georgehare

Not sure where in the country they are based but Bettws Hall are somewhere in wales and are one of the biggest in the UK. They also have shoots in wales and SW england

Might be a southern pansy but still shooting 4 or 5 thousand brace a year! lol I will admit though, from what ive heard, you lads do have a bit of vermin to go at. Not that we have it easy where i am.

What FightTheBan said is about right. I think our trainee is on £170 a week and get a cottage. When i was at college 2/3 years ago i was on £100 a week for the weeks i worked (travelling from home some times and living with headkeeper other times) I then got put on £200 a week and given a caravan when i left college and started full time. Then my first job on the books i got a proper salary, house and contract etc.

Aww jelousy is a bad thing... lol

Most of which are led by english headkeepers. haha

Maybe in scotland... Thats why you've got no grouse up there!

When i was at college, we done alot of work with/about deer. We had a danish fella come over and done a course for us on dogs for deer. Although i never wanted to work with deer, it was bloody interesting to lean about training dogs for tracking deer. Anyways, i think the bloke has now written a book which would be well worth getting as he certainly knows his stuff. His name is Neils Sondergaard. Hope this helps.

Swazi and Ridgeline (both from new-zealand) are both excellent makes. Very waterproof and although fairly thin very warm too. If its just for riding round on the quad, and not doing much walking in then i recommend a one piece suit from cabelas! They're far too hot to be walking round the fell in but if your sitting or riding a quad/argo then theyre the mutts nutts.

Now that would have been funny!!! Have to agree though, its a right load of shite!

I used to work on a fairly big partridge shoot down south before i moved on the grouse. We used a mixture of millet, dwarf sorghum and linseed in our cover crops, the linseed and millet provided little cover but lots of food/seeds and the sorghum was the opposite, so together they worked well! The reason we used three different things in the mix is because we could put this down as 'wild bird cover' on certain schemes (the entry level scheme i think) and had it either paid for or got a good lot of money put towards it! Depending on who owns the land/has the farming on it, i would definately

Every keeper north or south i have spoke to have heard of sparsholt so even though it might not be the best practically it still has the name for being the best. failing that, i hear newton rigg comes a close second.

I left sparsholt about a year ago, i was in the year above 'youngairgunner'. The name of sparsholt college still looks good on a CV but its not as good as it used to be. My first year at college was good but wasnt as practical as i'd hoped. Second year was % deer work so i left early when i got offered a job. The main thing is the college getting cut back on funding and instead of staying as 'the best gamekeeping college' they tried to make all the courses average. Without a doubt you learn 10 times more out on work experience than when at college. Basically, for all the lads startin

Im moving up to west yorkshire tomorrow to a new job and i'll be looking for terriers soon so i'll keep an eye out.

Haha that top photo is a cracker! Nice looker that pup is