Why We Shoot is a new collaborative campaign between all the print and digital brands within the newly expanded Future fieldsports portfolio. Why We Shoot aims to raise awareness of the positive ripple effect and numerous benefits of shooting. Our…
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Why We Shoot: Future’s new pro-shooting campaign
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Thimbleby launches sim game days
Thimbleby Shooting Ground in North Yorkshire has launched a series of simulated game days which offers a unique experience with supreme hospitality and shooting with exceptional attention to detail. The simulated pheasant and grouse drives are set in beautiful countryside…
Tagged with: country, countryside, driven game, farmland, game days, north york moors, north yorkshire, open moor, shoot, shooting, simulated game, simulated game days, targets, thimbleby
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SPONSORED: New clothing & footwear ranges now at R&B Sporting!
The latest top technical and stylish shooting, hunting and countryside kit is now in! R&B Sporting, the leading gun shop based in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, has added to its expanding portfolio clothing and footwear brands this Autumn with new products from…
Why not try a simulated game shoot
Whether you’re preparing for the game season or just looking to have some fun, a simulated game shoot takes some beating, writes James Simon. Perhaps you love clay shooting but you’re drawn to the idea of driven game. Maybe you’re…
Tagged with: Barbury Shooting School, birds, Clay Shooting, Clays, Competition, countryside, dovey valley shooting ground, EJ Churchill, game season, game shoot, grouse shooting, quarry, shoot, simulated day, simulated game shoot, sport, Trap, traps, west london shooting school
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BASC’s Gamekeeper of the Month for August – Ian Sleightholm
BASC’s next Gamekeeper of the Month is head keeper Ian Sleightholm from Bolton Castle estate. Ian talks about the reasons behind his decision to become a keeper, what he loves about his profession the most and why he would encourage…
Tagged with: BASC, binoculars, bolton castle estate, clay pigeon, countryman, countryside, Events, gamekeeper, gamekeeper of the month, gamekeepers welfare trust, gamekeeping, grouse, gundog, GWT, hunt, ian sleightholm, keeper, kit, lockdown, moor, outdoors, predators, shooting, Swarovski, wildlife
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Why the countryside can’t operate under Packham’s flag of peace
So, Chris Packham wants a truce. He wants to be shooting’s friend and offer us a way to salvation; a way out of the troubles he insists are leading us down the path to our own destruction. Or is he…
Tagged with: british countryside, chris packham, countryside, general licences, glorious 12th, shooting, shooting community
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First post-lockdown CPSA clay shoot at Westfield – Clay Shooting reports
James Marchington went to the first post-lockdown CPSA Registered Fitasc and Sporting competitions at Westfield. I felt a mixture of jubilation and trepidation as I pulled into the car park at Westfield Shooting Ground, in the lovely Cotswold countryside near Cheltenham.…
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Royal Berkshire are open for business again
Jonathan Irby of the Royal Berkshire takes Jasper Fellows back to school for a taste of simulated game and a legendary bacon roll. My school memories consist of missing homework deadlines and sitting in detention, not an experience I would…
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BASC ask for Covid-19 consistency from police
BASC is urging the police to be consistent in the covid-19 advice given to the shooting community amid reports that some forces have blocked essential fox control during the lambing season. The UK’s largest shooting organisations has received complaints from…
Tagged with: BASC, countryside, covid 19, duncan thomas, fox control, livestock, police, shooting
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CORONAVIRUS: BASC asks Home Office to support firearms licensing during pandemic
Tens of thousands of firearm certificate holders could be at risk of breaking the law as the coronavirus outbreak restricts police resources, according to BASC. The UK’s largest shooting organisation is aware that police forces are starting to divert officers…
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