Black Grouse Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot Programme 2023

Black Grouse Charity Shoot

County Clays, Dunkeld Hilton

House Hotel, Dunkeld

Saturday 27th May 2023

Supporting the World Pheasant Association and Countryside

Learning Scotland

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Bespoke packages designed for all budgets and group sizes from single hunters to large family groups. The possibilities are endless. Please get in touch to discuss your ideas and requirements.

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Supporting the World Pheasant Association and Countryside Learning Scotland

Dear All

I hope this finds you all well, and hungry for a good day out at County Clays with Countryside learning Scotland and the World Pheasant Association.

The popular driven layout will be repeated again this year as well as the sporting layout for the individual trophy and the pool shoot for those wishing to test their skills. We are delighted to welcome for the first time two junior teams from the next generation of shooters who I am sure will hold their own against the more experienced shots. A wide variety of abilities will be on show however, the purpose of the day is to enjoy the company, test your skills and have a fun day out. To this end and with the dominance of Findrack sporting over the last few years we have decided that each team / individual will only be able to win one prize on the day to give everyone a chance of a prize.

The Crockarts of Blairgowrie side by side trophy will once again be up for grabs. Only teams who all shoot with side by side shot guns in the flushes will be eligible to compete for the Crockarts Side by Side Team flush trophy, their score will also be included in the overall team flush competition. Teams shooting with other styles of shot gun will only shoot for the overall team flush prize.

Sponsorship / Advertising

For the first time this year we have produced this programme with https://hbrutherford. com/ and would like to thank all our sponsors for their support. If you would like to sponsor a stand or advertise in the programme at next years shoot, please contact ian@ countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk.

Thank you all for attending the event and by doing so, supporting both rural charities. This is a challenging time for businesses and charitable organisations alike, so please dig deep at the auction.

Have a great day!

Programme

9.00am Arrive at shooting ground for bacon rolls, coffee and briefing

9.45am Shooting commences (3 x team flushes, 6 x sporting stands + pool shoot)

1.00pm approx. Drinks followed by Hog roast BBQ lunch in a Marquee on site

2.00pm approx. Prize giving and Auction

3.30pm approx. Departure

All funds raised on the day for World Pheasant Assoc. will go towards their Conservation projects and in particular to a new project to try and save the remaining small population of wild, Black-Necked Pheasants which has been found in the Nestos region in Greece.

Funds raised for Countryside Learning Scotland will go towards delivery of rural education projects providing opportunity to learn, participate, train and work in the countryside.

There will also be numerous prizes (mainly liquid) for other feats of skill. The not so experienced will not be forgotten either! It is intended to be a fun day but also one that is helpful for beginners. Instructors on each stand will provide any help requested.

Cost for the day includes hog roast BBQ Lunch, including drinks (beer, wine, tea and coffee), cartridges and clays.

SCOTLAND LEARNING

Providing education and career pathways across all rural sectors

ABOUT US

For over 20 years we have been working with secondary schools, rural businesses, further education and the third sector to increase awareness of rural careers.

We are working in;

Tayside

NW Highlands

Cairngorms

Southwest Scotland

Last year we worked with 1300 pupils, across 30 secondary schools and in partnership with 87 businesses.

WHAT DO WE DO?

4 Progressive Rural education outreach programme in secondary schools – called ‘Pathways to Rural Work’.

4 SCQF level 4 Rural skills residentials.

4 School Estate Days.

4 Rural Volunteer Award – training businesses to equip them to take young volunteers and work placements.

4 Professional training for teachers on delivering ‘rural’ in schools.

Our education programmes are tackling the considerable challenge rural areas and businesses are facing; to recruit and retain motivated, qualified local young people.

ADHD Rural Connect

WE DO THIS THROUGH;

4 facilitating and supporting work placements

4 providing rural career further education opportunities

4 delivering rural skills training

4 creating partnerships between schools, colleges, and employers

Our double award winning, rural education programme for young people with ADHD in Scotland. This bespoke programme helps isolated and vulnerable neurodivergent young people; by providing them with “hands on” opportunities to learn new practical skills & qualifications and develop opportunities and employability skills. If your business would be interested in supporting this initiative through providing work experience or a venue for events please contact ian@countrysidlearningscotland.org.uk.

Our work, not only helps protect our rural heritage for the next generation but provides them with new opportunities to learn, play and work in the ever more important rural environment. This enables better community resilience and improved physical and mental wellbeing through up skilling and enhancing life opportunities for young people from all backgrounds and abilities.

Donate at: www.countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk or scan QR code. Cheques payable to Countryside Learning Scotland at Battleby House, Redgorton, Perth, PH1 3EW

Further information Ian Robertson: 07840 951332

ian@countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk

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PATHWAY TO RURAL WORK

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Donate at: www.countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk or scan QR code.

Cheques payable to Countryside Learning Scotland at Battleby House, Redgorton, Perth, PH1 3EW

Further information Ian Robertson: 07840 951332

ian@countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk

Follow us on Facebook,Twitter, Instagram @countrysidels

Black Grouse Charity Shoot

Auction List

Dunkeld 27th May 2023

Auctioneer – Ross Fotheringham

1. Two days fishing for two rods at Finavon Castle Water on the river South Esk. More details at www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk . Exact dates to be agreed with Price the donor. Kindly donated by Tony Andrews.

Guide Price £300

2. A day’s hill stag stalking at Balvarran, Perthshire to be taken September / October 2023. Contact Mike Clarke on 07887 571468.

Guide Price £500

3. Two days’ salmon fishing for three rods on the Rivers Ericht, River Ardle, and Black Water at Strone and Milton of Drimmie donated by Milton of Drimmie Farming Partnership. To be taken by the end of the 2023 season. Date by arrangement, contact Nick Warner at nick@strone.eu.

Guide price £250

4. A morning simulated game shooting for three guns including bacon rolls tea and coffee contact Clark Taylor County Clays.

Guide Price £400

5. A box of 12 tea plants (with planting instructions and QR code for how to make white tea at home). Donated by Tea Gardens of Scotland whose tea, grown, plucked and made in Scotland is now stocked at the Rare Tea counter in Fortnum and Masons! Contact Suzie on 07971 817974.

Guide Price £130

6. A day shooting bolting Rabbits for four guns at Glenogle estate. Date by arrangement contact Danny Lawson 07748 338593.

Guide Price £350

7. A box containing a whole Hebridean Lamb with 2 boned and rolled shoulders, 2 whole legs, single loin chops, double loin chops, 2 lamb shanks and either approx. 0.5kg of mince or diced lamb. Kindly donated by Highland Drovers. Contact Kenneth Headspeath 07789 301751 for delivery.

Guide price £160

8. Around 50, mixed breeds of pheasants including white pheasants, for delivery in Scotland. Great for raising funds when shot on purpose or by mistake. Kindly donated by Keith Chalmers –Watson.

Guide price £300

9. A days Red / Roe, Hind/doe Stalking at Rannagulzion and Drumderg kindly donated by Gordon Church. Contact Ian Robertson 07840 951332. Guide price £250

10. A round of 18 holes at Muirfield for 2 people as guests of Keith Chalmers-Watson on a date to be agreed. Guide price – priceless!!

11. A day’s salmon fishing for two rods by arrangement on West Grange Fishings, River Ericht. Over 90 spring salmon in 2022. Contact - Andrew Lees 07875154399. Guide price £120

12. One days hind stalking on Fearann Eilean Larmain with our head stalker/ gamekeeper Scott McKenzie (UK gamekeeper of the year 2022). To be taken in either the 2023-’24 or 2024-’25 hind season. The lot also includes 2 nights accommodation for two people at the award winning Hotel Eilean Larmain and one evening meal for two. Guide Price £650

13. One year’s sporting club membership at County clays. Guide price TBC

14. A days Roebuck stalking on a day to be agreed Kindly donated by Whitehouse and Borland Estate. Guide Price £200

15. A rough shooting day for four guns at Whitehouse and Borland, Glenshee, to be taken by arrangement during season 2023/’24. Contact head keeper Brett Ormerod on 07738 477332. Guide price £400

16. Swedish hunting package to be taken between 18th and 20th August, 2023. Two days hunting for two rifles with a local syndicate near Hudene in southern Sweden with 3 nights in simple chalet-style accommodation (Swedish hosts will provide full board in and around main house). Guests will be transported to and from Gothenburg Landvetter airport. Rifles may be provided if required. Up to 4 outings for either 2 x roe bucks, 1 x roe buck and 1 x wild boar or 2 x wild boar per person. No limit on foxes and badgers. Guests must provide: Flights to Gothenburg, Firearms Certificate, Insurance to cover EU, Swedish hunting licence purchased in advance (400 SEK = approx. £30). For further information contact Nick Roche on 07811378834.

Reserve £1000

17. Twenty-four hours for four rods on the prolific Stracathro Beat of the North Esk, Fishing for salmon during the day and seatrout at night. Over forty seatrout caught in June 2022.Excellent fishing hut, and easy wading. To be taken in June or July by arrangement. Further details contact Hughie Campbell Adamson on 01674840206.

Guide price £500

18. Enjoy a three-night break at Glen Effock Farmhouse in Glen Esk, courtesy of Dalhousie Estates. The Farmhouse is comfortably furnished, sleeping 8, and is set in a quiet and secluded, yet easily accessed corner of the Glen. Fantastic location for hill walking and bird watching. Fishing may be arranged in conjunction with the Estate. To be let on a self-catering basis, although catering can potentially be arranged. To be taken Summer 2023, or Spring 2024 by prior arrangement with the Dalhousie Estate Office.

Guide price £800

19. 100 Pheasant poults for delivery only in Scotland. Kindly donated by Steve Andrews. Contact Steve on 07787143240.

Guide Price £650

STUDY GAMEKEEPING AT SRUC

• NC Gamekeeping: Run from our Elmwood Campus in Cupar, Fife, this course provides a mixture of practical training and background knowledge. As well as completing vocational training in a real working environment, you’ll help to manage a local estate.

• Modern Apprenticeship Gamekeeping & Wildlife Management Level 5: This course is designed for those currently in employment, either beginning their careers or already well established in the industry and looking to improve their employability in the area

of field sports and wildlife management.

• HNC Gamekeeping & Countryside Management: This distance learning course is ideal for people who are in full-time or part-time employment and would like to progress their career.

SRUC’s Game and Wildlife Management courses are aimed at those interested in the sector and those already working within this sector who wish to progress their career.

For more information about these courses visit www.sruc.ac.uk/study or book on to an open day www.sruc.ac.uk/openday

SRUC Elmwood Campus, Carslogie Road, Cupar, KY15 4JB

Simulated Game Shooting 2023

Why only shoot in the game season when you can have all the same fun throughout the summer? And the weather is warmer…. Not guaranteed!

Findrack Sporting are now taking bookings for Simulated Game days starting in May. Having expanded the operations over the winter we now offer the following drives: Pigeon, Pheasant, Partridge, Grouse, Duck, Rabbit, and Teal

We offer half and full day packages with various catering options.

We can supply all cartridges and can hire out guns and minders if required. All safety gear can be provided and there is also the use of the Gunbus if teams don’t have 4x4’s.

With limited availability already so please get in touch to book your day in early.

info@findracksporting.com

Galliformes are an order of heavyformed ground-feeding birds that include pheasants, partridges, cracids, grouse and megapodes. WPA work around the world to conserve these birds both in captivity and in the wild to prevent their extinction and support local communities.

Pheasant - Pakistan

WPA’s current projects include: Pipar

Project - Nepal

School children in Pakistan learn about the preparation of an overview of Cheer pheasant populations throughout the species’ range of Pakistan, India and Nepal to help determine conservation priorities.

The Himalayas are home to WPA's longest running project, a communitybased conservation program in the Annapurna region of Nepal. Since 1979, WPA has been monitoring Pipar's forests and Galliformes, and providing support for villages and schools in the surrounding area.

Vietnamese

Pheasant Reintroduction Program

The Vietnam Pheasant (formerly known as the Edwards’s Pheasant) is classified as Critically Endangered. It has not been seen in the wild since 2000 and may be extinct. WPA has safeguarded a backup population of this species and is supplying birds for the reintroduction in Vietnam.

Cheer

The World Pheasant Association (WPA) is a UK registered charity committed to the conservation of Galliformes and the habitats they depend upon www.pheasant.org.uk

Grouse Project

A conference in May 2023 aims to formulate projects to try and reverse the present rapid decline in Capercaillie, Ptarmigan, Black and Red Grouse

Green Peafowl Project

which lays its eggs at a communal nesting ground and leaves them to be incubated by solar or geothermal heat. It is only found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi. WPA are funding a project to support the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation who work with communities to protect the Maleo.

Indonesian Galliformes

Funding aviary development to house and breed green peafowl for in-situ release in Cambodia.

Aviaries for the Malay Crestless Firebacks at Prigen Conservation

Breeding Ark. The species has recently been assessed as critically endangered by IUCN Redlist and is at imminent risk of extinction in the wild.

The Maleo is a megapode

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