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Geoff
Garrod
My name is Geoff Garrod, I first started shooting
when I was 8 years old and use to go with dad pigeon
shooting and ferreting. My first gun was a bolt action
4.10 and every opportunity I had I took, I then moved
on to a 12 bore & shot. My first hundred pigeons
on my 16th birthday(139). I started my keeping career
at six mile bottom (under Martin Taylor who taught me
a lot about game keeping) were I worked as a beat keeper
for five years, I then moved on to my present job at
Audley End where I have been for the last 23 years.
I look after 3500 acres, we put both pheasant &
partridge down with the average bag being around 150.
I’m married to Karen and we have
two boys Joshua & Justin who both have just started
shooting. Joshua shot his first pheasant on my cock
day this year (07) and Justin shoot his first pigeon
a week later both with a 4.10 the same model that I
started with.
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I joined the national gamekeepers organisation
(NGO) very shortly after it was formed. My way of at last
putting something back in to the profession which has given
me a wonderful job and also doing my bit in helping to protect
the profession for the future. I am regional chairman for
Essex and vice chairman for the NGO. It was through the NGO
that I met John Plye. We soon became friends, he showed me
a copy of the whole season and I was very impressed and jump
art the chance when he asked me if I could help him film decoying
pigeons (one of life’s silly ambitions). That was my
first involvement with keepers diary, since then we have made
two more together before John asked me to join keepers diary
just before the 2006 game fair. We have since made two more
pigeon shooting video’s with Wil Garfit and our latest
and first double disc DVD Modern Day Predator Control. We
are in the middle of filming out latest DVD, pigeon shooting
with George Digweed and hope to release before Christmas.
My hobbies are shooting (live and clay) with another
ambition being achieved when winning the NGO golden pheasant
clay shoot at Lampton castle 2005. My biggest bag of pigeons
being 290 shot on wheat stubble next to standing beans, I
also enjoy salmon and sea fishing.
GEOFF
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John
Pyle
My name is John Pyle; I have been a gamekeeper
for 21 years and Head gamekeeper on a large Lincolnshire
estate for 17 years. I was introduced into shooting
by my enthusiastic father whose passion was rough shooting
who would take me out with him most weekends.
I am married to Lisa; we have four children three girls
and one boy. Lisa is the lady who does the telephone
sales on the Game Keepers Diary team.
In 2001 Keepers Diary was founded by Pete
Dunwell and myself. Our very first DVD “Whole
Season” was originally done to show at seminars
and keeper meetings as a bit of fun and it basically
led on from there.
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Pete’s passion for photography led him to become a
manager at Jessops photography chain and left the Keepers
Diary team in 2003.
Sean O’Neil then joined the team producing another four
of the Keepers Diary films, Sean left the team in 2006 to
return to Scotland with his family. I then approached Geoff
Garrod to come on the team that we now call ourselves Game
Keepers Diary. Geoff has played a very big part in the productions
for the last six years, and has proven to be a valuable business
partner increasing our shop outlets to over 80 shops.
Geoff and I are both loyal supporters of the National Game
Keepers Organisation, (NGO) helping them out with any DVD
footage and producing for them An Introduction to Game Farming
DVD.
At the present we are producing a 10th Anniversary DVD for
the National Game Keepers Organisation to distribute to all
there members, Game Keepers Diary are producing this free
of charge for the NGO. I do all the filming for Game Keepers
Diary that I look on as a hobby. I am very lucky to have support
from all my employers especially Louise Baltesz and Rosie
Whittaker who always comment on how much they have enjoyed
watching the DVD’s with their husbands and people they
shoot with. A big thank you to all our loyal customers for
the last six years.
JOHN
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Andrew
Lyle
Hi I’m Andrew Lyle; I
manage my Fathers farm in North Lincolnshire which is
a thousand acres of mixed arable crops including wheat,
oil seed rape, sugar beet, oats, potatoes and energy
crops.
I have been married to Sarah for three years, living
together on the farm with our springador Ellie. Film
editing has become my main hobby and I enjoy doing various
projects from Weddings to skiing holidays to shoot days.
.My latest project is filming
and editing a year on our arable farm showing everything
we do from drilling to harvesting of the crops and if
all goes to plan I will be releasing the DVD in November
2007.
I have been with the Game Keepers Diary team for about
a year my first DVD I edited for them was Pigeon Shooting
with Will Garfit and then moving on to Modern Day Predator
Control which will be released at the CLA Game Fair
2007.
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