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A new collaboration between McKay Brown and its U.S. agent Mallards Shooting Supply & Apparel has opened the door for Americans to a luxurious Scottish adventure of driven high pheasants and a visit to the workshop of Scotland’s premier maker of best guns.

The trip includes one day of shooting at the heritage Errol Park Estate and an intimate tour of the McKay Brown workshop. Together, the venues present an authentic engagement in traditional Scottish country sporting life hosted by McKay Brown and Mallards.

The challenging 250-bird driven shoot, with pheasants up to 80 yards high, takes place at Errol Park Estate in the heart of Perthshire – home to the Heriot Maitland family since the 1800s. The house sleeps up to 20 guests in 10 luxurious bedrooms appointed with period furnishings. 

The estate’s 3,000-plus acres of arable farmland, mixed woodland and game crops dates back to the 10th century, when the Hays of Errol occupied much of the Carse of Gowrie. It was gifted by King Kenneth the third of Scotland as a reward for successfully repelling a Viking invasion. The king released his hawk, declaring that wherever it alighted would mark a boundary of their land, with the foot of the hills and the river Tay as the other demarcations. Those historic borders have remained unchanged for some 1,000 years.