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.
For the estate letting days and the Gun trying to find one, the agencies are the market. Five of the best compared on identical terms: where they are, what they can put you into, who to ring and what...
Jake Woolf’s shared-peg format sells a 300-bird day to 20 Guns at about half a fee each, and shoots are now offering it their dates. Writing in Sporting Gun, Matt Kidd shot one; what the keeper and th...
Four grouse keepers and the Peak District Moorland Group’s coordinator describe how July’s fire reignited from buried peat, what it took to stop it at a managed moor’s boundary, and the toll on their...
Writing in Fieldsports Journal, the Countryside Alliance chief executive weighs the Twelfth, 1 September and hunting’s 1 May before settling on the day after the foreshore extension closes. What the d...
Licensing gamebird shooting would be the most damaging of all Labour's rural policies, argues the Countryside Alliance's Tim Bonner. Can a united countryside defeat it?
With the chimney swept and the logs neatly stacked, Jeremy Hobson reckons few things beat a crackling log fire at the close of a day spent in the field
From whooping Guns to pricked birds, Jean-Paul Gaudin says it is time to remember that good manners are as much a part of shooting as good aim
Labour's conference showed the countryside is still misunderstood. Your email to Defra can change that, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman
Holkham head keeper Mark Fitzer on why lone-working safety comes first, why keepers should talk about what they do, and a first go at the grey partridges
As pheasant days loom, Jeremy Hobson considers why shooting clothes should never look too new – and why a dog once took exception to a sharp suit
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