The BASC Ladies? Training Days are designed to encourage women to take up shooting and assist them with clay and/or game shooting.
On your day you will learn about guns and cartridges, gun fit, safety, master eye, stance, certificates as well as field etiquette and dress. You will be part of a small group and be allocated a BASC coach who will remain with your group throughout the day.
The BASC Gamekeepers’ Fair
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th April 2011
Established firmly now in the grounds of Catton Park in South Derbyshire the traditional Gamekeepers’ Fair can trace its roots back over 30 years. Growing year on year it has maintained the quality and focus of an event enjoyed not only by keepers and their families but for a growing number of people interested in the countryside and its way of life.
Throughout my years as a gamekeeper, I was often asked to advise or offer some help to local D.I.Y. shoots where things were going wrong in one way or another. These days, there are a lot more shoots run by working men and women where land has been acquired with shooting rights and a syndicate of like minded shooting folk have set about forming their own shoot.
Following the success of last year?s course the Midland Region is organising another gundog training course this year. The course will begin in March and run on one day each month until August. Several different venues will be used throughout the course. The first day will take place in Hartshorne, near Burton, Staffordshire.
Gamekeepers, beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are getting ready for one of the highlights of the gundog calendar ? Crufts 2011.
The UK?s largest shooting organisation is calling for police forces across the country to take a consistent and efficient approach to firearms licensing before any increase in fees is considered.
The UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), is launching a phased direct debit payment scheme to make it even easier and more cost effective for people to join.
New legislation has been introduced by the Government which will make it an offence to fail to properly secure airguns in order to prevent them falling into the hands of children.
Shooters will be at the forefront of conserving the UK?s protected dormouse population thanks to a grant of
