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.

Getting your Goose

What makes a good gun?

Make your voice heard

Licensing changes after shooting

Crowds flock to the Game Fair following pandemic break

Tokyo bronze for Coward-Holley

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ned & Ted

Best year recorded for hen harrier chicks since 1960s

Study highlights grouse benefits

Sayonara Tokyo • Jasper Fellows gets the lowdown on the Olympics from Matt Coward-Holley, Team GB Trap bronze medallist, and Steven Seligmann, British Shooting’s performance director

World in motion • Mark Winser was crowned CPSA World English Sporting Champion after triumphing in one of the most riveting Super Finals ever, reports James Simon

Licensing: facts you should know • With the prospect of a full shooting season ahead this autumn, many readers will be thinking about acquiring their first shotgun certificate. David Frost, Sporting Gun’s legal expert, offers some thoughts and advice on what to expect when you apply

The teal deal • Tom Sykes relives a memorable flight chasing this fast and agile duck on the foreshore

A day of reconnoitring • Peter Theobald looks at how to make the scouting of fields containing your intended quarry as effective as possible

Bangs for the bucks • Jon Snowdon and companions keep cool heads but can’t help but be exhilarated by the roe rut

Tasks in hand

That’s your Lotte

Venison baked with yoghurt and black pepper • A creamy treat for the autumn

Magpie Pica pica • This distinctive bird with its familiar cackle is part of the everyday fabric of British life, be it in town or country, and it is smart enough to know that, says Charles Smith-Jones

MAGPIE FACTS

All at sea • Ed Cook takes a break from doing battle with the redoubtable rabbit to indulge in his passion of freediving for lobsters at night

Opportunity knocks • Jasper Fellows enjoys what Orston Shooting Ground has to offer in the company of its owners Dan and Emily Martin

WHO’S WHO

SPORTING GUN’S CLAY SHOOTING CLUB DIRECTORY

En Hance your shooting • Top Sporting shot and coach Matt Hance continues his instructional series, this month turning his attention to the ins and outs of the FITASC discipline

Matt Hance

In praise of the .22 Rimfire • Paul Quagliana takes a look at the popular .22LR and visits a training day for the rifles at the Honeycombe Shoot in Dorset

Game on • Tony Bracci gives some tips on best practice to Sporting Gun readers help you get your eye in for your forthcoming days in the field

KEEPING IT SMOOTH

Stubble trouble • Geoff Garrod says that you win some, you lose some, and why he will be sticking to his low-tech approach

Hidden dangers • Patrick Hook looks at the perils underfoot that can be a menace to the night-time hunter

Patrick’s top tips

The thread on threads • Nick Ridley addresses sartorial code in the field and the traditional ties that bind the shooting community

Keep it tight • Fran Ardley goes over some old ground as a refresher for the new season to ensure your spaniel’s hunting...