North Pennines keepers ran their annual black grouse count with pointing dogs two days before the Twelfth, joined by the GWCT's Phil Warren. The numbers will decide how many birds move to the North Yo…

BASC head of uplands Alex Farrell on why the uplands did not burn by accident, and why managing the fuel load has to be a large part of the wildfire solution

A report for the Scottish Government finds more than 3,300 hectares burned and nearly £6.4 million of private equipment deployed in the Glenmore-Strathnethy response, as MSPs debate wildfire risk ton…

Coveys, sewelling, blanking in, the Euston system and the hungry gap – a plain-English guide to the words you will hear on a partridge day

The season, the law, the birds, the cost and the day itself – straight answers to the questions people actually ask about partridge shooting in Britain

Seven pieces of walked-up grouse shooting kit chosen for reliability and low weight on the hill, from a hand-made cartridge belt to custom-moulded earplugs. Picked on editorial judgement rather than a...

No law in the United Kingdom requires you to insure yourself to shoot an air rifle. Every farmer you ask for permission will want to know, though, and the club you want to join will require it – so ...

Hunter Field Target is the most popular form of airgun competition in Britain, and the easiest to get into. Here is how it works, what the rules say, what rifle and scope you need and where to shoot y...

Whether you shoot a break barrel in the garden, a PCP on the permission or a match rifle at 10 metres, there's an organisation that governs, insures or represents what you do. Here's who they are and ...

The Country Girls UK fine-tune delivery to hand, water work and blind casts with trainer Jennifer Thomas during an intensive gundog training day in Buckinghamshire

The law offers little help when an out-of-control dog charges yours, so reading the danger early is the best defence, insists Jackie Drakeford

Veteran trainer John Cook shares with Selena Barr the lifetime of hard work that he is convinced has kept him feeling young at 80 years old

GMK has opened entries for the Beretta Gold Cup, which runs at Eaton Hall in Derbyshire from 16 to 20 September 2026 in Beretta's 500th anniversary year. Two individual winners will take an all-expens...

When Christian Horner and Sir Chris Hoy joined forces for a day of world-class shooting in Oxfordshire, the result was remarkable generosity – and more than £1 million raised for charity

The Wiltshire Game and Country Fair is back at the Bowood Estate on 8 and 9 August, with have-a-go clay shooting, airguns, gundogs and a packed arena programme across the weekend.