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.

Twilight delight

Could Dartmoor pheasant release threaten rare beetle? • Natural England has warned that the birds should not be released near Dendles Wood, where there is a population of rare blue ground beetles

Rewarding our top shoots

Packham initiates legal action

To do this week

Details of long-awaited land plans welcomed • The ambitious Environmental Land Management schemes will offer financial support to farmers and landowners to improve sustainability

Game prices take flight but beat general inflation

Fowlers on wild goose chase

Empty-handed poachers given fines

Pheasants at risk on unfamiliar ground

Shooting Times & Country

LETTERS

Country Diary • As the goalposts continue to move, regenerative farming could help landowners strike a balance between productivity and biodiversity

Gamekeeper • The pheasants flew well this year, the weather was kind and bird flu had little impact, but do driven shoots really need to shoot woodcock?

Stalking Diary • For once Countryfile paints a positive pictures of shooting. Meanwhile the deer cull is going very well and the chiller has been refurbished

JOTTINGS FOR WILDFOWLERS • This season has provided some excellent shooting and it’s only right that wildfowlers enjoy each and every outing up until 20 February

The onward march of an ‘alien’ species • The invasive muntjac is continuing its spread throughout the UK, and Will Martin is looking forward to its first entry in his gamebook

Up the creek in a fowler’s postcard • Venturing beyond the sea wall for the first time, a fowling newbie discovers the magic and frustration, in equal parts, of taking on ducks in their own environment

Who cares about what’s in the bag? • Driven days are all very well but Jack Bell prefers his shooting on a smaller scale, especially when he’s out with his springer

Like herring in the water • Barnacle geese are causing big problems for Denmark’s crops as numbers continue to explode, so Thomas Nissen joins a cull

Finding the right kit to stick it to the deer • With deer laying waste to hedgerows and woodland, Richard Negus investigates the merits of lightweight and compact shooting sticks

Now you see them — now you don’t • Roe deer stand out against the frosted fields where they gorge on the cattle’s silage, so Patrick Laurie is convinced this time he’s on to a dead cert

Can’t beat the drum • Mat Manning takes advantage of the pulling power of grain in the pheasant feeders as he spends a cold morning targeting grey squirrels

Winds of change • Although winter pigeon populations now seem to be more localised, crop protection is still a necessity and Tom Payne gets to work on a friend’s farm

British Shooting Show special • The Editor’s pick of the best new kit

The Secret Land Agent • In praise of enthusiastic volunteers and the importance of making them feel valued

Spring for a sprocker! • If you can’t decide whether you need the enthusiasm of a cocker or the calm patience of a springer, David Tomlinson has the answer

SIZE MATTERS IN THE FIELD • A smaller dog might baulk at being asked to pick a hare

Toyota bZ4X Motion AWD £49,510 •...