The questions, answered properly

Eighteen, across ten bedrooms with two beds each and a private bathroom. That is the whole building, and it is deliberately small: one table at dinner, and nobody you have not met.

Yes, from ten Guns up to eighteen. It is charged as a flat fee for the building rather than per person, so the cost per Gun falls the more of you there are. Parties of a dozen or more almost always do it this way.

Not as a British or EU passport holder visiting as a tourist. No special vaccinations are required either, though your own GP is the right person to ask about that.

No — and this one matters. Cartridges cannot be brought into Argentina: the gun agency will confiscate them at the airport and the conversation is not a pleasant one. We hold 12-, 20- and 28-bore at the lodge, and .410 if you ask in advance.

Three shotguns or barrels is the maximum for bird shooting, and there is a procedure to follow before you travel. Tell us when you book and we will walk you through it — or hire one of ours and skip the paperwork entirely.

No. Córdoba is about volume and shotgun plugs are not required for dove here.

Discretionary, but here is what actually happens. For your bird boy, most Guns give around 60 US dollars a day. House staff tips go to the lodge manager and are shared across the whole team. Caps, shirts and shooting kit are genuinely appreciated by the bird boys alongside the cash.

A thousand US dollars per person, within ten days of reserving, and it is non-refundable. Ask us about trip insurance when you book — we can arrange it directly.

Starlink throughout the lodge, and mobile signal on site. You can work from here if you must, though we would rather you didn't.

Yes. Argentina runs on 220 volts, near enough the same as home, so British kit needs an adaptor for the two-pin sockets but no voltage converter. Guests from North America need converters and the lodge keeps a few.

The lodge is casual — jeans and a shirt covers every evening of the week. In the field, darker colours or camouflage, and in summer a good many people shoot in shorts.

No, not any more. It used to be allowed and no longer is, and the airlines will not carry the coolers on long-haul either. Nothing is wasted at this end: the kitchen takes what it needs, the rest is cleaned and goes to families on the farms and to the estancia's animals.

It is generally reckoned the safest country in South America, and the lodge sits in quiet farming country. Buenos Aires deserves the ordinary care of any large city — take radio taxis from your hotel rather than flagging one down.

About 330 days a year of clear sky. It rains little, and when it does it tends to rain at night. There are usually two or three genuinely hot weeks between January and February; the rest of the summer sits below the thirties. It has snowed at the lodge once in recent years, and the birds flew anyway. Temperatures drop every night, which is why people sleep well here.