need to make the time.

This is the year to do it mate. The hatch reports in the last two weeks show it to be a top season with great hatch rates and brood numbers so we are already expecting some excellent shooting.

Drop me a message if you want to chat about the options.

K

Thanks for the info, your #5 shot is that a british 5? which I believe is an american 6.
Have some good friends that have been shooting in the UK and Scotland for years and tell me they know the area well. Even though I have guns that would fit the bill it is all ways nice to have an excuse to purchase something new.
Just have one more African trip to get out of my system,than on to the smooth bores.
Though my wife seldom shoots wild birds she has a lovely 325 with 30" barrels that she has been using for clays for for more than 20 years.
If you find yourself in the states during the month of October look me up, Dog and I take the month off and chase Woodcock in our New England coverts.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Wow, very nice! I'd have to practice sipping tea with my pinky extended :-)

X2 !!!

I may be a little too rough around the edges to quite fit in with that crowd just yet ! I've never hunted in a tie before

The wife and I are in that video! Albeit, ever so briefly toward the end, in the bar/supper scenes.

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Originally posted by HGC Safaris:

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Wow, very nice! I'd have to practice sipping tea with my pinky extended :-)

X2 !!!

I may be a little too rough around the edges to quite fit in with that crowd just yet ! I've never hunted in a tie before

I doubt it if a . The crudest jokes came from the lady of the house and made several grown men turn red...

Cazador did they catch you rockin the tweed jacket on the hill?

K

Guys,

Don't let the ties fool you. Believe me Mr. Kiri is no tight ass and I speak from personal experience on multiple occasions. Oh! If you truly want to see what a English gentleman he is give him some seafood that he can eat with his hands. Amazing!

Mark

Dream hunt for me! Thanks for sharing. Hope to see you someday.

Ski+3

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Guys,

Don't let the ties fool you. Believe me Mr. Kiri is no tight ass and I speak from personal experience on multiple occasions. Oh! If you truly want to see what a English gentleman he is give him some seafood that he can eat with his hands. Amazing!

Mark

Mark, if you are going to cook food of that quality, then I feel duty bound to do it justice!!!

I still can't cook a lobster that well.

K

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This is a fully catered week and the only extras you will have are the keepers tips at the end of each day, and your loaders tips.

Oops!- that forbidden word twice mentioned in one sentence.

Mind you, tips will be generously splashed out if the loaders are selected from the fairer sex even if their attractiveness will cause untold distraction in favour of the birds.

Still some space left.

K

I am sold. Would like to take my family when the kids get older so they can experience a proper formal hunt. We try to have formal hunts on the plantations here in the South but nothing like that. I think that my wife would also enjoy seeing how she is a fan of Downton Abbey. Beautiful place and thanks for sharing the video.

Hiya Capt P,

It is a great week and indeed often it is driven by the wives desires and their TV viewing habits!!

It's not many hunts that the non hunting wife comes back and is first to re-book ahead of her husband!!

Rgds,
K