An estate reserved for your line, birds coming over high, loaders behind the guns, a table laid between drives: we arrange private days for you, your partners, your clients or your family, and everything around them, from the jet to dinner.
What stays with you after a good day is the pheasant that breaks over the tall oaks and gives you time to see it coming, the covey of partridges that clears the hedge just as you stopped expecting it, the dogs working, the quiet between drives. All of it comes down to the ground, how it is managed through the year, and an organisation that leaves nothing to chance.
TGZ Conciergerie arranges private days only: we do not sell single pegs on a syndicate or let day. The estate is reserved for your party. We work with partner estates and shoot organisers across France, in the Sologne, around Paris and in other sporting regions, and choose them for each request according to the season, the experience of your guns and the kind of day you have in mind. Every day takes place on ground where the organiser holds the shooting rights, within the framework declared to the French authorities.
We do not sell a number of birds. We tell you plainly what a shoot offers and how its birds fly, 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 and the cellar, guests who will not shoot. You hear what is possible before you commit to anything, in complete discretion.
For those who host a whole line
You are bringing a line of guns together, close friends or long-standing relations, and would rather host them than run every detail yourself.
Thanking a client, bringing investors together, hosting a board: a driven pheasant day remains one of the most sought-after invitations.
A day that gathers several generations, on the same estate from one season to the next, 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 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 shoot to the next; the standard of service does not.
The cars draw up outside the house, coffee waits by the fire, the dogs are ready. The circle where the shoot captain goes through safety and the plan for the day is your guests alone: it starts calmly, and everyone knows where they are going.
Pegs set below a wood or across a valley, so the birds come over high and fast. Depending on the estate, a loader stands behind each gun. It is the first thing we ask every shoot about.
Guns lined out behind a hedge, coveys bursting over all at once: livelier shooting that rewards attention, with pegs planned around your party.
Beaters pushing through the wood in line, dogs flushing the birds and retrieving every one: a team out for your day alone, as good to watch as to take part in.
A table laid in the warm in a lodge or shooting house, a seasonal menu, wines chosen with care: a proper meal with no rush, before the afternoon drives.
As the light goes, the game is laid out with respect and the beaters and keeper are thanked. Then the chauffeur is waiting, or the house where dinner is served, or the flight home.
A chosen estate, everything else in the same hands
We question each organiser on how their birds are managed, how they fly, safety and the pace of their days, and pass their answers on to you as they are.
One person prepares the day with you: the estate, the formalities with the departmental hunting federation, your guests, the logistics. You have one number to call.
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 shoot: the whole of it, arranged.
We never name our clients, their guests or the estates where they shoot. 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 days reserved for your party: each one is quoted individually, according to the estate, the game, the number of guns and the hospitality you want, from lunch to a night 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 your guns into France follows specific customs rules: we tell you the right procedure for your country of residence.
In France, commercial shoots may release reared pheasants and partridges, within a framework declared to the authorities: each bird carries the establishment's registration number. What makes the difference is how they are managed on the ground and how they fly. That is exactly what we ask each organiser about, and what we tell you without dressing it up.
We do not sell a bag figure. Each shoot has its own way of doing things, which we explain clearly before you book. A good day is measured first by the quality of the birds, the rhythm of the drives and the safety of the line.
Yes. Non-shooting guests can spend the day alongside the guns, following the safety instructions set by the organiser. For those who want to try, a clay shooting introduction with a qualified instructor can be arranged at an affiliated club. And lunch brings everyone together.
From autumn into winter. Shooting dates are set every year by prefectoral order, department by department, and we build each day within that framework. The best dates go early: we 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.
