Welcome to the game shooting section of ShootingUK, your complete guide to game shooting in Britain and beyond. Whether you’re booking a first driven day or still wondering how much lead a high pheasant needs, the answers are here. Our game shooting content covers driven pheasant shooting, partridge shooting and grouse shooting, plus the rough and walked-up days that need little more than a good dog, along with game shooting advice on shoot etiquette, game cartridges, chokes and shoot day costs.
Explore game shooting tips for high pheasants, driven partridge and grouse over the butts, plus guidance on game shooting season dates, shotguns for game shooting, game shooting clothing and gun safety. There’s shooting abroad too, from wingshooting trips to driven partridge in Spain. Our game shooting features come from Guns who know that the best day’s game shooting isn’t measured by the bag – though nobody minds a straight left-and-right.
Driven grouse is the fastest, most demanding game shooting there is – and the day comes with its own code. Here is how to conduct yourself from invitation to final horn
Flankers, coveys, packs, medicated grit and muirburn – a plain-English guide to the language of the grouse moor, whether you are heading north for the first time or just want to know what it all mea...
The grouse moor is the one place in British shooting where showing off is banned – by the bird itself. Here is how to dress for the hill, whatever your budget
Every pheasant strain comes with a reputation, but reputations don't fly, and they don't feed anyone. Selena Barr asks a leading breeder, a gamekeepers' champion and an industry adviser what actually ...
From the Glorious Twelfth to burning licences, cartridges to cooking – straight answers to the questions people actually ask about Britain's most demanding fieldsport
Mark Osborne of sporting agent JM Osborne reports a very welcome rise in the number of grouse counted on most moors in northern England and southern Scotland this July. Brood averages of eight and nin...
With lead shot's exit confirmed for 2029 and game finally welcome on supermarket shelves, four leading voices explain how to handle shot birds well
For many shooters, driven grouse shooting represents the pinnacle of fieldsport. Yet with prices often exceeding £200 a brace, the sport can feel beyond reach. However, by balancing passion with prac...
Discover the unseen work behind the Glorious Twelfth. From moor repairs to grouse counts and safety briefings, here's how a driven grouse day is prepared.
Facing the first day of the season with no chance to get his eye in, our writer heads to the clay ground with Olympic Skeet champion and Northumbrian hill farmer Jeremy Bird. It is a lesson in confide...
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