Section 18(2) authorisation holders must use a new form and mailbox, and no longer need an incident number or to report a shoot’s end

Wildlife and Countryside Link counts 2,149 suspected wildlife crimes in England in 2025 and just 41 convictions – and puts grouse moors and snares among its targets

The Rural Affairs Committee’s short inquiry follows the SGA survey in which 63% of deer managers said access pressure is harming their work. Views close 23 November

The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2026 took effect on 29 September, adding household, second-home and rolling medical duties – and police promise a pragmatic approach

BASC has invited rural minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter to a day in the field after she called a countryside of warm ale and black Labradors a ‘far-right nostalgic vision’

The trio behind The Good, The Bad and The Rugby take the main stage on the afternoon of Friday 12 February 2027 and host the Great British Shooting Awards, the trade ceremony that last year crowned a …

Certificates granted from 29 September will require holders to tell police of new diagnoses and any treatment outside their GP practice

The Countryside Alliance, Aim to Sustain partners and the GWCT issue joint guidance, warning over unverifiable grey literature

Keeper-run survey records 46 fledglings and 51 breeding adults, making 2026 the strongest season since 2022

Dumfries and Galloway planning officers are recommending approval for a permanent shooting facility at Over Cassock, with councillors deciding on 30 September

The sector’s flagship research farm faces 2027 without an agri-environment scheme after a fault blocked its £85,000 SFI application

Fire chiefs praised keepers’ summer effort in writing days before a No 10 reception that did not invite them, campaigners say

Richard Colbourne has loaded at Ashcombe and Alnwick Castle for more than two decades. Talking to Fieldsports Journal, he set out what separates a loader who enhances a day from one who spoils it, and…

The Star Wars and The Gentlemen actor took up clay shooting because Guy Ritchie told him to. Three seasons on he is shooting registered English sporting, taking driven days and telling the sport’s c…

Writing in Fieldsports Journal, Olympic coach Ian Coley MBE sets out what more than 50 years in the butts have taught him: mount under the bird rather than swing, keep your weight forward, never brown…

We set out the open and close seasons for game birds, wildfowl, deer, boar, hares and fish across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – checked line by line against the legislation itself

Laurence Catlow on a trouble-free release at High Park, and why caring for 325 pheasant poults has proved such strong medicine for a man recovering in mind and body

David Hudson traces partridge shooting from pointers and muzzle-loaders in the roots to a syndicate hill where released redlegs come fast and low over old grouse ground

Eat Wild wants game meat sold on an industrial scale, and it has three seasons to build the market before the lead-shot ban lands. Selena Barr meets Tom Peachey, the gamekeeper’s son and gun-trade b…

Lord James Percy on why failing to use shot game for food risks the future of fieldsports, and what supporting Eat Wild actually asks of every Gun

Giles Catchpole on drought-cracked earth, responsible land management, and why true traditionalists wait until October before addressing any partridges

Defra has opened a review into every aspect of game shooting in England, and BASC's Conor O'Gorman argues that we cannot allow our opponents to decide the outcome by default

To raise funds for the bloodhound pack the quarry team walk the Wessex Ridgeway, while Jeremy Hobson's anticipation for the partridge season builds

Coveys, sewelling, blanking in, the Euston system and the hungry gap – a plain-English guide to the words you will hear on a partridge day

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 …

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

Pete Evans tests the Gamo Riser Punisher, a hardwood-stocked pre-charged air rifle with an integrated moderator, open sights and a 10-shot rotary magazine. He strips the moderator, adjusts the trigger…

Dave Barham puts the new QYS .22 Domed pellets, in 17gr and 20gr, over the chronograph and on paper at 30 metres. The weight consistency is remarkable, but the 20gr came within a whisker of the 12ft/l…

A sub-£770 bullpup PCP that squeezes a 680mm barrel into a compact frame: Dave Barham finds out whether the Umarex UX Zelos earns its place with the all-round shooter and pest controller.

From its flawless performance to its stunning stock, this 100-gun special edition marks a triumphant return for Theoben, says Mark Camoccio

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

A gundog that will not come back runs into the line of Guns, chases wounded game into unsafe ground and flushes birds out of range, the trainer Ben Randall tells Gundog Journal in a feature on recall….

All dogs are predators, and Jackie Drakeford explains how understanding the way wild canines kill tells you a great deal about the dogs working in front of you

The Country Girls UK fine-tune delivery to hand, water work and blind casts with trainer Jennifer Thomas during an intensive gundog training day in Buckinghamshire

The law offers little help when an out-of-control dog charges yours, so reading the danger early is the best defence, insists Jackie Drakeford

Veteran trainer John Cook shares with Selena Barr the lifetime of hard work that he is convinced has kept him feeling young at 80 years old

The team at Mordor Gundogs have trained and lived alongside Labradors, cockers and springers for years, and each breed has wormed its way into family life in its own unmistakable way. So which one rea…

Jackie Drakeford explains how understanding the purpose of your dog's breed can lessen training challenges and build a better partnership

Our pick of five lightweight, practical products to keep both handler and dog cool and comfortable through summer training, from cooling coats to a remote dummy dropper, rounded up to help you get the…