The 251-year-old gunmaker has moved to a converted ballet school in Clapham, where visitors can watch guns being made and see Jim Corbett’s rifle at the heart of the showroom

The Olympic silver medallist beat Italy’s Diana Bacosi by a single target in Malakasa, on a week when two GB juniors also took European bronze

Hunters’ federation FACE says the restriction excludes bullets and slugs and is expected in the EU’s Official Journal within weeks – a slower timetable than Great Britain’s own

All 15 UK park authorities have signed a joint wildfire statement, and the Moorland Association wants access-restriction guidance reviewed before spring

The Ulster Farmers’ Union has joined BASC in opposing the Bill, telling MLAs it would leave landowners legally exposed and offering a strengthened memorandum of understanding instead

Ministers pressed online marketplaces and high street chains on how knives are sold and displayed, a direction of travel every countryside knife user should watch

A new union survey finds 49% of farmers believe fly-tipping has worsened over five years, with more than one in 10 facing intimidation or violence from the people dumping it

Game farms and shoots that keep poultry are urged to act now, after the season’s first case on the Isle of Lewis ended Great Britain’s disease-free status

Lincolnshire Police has relaunched its anti-coursing operation with drones and unmarked cars, as the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation urges keepers to report every poaching incident

The Welsh Government’s wild animal welfare white paper would outlaw shooting hares in the breeding season; the Alliance says the 1892 Act already does the job

The Nicol sisters’ Deeside estate ranks in the top 10% of accredited European landholdings after restoring 700m of the Cattie Burn for Dee salmon

New Royal Kennel Club research finds 74% of owners would enter dangerous water after their dog, as the RNLI reports more October dog rescues than August

Licensing gamebird shooting would be the most damaging of all Labour's rural policies, argues the Countryside Alliance's Tim Bonner. Can a united countryside defeat it?

With the chimney swept and the logs neatly stacked, Jeremy Hobson reckons few things beat a crackling log fire at the close of a day spent in the field

From whooping Guns to pricked birds, Jean-Paul Gaudin says it is time to remember that good manners are as much a part of shooting as good aim

Labour's conference showed the countryside is still misunderstood. Your email to Defra can change that, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman

Holkham head keeper Mark Fitzer on why lone-working safety comes first, why keepers should talk about what they do, and a first go at the grey partridges

As pheasant days loom, Jeremy Hobson considers why shooting clothes should never look too new – and why a dog once took exception to a sharp suit

An army of 106 hissing swans puts paid to Giles Catchpole's day's fishing, but the geese are coming in and the hedgerows are now heaving with fruit

From Defra's call for evidence to the Countryside Alliance's Rural Reset, now is the time for the shooting world to be heard, argues the GFA's Dominic Boulton

Losing in the arena of public opinion, not legislation, is the real threat to game shooting, and the clock is ticking, warns Jan Roosenburg

Dylan Williams of Eat Wild on why every bird shot must be treated as food from the moment it falls – and how Guns can help build the market for it

A simulated game day puts the clays where the birds would be, and for the shoot owner, the keeper and the syndicate Gun it is the honest way to earn from the ground and get the swing back between seas…

Jamie Culpan became his father’s picker-up at eight, after the family dog died, and was handed a gun at 12 on the syndicate family day. For the keepers and shoot owners who run those days, it is a rem…

Gary Chillingworth swaps his scope for a diopter sight and shoots the sub-6ft/lb Precihole Club Pro Junior from the bench, prone and standing at 10m. What the film shows for anyone starting a young sh…

Danny Brookfield combines grey squirrel control and early gundog training for a rewarding morning on a pheasant estate

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 he…

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…

Watch the AirMaks Arms Krait MKII bullpup PCP put through its paces on video, then check the headline specs at a glance and head over to our full written review.

Dave Barham gets his hands on the new AirMaks Arms Krait MKII, the latest bullpup PCP from the Czech maker, tuned in the UK by Hawke Optics before it reaches the shops. Tested in .177 at his club rang…

Using modern thermal gear and classic fieldcraft, Danny Brookfield spends a summer evening with an FAC air rifle, protecting an arable farmer's oilseed rape from ravenous rabbits

Pete Evans tests the Gamo Riser Punisher, a hardwood-stocked pre-charged air rifle with an integrated moderator, open sights and a 10-shot rotary magazine. He strips the moderator, adjusts the trigger…

Dave Barham puts the new QYS .22 Domed pellets, in 17gr and 20gr, over the chronograph and on paper at 30 metres. The weight consistency is remarkable, but the 20gr came within a whisker of the 12ft/l…

A sub-£770 bullpup PCP that squeezes a 680mm barrel into a compact frame: Dave Barham finds out whether the Umarex UX Zelos earns its place with the all-round shooter and pest controller.

From its flawless performance to its stunning stock, this 100-gun special edition marks a triumphant return for Theoben, says Mark Camoccio

We round up five coats that keep working gundogs warm, dry and protected through the shooting season – from towelling drying robes to neoprene vests

If gundogs are your passion, draw on your experience when responding to Defra's game shooting review, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman – with three owners showing how it is done

Our dogs read every move we make, says gundog trainer Ian Cooper, and too often the handler is the one teaching the habits that later need correcting

'Gamekeeper trained' was once a selling point in the classified columns, and Jeremy Hobson remembers the keepers whose spaniels and labradors earned it

An expert told Richard Donnelly to pray. A year-old labrador that hid under the bed at the sight of a shotgun was retrieving cock pheasants out of the cattails by the winter. His method, set out in Gu…

The free-running pup that looks brilliant in the yard at 10 weeks is the dog squeaking in the beating line at 10 months, argues Ben Randall. Writing in Gundog Journal, the trainer of back-to-back Brit…

A run with a view of the whole garden is a big TV the dog cannot switch off, says Ryan Kay, and Ben Randall keeps his kennels inside a building for that reason and for the weather. Speaking to Gundog…

Jeremy Hobson has walked beagle puppies for years, but six months with Waffle, a future autism assistance dog, is another education altogether

A gundog that will not come back runs into the line of Guns, chases wounded game into unsafe ground and flushes birds out of range, the trainer Ben Randall tells Gundog Journal in a feature on recall….

All dogs are predators, and Jackie Drakeford explains how understanding the way wild canines kill tells you a great deal about the dogs working in front of you

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