A written answer of Wednesday, 28 October hardens the Government’s language on a snare ban, with the department now “actively looking” to bring one into force, a direct hit on fox control on keepered…

The Red Squirrel Survival Trust marks 150 years since the first grey squirrels were turned loose in Cheshire, with control work by shooters and keepers still holding the line while a contraceptive is…

The peer-reviewed paper found no rise in fox activity on release sites, with keepers’ legal predator control the likely reason, days before the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defr…

The Government grant, announced at COP17, lands as the £30m appeal for the 9,486-acre Northumberland sporting estate enters its final week

Andy Burnham promised military aircraft, £25m to rewet peat as firebreaks and help for farmers, as farming leaders pressed for prescribed burning support

The trust says the Government’s call for evidence could open a much wider debate on game management, and wants robust, independent science at its heart

The Home Office says more than £800,000 will fund the National Rural Crime Unit and National Wildlife Crime Unit this year, as MPs tell a Westminster Hall debate that forces still lack the specialists…

Footage from a police-tasked volunteer drone identified men firing ball bearings at pheasants from a moving vehicle near Linkenholt

A written answer confirms ministers have noted proposals for new restrictions, and fines for breaching protection orders rise to £500 from Monday

Police Scotland, Fisheries Management Scotland and water bailiffs are running a week of joint patrols against fish crime as endangered wild salmon run to their spawning grounds

Just 27% of new certificate applications were processed inside the 120-day guideline in the year to August, Sussex Police’s accountability meeting has heard, and a surge of pandemic-era renewals is ex…

A written answer puts the count at 184,000 and promises a summary “as soon as possible”, but the minister gave no date for the Government’s next step

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…

Four grouse keepers and the Peak District Moorland Group’s coordinator describe how July’s fire reignited from buried peat, what it took to stop it at a managed moor’s boundary, and the toll on their…

Writing in Fieldsports Journal, the Countryside Alliance chief executive weighs the Twelfth, 1 September and hunting’s 1 May before settling on the day after the foreshore extension closes. What the d…

Licensing gamebird shooting would be the most damaging of all Labour's rural policies, argues the Countryside Alliance's Tim Bonner. Can a united countryside defeat it?

With the chimney swept and the logs neatly stacked, Jeremy Hobson reckons few things beat a crackling log fire at the close of a day spent in the field

From whooping Guns to pricked birds, Jean-Paul Gaudin says it is time to remember that good manners are as much a part of shooting as good aim

Labour's conference showed the countryside is still misunderstood. Your email to Defra can change that, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman

Holkham head keeper Mark Fitzer on why lone-working safety comes first, why keepers should talk about what they do, and a first go at the grey partridges

As pheasant days loom, Jeremy Hobson considers why shooting clothes should never look too new – and why a dog once took exception to a sharp suit

An army of 106 hissing swans puts paid to Giles Catchpole's day's fishing, but the geese are coming in and the hedgerows are now heaving with fruit

From Defra's call for evidence to the Countryside Alliance's Rural Reset, now is the time for the shooting world to be heard, argues the GFA's Dominic Boulton

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

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…

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

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