‘Catastrophically stupid’: how a ban on grouse shooting could destroy the countryside
People in Britain’s uplands are nervous. On the Glorious 12th, the date that launches weeks of the grouse shooting they enjoy, the annual glory is
People in Britain’s uplands are nervous. On the Glorious 12th, the date that launches weeks of the grouse shooting they enjoy, the annual glory is
Grouseshooter James Mawle is one of the most passionate grouse conservationists in the UK. He takes Ben O’Rourke for a walk around his ground
The Scottish government is not minded to ban grouse-shooting, says a source, following publication of a government report [PDF] into grouse-shooting by Professor Alan Werritty.
words by John Roll Pickering You are going to shoot game. Perhaps it is something that you have not done before, though you
Everything you always wanted to know about shooting suits: the tweed, the cut, the options. Charlie Jacoby meets Justin Block of Justin Block Tailoring to
It’s like deer stalking but in this case our deer is perched on 25 metre tall stilts. Game chef Cai Ap Bryn is in Finland
We’re out with a team of guns on the Glorious 12th August itself, thanks to the East Haugh House Hotel at Pitlochry – and they’re
It’s the run-up to the 2009 grouse shooting season. We ask three people closest to this incredible game bird – a scientist, a sporting agent
It is driven grouse at its finest. Shooter Ross Neville is on a tour of British grousemoors. We spend a day with him at Lochan
What kind of shooting season is it going to be? And does the anti-grouse-shooting demo in London matter? We talk to the experts at the
We follow the work on a Scottish sporting estate for a whole year – shooting grouse, then pheasants, catching hares with eagles, watching nature at
So what goes into the grouse business? Here is everything that’s good about grouse-shooting in a new campaign from Scottish Moorland Group. The Gift Of
How do you scare a grouse with a kite? What happens on The Glorious 12th? How do you go about stalking a real life Monarch
It’s probably the most exciting birdshooting there is. We are driven grouse shooting on a Cumbrian moor. The day is organised by students from a
A history of grouseshooting over the last century, made possible by the incredible film resource at British Pathe. Here is a directory of the grouseshooting
One of the fanciest production shotguns in the world, the Browning B25 is on show at the start of the grouseshooting season. The guys from
There is winged game and then there is winged game. And then there is driven grouse – it is expensive – it is exclusive but
Game chef Lee Maycock is on his first ever day on the moor in search of red grouse. He wants to find out why this
We are out on Bransdale Moor in Yorkshire with two of the best-known faces in grouse shooting – Simon Ward and Mark Osborne. They explain
It’s the fastest grouse off the moor in 2011. On the Glorious 12th August, we are on the Atholl Estates with chef and shooter Neil
We enjoy a day’s grouse shooting in Cumbria over English pointers and setters. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 40. To watch the
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