Shoot Maps and Game Cards
Maps and pocket game cards for the shooting day, drawn from the same survey as the map on the wall
A shoot is its own geography: the drives in the order they are taken, the pegs and flushing points, the coverts and flight lines, the names the keeper and the guns know by heart. Rural Maps records all of it, in two forms drawn from a single survey: a decorative shoot map for the wall, and the pocket game cards carried in the field on the day.
Game Cards
Game cards are pocket-sized maps of the shoot, carried by guns, beaters and pickers-up through the season. Drawn from the same survey as the wall map and printed to match it, they show the drives, the pegs and the lines of the day in the hand. As drives change from one season to the next, the cards are revised before the first day's shooting, so what is in the pocket is always current.
The Shoot Map
The decorative shoot map records the sporting life of a property in full: every drive and covert named, the flushing points and pegs, the high seats and flight ponds, the lodge and the gun room. It hangs where the day begins and ends, and is studied as closely by those who know the ground as by guests seeing it for the first time. Where a shoot sits within a wider estate, the same map can record the whole property, the farm, the parkland and the history alongside the sport.
See Estate Maps for the full treatment of a whole property.
What the Map Records
Every drive, named and in the order it is taken
Pegs, flushing points and stands
Coverts, game crops and release pens
Flight lines and flight ponds
High seats, fishing runs and river beats
The lodge, gun room, kennels and outbuildings
Boundaries and sporting rights
The Illustrations
Where a map carries illustrations, they are the work of the artist Jonathan Pointer, in pencil and gouache: the gundogs, a bird in flight, a covey rising, the lodge in its setting. Each is drawn from photographs taken on site, to your shoot and no other, and the originals are yours to keep.
Commissioning
A shoot map is most often part of a full commission, with Anthony on the ground walking the drives and talking to the keeper, and the map drawn from the survey he gathers there. Game cards are produced from that same survey, and can be reprinted and revised each season. For smaller properties, a studio map can be composed without a site visit. Figures are on the pricing pages.
“Some of the finest bespoke maps today. They would look the part in the shoot lodges, farm office and drawing rooms or small and large properties across the world.”
“These are maps unlike any I have seen before. The level of detail is breathtaking – from the inclusion of field names and shoot drives to the painstaking positioning of individual trees, they are not just geographically accurate but also serve as a personal memoir that the family can cherish for generations to come”
Frequently Asked Questions
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A pocket-sized map of the shoot, carried in the field by guns, beaters and pickers-up. It shows the drives, pegs and lines of the day, drawn from the same survey as the wall map and printed to match.
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Yes. As drives change, the cards are revised before the season's first day, so they always reflect the shoot as it is currently run.
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A shoot map records the sporting life of a property; an estate map records the whole property, with the sport as one part of it. The two are often the same commission. Where a shoot sits within a larger estate, see the Estate Maps page.
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Yes, for driven pheasant and partridge, walked-up days, grouse, and the quail courses and dove fields of the American South.
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A shoot map follows the same pricing as a full or studio commission; game cards are produced from the same survey and priced according to quantity and revision. Figures are on the pricing pages.