| Airgun | Gun discharged by compressed air or gas. |
| Artificial Target | Clay or card target used for shooting competitions or practice. |
| Antlers | Pair of bony outgrowths on the head of a male deer. |
| Bag | Total number of birds or animals shot in one day/session. |
| Beater | Person who flushes wild game. |
| Bullet | Single projectile fired out of a rifle. |
| Cartridge | Metal (rifle) or plastic (shotgun) casing containing propellant charge and projectile. |
| Clay pigeon/clay | Disc of pitch and chalk thrown into the air as a target for shotgun competitions or practice. |
| Close season | Dates during which a quarry species is protected by law and may not be shot. |
| Code of practice | Set of rules by which the shooting industry regulates behaviour. |
| Country Sports | Sports carried out in the countryside, such as shooting and fishing. |
| Cull | To kill selectively (especially old and weak) animals, to maintain the health of the herd. |
| Decoy | A dummy designed to lure birds, especially woodpigeon, within shooting range. Also refers to a pond used for trapping ducks. |
| Deer Stalker | Person who approaches deer without being noticed in order to shoot selected animals. |
| Driven (shoot) | Form of sport in which game birds are flushed over the standing Guns. |
| Estate | Land over which farming, forestry and shooting activities take place. |
| Estuary | Tidal area where a river reaches the sea. |
| Fieldsports | See Country Sports. |
| Flight | Movement of pigeon or wildfowl at dawn and dusk between resting and feeding areas. |
| Flightline | Paths in the sky routinely taken by birds to move between roosting and feeding areas. |
| Flight pond | Area of water into which wildfowl drop to feed and roost. |
| Flush | To rouse game. |
| Game | Species of wild animals and birds designated in law and hunted for sport and food. |
| Gamekeeper | Person who rears game birds for release into the wild and manages their habitat. |
| Ghillie | A hunting guide, particularly in Scotland, who accompanies shooters or fishermen. |
| Gundog | Specially bred and trained dog for locating, flushing and retrieving game. |
| Gun | A firearm or, when Gun is spelt with a capital G, the person using a shotgun. |
| Hanging | To suspend meat so that the flavour matures. |
| Head (of game) | Number shot. |
| Hide | Place of concealment blending into the natural environment. |
| Hunting | The pursuit and killing of a selected wild bird or animal for food, sport or management. |
| Inter-tidal | Area covered by water only at high tide. |
| Lamping | Night shooting of pests and predators using a powerful spot lamp. |
| Open season | Dates during which quarry species may be taken legally, also known as the shooting season. |
| Over-and-under | Shotgun in which one barrel is on top of the other. |
| Pest | Animal that damages crops or wildlife, or represents a threat to health. |
| Picker-up | Person who retrieves dead and wounded game with the aid of gundogs. |
| Plucking | The removal of feathers from a bird destined for the table. |
| Poacher | A person who kills or takes game belonging to another person without permission. |
| Predator | An animal which hunts for food. |
| Prey | An animal hunted, or captured, by another for food. |
| Rearing and releasing | The act of breeding game birds for release into the wild. |
| Refuge | A safe haven for wildlife where human activity is restricted. |
| Rough shooting | A less formal version of walked up shooting (qv) usually involving a small group of Guns opportunistically shooting whatever legal quarry presents itself. |
| Shot | The lead or steel pellets contained in a shotgun cartridge; may also refer to the person using a gun. |
| Side-by-side | Shotgun in which one barrel is alongside the other. |
| Stalker | See deer stalker. |
| Sustainable harvest | The amount which can be shot without detriment to the population as a whole. |
| Syndicate | Group of people who shoot together, sharing the costs of a day’s or season’s sport. |
| Trap | Mechanical device to capture legal pest and predatory species. Also the device which throws clay pigeons. |
| Trophy (head) | Head or full body of an animal or bird preserved for display by taxidermy. |
| Twelve bore | The bore of a gun is the diameter of its barrel; for shotguns this normally varies between a 28 bore (the smallest) and a four bore (the largest) The most commonly used size for sporting shooting is a twelve bore. |
| Velvet | Furry covering on the newly formed antlers of deer. |
| Vermin | See Pest and Predator. |
| Walked-up | Form of shooting in which the shooter flushes the quarry, usually using a dog, as he walks through cover. |
| Wildfowler | Person who shoots ducks and geese on the foreshore. |
