Shooting Times & Country

Since its launch in 1882, Shooting Times & Country Magazine has been at the forefront of the shooting scene. The magazine is the clear first choice for shooting sportsmen, with editorial covering all disciplines, including gameshooting, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling and deer stalking. Additionally the magazine has a strong focus on the training and use of gundogs in the field and, because it is a weekly publication, the magazine keeps readers firmly up-to-date with the latest news in their world.

DOG OF THE WEEK

Open minds

Hounds destroyed and the fox’s welfare compromised • Increasing predation could wipe out the capercaillie and hounds will have to be euthanised under Scotland’s new hunting bill proposals

Food will trump rewilding

Moorland estates awarded

Weekend Twitter poll

To do this week

The fightback begins: BASC on banning lead • The shooting organisation calls for ‘realistic transition periods’ for viable alternatives to lead shot before an outright ban on its usage

THEY SAID WHAT

Baltic hunters ready to fend off a Russian attack

Greater support for keepers

NEWS IN BRIEF

LETTERS

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Shooting Times & Country

STILL GOING STRONG

Country Diary • While people are frequently pilloried on social media for mowing verges, it can be more harmful to wildlife to let them remain intact

Gamekeeper • Data is an invaluable part of demonstrating the benefits of our work and keepers are best placed to log information from their patch

Stalking Diary • June may not be the easiest month for spotting and shooting deer, but there are a few aspects of the job that make the long hours worthwhile

How to make the numbers add up • It’s a brave man who would try to run a shoot in the current climate and you must do the maths properly before you start, says Liam Bell

A furious torrent of certain death • The first push by the Tweed Valley Rat Pack accounts for more than 50 rodents, and the hard work means less poison ends up getting used

War on peas • The magic century is proving elusive for Simon Garnham, despite large flocks of pigeons and corvids gorging themselves on his crop

For the grown-ups too • Break-barrel air rifles are not only an easy way to get into shooting but they’re great bits of kit in their own right, says Mat Manning

Break-barrel airguns to consider

Pooling resources for a taste of the sea • Scotland’s rocky coastline offers various culinary delights for Tim Maddams, even if the lobsters are proving pretty elusive

Time to buy a bit of history • Best British guns were once out of reach for most of us, but you can now pick one up for a reasonable price, and they will cope with steel, says Diggory Hadoke

Ammunition for older guns

Buying power

Barn owl bobbies on the rodent beat • Barn owls are much loved for their policing of farm buildings where they feast on mice but they need our help, says Soldier Palmer

Wild fruits that are ripe for the picking • John Wright seeks out the best of Britain’s untamed berries, including the tiny wild relations of our cultivated strawberries and raspberries

Labs are back on top • David Tomlinson crunches the numbers from a record-breaking year for registrations and finds Britain’s favourite gundog leading the way

THE PERFECT COMBINATION • Guide Dogs favours cross of labradors and goldies

Nature works but the nurture is up to you • Simon Whitehead believes you should breed ferrets that suit you but he also thinks they have improved considerably in recent decades

ABC OF FERRETING • In this column, Simon outlines the essentials of good ferreting

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