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Shooting for mental health Mental health has always affected many people, 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each […]
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Making Renewal A Certificate
As some unfortunate shooters will be all too well aware, their local doctor may be among those who won’t provide the necessary medical approval allowing […]
Ban on lead is a question of time
What is a body of water? And when is a body of water temporary and when permanent? Two questions the answers to which we are […]
Big gun gets even bigger in the magazine business.
Future PLC, publishers of Gun Trade News, Clay Shooting and a number of other country titles, has swooped to secure ownership of Shooting Gazette and Shooting Times. The move, which saw […]
It’s not the Wokes causing the fall
A report in the Daily Telegraph has highlighted what it describes as the way in which many people are apparently “running scared”, when it comes […]
Lord, please don’t have Mersey on us.
The only possible reaction to the news that Liverpool City Council had passed a motion condemning all game shooting as “barbaric” is well, what else […]
Life in the wild west
The video which accompanies this article is both chilling and at the same time illustrative of the apparent impunity with which so called animal rights […]
Let’s give them some of the same
The multi-agency group behind the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project has published its final report. Starting in 2008 a team of five gamekeepers was employed to […]
RSPB: Still struggling with the facts
Claude Cockburn’s will not be a name known to many now, but fifty years ago this former foreign correspondent and writer was widely recognised well […]
Licenced to kill
Last week Countryside Alliance chief Tim Bonner met the new Secretary of State for the Environment, Theresa Villiers. Heading the list of topics for discussion […]
The Exclusion Games
Shooting sports was forced to yield last week. For all its articulacy in making its case, it had no defence against one of modern life’s […]
Law abiding pay a criminal price.
On the June 20th a firearms licencing team, backed up by more than 20 police including two armed officers- appeared at the premises of a […]
What a shower
In August last year we covered the tragic case of Stanley Metcalf, (see: ‘Not nice work from the Network‘ 16-08-18) the six year old boy […]
With friends like these….
It doesn’t take much to imagine the smug satisfaction felt by those involved with Wild Justice after its torpedoing of the general licence. The campaigning […]
WHEN DOING NOTHING IS NOT AN ANSWER
All the agencies involved are to be congratulated on the latest announcement of the results of the successful campaign to exterminate the rat population on […]
DANGEROUS SKIES OVER VENTNOR?
Whoever it was who took the picture of a sea eagle making off with a lamb clutched in its talons, has done everyone who cares […]
THE MEANING OF THE LETTER OF THE LAW
First published in 1853 as a country newspaper for the hunting, shooting and fishing community, by 1986 The Field magazine was struggling. With a circulation of just […]
Fat Chance
Interviewed in the March issue of industry publication, Gun Trade News, Rebecca Schönfelder, manager of Europe’s biggest shooting show, IWA, mentioned that in the past […]
Well if they’re not going to, we might
as well
Magazine publishing has ceased to be the great business opportunity it was and publishers cast around desperately for ways of earning a few bob, which […]
When praise doesn’t improve matters
Every so often a shooting magazine will publish a letter from a reader, in which the correspondent offers a peon of praise to a police […]
VOTE NOW. IT’S THEIR CHOICE
Future Publishing, owners of a range of shooting magazines including Sporting Rifle, Airgun Shooter and industry voice, Gun Trade News has launched its own series of shooting awards. The […]
LET’S NOT MAKE A PIGS EAR OF AVOIDING THIS DISEASE.
Very few British shooters venture to mainland Europe to go boar hunting, but those that do and indeed others who may be hunting other game […]
RUGSHOT ANGERS THE ANGRY PEOPLE
Classic firearms dealer Diggory Hadoke found himself the victim of an episode in media duplicity, when having agreed to give an interview to ITV’s Breakfast […]
ETHICS GIRL WON’T EXPLAIN
For anyone searching for the perfect example of a modern politician in action, the continuing tale of Natural Resource Wales’ (NRW) decision to ban shooting […]
ENJOYMENT: IT REALLY GETS THEIR GOAT
The furore occasioned by the publicity surrounding the killing of feral goats in Scotland offered arguably the perfect insight into what exactly it is about […]