Originally Posted By: ClapperZapper
Nope.
A small day for a team of friends might be $150.00 per guy.

All depends on what you want.
Same number of support staff, same employment issues, just fewer birds shot that day.

Jobs are scare in rural England. People don't get paid alot.
Changes like these are horrendously disruptive.


Sometimes the beaters and pickers at small shoots are voluntary rather than paid. Guns swap jobs with beaters and pickers. At least that's how Catlow describes the process in his book "Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot". Bigger commercial shoots, the helpers are always paid.

Re the lead ban, there are already steel shot loads available in the UK and approved for guns which are not steel shot proof. They're lower pressure, lower velocity, and restricted to smaller shot sizes . . . I believe no larger than a US #5.

Last edited by L. Brown; 02/25/20 08:23 AM.