Game shooting at Swinton Park, Yorkshire: A game shooting feature from August's Shooting Gazette.
Alex Flint
Glorious 12th is cause for celebration
The GWCT has revealed grouse shooting is worth £23,300,000 to the Scottish economy each year.
Help for Heroes founders honoured
Bryn and Emma Parry have been appointed OBEs for voluntary service to the armed forces
New DEFRA Secretary of State announced
Caroline Spelman MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
F1 tyro shoots for pole position
Williams F1 driver Nico Hülkenberg has taken up shooting as part of his pre-season preparations.
Help for Heroes charity hits £40 million mark
The charity set up to support our wounded Servicemen and women, Help for Heroes, has passed a remarkable fundraising milestone by raising £40 million in just 28 months.
Shooting suspended in Scotland
Shooting of certain bird species has been suspended in Scotland for the first time in 13 years due to a prolonged period of cold weather.
Top instructor hits the mark with Purdey
A Clay Pigeon Shooting Association instructor has won a clay shooting competition in style using a Purdey Sporter.
Man smuggles gun in rolls of fat
An obese American man faces 10 years in jail after it was discovered he was hiding a nine millimetre pistol between his rolls of fat while incarcerated.
Gun maker Westley Richards takes on shooting stars
One of the most famous names in British gunmaking, Westley Richards, will take on three new craftsmen this summer as demand for their fine guns soars.
Charity clay shoot enters 10th year
The Gloucestershire Ribeye shoot, a charity clay shoot in aid of the Countryside Alliance and the Gloucestershire Air Ambulance, will take place for the 10th year running on August 29.
New appointment for Heather Trust
The Heather Trust, the independent charity dedicated to the promotion of moorland management, has announced the appointment of Dr Marion Thomson as development director.
GWCT raises plight of farmland birds
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust launched an audacious attempt to break a world record last month, with the creation of a bird feeder weighing 254 kilos.
Low quality feed no help in recession
Richard Leach, director of Hampshire-based game feed manufacturer Keepers Choice, has warned that cutting corners with feed could have dire effects for the viability of shoots.
Royal backing for a century of conservation
At the end of November BASC held their centenary patrons' reception at Coutts and Co. in London, where His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh praised BASC for its work…
Labour MP shoots first pheasants
Labour’s backbench spokesman for shooting and fishing, Martin Salter MP, shot his first brace of pheasant in November.
Soaring deer population coincides with tick explosion
A new study in the science journal 'Medical and Veterinary Entomology' indicates that growth in the deer population has coincided with an increase in the number and distribution of ticks…
Conservation trust appoint new president
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust have appointed Lord Salisbury as their new president. Lord Salisbury succeeds the Earl Peel, who steps down from Britain’s leading wildlife research charity after…
British Deer Society calls for an end to shotgun use
The leading charity for deer welfare and management, the British Deer Society (BDS), has this week called for the government to revise legislation that allows farmers to control deer using…
Gamekeeper prosecuted for killing protected species
Kyle Burden, a 19-year-old gamekeeper formerly of the Kempton Estate in Shropshire, was handed a 26-week suspended jail sentence on September 19 this year for shooting common buzzards and killing