The club I shoot at most often releases 35,000 pheasant from Sept 1st to the end of December. Not an altogether dissimilar number from the one calculated earlier regarding the "Big" English shoots.

At 35,000 birds, you need 1450 clubs or shoots releasing birds. At 25,000 birds you need 2000 clubs or shoots. Seems unlikely there is that number of shoots going on in England but really I have no clue.

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