Gamekeepers, shoot beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are counting down to one of the highlights of the gundog calendar – Crufts 2010 – where they will be showing their working dogs in the gamekeeping classes.
Eighty eight game and wildlife management students from nine colleges in England and Wales will get together to determine who is the best shot at the first gamekeeping student clay shoot challenge to be organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
The search is on to find the sharpest-shooting gamekeeper in the UK.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will co-sponsor Feast East 2010, the regional food festival for the East of England, on 5th and 6th March 2010. Feast East will be held at Chilford Hall, near Linton in South-East Cambridgeshire.
A Brussels-based wildlife expert visited the head office of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) near Wrexham to share his knowledge with staff. Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, conservation project manager for the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE), met staff at BASC?s offices at Marford Mill, Rossett.
A campaign to support British game rearers has been launched by the UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). It aims to encourage all gamekeepers, shoot owners and shoot managers to source their eggs and young birds from local producers who use traditional methods and high welfare standards.
Thousands of extra copies of a police officer?s guide to lawful shooting have been printed to meet demand from police forces around the country. The guide, produced by the UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), provides officers with information on situations where people will be involved in activities such as game shooting, deer stalking, wildfowling, pest control and target shooting.
DMQ Level 2 accredited witnesses will be contacted later this month about changes to the witnessing scheme.
Women are being invited to shoot for success at a number of training events set up by the UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
