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Losing in the arena of public opinion, not legislation, is the real threat to game shooting, and the clock is ticking, warns Jan Roosenburg
A September day on the Medway in 1986 brought Mike Swan a first foreshore greylag – but it was the incoming wigeon that stole the show
Dylan Williams of Eat Wild on why every bird shot must be treated as food from the moment it falls – and how Guns can help build the market for it
Three times a golden eagle flew at Steve Connolly and circled the same patch of long grass on a west-coast Highland cull. Writing in Sporting Gun, he describes what lay beneath it, the bird that waite...
Keith Edmunds puts Stoney Creek's featherweight Fast Hunt Ascent shirt and trousers through a heatwave summer of roebuck stalking, and finds an outfit that could have been purpose-built for it
Three dawn outings near Newbury with Craig Boddington and a Rigby Highland Stalker produced four mature bucks and a guide’s observation that the biggest roe are field animals, not woodland ones. For t...
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...
A week’s reconnaissance had found the flightline over the beans. Then a public footpath, a pheasant pen and a row of houses ruled the field out, and Dan Thor, best known for his pigeon shooting, shot...
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...
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