Simon Everett shot an amazing two "Right and Lefts" in the same evening. Mark is presenting Simon with The Gearach Special Achievement Award - A Bruichladdich First Edition Wee Laddie Tasting Pack.

Mark shot a Right and Left on Thursday 13th January 2005 during the evening flight.

He had the great honour of having the event witnessed byAndrew Cherry and Ian Haddon, Chairman of the Woodcock Club.

Mark and Eleanor donate two auction lots each year to the Woodcock Club Dinner Dance.

These auction lots help to raise money in support of the Shooting Times Woodcock Club.

The witnesses were members of the Hamish Grant Team.

Mark comments: " We are lucky here at the Gearach as the guns get many opportunities to shoot pairs of woodcock each season".

Mark was again successful in shooting a Right and Left over Bonnie, during the Anne Kedward and Nigel Scholes Team in January 2006.

The Gearach is pleased to support the hugely successful Shooting Times Woodcock Club Dinner in raising funds for vital research by the Game Conservancy Trust.

There is an exceptional fall of woodcock on Islay during their migratory visit from November through to January, and our blocks of forest, larch plantation and young plantings/more open areas are especially attractive to them.

Teams of ideally 6 guns are strategically placed on rides within the forestry. Beaters and spaniels then flush the birds.

After a day of driven woodcock there is the additional excitement of evening flighting on the forest boundaries at dusk.

By nature Woodcock fly in an erratic pattern, providing the most testing of British sporting bird shooting.

Your sporting break includes three days driven woodcock shooting and two evening flights.