Amber Hill, a 16-year-old medal-winning clay target shot and BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2013, met the Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and the Assembly’s All-Party Group on Country Sports (APG) on 25th February. Amber started shooting when she was 10 years old and her successes include winning Read more…
Land managers in Scotland have agreed on a year-long study, instigated by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), to analyse the extent of unauthorised interference with legal traps and snares.
The Isle of Arran Deer Management scheme, organised by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has new dates available for 2014/15 season. The scheme is designed to provide practical follow-on experience for BASC members who have completed the Deer Stalking Certificate Level 1 Read more…
BASC members’ personal accident cover will increase for current and new members from 1st March 2014. BASC’s personal insurance cover is tailored to ensure members are covered for accidental injury when taking part in any lawful recreational shooting or conservation activity. The improved policy will provide members with an enhanced Read more…
Instead of focusing on illegal activities with firearms and making full use of existing EU rules on legal firearms, the European Commission plans a full review of these rules.
BASC has sent the following letter to the press after media reports attacking Prince William for shooting wild deer and boar.
More people are being asked to come forward to train as airgun coaches under a new coaching award run by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). David Ilsley from BASC said: “The award is not about teaching you how to shoot, it’s about Read more…
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is calling for transparency on proposed plastic bag charges in England. BASC has called for money raised from the sale of plastic bags to be spent on landscape-scale conservation projects and for the way the money is spent to be clear for Read more…
Members of the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will have an opportunity to hear first-hand about the work BASC is undertaking, what it is doing for members and to make their own views known to the chairman, chief executive and other staff.
