Fly-fishing for trout and salmon on rivers has an accessibility problem. However hard we try to preach inclusivity, it is usually done in £500 waders with a £1,000 rod on…
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The social and mental health benefits of beating
“Let me get this right, you’re proposing I get up early with you, wrap up warm to protect from the cold and cover myself in waterproofs in case the sky…
The ethical considerations of wildfowling
With the fowling season now a distant memory and the weather finally feeling like spring, I find myself getting more and more excited about the fishing to come. Right now…
Woodcock Club Dinner 2023
After a short hiatus due to covid, the Shooting Times’ Woodcock Club is back. This year, just like in 2019, we will be holding the dinner at the Savile Club…
First roebuck stalk – the lessons to be learned
On an early spring morning, three of us met to stalk. Ben would be making his way to a high tower to wait for deer emerging, while I guided Alex, who…
Wild Justice’s supermarket sweep shows fall in lead use
The team at Wild Justice — Mark Avery, Chris Packham, and Ruth Tingay — have once again been on their annual meat-aisle supermarket sweep. The narrative is usually the same…
Risk management on shoots – time-consuming but necessary
It was a few weeks ago that I was slipping and sliding my way down a very soggy woodland track, the car struggling from one side to the other as…
Do pheasants kill adders?
’’I expect many of you will have read the Countryside Alliance (CA) news email circulated by the chief executive, Tim Bonner, entitled “Pheasants, adders and the BBC” last month. There…
Chinese water deer – an end of season opportunity
Roost shooting for pigeons was poor this February. There was never a good wind when you wanted it and the numbers of pigeons were down in North Norfolk — or…
The Countryman Sets Forth Again – book extract
Colonel Peter Hawker, the father of wildfowling whose prowess as a Shot, while serving with the 14th Light Dragoons during the Peninsular Wars, earned him the soubriquet of Wellington’s Honorary…
Should I choose a spaniel or a labrador?
I go rabbit and pigeon shooting, and now intend to get a gundog. I am not sure which breed to go for. A friend says Labradors are born half-trained and…
British Shooting Show 2023 – the new airgun products on display
For three days in February, the great and good of the shooting industry descended on the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham for the biggest and best shooting show of the…