Guns had a short horizon and grouse turned by the flankers were crossing at an angle, giving some spectacular shooting behind. Phoines Estate Highlands

The Phoines Estates are a family-run group of sporting estates offering superb shooting on Exmoor, the Mendips and in the Highlands. The deep valleys, woodlands and cover crops at the Withycombe Estate on the eastern edge of the Exmoor National Park present the ideal setting for exceptionally high pheasants; then, at historic Mells Park in the Mendip Hills, tree-lined combes, wooded valleys and glades, ornamental lakes, streams and waterfalls provide a stunning backdrop for this long-established pheasant shoot, well known for hard-flying, challenging birds; while the Phoines Estate covers 22,000 acres of the Cairngorm National Park, near Newton-more, and offers a wide range of sporting opportunities in a location that’s accessible by car, rail or air.

Phoines is renowned as one of Scotland’s premier driven grouse moors, with some of the most sporting grouse shooting available in the UK, as well as red and roe deer stalking; walked-up days for grouse and the occasional ptarmigan.

The lodge at Phoines, once an inn on General Wade’s old military