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The Game Fair: the event of the summer!

Posted on April 30, 2021 by towens — No Comments ↓

It’s the highlight of most shooter’s year and the country festival to be seen at every summer. Finally, we can head back to The Game Fair, and it looks like this could be the best one yet. This much-loved celebration…

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Simon West on protecting shooting

Posted on January 22, 2021 by towens — No Comments ↓

There’s something about our industry that seems to attract government consultations, writes Simon West, head of The Gun Trade Association in the first of his new monthly columns for GTN. This new one is titled ‘Firearms Safety’, something we can…

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Behind the scenes at Ian Coley Sporting

Posted on September 21, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

Clay Shooting’s Julian Fellows visited Ian Coley Sporting recently to see how they had fared since lockdown, and how they were feeling about reopening. He spoke with MD Adam Broomfield. How have the country’s top shooting grounds been handling the…

Tagged with: behind the scenes, clay shooting, covid, covid-19, CPSA, ian coley sporting, lockdown, registered shoots, shooting, shooting grounds, sporting clay shooting
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Diversity in field sports matters

Posted on July 12, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

GTN editor Steve Faragher looks at the state of diversity in the gun trade and asks how we can improve in the wake of the Black Lives Matter campaign. My first real experience of the gun trade was attending the…

CPSA CEO Iain Parker – GTN interview

Posted on June 8, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

After an intervention that certainly did his sport no harm, we catch up with Iain Parker, the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association CEO and ask him about the present, and future, of the sport. Last month, the CEO of the CPSA,…

Tagged with: beretta, Browning, clay pigeon shooting, clay pigeon shooting association, clay shooting, covid-19, CPSA, dtl, EJ Churchill, iain parker, lockdown, rifle, shoot, shot, sport, The Game Fair
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West London Shooting School re-opening to trial guidelines from May 21st

Posted on May 20, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

Following the Prime Ministers update to lockdown restrictions, West London Shooting School will be re-opening to trial guidelines they have put in place from Thursday 21st May when there will be limited capacity for lessons and practise rounds including the rifle range. They will…

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Great British Shooting Awards: Shortlists revealed, Voting open NOW!

Posted on October 1, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

The shortlists are out for the second Great British Shooting Awards, and voting is now open. The awards have grown this year, and now span 15 categories, with the shooting public able to vote in 14 of them. As with…

GBSA shortlists set for October announcement

Posted on September 7, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

Future Field Sports, in Association with The Great British Shooting Show, have announced the second annual Great British Shooting Awards. Nominations for the 2020 shortlists closed on 31 August and will now be verified by the panel of industry experts;…

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Looking ahead to the Game Fair…

Posted on July 18, 2019 by towens

As The Game Fair prepares to welcome trade and visitors to Hatfield House, we preview the biggest event in the fieldsports calendar Last year marked a momentous landmark for The Game Fair, as the show at Ragley Hall celebrated the…