Grouse Shooting

Welcome to the grouse shooting section of ShootingUK, your complete guide to the red grouse and the moors they live on. The grouse season opens on the Glorious Twelfth – 12 August – and runs to 10 December, and from that first morning in the butts our grouse shooting coverage follows the season all the way through. You’ll find driven grouse shooting on the great moors of Yorkshire, the Pennines, Durham and Scotland, walked-up grouse days and shooting over pointers and setters, plus grouse shooting advice on butt etiquette, cartridges and chokes, safe arcs of fire and what a day’s grouse shooting actually costs.

Explore grouse shooting tips for fast, low birds curling on the wind, guidance on grouse shooting season dates, the best shotguns for grouse shooting, grouse shooting clothing for a hill that can serve up all four seasons before lunch, and the moorland management – heather burning, predator control and counting – that decides whether there is a season at all. There’s news too, from the spring counts and the state of the moors to the arguments that swirl around them. Our grouse shooting features come from Guns and keepers who know that nothing in British shooting tests you quite like a covey coming low and fast.