Labour’s backbench spokesman for shooting and fishing, Martin Salter MP, shot his first brace of pheasant in November.
Pheasant Shooting
Pheasant and partridge shooting in Cambridgeshire
Good pheasant and partridge, combined with warm hospitality, are the order of the day at the Higham shoot in Cambridgeshire.
Is this the world’s heaviest pheasant?
Keeping your eyes out for a falling bird is always advisable when shooting. No more so than when the bird in question weighs twice the normal average, says Charles Flynn
If my pheasant lands on the land opposite, is it still mine?
If I drop a pheasant on my neighbour's land, whose property is it? I went to pick a bird that fell over the boundary, only to find the farmer had got there before me. I asked him to hand it over, but he wouldn't!
Pheasant and partridge shooting in Northumberland
Pheasant and partridge shooting in Northumberland: When an invitation came to be a guest gun on the Scrainwood shoot in the Cheviot Hills, I literally leapt at the chance.
Driven partridge and pheasant with BASC
BASC Northern Region has secured a driven partridge and pheasant day exclusively for ladies this October in County Durham.
How do we get pheasants to fly towards the guns?
We have one woodland drive on our farm shoot where it's difficult to get pheasants to fly forward towards the guns. Can we rectify the problem? We are driving the wood towards the release wood and that last season we did not encounter this difficulty.
Partridge and pheasant shooting in Salisbury
Partridge and pheasant shooting in Salisbury: A family run partridge and pheasant shoot with some 'big boys' drives, Stoke Drove delivers time after time.
Is one hopper for our pheasants enough?
We are trying to improve our feed stations in kale cover crops. At the moment we have strawed areas around a single hopper. Is this enough?
A modern day pheasant and partridge shoot
Read the story of two families who have worked together through the generations to create a modern day pheasant and partridge shoot.