Sporting Gun

Sporting Gun is the leading monthly magazine for clay, game and rough shooters. With editorial offices in the Lincolnshire countryside, it can justifiably claim to be at the heart of the shooting community. Monthly features range from gundog training to pigeon shooting, game shooting to wildfowling – along with sound, practical, advice on equipment and techniques to help the beginner, intermediate or experienced shot get more enjoyment from their sport. Sporting Gun is a must for anyone who invests time in and money on their shooting.

Grim sweeper

Scottish gamekeepers restate lead ban opposition

I am sure many of the shooting organisations who want a ban on lead ammunition would wish the controversy would go away, but there are no signs it will.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Parties plough rural furrow

Antique firearms that need certificates

Texas on Georgia’s mind

The Welsh government is asked to rethink its snares stance

BASC survey call in wake of Plymouth shootings

Ned & Ted

NEWS IN BRIEF

Shooting’s highs and lows • James Simon looks at beta blocker use and abuse and says that every competitive shooter should be aware of the pitfalls, even those with genuine medical conditions

THERAPEUTIC USE EXEMPTION

Do not try this at home

THE END OF YOUR CAREER

Just cause • Robin Scott reflects on the ways our consciences are pricked and that the facts, such as in the case of lead shot, rarely get in the way of a ‘good’ story

An American classic • Tom Sykes gets his hands on a Mossberg 500 and puts it to the test on the unforgiving foreshore, as well as doing a star turn on the clay ground

Beetle? Let it be • Damage by flea beetle has put farmers off growing rape but there are viable alternatives, says Peter Theobald

The straight and narrow • Nick Ridley explains what happens on the beating line and what you should, and shouldn’t, be doing

Girls stalk • Jon Snowdon says when it comes to being good students, women have the men beat all ends up

Venison tagliatelle with sun-dried tomato sauce

Tasks in hand

That’s your Lotte

Prime time to cache in • J D J Braithwaite reports on an autumn foray into the woods near his home in the Lake District

THE PROBLEM WITH THE US INVADER

This really is a plum job • Having a successful plumbing business would be enough for most of us, but Al Benton-Jones runs a 3,500-acre shoot, as Mary Bremner discovers

Water deer Hydropotes inermis • Charles Smith-Jones looks at this distinctive species that was originally introduced from the Far East and is now prolific in certain parts of England

WATER DEER FACTS

The variety show • EdCookrecalls some of the weird and wonderful jobs he has been employed to do

SPORTING GUN’S CLAY SHOOTING CLUB DIRECTORY

All’s well that’s Eriswell • Jasper Fellows is guided around the ever expanding Suffolk ground by its proud co-owner Stuart Smith

WHO’S WHO

Quiet revolution • If you want to go about your pest control discreetly, Bruce Potts sounds out the options for you

Four dimensional • Geoff Garrod talks about a quartet of tricky shots that decoyers will typically encounter in the field

SECOND CHANCE

DOWN TIME

Enhance your shooting! • Top Sporting shot and coach Matt Hance continues his instructional series, advising us keen clay Shots what we can be doing during the off season to ensure that we hit the ground running the following season

Matt Hance

Coming in hot • There are benefits to using a thermal imager, no matter what the job is, says Patrick Hook

NEW ZEISS DTI 3/25 THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA

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