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Unmissable things to see and do at the Northern Shooting Show this May

Unmissable things to see and do at the Northern Shooting Show this May

Organisers are set to welcome 25,000 visitors to the annual Northern Shooting Show when it returns to the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May.

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Admin
WIN a Seeland smock and shirt worth £245!

WIN a Seeland smock and shirt worth £245!

A decent smock and a good shooting shirt are essential bits of kit for any gamekeeper, beater or picker-up. Read on for your chance to win two great items from the good people at Seeland!

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Sporting Shooter
Total wipe out – the impending plight of South Uist’s deer

Total wipe out – the impending plight of South Uist’s deer

An upcoming community vote could see the complete eradication of South Uist’s deer, the loss of jobs, and the end of a blossoming venison processing project.

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Sporting Shooter
“Burnt plots absorbed twice the amount of carbon as mown plots”

“Burnt plots absorbed twice the amount of carbon as mown plots”

The mid-way findings of a 20-year study into moorland management - measuring carbon storage, water tables and species biodiversity on burnt, mown and unmanaged areas - have been published.

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Emily Damment
WIN a wildfowling kit bundle worth over £1,500!

WIN a wildfowling kit bundle worth over £1,500!

We have teamed up with the wonderful folk at Highland Outdoors, John Forsey, UK Shoot Warehouse & Eley Hawk to offer one lucky reader the chance to win wildfowling kit worth over £1,500.

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Sporting Shooter
'Like taking the reindeer from the Sami people'

'Like taking the reindeer from the Sami people'

A National Trust for Scotland out-of-season deer cull in Scotland’s iconic Glen Coe could mark the end of life as they know it for the last of the ‘hill people’.

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Emily Damment
WIN an Eley Hawk steel game shooting bundle worth £313

WIN an Eley Hawk steel game shooting bundle worth £313

To celebrate the game season, we’re giving one lucky ready the chance to win a game-shooting bundle worth over £313 from leading UK manufacturer of shotgun cartridges, Eley Hawk.

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Sporting Shooter
Eley Hawk sponsored shooters make history for Team GB!

Eley Hawk sponsored shooters make history for Team GB!

Amber Hill and Lucy Hall brought home an impressive haul of medals from international events during the 2022 clay shooting season, and the cherry on the cake was an Olympic quota place each!

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Sporting Shooter
Gundog theft awareness week

Gundog theft awareness week

Gundog Theft Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of gundog theft and its prevention; it is estimated that nearly half of all stolen dogs are working gundogs.

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Sporting Shooter
The Country Food Trust's winter appeal

The Country Food Trust's winter appeal

The Country Food Trust is proud to launch their Winter Appeal with the ambition of raising £200,000 to help feed families in crisis using high protein, healthy game, venison and turkey meat.

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Sporting Shooter
WIN 250 Fiocchi F Black cartridges!

WIN 250 Fiocchi F Black cartridges!

We have teamed up with Fiocchi to offer you the chance to win a slab of 250 F Blacks from leading cartridge manufacturer Fiocchi. Free to enter!

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Sporting Shooter
WIN 250 Eley VIP Sporting cartridges!

WIN 250 Eley VIP Sporting cartridges!

Your chance to win a slab of 250 VIP Sporting cartridge from premier manufacturer Eley Hawk Ltd worth over £100

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Sporting Shooter
Introducing the NEW Zeiss DTI 6 thermal!

Introducing the NEW Zeiss DTI 6 thermal!

Zeiss introduces the DTI 6 - a new thermal imaging camera with exceptional image quality to precisely identify your quarry, day or night!

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Rifle Shooter
10 things to do at the first ever GWCT Welsh Game Fair!

10 things to do at the first ever GWCT Welsh Game Fair!

Our choice of 10 unmissable things to do and see at the inaugural GWCT Welsh Game Fair; as well as being a fun day out for the whole family, the fair raises important funds for research into Wales' most vulnerable species.

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Emily Damment
Ian Coley open day - your chance to win a Fabarm shotgun!

Ian Coley open day - your chance to win a Fabarm shotgun!

The next Ian Coley open day is set to be the biggest of the year, and attendees have the wonderful chance of winning a Fabarm L4S worth almost £1,400 courtesy of Anglo Italian Arms.

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Sporting Shooter
Eley loads for the 2022 game season

Eley loads for the 2022 game season

Eley Hawk's ambassadors Jean Paul Gaudin (The Seated Gun) and James Goulding (of The Pig hotels) share their choice of shotgun cartridges for the 2022 game season.

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Sporting Shooter
The Great Moorland Debate: Anti-burning or anti-shooting?

The Great Moorland Debate: Anti-burning or anti-shooting?

Greenpeace picks a side with a petition calling on a complete ban of all heather burning, while existing petitions seem to be driven by a hatred of shooting, rather than concern for the environment. Emily Damment takes a closer look...

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Emily Damment
Three shooting estates win Redlist Revival awards for conserving hen harriers, lapwings & black grouse

Three shooting estates win Redlist Revival awards for conserving hen harriers, lapwings & black grouse

Three Moorland Association estates - all of which provide grouse & game shooting - have been awarded ‘Life on Land’ awards from RedList Revival for work conserving rare birds.

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Emily Damment