I live on Horton hill, 2 minutes from lady's wood. I phoned the shooting ground last week interested in a round of clays for practice, the lady on the phone told me that it would have to be caddied which is fair enough, there is no pay and play (but pay and play was in the process of being installed), I was then told the cost of clays also fair enough I expect to pay for clays, then I was told I have to use your cartridges, in total a round of 100 clays was going to cost me £100. To my eyes it's to much and your pricing locals out of the market. I understand that you want a certain class of customer but in this economic climate is this really viable? I drive to ian coleys at least once if not twice a week it takes me 45 minutes to get there I pay £35 for 100 clay and uses my own cartridges and it still only costs me around £60 per round.
I would be happy to do nearly all of my shooting at lady's wood and buy my cartridges, clothing etc but at the minute I just cannot justify it. I shoot with 4-5 other local shooters that have all agreed that we would go to lady's wood but with your prices as they are we are just not willing.
I will add that we are small business owners not wealthy land owners, so we may be the clientele your trying to avoid?
