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.
Recent droughts and heatwaves have hit gamebirds hard, but careful habitat management can help them survive, says the GWCT's Alex Keeble
When a Galloway glen briefly went arable, lapwings returned and hares and quail thrived, but Patrick Laurie fears it's too late for grey partridges here
Defra's review of game shooting closes on 1 November, and BASC's Conor O'Gorman urges everyone who shoots, beats or picks up not to wait until it's too late
Richard Colbourne has loaded for more than two decades at shoots from Ashcombe to Alnwick Castle. He sets out what separates a loader who enhances a day from one who spoils it, and shoot operators and...
Olympic coach Ian Coley MBE on what more than 50 years in the butts have taught him: mount under the bird rather than swing, keep your weight forward, never brown a pack, and give the keepers, flanker...
We set out the open and close seasons for game birds, wildfowl, deer, boar, hares and fish across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – checked line by line against the legislation itself
Laurence Catlow on a trouble-free release at High Park, and why caring for 325 pheasant poults has proved such strong medicine for a man recovering in mind and body
David Hudson traces partridge shooting from pointers and muzzle-loaders in the roots to a syndicate hill where released redlegs come fast and low over old grouse ground
Eat Wild wants game meat sold on an industrial scale, and it has three seasons to build the market before the lead-shot ban lands. Selena Barr meets Tom Peachey, the gamekeeper’s son and gun-trade bus...
Lord James Percy on why failing to use shot game for food risks the future of fieldsports, and what supporting Eat Wild actually asks of every Gun
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