A Government Office for Science wildfire science note says burning can make moors more flammable; the association has written to its authors and the EFRA Committee, and has forced the RSPB to retitle…

Claire Bellamy, who led a licensed hunt in Renfrewshire, was sentenced at Paisley Sheriff Court under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 after a sheriff found the hounds were allowed to chase a…

Nearly 500 gamekeepers, stalkers and wildfowlers told BASC that walkers ignoring signs, loose dogs and dawn visitors are disrupting deer and game management, and two thirds rated access authorities in…

The statutory committee found ministers paid sufficient regard to animal welfare in their deer and grey squirrel policy statements, but wants the case for formal competency standards for those doing t…

For 45 years a Suffolk wildfowling club has looked after a coastal wetland, and now its members are helping to ring migrant birds, writes Graham Downing

The British Deer Society explains why a measured, evidence-based approach to wild deer welfare and management can prove as powerful as activism and emotive campaigning

Every bird keeper in Scotland, game farms and shoots with birds in pens included, must now fence off ponds, feed under cover and disinfect boots by law, as the sixth case of the season in kept birds i…

The Gun Trade Association’s chairman told its AGM that a proposal to bring shotguns under firearm-certificate style controls had seemed dead until the police inspectorate’s August report breathed life…

Ministers say the A400M Atlas capability is a first step towards a sovereign military force against wildfires, but will not say how many kits are coming

Election to the umbrella body gives working keepers a formal voice among the 16 associations that agree shooting’s common line on licensing and the law

Two changes in force since 26 October let NatureScot act on offences committed outside a licensed area and suggest alternatives to the ground an applicant puts forward

Robert Howard’s UK Parliament petition, backed by the Regional Moorland Groups, urges the Government to revoke the heather burning regulations after a summer of wildfires on England’s moors

Tick numbers are rising on Patrick Laurie’s grouse hill with no obvious host to blame, and a trip to hear the stags roar brings the problem home

Partridges are flying well at the Honeycombe Shoot, but Mike Appleby says a smooth season rests on the work done before it – gates, bridges, vehicles, spares and the dogs

As political threats loom in Brussels, Dominic Boulton explains how game farmers from across Europe are setting up the European Game Farmers’ Group, with a little help from FACE

Holkham headkeeper Mark Fitzer on the interactive map his son built of more than 80 drives and eight seasons of data, and how it spots problems before they become real ones

Cotherstone Moor in County Durham took the 2025 Purdey Awards gold after its black grouse rose from 47 to 109 in five years. Headkeeper Mark Gallagher, talking to Fieldsports Journal, sets out the gri…

Covid and a retiring keeper had closed the family shoot at Lochnell. Archie Cochrane restarted it with partridges instead of pheasants, pegs on the beach, a beating line in its twenties and a local cl…

Jeremy Hobson on why ‘spending a penny’ on the end peg has a richer history than most Guns realise, from saltpetre beds and keepers’ tricks to the Law of Urination

Giles Catchpole finds late shoot-day starts and fuel rationing in a car-boot haul of old sporting books, then buys a handsome staghorn-topped stick from a friend’s shed

Olympic champion Peter Wilson shoots a 10-Gun syndicate on a 500-acre Dorset family farm where the owner holds the bag at around 100 and refuses to let Guns, beaters and pickers-up drift apart. For sh…

Your experience of game shooting in England is the evidence Defra needs by 1 November, says BASC’s Conor O’Gorman, as Paul Faithfull and his sons Luke and Dean share what they told the review

For the estate letting days and the Gun trying to find one, the agencies are the market. Five of the best compared on identical terms: where they are, what they can put you into, who to ring and what…

Jake Woolf’s shared-peg format sells a 300-bird day to 20 Guns at about half a fee each, and shoots are now offering it their dates. Writing in Sporting Gun, Matt Kidd shot one; what the keeper and th…

John Milewski relives his lifelong connection with a treasured Webley Junior air pistol, inherited from the Monte Cassino veteran who first introduced him to a real Webley

Dave Barham tests the .22 Reximex Pretensis-K, the carbine version of the Turkish maker’s well-regarded Pretensis, on the chronograph and the bench – and finds it every bit as good as its big brother,…

A break-barrel that shoots almost like a pre-charged pneumatic with no bottle or pump to carry has had a full test, and Mark Camoccio, writing in Airgun World, found a pellet balanced on the action st…

Airgun competition is largely settled before you reach the firing point. From entries and power checks to pellet batches, kit lists and holding your nerve, here is how to arrive with nothing to think…

Gary Chillingworth swaps his scope for a diopter sight and shoots the sub-6ft/lb Precihole Club Pro Junior from the bench, prone and standing at 10m. What the film shows for anyone starting a young sh…

Danny Brookfield combines grey squirrel control and early gundog training for a rewarding morning on a pheasant estate

No law in the United Kingdom requires you to insure yourself to shoot an air rifle. Every farmer you ask for permission will want to know, though, and the club you want to join will require it – so he…

Hunter Field Target is the most popular form of airgun competition in Britain, and the easiest to get into. Here is how it works, what the rules say, what rifle and scope you need and where to shoot y…

Whether you shoot a break barrel in the garden, a PCP on the permission or a match rifle at 10 metres, there's an organisation that governs, insures or represents what you do. Here's who they are and…

Watch the AirMaks Arms Krait MKII bullpup PCP put through its paces on video, then check the headline specs at a glance and head over to our full written review.

Dave Barham gets his hands on the new AirMaks Arms Krait MKII, the latest bullpup PCP from the Czech maker, tuned in the UK by Hawke Optics before it reaches the shops. Tested in .177 at his club rang…

Using modern thermal gear and classic fieldcraft, Danny Brookfield spends a summer evening with an FAC air rifle, protecting an arable farmer's oilseed rape from ravenous rabbits

She trained as an architect, picks up on a family shoot, trials her labradors and paints other people’s dogs from a spare room in Oxfordshire. Betsy Bradford talks to Selena Barr about Laura Hill, the…

Writing in Sporting Gun, Thomas Nissen followed Jes Andersen’s English setters, Balder and Hector, through 800 hectares of Danish forest and heath: what a pointing dog brings to the woodcock day that…

In this extract from his book My Working Terrier Journey, Martin Webber watches West Siberian laikas hold an elk in a Norwegian forest and sees clear parallels with the terrier below ground

Fitness, feeding around a drive, the first aid kit in the truck, heat on a mild October day, the wet dog on the peg, limber tail and what to do when a dog goes through the ice: the checks to make befo…

We round up five coats that keep working gundogs warm, dry and protected through the shooting season – from towelling drying robes to neoprene vests

If gundogs are your passion, draw on your experience when responding to Defra's game shooting review, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman – with three owners showing how it is done

Our dogs read every move we make, says gundog trainer Ian Cooper, and too often the handler is the one teaching the habits that later need correcting

'Gamekeeper trained' was once a selling point in the classified columns, and Jeremy Hobson remembers the keepers whose spaniels and labradors earned it

An expert told Richard Donnelly to pray. A year-old labrador that hid under the bed at the sight of a shotgun was retrieving cock pheasants out of the cattails by the winter. His method, set out in Gu…

The free-running pup that looks brilliant in the yard at 10 weeks is the dog squeaking in the beating line at 10 months, argues Ben Randall. Writing in Gundog Journal, the trainer of back-to-back Brit…

A run with a view of the whole garden is a big TV the dog cannot switch off, says Ryan Kay, and Ben Randall keeps his kennels inside a building for that reason and for the weather. Speaking to Gundog…

Jeremy Hobson has walked beagle puppies for years, but six months with Waffle, a future autism assistance dog, is another education altogether