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Game Shooting
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.
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Game ShootingCountry Diary: 106 hissing swans, the first pinkfeet and hedgerows heaving with fruit
An army of 106 hissing swans puts paid to Giles Catchpole's day's fishing, but the geese are coming in and the hedgerows are now heaving with fruit
By Giles Catchpole | 10 October 2026
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Game Shooting
From the Game Farm: Defra’s call for evidence, the Rural Reset and why now is the time to be heard
From Defra's call for evidence to the Countryside Alliance's Rural Reset, now is the time for the shooting world to be heard, argues the GFA's Dominic Boulton
By Dominic Boulton | 9 October 2026
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Game Shooting
Winning the middle: why public opinion, not legislation, is the real threat to game shooting
Losing in the arena of public opinion, not legislation, is the real threat to game shooting, and the clock is ticking, warns Jan Roosenburg
By Shooting Times | 9 October 2026
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Game Shooting
Think beyond the shoot day: why every bird shot must be treated as food
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
By Shooting Times | 9 October 2026
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Game Shooting
Where to shoot simulated game: seven UK venues for the summer and the syndicate
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...
By Selena Barr | 7 October 2026
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Game Shooting
Father and son shooting: picking-up at eight to a first bird at 12
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...
By Jamie Culpan | 7 October 2026
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Game Shooting
Constable Burton shoot: open release and steel shot for seven years
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...
By Matt Kidd | 7 October 2026
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Game ShootingSimulated game day at Great Tew: 3,000 clays for a syndicate
Ben Palfreyman takes a peg on a syndicate day at the Cotswold estate that has run simulated game since the 1990s. For shoot owners and keepers it shows what a shoot’s drives can earn between seasons,...
By Ben Palfreyman | 6 October 2026
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Game ShootingOld Long Mountain shoot: commercial scale in Wales with a family feel
Host Will Horner on how Old Long Mountain, the Cambrian Sporting shoot on the Powis Castle Estate in mid-Wales, runs a minimum of four drives, eats when it is dark, fines everyone for charity and keep...
By Ben Palfreyman | 6 October 2026
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Game ShootingDefra cannot say how many gamebird chicks are imported or where they go
The APHA does not record the age of imported gamebirds and Defra will not publish where imports end up, a minister has told MPs, in the middle of Defra's call for evidence on gamebird rearing and rele...
By Shooting Times | 6 October 2026
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