Partridge Shooting Season in Scotland

Only if you bring your own shotgun. A visitor from outside Great Britain needs a UK visitor's shotgun permit, and the application must be made by a sponsor resident in Great Britain. Hendry, Ramsay & Waters acts as your sponsor and submits the application to Police Scotland on your behalf. Police Scotland says a typical application takes up to six weeks to process, so we ask for your details at least six weeks before you travel. The Police Scotland fee is £48 per visitor, or £240 for a group application. You will need a copy of your home firearms licence (European visitors: your European Firearms Pass) or, where you hold neither, a letter of good character from your police or government. Carry the permit with you and declare your guns and permit to UK Border Force when you arrive.

If you would rather not travel with your own guns, we arrange gun hire and cartridges for you and you shoot under the UK's borrowing exemption, so no permit is needed. Most of our overseas guests choose this.

Sources: Police Scotland — visitor permits and BASC — visiting the UK to shoot.

A driven day on one of the Scottish partridge shoots we represent, with the keeper, beaters and pickers-up, and a loader where you want one. For multi-day packages we arrange transport, hotel accommodation, gun hire, cartridges and permits, so you only have to arrive. Tell us the bag you want shown, the number of guns and the number of days.

Driven partridge in Scotland is priced per bird on the bag you want shown, plus the cost of any hotel, transport and gun hire you ask us to arrange. Partridge over heather gives the feel of a grouse day at a much lower cost per bird. Send us your dates, party size and the bag you have in mind and we will quote the day in full, with no obligation.

1 September to 31 January. Partridge in Scotland are normally driven over heather moors or off high banks, and when the ground is right the birds are as high and testing as any grouse.

Fly into Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverness, whichever is nearest the shoot. If you are bringing your own shotguns we sponsor your UK visitor's permit (allow six weeks); if not, hire guns and cartridges are waiting for you. We arrange the estate, the guide, your accommodation and the permits, and we advise on which airlines currently carry firearms. Many of our American guests combine driven partridge or pheasant with a stag or a roe buck in the same trip. Read our guide for American hunters.

Hendry, Ramsay & Waters (Scothunt) is a Scottish sporting agency representing several of Scotland's finest partridge shoots. We arrange single days and multi-day packages for sporting clients from the UK, Europe and the United States, and we handle the shoot booking, the permits, the accommodation and the transport. Fill in the enquiry form or contact us.

A driven partridge day is normally shot by a team of eight or nine guns, with a loader for each gun if you want one; smaller parties can take a peg on a shared day. The bag is agreed in advance and the day is priced on it, so tell us how many birds you would like shown and we will match you to a shoot and a date. Walked-up and mixed days suit two to six guns and are priced per gun.

Tell us your dates, party size and what you want to hunt and we send a written programme and quotation. A 50% deposit confirms the booking and the balance is invoiced before you travel; if you book less than eight weeks before the start, the full amount is payable in place of the deposit. Overseas clients are invoiced in pounds sterling, the programme states whether VAT is included, and we recommend you take out your own cancellation insurance. The full conditions of booking are on the site.