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By Alastair Balmain
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Chairman of the Code of Good Shooting Practice calls for a new lobbying group to oppose BASC if necessary.
This week, in a frank opinion article for Shooting Times, Bill Tyrwhitt-Drake, the chairman of the shooting community’s Code of Good Shooting Practice steering committee, has called upon the various organisations with an interest in driven game shooting to come together formally under one banner, to create a new political lobbying group for the industry.
Significantly, he has stated the group should act separately and, if necessary, in opposition to the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
The call from such a leading figure in the shooting community comes in response to occasions on which BASC has lobbied independently of other game shooting organisations, thereby exposing publicly serious differences of opinion within the sport.
Mr Tyrwhitt-Drake, owner of the Bereleigh shoot in Hampshire, said: “Though BASC will always say otherwise, through their actions as the years have rolled by, rather than their words, I have felt a growing suspicion that BASC does not really approve of driven game shooting and is not prepared to stand up and fight for its future.”
Mr Tyrwhitt-Drake cites the recent fallout within the shooting community over raised laying cages as an example of the harm he believes BASC is causing to game shooting through what he describes as the association’s “holier than thou” attitude.
Additionally, Mr Tyrwhitt-Drake criticises BASC for undermining the work of the ‘Shoot Summit’ - the regular conference of key shooting organisations which is intended to foster unity within the sport.
He writes: “This group which does represent the whole driven game shooting world has often been undermined by BASC - who pay lip service to the committee but go behind their colleagues to further their own aims.
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