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Belvoir & Burnhope ‘09 October 24 - 31 Saturday, October 24 Arrive London. You'll be met at the airport and brought (45 minutes) to The Hunter’s Arms, a 16th Century pub hotel near Broomhills, home of gunmakers Atkin Grant & Lang. Dinner tonight, our first together, and breakfast tomorrow will be here in the pub. Sunday, October 25 Those who haven’t brought their own will select guns from the Atkin Grant & Lang gunroom. After shooting a few clays, we’ll drive north about 100 miles to The Olde Barn Hotel in the village of Marston, Lincolnshire, our home for the next three nights. Monday, October 26 Our first big day at Belvoir Castle—350 pheasant and partridge on the estate’s famous drives. Paired guns are recommended; loaders will be provided. Our lunches will be served in the Shoot Room at the Castle. Tuesday, October 27 Our second driven day at Belvoir Castle—also 350 pheasant and partridge. Wednesday, October 28 A travel day. We’ll drive 220 miles farther northeast to County Durham and check into Burnhope Lodge near Burnhope Moor, where we’ll spend three nights. We will be in the North Pennine Hills, a scenic moorland area that is home to many famous grouse shoots. Thursday, October 29 Our first day of driven grouse at Burnhope. The expected bag is 60 brace. Paired guns are recommended here as well, as red grouse are notoriously fast and agile. Loaders will again be provided. Friday, October 30 Our second day of driven grouse at Burnhope. Our deluxe lunches—mid-day meals, actually—will be served in a snug building right at the moor. Saturday, October 31 After a last night at Burnhope Lodge, we’ll return to the airports for flights home or onward. (Please note: Your return flights should be booked for late in the day; it’s a five-hour drive to Heathrow.) For the Non-Shooters: There is much to enjoy at both of our destinations. Do not miss a tour of Belvoir Castle (www.belvoircastle.com), the ancestral home of the Manners family, the Duke & Duchess of Rutland. On any day, partners are welcome to join the Guns in the field; it can be a spectacular experience, and lunches are often memorable all by themselves. A vehicle & driver will be available for local explorations as well, from the Yorkshire Dales to the Scottish Borders. Please Note: • Driven days on the Belvoir estate should provide team bags of approximately 350 pheasant and partridge. Burnhope Moor should provide bags of 60 brace (120 grouse) each day. There will be no overage charges, extra fees for more birds, at either place. • Appropriate side-by-side or over/under guns, 12- or 20-bore, are required. Pairs are recommended; loaders will be provided. All cartridges are provided. High-quality guns from Atkin Grant & Lang’s gunroom will be available to use at no extra charge. • All permits, certificates and licenses are included and we will assist with passage of guns into and out of the UK. • The temperature is likely to be 45-50 degrees F and rain is possible any time. Proper shooting gear, footwear and clothing is needed. (“There is no bad weather—only bad clothing.”) Belvoir & Burnhope ‘09 — Facts & Figures 1. The team must be eight guest Guns, with or without non-shooting partners. The hosts are Ken Duglan, managing director of Atkin Grant & Lang, and Silvio Calabi, Shooting Sportsman editor at large. 2. Package price, exclusive of airfares, personal items, and keeper’s and loader’s tips (about £100/day) and non-shooters’ lunches, is £10,350 per couple (Gun and non-shooter, double occupancy). The price for a single Gun is £8,350. The exchange rate presently is about $1.50 = £1. 3. Included: one night at the Hunter’s Lodge, with dinner and breakfast; three nights at the Olde Barn and three nights at Burnhope Lodge (all deluxe rooms with baths en suite) with breakfast, dinner, cocktails & wines; shoot lunches; airport transfers; all activities as outlined, gun permits, high-quality cartridges and all shooting as outlined; and VAT. 4. Getting to and from London will be up to you. The drive between Burnhope Lodge and Heathrow Airport takes about five hours, so please book any onward flights no earlier than late afternoon on Saturday, 31 October. 5. A 50% deposit of £4,175 per Gun or £5,175 per couple is due with your reservation. (The exchange rate now is approximately £1 = $1.50.). The balance is due by September 1, 2009. Credit cards are welcome. Checks should be made out to Kenneth Duglan and sent to Silvio Calabi at 4 Bonnie Brae, Camden, ME 04843. 6. If the shoot fills up before we receive your deposit, your payment will be returned promptly. You will be put on the alternate list and any vacancy will be offered to you. 7. Deposits are non-refundable after July 31, 2009, unless we can fill a cancellation from the alternate list or the trip has to be canceled. We recommend travel insurance. 9. This shoot was created with the help of carefully selected travel, hospitality and shooting professionals, and all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure that proper arrangements have been made. However, neither Ken Duglan nor Silvio Calabi can accept any liability for the actions or omissions of these suppliers, over whom they have no direct control. Please understand also that we have no control over weather, government actions, mechanical breakdowns and the like. Furthermore, we are not responsible for your actions, either. Safety afield is paramount, and we will take any steps necessary to ensure that safety, up to and including barring Guns from the field. 10. Calabi & Duglan must reserve the right to select trip participants, to make any needed changes in the itinerary, and to cancel the trip should that in our judgment become necessary. Contact: Silvio Calabi / calabi.silvio@gmail.com / 207-592-2619 Ken Duglan / AGLKen@aol.com / 01144-1582-849382
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| Belvoir & Bibury ‘10
Greetings,
We are approaching our 15th season of hosting shoots, and each year we try to build on what went before. For 2010 we offer four top-shelf days of British pheasant and partridge with accommodations, meals and service to match. And now we are including not only dinner wines but also keepers’ and loaders’ tips in the package price. At present, the pound sterling is weaker against the dollar than it was a year ago (and trending downward further).
We will shoot 300-bird days, so paired guns are welcome but not necessary. If you’ve never shot with a professional loader, this will be a new and enjoyable experience. If you prefer to shoot a single gun, we will provide a stuffer. (That’s a loader who looks after just one gun.) High-quality loaner guns, including pairs, will be available at no charge from Atkin Grant & Lang.
Belvoir Castle has long been one of Britain’s top shoots, and our experience there bears this out. It is a traditional, almost old-fashioned venue with medium to high birds and great attention to quality and detail. Cold Aston, in the Cotswolds, took our comments from two years ago to heart and has added three more farms and a further 60 acres of cover crops; as a result, the shooting is now back above par and we are happy to return.
At Belvoir we stay on the estate, at the proven Manners Arms (www.mannersarms.com). In the Cotswolds, our new home is Bibury Court (www.biburycourt.co.uk), a Jacobean mansion that has been singled out as one of the UK’s top 50 hotels.
Our dates are Sunday, October 24, through Saturday, October 30, and the attached itinerary spells out the details.
In hopes you can join us,
207-592-2619 calabi.silvio@gmail.com
Contact: Silvio Calabi / calabi.silvio@gmail.com / 207-592-2619 Ken Duglan / AGLKen@aol.com / 01144-1582-849382 |
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| 24th October to 31st October 2009 at Belviour Castel and Burnhope grouse moor |
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