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.
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Episode 2 of Clay Shooter TV features a tutorial on how to shoot going away targets, and reviews of the Zoli One and B&P's Sporting & Compak fibre Green Core cartridge.
Mark Ripley (260RIPS) presents this masterclass packed with springtime fox control tips, whether you work the lambing fields or poultry farms!
Prevention really is better than cure. Here is vet Vicky Payne’s guide on how to ensure you give your dog the best and most efficient protection from parasites.
Drennan Kenderdine advises on the 6 guns every pest controller should have in their cabinet, and tells us which models he favours for pigeon shooting, goose shooting, fox control and more!
The R&B Sporting Open Weekend runs from 10-11th May at South Worcester Shooting Ground and offers attendees the chance to try a huge variety of guns.
Free entry, have-a-go stands, and a huge range of demo guns to try before you buy - the R&B Sporting Open Weekend at South Worcester Shooting Ground is a great day out!
Popular trainer Darren Kirk of Kirkbourne Spaniels is once again set to deliver all the gundog content at the Northern Shooting Show this May. From crowd-pulling demos to dynamic working tests, we mee...
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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