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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The Game Fair: the event of the summer!
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Bailout fund for Scottish fieldsports
A £1 million Scottish Country Sports Tourism Restart Fund has been made available, and affected businesses have been able to apply for help. The fund, which was jointly developed by the Scottish Government, VisitScotland, British Association for Shooting and Conservation…
Today thousands are protesting concerns over Scottish rural policy
The shooting community is rallying to support Scotland’s rural workers as a long planned protest goes online today The Rural Workers Protest had been planned to take place in Scotland’s capital, however COVID restrictions forced organisers to think creatively and the…
Simon West on protecting shooting
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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Why We Shoot: Future’s new pro-shooting campaign
Launching on 2 November 2020, Why We Shoot is a new collaborative campaign between all the print and digital brands within the newly expanded Future fieldsports portfolio. Why We Shoot aims to raise awareness of the positive ripple effect and…
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Follow the Covid-19 Code for shooting
With the start of the pheasant season just days away, BASC is pleased that the latest government announcement has not placed further restrictions on shooting in England. We continue to await further details on the latest guidance from Northern Ireland,…
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BASC launches second newspaper campaign
BASC has launched its second newspaper advertising campaign of the year – this time celebrating the opening of the pheasant season. The first campaign focused on the importance of the grouse season to our upland communities and landscape conservation. The…
Farm Business Innovation launch “Business Growth Hub”
As lockdown in the UK becomes ‘the new norm’, rural businesses are trying to consolidate their positions to remain open once life gets back to normal, but there will be busy times ahead. With many businesses using this period to…
Cartridge companies say lead phase-out by 2025 is “impossible”
The UK’s four biggest cartridge-loading companies want to put the brakes on the five-year plan to phase out lead shot for live-quarry shooting, which nine rural organisations put their names to last Monday. Eley Hawk, Gamebore, Hull Cartridge and Lyalvale…
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The future of deerstalking
Al Gabriel offers a glimpse into the dystopian future of deerstalking. The year is 2051. A deerstalker enters an open field on what used to be the edge of dense woodland in the south-west of England. He operates an unusual…
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