Generally speaking, a close proximity to the shoot, gun storage, drying room, kennels, good fare and a comfortable bed are the first things I look for when reviewing sporting hotels.…
Martin Puddifer
Deputy Editor
Nine of the UK’s top game restaurants
London Rules Just around the corner from Covent Garden, London’s oldest restaurant, which opened in 1798, is the place to go if you have a budget to throw out of the…
Perazzi HPX shotguns: John Jeffries interview
What’s the most radical change you’ve ever had made to your shotgun? There are lots of alterations a gunsmith can make to give us a better picture of our target,…
Grinkle Park, pheasant shooting from North Yorkshire
Set some 14 miles from the coastal town of Whitby, Grinkle Park is billed as one of North Yorkshire’s premier shooting destinations and rumoured to be the only commercial shooting…
Running Horses, Surrey hotel review
American TV is a wonderful thing, but do you ever wince when an interpretation of the traditional English pub appears on screen? I’d rather pedal a unicycle along Hadrian’s Wall…
Why is the back bird so hard to master when grouse shooting?
A. You are not alone with this. Many of my grouse shooting clients say the same and I would agree that it’s one of the hardest game birds to shoot.…
Burton Constable shoot, pheasant shooting in East Yorkshire
Bakers A. Voase & A. Jones of Preston, East Yorkshire, make the kind of sausage rolls that made your eyes bulge as a child. I used to think I was…
Shooting businesses in Yorkshire
There is more to Yorkshire’s sporting heritage than grouse moors, high pheasants, beautiful scenery and pulling the trigger. Scores of shooting businesses make the shoot days tick and here’s a…
Roxburghe Hotel Kelso review
I can’t resist humming the theme from Mike Hodge’s Get Carter whenever I head north on the East Coast Mainline. When I make the journey, sometimes with a shotgun in…
CLA Game Fair 2015: Dos and don’ts from Shooting Gazette
Whether this is your first or fifty-first CLA Game Fair, there’s always something new to see and do. So… DO plan your day The CLA Game Fair site is massive…
July 2015
July 31 – August 2 marks the CLA Game Fair’s return to Harewood House following a 12-year absence and we can’t wait to take up our place on Gunmakers Row.…
Slaley Hall, Northumberland hotel review
In the not too distant past game shooting was lauded as “the new golf”, and there is much the two sports have in common: a day out on carefully managed…
National Ladies Shooting Day set to go off with a bang!
National Ladies Shooting Day, organised by the Shotgun and Chelsea Bun Club, is aimed at encouraging ladies from all age ranges and backgrounds to try clay shooting for the first…
Rising Bite double rifles pass London Proof House tests
Rising Bite double rifles are now being manufactured in .470 and .500 nitro calibres. Retailing at £95,000, the rifles take between two and three years to build and the first…
BASC and Natural England sign partnership agreement
BASC and Natural England will now work on an annual action plan setting out a formula for joint working to achieve common goals, including the delivery of the government’s Biodiversity…
ABF The Soldiers Charity and GWCT charity shoot at Warter Priory
Up to 30 teams of four guns and four loaders will compete across six different stands. The shooting will be followed by a champagne reception, three-course lunch, raffle and auction.…
Royal Berkshire Shooting School adds to clay day portfolio
The addition of Englefield Estate means the Really Wild Clay Company now offers clay days at eight different venues around the country. Other venues include Well Barn in Oxfordshire, Highclere…
King John Inn, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire shooting hotel review
The King John Inn in Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, is a 156-year-old hotel that was saved from dereliction by current owners Alexander and Gretchen Boon in 2008. They have done a…
Gundog Working Test returns to Chatsworth
The prestigious Gundog Working Test, sponsored by Eukanuba and R.N. Golden Limited, will host tests and activities for spaniels, retrievers and HPRs, and opens with a special field trial training…
Edgar Brothers wins Bushnell award
It is the second year in a row that Edgar Brothers has been presented with the award. The award recognises Edgar Brothers’ work in promoting and selling Butler Creek scope…