How much does a private shooting day in France cost?

What makes up a private shooting day

A private day is not bought from a catalogue: it is put together. Ground taken for your party alone, a quarry and a way of shooting it, a line of guns, a shoot team, then everything around the shooting, from arriving the night before to the journey back to Paris, Monaco or London in the evening. Each element moves the price, and two days that go by the same name can have almost nothing in common.

The first item is the shooting itself. On a driven pheasant and partridge day, it is measured by the number of birds presented and the quality of their flight, which depends on the lie of the land, the woods and the work of the keeper, beaters and dogs throughout the season. On a driven boar and deer day, it depends on the ground, the cull plan and the number of drives the team can run in a day.

The second item is hospitality: loaders, a gunsmith on hand, lunch at the estate's table, the cellar, a night on the estate or in a nearby house, a driver, a private flight to a nearby airfield. On a fine day these items can weigh as much as the shooting, and they are what makes the difference for business guests.

What the market charges for the finest days

The benchmarks below were gathered in October 2026 from public pages of international sporting agencies and from a leading British source. They are rounded and indicative: they give an order of magnitude to place a proposal, not a price list. They are not TGZ prices.

Two formats deliberately carry no figure. A driven boar and deer day taken privately by a party on forest ground, and a château weekend with shooting and lodging on the estate, are almost always quoted on request, with no recent public price that can be checked: we would rather give no figure than one that cannot be verified.

The British benchmark matters to clients who already shoot in England or Scotland: it gives the order of magnitude of a driven bird, the unit that the finest French days increasingly use to price a line.

Per bird, per line, per stay: reading a proposal

Pricing per bird is the rule on the finest small-game days. A bag is agreed in advance for the line; the balance is settled at the end of the day on the number of birds actually shot, and the total is shared between the guns. It calls for complete clarity on what has been agreed: minimum bag, tolerance, price of birds beyond it.

Pricing per line gives one figure for a given number of guns, which your party shares as it wishes, or which the host covers for their guests. It is the natural form for a day offered by a company to its clients: one invoice, one point of contact.

Pricing per stay brings together several days, the nights and the meals. It is read item by item. In every case, we suggest judging a day by the quality of the birds, the rhythm of the drives and how the ground is kept, rather than by the size of the bag on paper.

Around the day: what comes on top

Some costs never appear in an estate's price because they are personal. To shoot in France, each gun needs a hunting licence validated for the season or for a few days, and hunting third-party liability insurance. Validation is handled by the departmental hunters' federation, for a year, for nine consecutive days or for three consecutive days; it combines a fee and a federation contribution, both set each season. If you live abroad and hold a licence from your own country, it can be validated in France in the same way. We give you the current amount when you enquire.

Other costs depend on the day: cartridges, often charged separately; loaders, when they are not included; lunch and dinner for non-shooting guests; lodging, the driver and the flight. Game taken home follows food-safety rules: large game is handed over whole, unskinned and gutted, with its tag. We settle these points with the estate before the day.

Then there is the tip for the keeper and the team, rarely included in the price. One organiser of château days publishes a benchmark of at least €150 per gun per day; the custom varies from one estate to another, and we tell you what it is before you arrive. For a guest party, we can also take care of it.

Guests who do not shoot

A private day almost always includes guests who do not shoot: a partner, an associate, a client. They have their place in the day. A guest can stand with a gun at the peg, staying in a supporting role and, on a driven boar and deer day, wearing high-visibility clothing like every participant. They share lunch and dinner, and their cost is limited to hospitality.

For those who would like to hold a gun without a licence, we arrange a private clay shooting stand with a qualified coach, most often in the morning or alongside the day. It does not replace a hunting licence, and we will never suggest otherwise; it simply lets everyone experience the day from the inside.

How we put a quote together

We do not sell single pegs on a shared day: we only arrange private days for your party, quoted individually according to the ground, the quarry, the number of guns and the hospitality. We work with partner estates and organisers across France, chosen for how they manage their ground, their standards of safety and their hospitality; we present a clear proposal, item by item, showing what is included and what is not.

We tell you what is possible before you commit, without promising a date or a bag the estate has not confirmed. Around the day, we coordinate what matters to guests arriving from Paris, Monaco, London, Geneva or the Gulf: a driver at dawn, a private flight to a nearby airfield, a house the night before, the journey home in the evening, with complete discretion.