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.

Obstacles in the field

This is a watershed moment for game shooting.

Legislation on Scottish moorlands imminent • All the month’s news, pictures and more

Count highlights concern over a number of species

Lead future proposals due

Bird flu restrictions lifted

NEWS IN BRIEF

EVENTS

Lucy Hall strikes gold at world cup

A tasty treat

Ned & Ted

It’s time to act • BASC’s head of policy and campaigns, Dr Conor O’Gorman, urges you to fight proposals that could ban the release of gamebirds in Wales and ultimately the rest of the UK

Home and dry • Jasper Fellows investigates the benefits of off-range training and discovers the bright future of digital training aids

For the record • Tom Sykes runs through some more tips and tricks to make the most out of your trail cameras

As if from nowhere • After a lean spell, Peter Theobald can’t believe his luck when the pigeons return unexpectedly to his patch, and in satisfyingly large numbers

A royal feast • To celebrate the coronation of Charles III, we have a dish fit for a king

High jinks and high seats • Tony Bracci gets to grips with some unusual jobs on his new shoot, with plenty of surprises afoot

Japanese knotweed Reynoutria japonica (Fallopia japonica) • Charles Smith-Jones starts his new series on this unwelcome visitor from Victorian times that he calls “a brute of a plant”

SPORTING GUN’S CLAY SHOOTING CLUB DIRECTORY

Relaxing breaks in the Cotswolds • Jasper Fellows discovers the friendly atmosphere and beautiful sight lines of Edgehill Shooting Ground

Take the field • Geoff Garrod enlists the help of three friends to try to reduce the numbers feeding with gusto on the estate farm’s crops

Hedge fundamentals • Fran Ardley looks at coaching your dog to negotiate the obstacles it will encounter when retrieving

Don’t be a dummy • Nick Ridley on the perils of taking marketing blurb at face value

The problem: Fleas and ticks • “Will garlic keep fleas and ticks away?”

Adventures of Nick & Ted • Nick Ridley and his dogs have been on a wild and emotional ride but are hoping for a return to normality

Letters • Send us your pictures, letters and pigeon hauls

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RIFLE SHOOTING Supply and demand • Patrick Hook takes a look at how the cull of one predator leads to the growth of another

Hunting high and low • Paul Quagliana restocks his freezer after a chance encounter and a bit of detective work

Every widthways • In the second of his new series on how to become a deerstalker, Charles Smith-Jones helps you figure out the alternatives when it comes to choosing the right rifle calibre for your needs

Forest clearance • Tom Cackett heads to Sherwood and the Thoresby Estate to seek out some wild lowland reds

Signs and declarations • Jon Snowdon highlights what a carcass inspection should entail to ensure deer meat is fit to enter the food chain

Copper-bottomed! • Richard Faulks says...