The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has extended its highly popular National Taste of Game week into a fortnight-long event which will run from 6th ? 20th November this year.
Following a number of incidents, police forces are to be given information to help them identify people involved in lawful shooting. The UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has published a new guide, The Police Officer?s Guide to Shooters, which is designed to help prevent misunderstandings and reduce interventions by the police.
Shooting restrictions put in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland because of the recent severe winter weather are to be lifted. A legal suspension of the shooting of waterfowl in Scotland will be lifted at midnight on Monday 18th January, allowing shooting on Tuesday 19th. A similar suspension in Northern Ireland will end at 8am on Thursday 21st January.
BASC is calling for voluntary restraint to be maintained where local conditions merit it across England and Wales for the shooting of ducks, geese, wading birds, coot and moorhen because of the winter weather. Shooting of waterfowl has been legally suspended in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The battle to tackle poachers has been stepped up this Christmas as deer and salmon become the number one targets for criminal gangs operating with no regard for animal welfare or the law.
The year-round management of two species of gulls is to continue in Scotland, but with a warning that evidence of the practice being carried out must be submitted or the legal basis for control could be removed.
The Government’s announcement that it has decided “in principle” to devolve control over airguns to the Scottish Parliament has been condemned by BASC.
Britain’s largest shooting organisation says airgun safety should be a matter of common sense rather than legislation.
BASC will ensure that the interests of shooters are fully considered in the final drafting of secondary legislation and guidance stemming from the enactment of the Marine and Coastal Access Bill.
