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.
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The latest news from BASC

Grey partridge recovery in East Anglia: conservation in action
Among the fields and hedgerows of East Anglia there’s hope of a recovery for the red-listed grey partridge, with shooting playing a pivotal role, reports Ryan Darby.

Field trials uncovered
What exactly are field trials? Glynn Evans explains how these canine competitions work and how you can get started in competing.

BASC files Judicial Review claim against Natural England
BASC has submitted a Judicial Review claim to the High Court over NE’s handling of the licensing regime for the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges.