Driven grouse at Bolton Castle

Gamekeeper Paul Childerley is on a busman's holiday. Usually running his own driven pheasant, partridge and duck shoots in the south of England, today he is at the Bolton Estate in the Yorkshire Dales for a day of driven grouse shooting. There is plenty of exciting action in the butt, and we learn how the grouse shooting funds conservation work that benefits all kinds of threatened wildlife on the estate. Find Paul Childerley at https://www.ChilderleySporting.co.uk For more about the estate go to https://www.BoltonEstate.co.uk Get a 10% discount on the Shotkam Gen 4 at https://www.FieldsportsChannel.tv/pro... ▶ To watch all of #FieldsportsBritain, episode 831, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsp... ▶ Become a Fieldsports Channel member, help fund our fight for fieldsports in the media, and take advantage of our insurance package, including legal expenses cover https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/membership ▶ Sign up for our weekly email newsletter https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/register We’re proud to promote enjoyment of fieldsports and the countryside. There are three guiding principles to everything we do on Fieldsports Channel: ▶ Shoot responsibly ▶ Respect the quarry ▶ Ensure a humane, clean and quick kill Why shoot game birds? Game is wild, natural and free range, and it is one of the healthiest meats available today. It is low in cholesterol and high in protein. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Both pheasant and partridge contain high levels of iron, protein, vitamin B(6) and selenium, which helps to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals. In addition to the nutritional benefits of game, game shooting is worth £2 billion annually to the UK rural economy and supports 74,000 jobs. There are 480,000 (UK government figures) active game shooters in the UK who enjoy bird shooting under the principles of the Code of Good Shooting Practice. More than 2 million hectares are actively managed for shooting in the UK creating proven (PACEC, 2014) conservation benefits and preserving important habitats for a diverse range of flora and fauna, in particular farmland birds. UK shooting providers spend £5.4 million on cover crop seeds every year and maintain over 25,000ha of wild-bird cover.