Sportsman Gun Centre to hold open day June 8th: Sportsman Gun Centre, at the Southern Counties Shooting Ground, Warden Hill, will stage an open day from 10am on 8 June.
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Natural England issues buzzard control licence
Natural England issues buzzard control licence: Government agency gives first-ever nest destruction licence to a small shoot after extensive trialling of non-lethal methods.
Urgent call for shooting community to respond to EU firearms consultation
EU firearms consultation: The shooting community has “a duty to respond” to the biased EU firearms questionnaire, say fieldsports organisations.
Beretta shooter Adam Cork wins English Open Sporting
Congratulations go to Adam Cork who won the English Open Sporting Championship held at Doveridge Clay Sports Centre, over the weekend of Friday 10th May to Sunday 12th May.
Filled-in setts could affect badger cull
Gloucestershire police are investigating claims that badger setts were filled-in on land in Forthampton
New Beretta 486 Parallelo side-by-side shotgun
New Beretta 486 Parallelo side-by-side shotgun: Beretta has included a side by side in their shotgun collection for a long time. The new 486 Parallelo (which means side-by-side in Italian) replaces the 471 but it is much more than a re-designed modernisation of an existing gun.
Royal Berkshire Shooting Group helps raise over £800k for charity
Royal Berkshire Shooting Group helps raise over £800k for charity: In just five weeks, the Royal Berkshire Shooting Group has helped seven different charities raise a staggering £817,000.
Rare ring ouzel benefits from grouse moor environment
Parts of the North York Moors are continuing to see steady numbers of ring ouzel, despite a dramatic fall in population across the UK in recent years.
James MacNaughton 28-bore ‘Edinburgh’ sells for £25,000
Lot 1525 from Holt’s auction of fine modern and antique guns, held in London on March 21, yeilded this very lovely James MacNaughton 28-bore ‘Edinburgh’ side-by-side shotgun, which sold for £25,000 on the day.
Safety reminder after second fatal shooting accident in a month
Fatal shooting accident: Two fatal firearms accidents are a “reminder that we cannot afford to drop our concentration on safety” says BASC.
National Shooting Week set to begin
National Shooting Week 2013 takes place between the 25th May and 2nd June
Free Deer Collisions app will help to map deer casualties
Deer Collisions Oh Deer! App: Deer Collisions, a project that monitors and researches road traffic accidents involving deer, has launched a free smartphone app that allows users to log deer road casualty locations.
Natural England issues first licence to control buzzards to protect gamebirds
Government agency issues buzzard nest destruction licence to a small shoot after exhaustive trialling of non-lethal methods to prevent predation and economic loss
Channel 4’s Green and Pleasant Land full of inaccuracies
Last fortnight's Channel 4 Green and Pleasant Land, was supposed to highlight the decline in some of the UK's wildlife due to climate change, but presenter Jon Snow accused gamekeepers of "killing a good number of elements from the food chain".
Study shows countryside has “lost faith in coalition”
A survey shows that only 16 per cent of those living in rural Britain think that the coalition's policies have helped those living in the countryside
