The Famous Five
Spain’s leading shoots In the UK there are no end of shoots to choose from for UK, European and US guests. In Spain there are far fewer shoots and five shine above the others each…
Destinations
Video – Partridge shooting, Ventosilla Palace, Spain
Enjoy watching this 3-minute video on South African guest Aldo Rech’s second visit to Ventosilla Palace shooting partridges with his wife Michelle. In the short piece he talks about why he feels at home at…
Shooting in Spain – Two practical considerations
Once again I have been very lucky to be a guest shooting in Spain and have loved it. It is always great shooting and the food is too good, one just eats and eats. You…
Taking Guns to Argentina
Buying guns has become a very difficult process in Argentina. The cost of a basic Beretta or semi-auto is from $3,000 to $5,000 per gun plus a year to eighteen months of paperwork. Shooting operators…
Ten things you need to know about dove shooting in Cordoba…
Travel – Travelling to Cordoba has never been easier. Passengers traveling from the USA via JFK, Atlanta, or Miami with Delta or Aerolineas Argentinas now have the option of connecting directly over Ezeiza International…
Catching a domestic flight from the international (Pistarini or Ezeiza as it is called) airport in Buenos Aires
You might be wondering why this piece is necessary but having arrived internationally, catching a domestic flight to destinations like Cordoba, Bariloche, Calafate, or Mendoza has always required transferring to the domestic airport (Jorge Newberry)…
Spanish partridge shooting, Ventosilla, Spain
The first ever driven partridge drive to take place in Spain was at Ventosilla in 1884. It was my friend Antonio Cavero’s great-grandfather who organized this historical event and he, his son and now his…
Celebration of Grouse at Patrick Mavros in London…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][image type=”none” float=”none” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” src=”6917″][text_output]I was flattered to be invited to supply photographs for the Celebration of Grouse event at Patrick Mavros’s London headquarters. The event was the coming together of three…
Shooting in Spain – the conundrum
Shooting in Spain has been so often talked about in whispered tones as something special and different, a real treat because of the perceived expense and something that perhaps only the very privileged do.
I recently had the good fortune to visit two contrasting estates in Spain, which led me to reflect on how we view Spain nowadays.
First, it remain special and different. Special because of the quality of shooting but also because so often the weather is much more pleasurable, the pace of the shoot days is so relaxed due to the extended light and of course the food is so different and delicious. To sit amongst the trees in or out of the sunshine, enjoying tapas after a couple of superb drives is one of the great shooting experiences.
Pica Zuro Lodge, Cordoba, Argentina 2013
Pica Zuro Lodge, our home for three nights.
Having had a great week’s fishing at Kau Tapen down in Tierra del Fuego (read about it here), we were sad to say goodbye to some of our team who were non-shooters at Buenos Aires domestic airport, Aeroparque. Seven of us came through the luggage area and headed upstairs to the food halls where we had a typically dodgy airport lunch (probably made worse by our poor ordering in Spanish!) and watched Ireland v France in the Six Nations. We then headed through security which was again a breeze, comparatively, had our now standard one-hour delay and headed to Cordoba.