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At a time when many shoots of our quality and size are run purely as a commercial enterprise fielding only full teams.
Ripley Sporting is quite different with approximately 80% of our days being sold by the gun per day specifically catering for
individual guns and small parties. On a scale which provides a large variety of drives together with the type and size of bag
to suit all budgets, maybe I would prefer to describe our Shoot as a large Syndicate providing something to suit everyone.

Our days are offered with bags from 200 to 450 birds, no overages are charged and we always aim to exceed the target
bag each day.
The remaining 20% of our days are available for full teams. These are ideal for Roving Syndicates or Corporate Teams
and I find many of these days are taken up by Shoot Members to entertain their friends and business clients. This is the
nearest we come to commercial shooting.
I do stress that although our shoot has grown it remains very much my hobby and every day is special no matter what the
type of day or the size of bag maybe.

Today we all seem to live under quite enough pressure and stress, although the actual shooting and the sporting quality
of our birds are very important, one of my main priorities on the day is always to enjoy ourselves in the good company
of like-minded people, whilst experiencing some memorable quality shooting. I feel it is important that the guns have an
opportunity to meet each other before the shoot day starts. With this in mind, on each day we meet for breakfast before
the brief for the day. Well behaved non shooting guests and dogs are also most welcome to join us on any shoot day!

We endeavour to run our shoot days in a safe and business like manner, trying to include the good points and hopefully
avoid the bad ones we have experienced elsewhere. Walking to the pegs and butts is kept to a minimum wherever
possible and we run our days at a leisurely pace with “no rush” being one of our priorities. By the very nature of the
terrain the walking and shooting on the Moors or at Eagle Hall & Ashfold Side can be more demanding compared to our
parkland shooting at Ripley Castle and Mountgarret.

I ask that everyone reads my Risk Assessments detailed on pages 21 to 24 of this brochure. Shoot only at birds you are
comfortable with and please respect your neighbour’s birds.

In this brochure I have tried to describe what I hope you will experience on a shoot day with Ripley Sporting. However
our website www.ripleycastleshoot.com gives an in depth background to the Shoot and I do hope you enjoy viewing it.

I look forward to welcoming you to Ripley Sporting and hope you will find your day is “Just how a Proper Driven
Shoot Day should be” or should I say, this is what we always try to achieve!

Birthwaite at Ripley Castle

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