The new Game Shoot Standards Assurance Scheme is in the process of being launched to the shooting community. Alastair Balmain visits Belvoir Castle to find out more
Shooting Times
Highland fling
The Auch and Invermeran estates are enough to set the heart aflutter. Charlotte Lycett Green heads north
Shooting gets Tory vote at conference
Conservatives praise conservation commitment
“Shoot monitor” in court victory
“Monitor” provokes a response — shooters urged not to “rise to the bait”
What does BASC do for you?
Has wildfowling been over-represented? Will there be a merger? Tony Jackson addresses these and other pertinent questions to John Swift, chief executive of BASC
Skye is the limit
Greeted in Gaelic, Professor Colin Trotman immediately felt welcome at Eilean Iarmain, and shooting woodcock in a snow-scattered landscape gave him a weekend to remember
MPs pledge support for shooting
Rural reception elicits governmental support.
RSPCA guilty of badgering public
ASA: charity’s badger claims “untrue”
Should I get Hobs or Jills when buying ferrets?
I am about to acquire two ferrets but am puzzled to know which sex is best. I want them to be good natured and to work well. Any suggestions?
Wild game prospects
Will this summer’s record temperatures translate into record numbers of wild game? The GCT’s Ian Lindsay offers some predictions for the 2006/7 UK lowland season
£1,600,000,000 – the value of shooting
A new survey released today gives the shooting community the ammunition it needs to secure our sport’s future. Alastair Balmain investigates the facts behind the figures in the PACEC report…
BASC Eastern Gundog Test
Results of a novice test held on Sunday 24 September near March in Cambridgeshire
Becoming an informant
Police want information about where your shooting.
The roe of Raemoir
Raemoir, near Banchory, provides the stunning backdrop for some roebuck stalking for Ian Valentine
A Babe of our own
When ST reader Hilary Rowles’ Labrador retrieved a newborn wild boar on a shoot in France, it wasn’t long before it was house-trained and hogging the sofa…
.22-250 calibre review
.22-250 calibre review: The .22-250 calibre is one of the best when it comes to dealing with foxes and roe in Scotland.
Part-time pistol permits
Permits for top-50 shooters may be granted, but only for the Olympics.
Back in the saddle
Sandy Macarthur is the man in the driving seat when it comes to deer saddles. Robin Macdonald Rolfe meets him
Mauser CZ 527 Varmint rifle review
Mauser CZ 527 Varmint rifle: As a small variant of the marvellous Mauser, the .204 Calibre CZ 527 rifle is already off to a good start.
Bowland top for harriers
Breeding success in Forest of Bowland for hen harriers, but war of words against gamekeepers continues