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This is most common live quarry shooting, with trained dogs used to flush game out of the hedgerows, woods or other cover as they walk along.
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Home » Game Shooting » Game handling advice » The Wild Game Guide
The Wild Game Guide provides information on the hygiene regulations for food businesses that supply wild game for human consumption, and for people who hunt wild game and supply it either in-fur or in-feather or as small quantities of wild game meat.
The guide is available to download in full from the link below, along with the photo annex and the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) plan.
If you have completed your DSC 1 since 2006 and have the new ‘blue’ coloured certificate, then you are already qualified as a ‘trained hunter’ for large game (ie deer).
This is most common live quarry shooting, with trained dogs used to flush game out of the hedgerows, woods or other cover as they walk along.
This advice aims to provide guidance to newcomers and acts as a reminder to those with experience of using dogs as part of a team of pickers-up.
There are various ways to get into game shooting but first things first you need to be a competent shot with a shotgun.
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