40% sounds pretty good - was just thinking of the bigger game keepers putting down around 20,000 birds, if you shot 40%, ie. 8,000 at £25, less 50 tonnes of wheat and other 'stuff', you'd be looking at a gross profit of around £190,000 - not bad! ok, if a bird costs £3 each to buy, you're down to £130K, still not too bad, take off some keeper and equipment costs, say £30K - and you're still looking at £100K pa gross rev...could be worse than sitting in the office all day.. LOL
40% sounds pretty good - was just thinking of the bigger game keepers putting down around 20,000 birds, if you shot 40%, ie. 8,000 at £25, less 50 tonnes of wheat and other 'stuff', you'd be looking at a gross profit of around £190,000 - not bad! ok, if a bird costs £3 each to buy, you're down to £130K, still not too bad, take off some keeper and equipment costs, say £30K - and you're still looking at £100K pa gross rev...could be worse than sitting in the office all day.. LOL
i know of at least one very large landowner with estates in the north and south who now makes his keepers pay ,community charge,gas ,electric ,water if he does it whos to say many others wont follow suit !I wish, realistically its very hard to make a shoot pay 30K won't look at the cost of a keeper these days, wages, cost of suppling and maintaining a vehicle, suppling him with a house think of what that house could earn you in a monthly rent if it was not tied up with a keeper in it.
Then there are the other benefits that a keeper gets these vary from estate to estate but for example these are the ones I got when I was last employed full time keepering more than twenty years ago, dog allowance £2 per week per dog , all my electricity, telephone bills, house rates, no rates now but the lad that went there after me got his council tax paid, milk, potatoes, and eggs all estate produce while not amounting to a vast amount it all helped.
Feeding costs, shooting day costs transport,beaters, pickers up, the list goes on and on.
i know of at least one very large landowner with estates in the north and south who now makes his keepers pay ,community charge,gas ,electric ,water if he does it whos to say many others wont follow suit !
i know of at least one very large landowner with estates in the north and south who now makes his keepers pay ,community charge,gas ,electric ,water if he does it whos to say many others wont follow suit !