Personalised storage Stop your boot room becoming a dumping ground for all sorts of sporting attire, footwear and seasonal clothing by meticulously plotting storage provisions. ‘Think carefully about what you…
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Cumberland sauce – it’s a sauce recipe every game cook should know about
Cumberland Sauce Ingredients Pared zest and juice of 1 orange Pared zest of 1 lemon 50ml port 150ml red wine 125g fresh cranberries, or leftover cranberry sauce (see p134) 2 tbsp…
Weston Lodge Shooting Ground
Weston Lodge SG
DBC Leisure
Trowgreen Farm SS
Torbay Full Bore Club
Torbay Full Bore Club
Stroud & District Clay Shooting Club
Stroud & District CSC
20 golden gun safety rules
Always know where your fellow shooters are Have a quick glance around as you walk onto the stand – it could save a life If anyone hands you a gun…
Send us your Boxing Day shoot photographs
Come Boxing Day, shooters all over the country will be looking forward to a day out in the fresh air, walking off the excesses of Christmas Day feasting. The Boxing…
Want to be a better Shot?
A couple of months ago I floated the suggestion that even a small bit of preparation for the game and wildfowling season might result in a more successful first day out on partridges, pheasants or…
Game Terrine
Ingredients selection of lean game meat, about 1kg/2¼lb in all, which could include: breasts of pheasant (hung about 5 days) breasts of pigeon breasts of duck or other wild fowl…
Shooting community raises over £162,000 for Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Originally the aim was to raise enough funds to buy Whitby RNLI a new inshore lifeboat, but this target was exceeded within the first day and enough money for two more…
My first gun – a Baikal single-barrel 12-bore
Strictly speaking my Baikal single-barrel 12-bore was not my first shotgun. That honour goes to a BSA Snipe, a single-barrel shotgun given to me by my cousin Geoff Hoyle. He was a target pistol shooter of…
Why we’re fans of the new Netflix TV series ‘The Crown’
Settling down to a relaxing evening watching TV, I decided to watch the well-reviewed new drama ‘The Crown’ which is now showing on Neflix. It depicts the Queen’s life, from…
A day in the life of a working sprocker
Every Monday starts full of excitement and anticipation. I watch as the curtains are opened, praying for good weather. Sometimes we’re blessed, sometimes we’re not. Today fog fills the valley…
Key improvements to firearms law passed by the House of Lords today
The Government has amended the Bill to address firearm certificate renewals and expanding ammunition. The changes mean that expanding ammunition of the kind used for deer stalking moves back to…
A Christmas cake recipe for stir up Sunday
White Glace Christmas Cake by Rachel Green Ingredients 10oz/275g plain flour 8oz/225g butter 8oz/225g caster sugar 4 eggs 4oz/110g Glace cherries 4oz/110g Glace Pineapple 4oz/110g Glace Apricots 4oz/110g Glace Peaches…
The Hellfire game cartridge
Sir Edward’s intent was to develop a more environmentally friendly cartridge with better performance. By using a natural fibre wad and copper coating the shot he achieved his aim, literally.…
In memory of fieldsports enthusiasts and employees who served in the Great War
Richard Walton and John Cavana (pictured above) were part of a walking group which completed the 100km walk – known as the Frontline Walk – in three days, raising an…
Strasser RS Solo
The Strasser rifle’s first incarnation was the RS 05, designed by Horst Blaser in 2004 with an Austrian engineer Herbert Strasser. The original rifle was a quick-change barrel system and straight-pull design; today it has gone…
MPs give overwhelming support to grouse shooting
The debate was never going to result in legislation but did represent an important opportunity to get some facts concerning moorland management into Hansard, the Parliamentary record. A large number…