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Gamekeeping students learn about muirburn with BASC Scotland
Students from Elmwood Campus have been learning about muirburn, the rotational burning of old heather, and other aspects of moorland management.
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BASC NI briefs Assembly Agriculture Committee chair on the benefits of shooting
The Value of Shooting to Northern Ireland’s economy, countryside and social well-being were highlighted to the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Agriculture Committee
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BASC Scotland challenges airgun licensing report
A report supporting legislation to introduce airgun licensing in Scotland has been challenged by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
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Scotland’s trainee and professional gamekeepers brought together by BASC
Gamekeeping students from North Highland College, Elmwood Campus and Borders College joined professional gamekeepers at Scone Palace for one of the premier events for gamekeepers in Scotland.
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First glimpse of new Browning guns at BASC Gamekeepers’ Fair 2015
Visitors to this year’s BASC Gamekeepers’ Fair will get the first glimpse of the latest additions to the 2015 range of Browning, Winchester and Miroku shotguns and rifles. The Gamekeepers’ Fair will be held on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of April at Catton Park, Walton on Trent, Derbyshire. Read more…
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Scottish Gamekeepers gather for annual conference
More than 100 Gamekeepers will gather for one of the best and most prestigious events for gamekeepers in Scotland on 18 March. Hosted by Scone palace the event provides an annual update on changes in the law, a forum for debate on important gamekeeping issues in Scotland and a clay shooting competition.
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BASC welcomes new firearms fees
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed a firearms licensing fees order which has today been laid before Parliament. The order contains Government proposals to increase the fee for the grant of a shotgun certificate from £50 to £79.50 with proportionate increases in other fees. The order will bring the new fees into effect from April 6 2015.
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New certificate fees: What you need to know Q&A
1. Why are fees going up?
Certificates fees have not increased since 2001. BASC has worked successfully to ensure that the increases are fair and reasonable and strongly resisted proposals to introduce unjustified higher fees which would have been a tax on shooting.
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Ulster Unionist Party support for shooting sports is ‘unequivocal’
The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has written to BASC, to say his party unequivocally supports lawful shooting sports. BASC NI director Tommy Mayne, wrote to the leaders of Northern Ireland’s five main political parties to ask them if they supported lawful shooting sports. Mike Nesbitt, leader of the Read more…
