Gamekeepers, beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are getting ready for one of the main events of the gundog calendar – Crufts 2015. The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will host the gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts. Gamekeepers, owners of working gundogs, gundog Read more…
Bookings are now being taken for a fundraising clay shoot which promises to be a highlight of the spring. The 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom shooting estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The charity shoot will raise money for the Read more…
Women are being invited to spend International Women’s Day networking and clay shooting at an event run by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The event will be held at Doveridge Clay Sports Club, Derbyshire, on 6th March. Talks will be given by Victoria Knowles-Lacks, founder of the Read more…
More than 130 BASC members quizzed a panel of senior politicians on shooting at a meeting in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons. The panel included: Lord de Mauley, the Defra Minister responsible for shooting Angela Smith MP, the Labour shadow Minister responsible for shooting Roger Williams Read more…
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), starts 2015 in a strong position to continue to promote and defend shooting with the announcement that its membership has risen to more than 140,000.
The date of the 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot, organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the CLA, has been announced. The charity shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The clay shoot will raise money Read more…
BASC has published a paper entitled “Grouse moor licensing – assessment of proposal and summary of unintended consequences”.
Steve Blackwell from Lancashire and his springer spaniel Tyke won this year’s BASC Chudleys scurry league final at the Midland Game Fair. This year’s competition has proved the most popular so far with more than 1,500 entrants taking part in 89 qualifying scurries at 11 game fairs across the country. One hundred and nine people gained points in the league with the top 20 competing at Weston Park.
Leading countryside organisations say focus on Hen Harriers can start species recovery The British Association for Shooting and Conservation, CLA, Countryside Alliance, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation, and the Moorland Association all want to see more hen harriers nesting in England and are calling for Defra Read more…
