Looking for a unique pheasant shooting experience? This Scotland Traditional Game Shooting package is for you!

This journey entails a group of eight traveling to the southwest of Scotland to participate in three days of pheasant shooting, and wining and dining in the finest traditions of Scottish hospitality.

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We will fly from Boston, Massachusetts to Glasgow, Scotland, and be escorted by coach to Castle Douglas, staying at the Urr Valley Country House Hotel. This stately hotel has a warm atmosphere, which reflects the country-like friendly personality of the Scottish people. The rooms are clean and nicely furnished in an old-fashioned, country decor, with modern facilities. We will be served delicious meals at the hotel which has a quaint bar where we can gather to reminisce each day's shoot. The hotel is situated in a beautiful setting overlooking a very picturesque view.

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Simon and Annie Ingall have bestowed upon us the privilege of shooting on their private estate of 3,000 acres. They have their own full-time guides and private gamekeeper.

A little about the shooting -- driven pheasants provide some of the most testing sporting shots of all the game birds. A team of well drilled beaters walk the woods in order to drive the birds over the guns. In this traditional shooting, only 12/20 bore over-and-under, or side-by-side shotguns can be used. Four wheel drive vehicles transport you between stands of which there are usually six to eight. Trained gun dogs behind you ensure that all your hit birds are picked speedily. Each day of the driven bird shoot, we will bag an average of 150-200 cocks and hens. During the driven-bird shoots, we will have our morning teas, hot cooked lunches and afternoon teas in a truly splendid and noble Scottish mansion built in the 1800's, which has been in the Ingall family for generations.

We will be rough-shooting one of the days. This type of shooting is simply walking with a guide and dogs, flushing pheasants, having an opportunity to take in the breathtaking beauty of the land while having a blast shooting cocks and hens. We shoot for awhile and break for a morning tea, and then shoot until a noon lunch and go out again in the afternoon. It is great fun and exhilarating.

Please contact us for more information. We would love to have you join us on our next journey to Scotland.

Mike Kuchera
South Dakota Guide Service, Inc.
P.O. Box 10
Mitchell, South Dakota 57301
Phone: (605) 996-1120
Fax: (605) 996-1232
E-mail: mkuchera@sdpheasants.com