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.
With the use of e-collars having been outlawed in Wales since 2010, Vicky Payne explains why she believes we should be lobbying to have this ban extended to the rest of the UK.
The Game for Anything kitchen presents a mouth-watering, healthy-yet-indulgent pheasant recipe with an Italian twist, to help you make the most of in-season pheasant meat!
An attractive gun that handles well and inspires complete confidence... you can’t say better than that! Mike Yardley talks us through his gun of choice for game shooting – the Caesar Guerini Essex...
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We have seen many incarnations of Beretta's iconic Silver Pigeon shotgun before, and Mike Yardley is pleased to see the latest version - the Silver Pigeon 5 - is as robust and well designed as we have...
Reflecting on seasons past, Owen Beardsmore muses on how partridge shooting has changed over the years, and how recent events could change the sport forever.
Ask 10 gundog owners what the best dog food is and you will get 10 different answers! Vicky Payne explores how to feed our working dogs, depending on their needs and our priorities.
Drennan Kederdine takes on the mammoth task of reviewing five guns from the Yildiz Pro Black range; distributed in the UK by Raytrade, Yildiz shotguns offer great performance at a very acceptable pric...
In this video, we shadow Andy Crow throughout a day of hard work, to give you an insight into the lives of British farmers and how the heatwave affected their working life... and the production of our...
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