We are a family run shoot at Badnocks Farm, Southminster, Essex and we offer a driven game shoot over approx. 1200 acres.
Our driven game shoot is predominantly French Partridge and Kansas Pheasants with a few reared English Partridge and Mallards. We offer a total of 20 sold days and syndicate dates with bags of 150 – 400 birds starting from the beginning of September.
We have a total of 16 different cover crop drives consisting of maize and wild bird mixtures. The days are run in a fun, calm, family environment with beaters, picker-ups and shooters all mixing.
We have a nicely decorated converted outbuilding with a large table and chairs as a shoot lodge where lunch and refreshments are provided and an adapted Ex-Army Gun bus for transport between the drives.
Our day consists of meeting at 9am for a coffee and to draw pegs, then setting off to shoot two drives before stopping for a quick refreshments break and a chat at around 11, then another two drives before sitting down to a ploughman’s lunch. We are then off for another two drives before the bag count and a cup of tea and cake.
The farm is quite undulating for Essex, with a run of large pylon wires running through the middle of it and on the right day and weather conditions can produce some birds flying near or over the top wire.
Prices are from £4,000 for 150 birds. We have a full time game keeper working very hard on controlling vermin, producing top game covers with conservation in mind and rearing strong healthy birds from poults, producing a return each year of between 40-50%.
Simulated game shooting
We also offer simulated game clay days at our farm during the spring and summer months. Running the day like a usual game day simulating game birds such as high pheasants, low flying grouse, partridges bursting over hedges, challenging ducks, decoyed pigeons and bolting rabbits.
Our Simulated set-up is also completely mobile, we can bring all the relative equipment, travelling all over the country, to your farm or estate, so you can host your own fun day with your guests with the safety and guidance from our CPSA qualified staff. Prices range from £100 per person with a minimum of 14 people.
Please feel free to have a good look at our website or Facebook page.
We have lots of photographs of the days so you can see for yourself, the lay of the land and layout of the drives.
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