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NEW! ST gundog training video - Essential kit

Gundog trainer Chris Burns discusses what kit you need to train a gundog

Gundog training video

Watch the first video in a new series on training gundogs with Chris Burns

Shooting Times sample magazine!

Shooting Times & Country Magazine is the only weekly title to cover all aspects of shooting and stalking, as well as other country pursuits such as ferreting, falconry and hunting.

The grouse counter

Ian Valentine meets a rising star in the world of game conservation, doing what he enjoys most: counting grouse with his English pointers in the Highlands of Scotland

Roestalking adventure

A break in the dreary weather gave Tony Jackson and his stalking partner Charles Fenn the opportunity to clamber into their high seats for a chance at roebuck

Land Rover celebrates it's 60th birthday

Can you imagine a countryside without the Land Rover? As a much-loved rural icon turns 60, Alastair Balmain reflects on what this British success story means to shooters

How to save money on fuel

With prices rising faster than a January pheasant, refuelling the shoot 4x4 now requires significant investment. Alastair Balmain looks at what you can do to cut the fuel bill

New blackgrouse plan launched

A new rescue plan by The North Pennines Black Grouse Recovery Project was launched on 30 April in the Yorkshire Dales.

Building and maintaining a rabbit pen

Building and maintaining a rabbit pen may be time-consuming, but Paul Rawlings believes it is a vital aid in the pursuit of steadiness and training your dog to hunt

PODCAST: New GWCT and RSPB conservation initiative

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has joined forces with the RSPB to launch a new initiative looking at how farming can secure a healthy natural environment.

Joe Dimbleby goes rook shooting

A rookery in the garden brings the household luck, and for Joe Dimbleby the traditional annual May shoot is pest control with pie in mind

ST remembers Fred J. Taylor

Modest, generous and ever jovial, the death of Fred J. Taylor leaves the fieldsports world short of one of its finest writers. Tony Jackson remembers the Countryman

Airport story from Robert McCulloch

En route to Nairobi, Robert McCulloch is stopped at the airport when the security guards discover an illegal cargo in his waistcoat will he be subjected to a strip-search?

Buy exclusive Shooting Times prints!

Shooting Times is selling signed limited-edition prints of this week's BASC centenary cover for £30 each.

Gamefarmers feel effects of slowing economy

An uncertain economic climate is forcing gamefarmers to keep costs down.

England's provincial gunmakers

Shooting Times discovers quality workmanship and high standards alive and well beyond the London and Birmingham gun trade

Beating the credit crunch

Could the global economic downturn herald a change in the nature of UK shooting? Alastair Balmain explores the implications of financial instability on the shooting sector

Gunmakers of London

Tradition and Best-quality gunmaking is still thriving,
as Ian Valentine discovers when he embarks on a
tour of London’s smartest addresses

Controlling pests with poison

With ever-changing laws and strict guidelines on usage, it can be confusing for keepers when using poisons for the control of rodents and other pests, says Mike Swan

Hunting Act challenge

A week-long legal challenge to end the ban on fox hunting, ended in the House of Lords yesterday.

Lords V Commons clay shoot

The annual House of Lords and House of Commons clay shoot was held last Friday at Squerreys Court in Westerham, Kent.

Four great offers from Shooting Times

Click here to buy limited-edition DOG... prints, DOG... mugs and DOG... books - and also a souvenir hip flask to celebrate 125 years of Shooting Times!

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A much loved part of Shooting Times for more than a decade, Keith Reynolds' Dog cartoon brings a smile to readers week in week out.

How to skin a pheasant - video

Shooting Times' game cook, Mark Hinge, explains how to skin and prepare a pheasant for cooking.

Video: How to breast a pigeon

Game chef, Mark Hinge, shows you how to breast a woodpigeon.

Get to know your (local) tides when wildfowling

The dangers of turning tides and exceptional winds can often be underestimated. Mike Swan looks into the treacherous circumstances that can cut a fowler off from safety

How to prepare a woodcock - video

Shooting Times' game chef, Mark Hinge, explains how to prepare and dress a woodcock ready for the oven.

Social bookmarking links

Every news story will now include links to a range of social bookmarking websites. Find out what these are...

Suitable soil and choosing a crop

Following the EU’s scrapping of compulsory set-aside and higher incomes from commercial crops, choosing and placing covercrops will be more vital than ever. David Lyles explains

Help for Heroes bike ride

On 26 May, more than 300 volunteers, including ST’s chief sub-editor Charlotte Lycett Green, will depart from Portsmouth on the Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride — a 350-mile cycling tour of battlefield sites of both world wars, including the D-Day beaches and the Somme.

Buying game

Is the mark-up of game out of proportion? Mark Lorne argues the case for gamedealers in response to complaints concerning the low prices paid for game

New squirrel calling gadget

We provided an experienced squirrel controller with a new calling gadget from the US to see whether
it increases his success rate. Ian Valentine reports from the woods of East Sussex

VIDEOS: All the latest products from the IWA trade fair

We hunted down all the brand new products that will be hitting the UK soon.

Seeland, Realtree, Webley & Scott and Browning discuss all their latest products at the recent IWA trade fair, held in Nuremburg, Germany.