A team of student gamekeepers from Hartpury College in Gloucestershire saw off competition from 22 other teams from 11 colleges to win the BASC annual Gamekeeping College Clay Shoot. Second place went to a team from Newton Rigg in Cumbria. Hartpury’s winning team took home the Gamekeeping College Challenge Shield in the event organised by BASC and sponsored by Honda.
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.
A successful wildfowling agreement has been negotiated on the Humber Estuary for the Alkborough Wildfowlers and Conservationists’ club, working with the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
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.
More than 250 Liberal Democrat parliamentarians and party members were introduced to shooting at the party’s Spring Conference in Liverpool. They were given hands-on lessons by accredited shotgun coaches using a state-of-the-art shooting simulator provided by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the UK’s largest shooting organisation. The
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.
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.
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.
Time is running out to enter teams in a fundraising clay shoot which promises to be a highlight of the spring. The 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom shooting estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The charity shoot will raise money
