The association wants members with the judgement to shape its strategy and hold it to account, for a five-year term, around eight meetings a year and a £350 attendance allowance. What the job involves…

NatureScot and Transport Scotland have put dawn and dusk alerts on the A9, A82, A96 and five other trunk roads for the rest of the month, with mobile signs at Lochend on Loch Ness, where collisions wi…

A 300-bird day, Wester Ross sporting at Coul and Monar, a goose and duck day and clays at Gleneagles sit alongside a royal Dee beat in the Atlantic Salmon Trust’s 100-lot fundraiser, open until 22 Nov…

The Government’s Badger Vaccination Field Force is recruiting farms in six areas over the winter, with jabs from May 2027, as England’s first year without a cull draws to a close

David Allison of the Grosvenor Reay Forest Estate heads six winners at the 2026 Schöffel Countryside Awards, where grey partridge farms, a restored Norfolk chalkstream and salmon science also took the…

A Westminster Hall debate heard Defra will legislate within this Parliament but has no power to impose a moratorium, while a Scottish Labour MP called for a ban on exporting red stag trophies too

From predator control to habitat restoration, the GWCT’s advisory courses turn research into practical action on the ground, says the trust’s Alex Keeble

A Government Office for Science wildfire science note says burning can make moors more flammable; the association has written to its authors and the EFRA Committee, and has forced the RSPB to retitle…

Claire Bellamy, who led a licensed hunt in Renfrewshire, was sentenced at Paisley Sheriff Court under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 after a sheriff found the hounds were allowed to chase a…

Nearly 500 gamekeepers, stalkers and wildfowlers told BASC that walkers ignoring signs, loose dogs and dawn visitors are disrupting deer and game management, and two thirds rated access authorities in…

The statutory committee found ministers paid sufficient regard to animal welfare in their deer and grey squirrel policy statements, but wants the case for formal competency standards for those doing t…

For 45 years a Suffolk wildfowling club has looked after a coastal wetland, and now its members are helping to ring migrant birds, writes Graham Downing

A tagging programme told headkeeper Dan McSharry that the wild grey partridges on a Vale of the White Horse estate had climbed to about 300 birds, more than the shoot releases, so this season brings i…

Three shoot days into a short partridge season at the Castle Shoot, David Hudson finds the bag swinging from feast to famine and back again – and the halfway total is 104 birds

Tick numbers are rising on Patrick Laurie’s grouse hill with no obvious host to blame, and a trip to hear the stags roar brings the problem home

Partridges are flying well at the Honeycombe Shoot, but Mike Appleby says a smooth season rests on the work done before it – gates, bridges, vehicles, spares and the dogs

As political threats loom in Brussels, Dominic Boulton explains how game farmers from across Europe are setting up the European Game Farmers’ Group, with a little help from FACE

Holkham headkeeper Mark Fitzer on the interactive map his son built of more than 80 drives and eight seasons of data, and how it spots problems before they become real ones

Cotherstone Moor in County Durham took the 2025 Purdey Awards gold after its black grouse rose from 47 to 109 in five years. Headkeeper Mark Gallagher, talking to Fieldsports Journal, sets out the gri…

Covid and a retiring keeper had closed the family shoot at Lochnell. Archie Cochrane restarted it with partridges instead of pheasants, pegs on the beach, a beating line in its twenties and a local cl…

Jeremy Hobson on why ‘spending a penny’ on the end peg has a richer history than most Guns realise, from saltpetre beds and keepers’ tricks to the Law of Urination

Giles Catchpole finds late shoot-day starts and fuel rationing in a car-boot haul of old sporting books, then buys a handsome staghorn-topped stick from a friend’s shed

Olympic champion Peter Wilson shoots a 10-Gun syndicate on a 500-acre Dorset family farm where the owner holds the bag at around 100 and refuses to let Guns, beaters and pickers-up drift apart. For sh…

Your experience of game shooting in England is the evidence Defra needs by 1 November, says BASC’s Conor O’Gorman, as Paul Faithfull and his sons Luke and Dean share what they told the review

A scaled-down break-barrel running well under the 12ft/lb limit has impressed Airgun World’s Pete Evans. For keepers, farmers and families with a youngster starting out, the lower power is the point,…

John Milewski relives his lifelong connection with a treasured Webley Junior air pistol, inherited from the Monte Cassino veteran who first introduced him to a real Webley

Dave Barham tests the .22 Reximex Pretensis-K, the carbine version of the Turkish maker’s well-regarded Pretensis, on the chronograph and the bench – and finds it every bit as good as its big brother,…

A break-barrel that shoots almost like a pre-charged pneumatic with no bottle or pump to carry has had a full test, and Mark Camoccio, writing in Airgun World, found a pellet balanced on the action st…

Airgun competition is largely settled before you reach the firing point. From entries and power checks to pellet batches, kit lists and holding your nerve, here is how to arrive with nothing to think…

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…

He paints five oils a year, rarely exhibits and sells almost everything by word of mouth, which is why many who know the sporting art world have never seen his work. Jonathan Pointer draws gundogs in…

She trained as an architect, picks up on a family shoot, trials her labradors and paints other people’s dogs from a spare room in Oxfordshire. Betsy Bradford talks to Selena Barr about Laura Hill, the…

Writing in Sporting Gun, Thomas Nissen followed Jes Andersen’s English setters, Balder and Hector, through 800 hectares of Danish forest and heath: what a pointing dog brings to the woodcock day that…

In this extract from his book My Working Terrier Journey, Martin Webber watches West Siberian laikas hold an elk in a Norwegian forest and sees clear parallels with the terrier below ground

Fitness, feeding around a drive, the first aid kit in the truck, heat on a mild October day, the wet dog on the peg, limber tail and what to do when a dog goes through the ice: the checks to make befo…

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…