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.

Working dogs

SNAPSHOTS • All the month’s news, pictures and more

Editor

NEWS IN BRIEF

EVENTS

Ned & Ted

Testing times? • Robin Scott ponders the value of instruction and wonders if it is time for driven game shooters to take a competency test before they set foot in the field

Lead shot – some answers • The issue of the move away from lead shot has been a controversial topic for many Sporting Gun readers. Here Dr Conor O’Gorman, head of policy and campaigns at BASC, answers some of your questions and addresses your concerns

Have your say

Land of plenty or land of empty? • Andy Gray discusses the wide-ranging implications of rewilding in its various forms

Resistance movement • Inside your shotgun is a better one just waiting to be liberated, so fight the lure of the new, says

Come rain or shine • Jon Snowdon ponders some research on the habits of deer in the face of changing climatic conditions

That’s your Lotte

Venison Chinese style • What a deer!

Tasks in hand

Summertime… • Tom Sykes enjoys the warmer days while keeping the heat on the estate crows

Finger on the pulse • Peter Theobald explains how to live by your wits when the pigeons arrive in large numbers on the pea fields

Dark matters • EdCook takes some time off from his day job to shoot deer at night, a strictly controlled activity

Brown hare • Charles Smith-Jones looks at one of the most distinctive and evocative animals to be found on our shores

BROWN HARE FACTS

SPORTING GUN’S CLAY SHOOTING CLUB DIRECTORY • South West Shooting School

Grimsthorpe Estate Shooting Ground

Sporting Targets

Land of plenty • Jasper Fellows is guided around East Yorkshire Clay Shooting Ground, the CPSA Ground of the Year 2022, and sees the many disciplines it offers

WHO’S WHO

Mind games and muscles • Tony Bracci on training for shotgun shooting at home and what you can do to improve your technique and approach

POSITIVE THINKING

Vision mixers • Malcolm Plant looks at the development of ribs and beads on shotguns and how they can aid a shooter in various disciplines

Patchwork plans • Geoff Garrod moves around his estate looking for whatever opportunities present themselves for some crop protection

A host of issues • Patrick Hook on the fox tapeworm and how you can help combat its transmission to other animals and humans

TAPEWORM FACTS

Information

Sound carrier • Fran Ardley talks about how important it is for dogs to use their hearing when marking retrieves

Keep it in the family • Nick Ridley discusses whether or not a working gundog can also be a pet

The problem: Fleas and ticks • “We are about to become proud owners of a new puppy, but my wife is paranoid about creepy crawlies. Any advice?”

All the fun of the fair • See what’s on at the GWCT Scottish Game Fair

Tickets

Adventures of Nick & Ted Age 75 months • Nick Ridley takes a pregnant pause in his hectic schedule with the lads as Dott waits for her new arrivals

Box clever • Richard Faulks meets the founder of Lintran, whose...