The shadow farming minister told a BASC conference reception the party will work to protect shooting, with the call for evidence in its final weeks

Scottish Government backs SGA-led Central Belt scheme to cut deer-vehicle collisions, with venison going to foodbanks

Highland Game becomes the first wild venison processor approved by the supermarket, creating 12 jobs and the biggest mainstream outlet yet for the Scottish cull

The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission’s annual review records a delayed trap licensing scheme, a completed muirburn regime and new deer rules for keepers to plan around

The BHSA and the Countryside Alliance will showcase lawful trail hunting at four flagship meets, opening a newcomers’ week while the Government weighs its ban consultation

The Allerton Project’s leader is honoured for 25 years showing that productive farming, game management and wildlife can thrive together

Most licensed releasing on England’s protected sites sat on or near the North York Moors, and some shoots never applied at all, the Moorland Association says

BASC’s Patron joins 167 Lancashire pupils as the UK’s largest upland education programme celebrates a decade and 16,000 young visitors to the moors

A national venison plan, a register of authorised persons and a competence requirement commence, with shotgun regulations to follow

Allerton Project head of sustainable farming Joe Stanley says habitat, predator control and feeding support far more than shooting, as the call for evidence nears its close

GWCT research puts Upper Teesdale’s 1,764 curlew pairs down to habitat, farming and landscape-scale predator control by 22 full-time gamekeepers

The River Dee Trust’s One Million Trees campaign, built on collaboration with estates and the fishery board, takes the Helping It Happen Conservation Award

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…

D’Arcy Wyvill’s North Yorkshire shoot gave up release pens 15 to 20 years ago, went to steel seven seasons back and sends every bird to dealers supplying M&S and Waitrose. For keepers and shoot operat…

Ben Palfreyman takes a peg on a syndicate day at the Cotswold estate that has run simulated game since the 1990s. For shoot owners and keepers it shows what a shoot’s drives can earn between seasons,…

Host Will Horner on how Old Long Mountain, the Cambrian Sporting shoot on the Powis Castle Estate in mid-Wales, runs a minimum of four drives, eats when it is dark, fines everyone for charity and keep…

The APHA does not record the age of imported gamebirds and Defra will not publish where imports end up, a minister has told MPs, in the middle of Defra's call for evidence on gamebird rearing and rele…

Recent droughts and heatwaves have hit gamebirds hard, but careful habitat management can help them survive, says the GWCT's Alex Keeble

When a Galloway glen briefly went arable, lapwings returned and hares and quail thrived, but Patrick Laurie fears it's too late for grey partridges here

Defra's review of game shooting closes on 1 November, and BASC's Conor O'Gorman urges everyone who shoots, beats or picks up not to wait until it's too late

Richard Colbourne has loaded for more than two decades at shoots from Ashcombe to Alnwick Castle. He sets out what separates a loader who enhances a day from one who spoils it, and shoot operators and…

Olympic coach Ian Coley MBE on what more than 50 years in the butts have taught him: mount under the bird rather than swing, keep your weight forward, never brown a pack, and give the keepers, flanker…

We set out the open and close seasons for game birds, wildfowl, deer, boar, hares and fish across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – checked line by line against the legislation itself

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

'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

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

The team at Mordor Gundogs have trained and lived alongside Labradors, cockers and springers for years, and each breed has wormed its way into family life in its own unmistakable way. So which one rea…

Jackie Drakeford explains how understanding the purpose of your dog's breed can lessen training challenges and build a better partnership