BASC East
Fenland Wildfowlers’ Association receive Wildlife Habitat Trust loan to buy land
The WHT has approved a loan to the Fenland Wildfowlers? Association for
The WHT has approved a loan to the Fenland Wildfowlers? Association for
Novice shooter Richard Hastings recently visited a game fair at Harewood House near Leeds where he had a lesson with a BASC shotgun coach.
BASC is encouraging its members, who shoot along the coast in England, to find out more about Defra?s Coastal Change Policy as it could provide them with new shooting opportunities.
The Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nick Herbert MP, has spoken of his support for shooting sports. The minister was speaking at the Rural Reception which is held at the three major conferences by BASC and The Angling Trust.
BASC has seen a record number of people joining the association in September. More than two thousand new members joined BASC last month which is the highest number of memberships taken during the month of September for at least ten years.
Food lovers in Powys will be able to sample a taste of game at two special events being organised to mark National Taste of Game Week (14-21 November).
The BASC .410 World Championships, which took place at the Mid Wales Shooting Centre on 26 September, attracted the largest number of entries for a number of years.
BASC members will have another excuse to eat out this autumn thanks to a new partnership with The Great Inns of Britain.
BASC has ensured that a possible ban on the sale of woodpigeons has been averted. Natural England?s draft general licences, under which woodpigeons can be legally shot, included a condition that would have resulted in a ban on the sale of their meat.