Shoot beater daily rate

[Andymacp]

Can get £85 on grouse up here.

Even more for working pointer

[MattyF]

I used to beat a lot, I also used to run a release pen for a couple of years when I was much younger. Can't remember what I was paid, this was back in the '70s

 

Feel sorry for the pheasants really. Stupid flying chickens. Made me sick in the end.

 

 

lol that's my take on it ! Used to do a great shoot 30-70 birds max ,lunch a brace and £20 and also the guns would buy you drinks until closing... that closed down after the old keeper died who was a true country gentleman... then went on to another shoot which 200 birds was considered poor and the guns shot at any thing that moved including low birds in front of us beating,if I had been payed £100 I would not of gone back.

[Kev Stephenson]

£20, brace of birds and a beaters day

[csservices]

Grouse around here is about £50 a day

I didnt used to get that a day when I was keepering a grouse moor 😁 pheasant beating used to be £12-15 a day round here, plus possibly soup or beer at dinner time and a brace at end of day and one or two beaters days at end of season.

 

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[daveindales]

I didnt used to get that a day when I was keepering a grouse moor 😁 pheasant beating used to be £12-15 a day round here, plus possibly soup or beer at dinner time and a brace at end of day and one or two beaters days at end of season.

 

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Think when I started, it was about £7 a day and a can of warm beer. Probably about 1983/4

[Stubby]

Its gone from £5 a day ( when I started ) to £35 a day and £40 for the pickers up on the same shoot . Still the same keeper .

[csservices]

Think when I started, it was about £7 a day and a can of warm beer. Probably about 1983/4

Think it was about £10 a day when I started, saved all my beating money and bought a brand new baikal .410 single barrel, still got it awesome ratting gun 😁

 

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[daveindales]

Think it was about £10 a day when I started, saved all my beating money and bought a brand new baikal .410 single barrel, still got it awesome ratting gun 😁

 

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I saved mine and bought an AYA yeoman. Lived for ferreting, shooting etc. Was offered a job game keeping when I was a kid. YTS, £25 a week. Glad, I didn't take it, as I lost all interest after a year or two. Don't do anything like that nowadays.

[csservices]

I saved mine and bought an AYA yeoman. Lived for ferreting, shooting etc. Was offered a job game keeping when I was a kid. YTS, £25 a week. Glad, I didn't take it, as I lost all interest after a year or two. Don't do anything like that nowadays.

Haha yep I was a yts keeper, 2 of us living in a static on the yard at the keepers house in montgomeryshire, like you say £25 a week and despite being in the pub or the spar shop nearly everynight still somehow had money left at the end of the month 👍

 

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[daveindales]

I had my first day in forestry, may 1985 and earned £32 a day for putting bags of fertiliser on trees. That was good money then. A lot better than £25 a week keeping.