Shooting Times & Country

Shooting Times can exclusively reveal that the aspiring prime minister Rishi Sunak is an enthusiastic country sportsman who looks forward to a retirement of shooting and fishing in the Yorkshire Dales. There were widespread rumours that the former ch

Arrange to take youngsters beating. Beating is a great way for young people to gain a rounded experience of shooting life, as well as to get some exercise. Speak to keepers to see if there are shoots where you can take your children along. Remember:

As somebody who grew up in Scotland, I’m not used to the heavy footfall in the English countryside. Last week, I was out shooting pigeons when I suddenly realised my hide wasn’t all that far away from a footpath. Before anybody dobs me in, I was shoo

A ban on hunting curlew and black-tailed godwit in France has been extended. The restriction has been in place since 2020 and is renewed annually by the Council of State, France’s highest administrative law court. The ban was introduced as part of Fr

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A £5,000 reward has been offered for the return of a cocker spaniel stolen from the back of a vehicle at the Game Fair on 29 July. Ivy, a young cocker bitch, was snatched when a window of the truck she was in, parked in a restricted area, was broken.

Adam Henson had a very simple answer to the question of why media personalities are hesitant to promote game. Challenged in the Carter Jonas Theatre at the Game Fair, Adam said he supports shoots that are doing the right thing by registering with Bri

Email your letters / stletters@futurenet.com Here’s an unpopular opinion from a keeper as the Game Fair has just happened at the weekend (at the time of writing). I’m sure many people from all over the country flocked to it, but many others are unabl

Visit us online / shootinguk.co.uk NEW FOR THE GROUSE SEASON RRP £199.95 alanpaine.co.uk A smart choice for early season grouse shooting, when there’s still plenty of warmth in the autumn sun. Crafted from waterrepellant tweed, it has shoulder patc

Many of us know the shoots where we work our dogs in the autumn and winter intimately, but rarely set foot on them during the rest of the year. I was reminded of this recently when I went on a summer farm tour on land I first came to know when pickin

HIS LOVE OF NATURE AND WILDLIFE has taken him across the globe, but Justin Prigmore’s passion is much closer to home — on his doorstep, you could say. The award-winning artist lives in the Highlands and, until recently, worked part-time for the Cairn

The Parachute Regiment’s involvement in the race to bring grouse to the dining tables of London eateries on the Glorious Twelfth has a vibrant history. On 27 October 1986, the then Labour MP for Ipswich, Ken Weetch, sought to make political capital a

Did you know that the pink-footed goose falls within the ‘amber’ category in the traffic light listing of the UK Birds of Conservation Concern (BoCC) report? This is despite the fact that their numbers have risen for many decades — there are now abou