Personally, in my case my mainstay until last year was wildfowling, simply because it’s accessible and affordable. My club has a few areas for pigeon and rough shooting too. There’s not much in the way of affordable gameshooting in the South-East, but in addition to that, shooting driven reared birds doesn’t appeal to me much, certainly not given how much it costs. I shoot driven birds once a year courtesy of a generous friend, it’s good fun, I have a chance to fill my freezer, but somehow, it doesn’t count. A bit like trout fishing at Syon Park: I go once or twice a year because it’s good fun and the only easily accessible fishing for me, but in my fishing diary, I never look at those pages again. I’ll swap you twenty reared pheasants for a chance at a single woodcock.
My regular expenditure on stalking (excluding equipment) is less than it would cost me for a day’s driven shooting. No contest!