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On a good commercial estate in the Highlands (say, Sutherland) I’d guess at a week on the hinds .. Mon - Fri,
09.00-15.30hrs will cost at least £1000/£200 approx per beast. A calf may also be taken FOC if with a hind.
A ‘follower’ is regarded as a hind and should it be allowed to be taken, is charged as a hind.
On estates my friends and I have shot, we at least averaged two hinds a day, often (a lot) more.
But that depends on how well/much the head stalker trusts you. Usually not at all the first time you visit their estate, and what your shooting was like, whether you helped in the larder, also, how well you ‘tipped’!
Tips? A hidden extra! - A secret thing depending on how things went...info few are willing to share.
Accommodation, fuel, booze, all other self catering extras will likely add another £350-500 per head per week.
Depends how far you have to travel, alone or with friends and how frugal you want to be. My friends and I should be, but hell, it’s a week with the boys away!, so we weren’t frugal at all and enjoyed many years on several very large estates through late November-December taking a lot of hinds and calves.
All said and done, we enjoyed a staggeringly good time each annual visit and on one visit in our second year, between us shot 43 hinds and eight calves. That was one time. After that, each week, we shot on average ten plus calves, occasionally more. Most were reds, but some sika were shot too.
When we first went, costs for shooting hinds was much much less than now. We last on a commercial estate in December 2013.
Since then, the estate we shot on for six years running has been sold.
That was then....now we’re just happy with our own ground.
