Game shooting
Find out everything you need to know about game shooting, from getting started to what you can shoot, right through to honing your skills.
What is game shooting?
Game shooting is enjoyed by thousands of people from all walks of life. Game shooting includes walked-up, rough and driven days taking wild quarry.
Game shooting generally refers to the shooting of hares, pheasants, partridges and grouse and brings vital income to rural communities. Most importantly, shooting provides something very special for the table. Game meat is natural, wild, healthy and delicious.
Land managed for game shooting provides huge benefits to the environment. Practices that come about due to game shooting, such as the planting of cover crops, boost biodiversity. It resource in promoting biodiversity and assisting the UK to achieve the targets set in national and local biodiversity action plans.
Investing in conservation projects
The latest news from BASC
Lifting of voluntary restraint in Scotland
Today marks the third consecutive day of thaw conditions in Scotland, following a call for voluntary restraint due to severe weather.
Severe weather prompts call for voluntary restraint for waterfowl shooting in Scotland
Due to widespread severe weather, BASC is calling for those who shoot in Scotland to exercise restraint in the shooting of ducks, geese and waders including reared mallard.
Leaving the ultimate legacy
“What sets us apart is that we’re not just spectators” – BASC chairman Eoghan Cameron shares his thoughts on the vital role of shooting’s people in managing the British countryside.
