Shooting Gazette

LORD MASHAM MINGLES WITH THE GUNS DURING A DAY’S PHEASANT SHOOTING HE HOSTED AT SWINTON ESTATE, NORTH YORKSHIRE, LATE LAST SEASON. FOR THE FULL STORY SEE PAGES 20-29 ■

As we enter early summer our thoughts should be turning towards simulated days and lessons with instructors to iron out the creases from last season. If only life were so simple at the moment… Lockdown may still be in force at the time of writing, bu

Marc Newton, managing director of John Rigby & Co, has been appointed to the council of the Gun Trade Association (GTA). Mr Newton, who has been in charge at John Rigby & Co since 2013, was nominated by current council members to join them as a direc

The Countryside Alliance (CA) has submitted a plan to ministers detailing why our sport should be one of the first to resume post-lockdown, writes Matt Cross. The organisation has published a roadmap for a return to shooting once the lockdown is lift

Make your dog feel at home: The right choice of box will keep your dogs contained in your vehicle and keep the vehicle clean. A hygienic box, easily washable, could be used elsewhere – for example the kitchen, in a hotel, caravan awning or as a sick

Tell us a little about AW Rule & Son Gunmakers We’re a small firm based in south-west England specialising in bespoke restocking work. We have a vast knowledge of all kinds of guns and offer a full in-house gunsmithing service. We also offer a full g

Whatever time of year you decide to visit Swinton Estate, it will take at least a week to experience it all. There is certainly plenty to occupy every hour of the day, and if it has failed to impress anyone with even a passing interest in game shooti

Mussolini’s son-in-law once famously opined that ‘victory has 100 fathers, but failure is an orphan’ and this should have been in the mind of every politician as comprehension dawned on the potential for damage from the COVID-19 pandemic. To bright p

The day would be at Balcombe Estate in West Sussex, and the party would stay at Balcombe Place, which was recently refurbished by Fiona Martin née Greenwood. I would have Simon Greenwood from Balcombe as the shoot captain, Simon is a very good Shot b

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Of all the counties that may lay claim to being the ideal location for shooting within easy reach of London, to many people it is Hampshire that scores most highly and takes the dog biscuit in the proximity and desirability stakes. It is an area geog

Clay and game shooting have been my passion, sport and relaxation for more than 40 years. After I retired from full-time work, I qualified as an instructor and for a couple of years worked part-time at several clay grounds. A change in personal circu

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To shoot or not to shoot — that is the question being asked by many Guns and shooting parties throughout the UK. As I write this column in mid-April, it seems wrong to be concerned about next season’s sport or to even give a thought to game shooting

As technology, engineering and geographical exploration rolled on through the 19th century, academics and the British public at large developed a huge appetite for information about the flora and fauna of the emerging world. Naturalists of every sort

If you bought a lottery ticket and suddenly found yourself in possession of a vast fortune, and if you bought, with said fortune, let days here and there on grand estates and then invited random but enthusiastic strangers and a couple of your best sh

The mien and deportment of The Back Gun has often been described by those who encounter him going about his business as nothing if not optimistic. Thus, in any normal year it is with springy step and glinting eye that as the fusillades of the departi

DON’T MISS PLEASE TAKE YOUR PICK! Why there’s lots to love about the Balsham Shoot WE SHALL OVERCOME Running a shoot in a COVID-19 world IN THE DRINK Tips on training your gundog in water PLUS OUR DUTY TO OUR QUARRY Examining the issues surrounding g

You know the opening scene in The Italian Job – the one with Matt Monro singing On Days Like These as Roger Beckermann pilots a Lamborghini over an Alpine pass? Well, it was a day very much like that which sticks in the memory of my time with an Alfa

THE Keeper sunglasses, new from James Purdey & Sons (£695, purdey.com), caught our attention this month – and not just because we thought they’d look smart on the peg. Handmade in Japan, the tortoiseshell and titanium sunglasses are one of four limit

Adam Calvert is a freelance shooting instructor with a global reputation, offering bespoke shooting instruction. He is also an ambassador for Fabbri. Q What kind of things should game Shots concentrate on when they can’t get out onto the shooting gro

I grew up shooting in the south. My first partridge had just hopped over a Cambridgeshire hedge and my first pheasant was dropped on to the loving soil of the Isle of Eley, and I’d like to think was shot as a Norman interloper on behalf of Hereward t