Shooting Seasons

Game Shooting

• Pheasant: 1st October – 1st February
• Partridge: 1st September –  1st February
• Grouse: 12th August – 10th December
• Ptarmigan:12th August – 10th December
• Blackgame: 20th August – 10th December
• Common snipe:12th August – 31st January
• Jack snipe: Protected
• Woodcock: 1st September – 31st January
• Duck & goose (inland): 1st September –  31st  January
• Duck & goose – below MHW:1st September –  20th February

Ground Game Seasons

• Mountain Hare: August 1^st to February 28/29^th
• Brown Hare: October 1^st – January 31^st
• Rabbit: Jan 1 – Dec 31 moorland & unenclosed land is subject to a close season click here for further information

Stalking Seasons

• Red stags: 1st July –  20th October
• Red hinds: 21st October – 15th February
• Sika stags:1st July – 20th October
• Sika hinds: 21st October   –   15th February
• Fallow bucks: 1st August – 30th April
• Fallow does: 21st October  – 15th February
• Roe bucks: 1st April – 20th October
• Roe does:21st October – 31st March