A great winter forest reserved for your party, standing guns along a ride, hounds giving tongue in the distance, the wait: we arrange private driven hunts for you, your partners, your clients or your family, and everything around them, with safety as the first criterion.
Driven big game hunting is about waiting and listening. You walk to your stand in silence, watch the forest, hear the drive come closer, then move away. The boar or stag that steps out is never a given, and that is what gives the day its worth. Everything depends on well-managed ground and on an organisation where safety leaves no room for approximation.
TGZ Conciergerie arranges private days only: we do not sell single places on a collective drive. The ground, the beaters and the hunt captain are there for your party alone. We work with partner estates and organisers across France, in the Sologne, around Paris and in other great forest regions, chosen for each request according to the season, the experience of the guns and the kind of hunt you are looking for. Every day takes place on ground where the organiser holds the hunting rights, within the framework declared to the French authorities.
We never promise an animal. We tell you what the ground offers, how the drives are run and which rules apply, then arrange everything else in the same hands: arrival by jet or chauffeur from Paris, Monaco, London, Geneva or the Gulf, a house for the night, the table, guests who will not hunt. You hear what is possible before you commit to anything, in complete discretion.
For those who host in the forest
You know driven hunting and want to bring close friends or relations onto serious ground, without checking or arranging everything yourself.
Hosting clients, investors or an executive committee for a day in the forest, with a welcome that matches the relationship.
A driven day that gathers several generations, season after season, arranged with the discretion you expect.
You are coming from London, Geneva, the Gulf or New York with your own licence: we prepare validation, insurance, firearm transport and travel well before the date.
Six moments of the day, as we prepare them with the organiser for your party alone. The detail changes from one estate to the next; the standard of safety and service does not.
Your guests gathered, bright vests already on, around the hunt captain, who sets out the safety rules, the shooting rules and which animals may be taken. Each person leaves knowing exactly what they may do, and what they must not.
Each gun is taken to a stand along a ride or a line, neighbours identified, arc of fire clearly set. Then comes the wait, in the quiet of a forest reserved for your party.
Beaters and their hounds work through the coverts to move the game. A team out for your day alone, whose progress is followed by ear from one end of the wood to the other.
An unarmed guest can live the drive beside a hunter, also dressed in a bright colour, as French rules require of everyone present on a driven big game hunt.
A table laid in the warm in a hunting lodge or deep in the estate, a seasonal menu, wines chosen with care, before the afternoon drives.
As the light fades, the game is laid out with respect and the beaters are thanked. Then the chauffeur is waiting, or the house where dinner is served, or the flight home.
Safety first, everything else in the same hands
We question each organiser on how the ground is managed, how the drives are run and what safety rules apply, and pass their answers on to you as they are.
One person prepares the hunt with you: the ground, the formalities with the departmental hunting federation, the instructions shared with your guests, the logistics.
A house or hotel the night before, a chauffeur from Paris, a jet to the nearest airfield, dinner afterwards, a programme for guests who do not hunt: the whole of it, arranged.
We never name our clients, their guests or the ground where they hunt. Nothing we arrange is published.
Tell us about the experience you have in mind. A dedicated concierge will return with confirmable options tailored to your priorities.
We only arrange hunts reserved for your party: each one is quoted individually, according to the ground, the game, the number of guns and the hospitality you want, from lunch in the forest to a stay at a château. Our guide to the cost of a shooting day explains what the market charges and what makes up the price.
Yes. You need a hunting licence validated for the season or for a few days, and hunting liability insurance. If you live abroad and hold a hunting licence from your own country, it can be validated in France for nine days or three days, subject to approval by the relevant hunting federation. Bringing firearms into France follows specific customs rules: we tell you the right procedure for your country of residence.
On a driven big game hunt, everyone present, armed or not, wears a brightly coloured vest or garment, visibly and at all times. Signs mark the hunt at the main entrances to the area. Shooting towards roads, public paths and houses is prohibited, and the hunt captain sets out at the morning briefing the instructions everyone follows. Our first driven hunt guide covers these customs in detail.
No, and we never promise it. Driven hunting remains the pursuit of animals free to move as they please. Red deer are also subject to a culling plan: whether a stag may be taken depends on the estate's allocation and on the hunt captain's instructions, given at the morning briefing.
Yes. Non-hunting guests can spend the day alongside the guns, following the safety instructions set by the organiser, and they too wear a bright colour. For those who would like to try shooting, a clay shooting introduction with a qualified instructor can be arranged at an affiliated club.
Mainly from autumn to the end of winter. Hunting dates are set every year by prefectoral order, department by department and species by species. We build each day within that framework and suggest contacting us several months ahead.
A few lines are enough: the time of year, the number of guns, your guests, where you will be travelling from. We reply personally, in complete discretion, with a first view and clear options.
