January 2018 – What makes a good shoot?

What makes a good shoot is clearly very subjective but if you take soundings around the game cart, over lunch or over a pint you will invariably fi nd that there are some clear common denominators.  Interestingly – although obvious for some – the size of the bag isn’t anywhere near the top of the list, indeed in most cases it isn’t on the list at all. Scale does not create demand and in dealing with South East Farmer’s questions around how does the shoot contribute more to a farming business, in this case big is almost certainly not always beautiful……….