The final BASC range day for 2012 took place on Saturday 13 October. The series of range days run by the south east region have proven very popular in 2012, and the final day of the year was no exception with a full complement of shooters booked.
Following liaison with officers in the Tandridge District on a number of rural crime initiatives over the past year BASC south east were invited to deliver a presentation on sporting shooting and poaching to neighbourhood police teams from the district.
People involved in shooting sports should be on the look-out for signs of ash trees infected with ash dieback disease, according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
A new ladies? shooting group has been launched in Cornwall. Twelve lady guns recently met for their first clay shooting lesson at The Colquite Estate, Bodmin.
The problem of illegal deer hunting using bull-cross lurchers is a problem in many parts of the country – not only is the damage to farmland costly, but the cruelty and brutality to both deer and dogs is disgusting and has no pleace in our countryside. Northamptonshire Police are to be congratulated on a recent operation that resulted in the conveiction of three menu using lurchers to bring down deer.
Ian Brothers and his golden retriever Ollie have won this year’s BASC Chudleys scurry league for the second year in succession.
On 20 October Ian Hodge Field Sports will be holding an open day to showcase their newly extended shop in Wadebridge
The BASC South East team exhibited at the South of England Autumn Show & Game Fair over the weekend of 6th & 7th October 2012.
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed an exemption for working gundogs from a tail docking ban in Northern Ireland.
