BASC South East
Sussex students try their hand at shooting sports
Students from Sussex have been trying different countryside activities this week including air rifle shooting and clay pigeon shooting.
Students from Sussex have been trying different countryside activities this week including air rifle shooting and clay pigeon shooting.
Women on Anglesey will get the chance to try clay shooting and other country sports at a special event near Holyhead on Saturday 17 May.
There will be more opportunities for young people in Wales to try shooting sports and learn more about other countryside activities this spring.
A retired gamekeeper from North Wales and his dog “Tingvelle Morning Mist” have taken the top honours in the gamekeeping classes at Crufts 2008.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Scotland) has called on the UK’s first aid organisations to acknowledge the danger that ticks present to human health.
Gamekeepers from the south west will be competing for a place in the final of a national clay shooting competition.
Sporting shooters in the UK will now be able to sharpen their skills with the same state-of-the-art shooting simulator that the Russian and Slovakian Olympic shooting teams are using ahead of the Beijing Games this year.
After discussing the issue at a meeting in Whitehall with BASC, Defra Minister Lord Rooker said that the GB poultry register should only be used for the purpose of fighting disease.
An Oxfordshire brewery has hosted another Taste of Game evening with fifty diners enjoying a game buffet and beer tasting.