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.
To raise funds for the bloodhound pack the quarry team walk the Wessex Ridgeway, while Jeremy Hobson's anticipation for the partridge season builds
Coveys, sewelling, blanking in, the Euston system and the hungry gap – a plain-English guide to the words you will hear on a partridge day
The season, the law, the birds, the cost and the day itself – straight answers to the questions people actually ask about partridge shooting in Britain
Seven pieces of walked-up grouse shooting kit chosen for reliability and low weight on the hill, from a hand-made cartridge belt to custom-moulded earplugs. Picked on editorial judgement rather than a...
David Hudson turns back through more than 40 years of gamebooks – the midges, the mist, the pointer who kept going absent – and finds the Twelfths that were anything but glorious
Selena Barr reads the largest annual survey of the shooting community, in which 5,625 Guns and shoot managers put a sport holding its nerve on the record – and underwriting the countryside while it ...
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 ...
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