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.

Fens party

SNAPSHOTS • I have often wondered if it is worth getting a stock made, especially now we have fully adjustable stocks on many shotguns.

Gamekeeping culled from rural course

Doubts about sentience bill

CPSA awards finalists announced

Fran aims to be cocker the walk

NEWS IN BRIEF

Anger at force’s firearms certificate approach

Scottish snare ban mooted

Harper Adams wins BUCS championships

Concern over extent of bird flu

Tributes paid to Mike Farquhar

Ned & Ted

Court dismisses Wild Justice challenge – again

A triumphant return • Jasper Fellows discovers how Skeet star Peter Chester almost lost it all, only to come back stronger than ever

Routine check-up • Recent research confirms what many of us have long thought, which is that pre-shot procedures are extremely effective, writes James Simon

KIRSTY HEGARTY’S ROUTINE

STEVE SCOTT’S ROUTINE

Where there’s a will there’s a wader • Tom Sykes on his favourite footwear to keep him insulated and dry on the saltings

Scent and reason • Does your dog have gun sense and can it find game when it is scarce, asks Nick Ridley

Hits and misses • Peter Theobald reflects on the past year, the contrasting fortunes and laying to rest an old wives’ tale

Winds of change • Jon Snowdon talks about a fair maiden and some foul weather and the consequences

Tasks in hand

Carbonnade of venison • A dish to get in a stew about

That’s your Lotte

Tools of the trade • In the constant struggle to overcome his prolific adversary, EdCook says he employs all the necessary help, both animate and inanimate

The variety • Richard Faulks reports on a shoot on the edge of the Fens that is full of delight and surprises

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos • Common it may be but this familiar duck is far from dull by any reckoning, says Charles Smith-Jones

MALLARD FACTS

Go west • Owner Andrew Harris guides Jasper Fellows around the clays and courses of South West Shooting School

SPORTING GUN’S CLAY SHOOTING CLUB DIRECTORY

Going Helice for leather • To excel in this sport you must give the target a good belting, says Paul Quagliana

Small birds, big moments • Tony Bracci looks at the very particular characteristics of snipe and woodcock

Plan B • Geoff Garrod gives the benefit of his experience on what to do if your day is not going as well as hoped

Fitted up • Is it worth having a stock made to measure? The editor is in for a few surprises when he visits Ian Coley for a fitting

BRUMMIE MONTE CARLO

EXCLUSIVE

Get your gun fitted

Gone in 60 seconds • The foxes are out there, waiting to mount a raid, but they have an uncanny knack of vanishing, says Patrick Hook

Patrick’s top tips

Obstacle course • Fran Ardley covers all bases with her training routine for common situations in the field

LOCATION

GET OUT

HANDLING

The problem: Urinary incontinence • “Regrettably, my dear old matriarch labrador bitch is leaving a wee damp patch on her bed from time to time. I have heard...