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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...
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...
Opening day brings greylags off the estuary in their hundreds, and Graham Downing learns that it pays to pick the right spot on the saltings
From a homemade toy rifle with a garden-gate bolt to a Schultz & Larsen Victory, Keith Edmunds argues that a love of fine guns is nothing to be ashamed of
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,...
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...
The Shooting Times team picks five sound moderators covering everything from the .17HMR to magnum calibres, chosen on weight, length and claimed performance
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...
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
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