Shooting advice: tips, techniques and expertise for clay, game and rough shooting
Whether you’re a novice stepping onto the clay ground for the first time or an experienced Gun looking to sharpen your technique, this is where you’ll find the knowledge to shoot better.
Sporting Gun’s shooting section covers every discipline – driven game, walked-up days, roughshooting, pigeon and corvid control, wildfowling and clay shooting across all formats. Our team of professional shots and industry experts delivers first-hand advice on technique, gun mount, footwork, reading the line and everything else that separates a good day from a great one.
Beyond technique, we cover the seasonal rhythms of the shooting year, from early-season partridge to the final pheasant drives of February, alongside practical guidance on etiquette, safety and getting the most from every day in the field.
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’.
Presenting 5 of ATN's best thermal scopes from 2022, to help hunters decide which thermal scope is best suited to their style of hunting.
Young Olympic Skeet shooter Bethany Norton had a fabulous 2022 season shooting and winning clay competitions at home and abroad.
Wondering what to buy your loved ones this year? Well, if game shooting is their hobby, look no further than our Christmas gift guide for game shooters!
Would a later start to the open season help our breeding woodcock population? Or should we back a ban on shooting them altogether? Conor O’Gorman takes a look into the world of these migratory and r...
Rich, buttery and bursting with flavour - this butter partridge curry recipe is sure to elevate your game cooking to tasty new heights!
Chris Marney will take your game cooking to a new level! Here, he's spicing up the humble pheasant in a Korean-style warming winter stew.
Drennan Kenderdine gets to grips with the indestructible might of the American-made Mossberg 940 Pro semi-auto in this test and review.
The 31" barrels on this Beretta’s DT11 Sport set it apart from the rest, making it ideal for the competitive shot or for high-bird shooting.
Drennan puts Fiocchi’s awesome F Black cartridge through its paces after FUKC (Fiocchi’s UK Chap) delivers him a few boxes for testing!
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