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Firearms licensing delays – BASC questions Police Scotland
Firearms licensing delays – BASC questions Police Scotland
Firearms licensing delays – BASC questions Police Scotland
Gundogs will compete in the BASC Chudleys Scurry League at this year’s CLA Game Fair. Individual scurries including the Long Retrieve, Obstacle and Around the Clock will be hosted in the Gundog Scurry area at the fair, which will be held at Harewood House, Leeds, Yorkshire, from 31st July – 2nd August.
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, BASC, is out to help the water vole.
A series of surveys to gauge the success of a project to help boost water vole numbers in North Wales will be held this summer. Water voles are in serious decline in many parts of Britain. The surveys will provide the benchmark for the future conservation of water voles in North Wales. The surveys have been organised by BASC and will be undertaken across North Wales as part of a three-year project, funded by Natural Resources Wales to tackle invasive non-native species including the American mink. BASC members are being asked to help with the surveys.
Scotland’s Natural Larder (SNL) has been awarded a grant worth £11,000 from the Community Food Fund (CFF) to attend a series of farmers’ markets across Scotland. ‘Adding Value to Scottish Game’ is a project aimed at promoting game meat through tastings and demonstrations. This will also forge closer links between local communities and local shoots that provide seasonal game.
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will be offering high quality, expert shotgun coaching for new and experienced shooters at this year’s CLA Game Fair.
BASC is hosting a charity clay shoot in aid of forces charity Help for Heroes and BASC’s Young Shots programme, at Cricket St Thomas, near Chard
nyone with an interest in deer management is being invited to sign up to a deer stalking scheme which has been set up in Northern Ireland
Visitors to a Bury St Edmunds gun shop will have a chance to use BASC’s ST-2 Shooting Simulator – the most realistic on the market.
The simulator will be at Forelock and Load, IP29 5AX, from the 1st – 6th September.
Beginners can use the simulator to try shotgun shooting and more experienced people can use it to improve their shooting. BASC-accredited shotgun coaches will be on hand to offer expert advice and tuition.
A South Cumbrian wildfowling club has won the Green Thinking Award in this year’s Community Sport and Recreation Awards, organised by the Sport and Recreation Alliance (SRA).