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Partridge Shooting at El Crespo, Ciudad Real

Fuenllana, in Ciudad Real, with more than ten thousand hectares of managed ground behind it. Everything the estate currently does is built around red-legged partridge, and at that size the focus shows in how a whole season is run rather than in any single day of it.

Driven red-legged partridge shooting at El Crespo, Ciudad Real, SpainAerial view of the lodge complex at El Crespo, tiled roofs and gravel courtyards among olive grovesThe lodge at El Crespo standing on a hilltop above terraced olive grovesA long table laid for lunch under a covered terrace at El Crespo, looking out across lawns to open farmlandEstate staff walking out along a farm track at El Crespo carrying peg markers, shooting sticks and cartridge bagsHolm oaks scattered across low hills at El Crespo, above a stubble field and ploughed red earthBirds in flight over red earth and dry grassland at El Crespo, guns at their pegs below a rocky outcropOlive groves covering rolling hills at El Crespo under a broken sky in low morning light
Map showing El Crespo at Fuenllana, Ciudad Real, its arrival airport and major Spanish cities for reference
El CrespoAt a glance
RegionFuenllana, Ciudad Real
Approximate area10,000+ ha / 24,700+ acres
Sport in addition to partridgeCurrent estate programme is focused on red-legged partridge
Usual arrival airportMadrid-Barajas
Granada and Madrid are a similar distance, near enough 200 km either way. Madrid is normally the easier connection from the UK.
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Ten thousand hectares is enough to rotate drives across a full season without ever returning to tired ground. On partridge, that discipline is the difference between a good estate and a great one — birds that have not been disturbed fly differently.

Fuenllana sits in the Campo de Montiel, a high plateau of cereal, olive and holm oak. The slopes are long rather than steep, so drives tend to be wide, with birds arriving in numbers across a broad front.

The focus on a single quarry means the calendar is built around the partridge season rather than fitted between other sport.

The Value of our Shooting Package — El Crespo

What a fully inclusive package covers here — full board on the estate in the staffed hacienda, all wines, spirits and soft drinks, return transfers from Madrid-Barajas, and ammunition, Spanish gun and hunting licences — with the point that overage is counted per gun, so each gun pays only for the birds it has shot.

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El Crespo at a Glance

Season 1 October to 31 March. Bags from 500 driven birds a day at El Crespo; larger bags on request, and we confirm the ground can carry them on your dates. Included full board on the estate, all drinks, return transfers from Madrid-Barajas, ammunition, Spanish licences, a loader for every gun and transport between drives.

How a Spanish driven day runs, month by month what the season looks like, and the three things that set the price are the same at every one of our eight estates and are set out once on the hub page: how a driven day runs in Spain, the Spanish partridge season calendar and what sets the price.

Key Information

Rates

Quoted per programme on application, set by daily bag, number of guns and number of days. Ask for a quotation.

Quarry focus

Red-legged partridge is the current focus of the estate's programme.

Can a Shotgun be provided

Yes

Accommodation

First class lodge or hotel.

Ammunition

Ammunition supplied.

Suggested Calibre

28, 20, 16, 12.

Permits Required

All required permits arranged at time of booking.

Arrival airport

Madrid-Barajas. Granada and Madrid are a similar distance, near enough 200 km either way. Madrid is normally the easier connection from the UK.

Flights & Bringing own Firearms

Estate guns and ammunition are provided. Bringing your own guns to Spain.

 

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Planning your trip to El Crespo

Straight answers to the questions guns ask us most about shooting at El Crespo, whether you are travelling from the UK, from Europe or from the United States.

What is included in a El Crespo package?

Full board on the estate, all wines, spirits, beers and soft drinks, return transfers from Madrid-Barajas, ammunition, the Spanish gun and hunting licences, a loader for every gun, and transport between drives. Birds over the agreed bag are counted individually, so each gun pays only for the birds he or she has shot.

How do I get to El Crespo?

Fly into Madrid-Barajas. Granada and Madrid are a similar distance, near enough 200 km either way; Madrid is normally the easier connection from the UK and the USA. Estate transport meets your flight, and the transfer is part of the package.

When is the season at El Crespo, and what is the ground like?

1 October to 31 March. El Crespo is more than 10,000 hectares at Fuenllana, Ciudad Real, run for driven red-legged partridge. A day is four or five drives, with tapas after the second drive and lunch at the end, and a loader looking after each gun throughout.

Licences and permits, what a fully inclusive Spanish package contains and what a programme costs are answered in full on the hub page: planning your driven partridge trip to Spain.

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