Occasional vacancies arise in our Shooting Syndicate situated 5 miles West of Barnard Castle. Close to the A66 and the borders of Cumbria, Durham and North Yorkshire it is convenient for travel from a wide area. The shoot is laid out over undulating and challenging ground in Upper Teesdale, the shoot is south facing with steep banks down towards to River Tees and amazing views over the North Pennine Grouse Moors.

The shoot extends to about 450 acres of woodland which was planted on Heather Moorland from the 1950’s onwards. Over the years large areas have been cleared and replanted meaning there is a good mix of ages and species of Timber. Unlike many areas of woodland we have excellent ground cover with areas of heather, bilberry or bracken cover – all hold Pheasant’s and Woodcock. An extensive felling & regeneration programme has left us with about 50% of our ground “open” and this combined with deep gills, valleys and hills mean we can present very testing birds. Shots vary from high curling birds from hilltops over open ground to snap shots in mature Larch.

Syndicate members have access to excellent closed season Pigeon flighting and Rabbit shooting.  At the moment only 3 or 4 shoot members take advantage of the Pigeon flighting and when conditions are right they make some very good bags and have superb sport throughout the afternoon. The best of the flighting is late in the afternoon from late June until September. Members are welcome to come along as many times as they can manage – just a simple phone call is required to check no one else is on site

Commencing late October or early November we start formal Driven Days and shoot these days every fortnight until the New Year, these days take place on a Saturday plus one day over the Christmas/New Year Holiday. On a formal day the bag is made up largely of Pheasants and Mallard but we do also have excellent falls of Woodcock. Bags vary immensely but at their best do top the 100 bird mark before falling in late season to somewhere nearer the 30 mark. That said potential guns do need to view our shoot to appreciate just how testing the ground and our birds really are – we have witnessed some terrible cartridge/kill ratios on both our Pheasants and Duck! To illustrate this we have just had a couple of guests at a Driven day and 49 cartridges fired on the duck drives saw a return of 4 birds and there was a similar figure on the 3 Pheasant Drives!

In between our formal Driven days we have also included several informal "Stand one/Beat one" shoot days. These are excellent days with a varied and challenging bag and you can read more about these days by clicking here.

Shoot subscriptions are £850 per year + BASC subscriptions. The shoot has 10 guns (we may consider half guns). There is a one off joining fee of £50.

On formal Driven Days members are required to provide a beater. If they cannot bring a beater then the shoot can arrange one but the member will need to pay his/her wages (£25).

Our syndicate was full for the 2009/10 season but we are happy to take enquiries from potential new members and add you to our waiting list.