Shooting: game shooting, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling and more
Shooting in the UK covers more ground than most sports. A walked-up day on the hill for grouse, a drive on a lowland pheasant shoot, a winter morning in a hide waiting on pigeons, a foreshore dawn for wigeon – the disciplines are different, the skills are different, and the knowledge required for each one runs deep.
ShootingUK’s shooting pages cover the full range: driven game, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling, deer stalking and pest control. Technique, tactics, safety, etiquette, fieldcraft and the practical knowledge that makes a better shot in the field – all covered by writers who shoot the disciplines they write about.
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Partridge shooting: An estate that wants to foster excellent pheasant and partridge shooting.
I always seem to end up off-balance when game shooting. How should I go about correcting my foot position?
Is it best to work, and house, ferrets of just one sex together?
I intend to have a shooting expedition over my ferrets and have invited some friends along. Do you have any tips that I can pass on for the day ahead?
New Freedom of Information Act (FOI) figures obtained by the Countryside Alliance show that young people with shotgun certificates pose absolutely no risk to the wider public.
I am a keen game shooter who prefers a side-by-side, and once the season is over I would like to try clay shooting.
I am an American living in Dorset and cannot understand why you guys put up with the horrific smell from ferrets. It is easily sorted back home.
I’ve always been a fairly competent game shooter, but this season I’ve missed noticeably more birds than usual – and I haven’t got a clue why?
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