This is ten-years-old Ollie Hopkins, pictured here with the eight pheasants he shot on his very first driven day shooting. He made his dad the proudest man out there. Maybe he should take dad’s place more often!
Robert Mackay with his first pheasant, shot with a 1939 English .410 boxlock ejector, 11 grams of no.7 shot. Robert had six shots on a very windy day, apparently performing much better when his father didn’t try to help!
After a season’s beating on the Whittington Lodge Farm shoot, as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, Alyssia, 13, cleanly shot her first pheasant on beaters’ day with her dad’s 28 bore. Her younger sister, Charlotte, 11, a junior dog handler, marked and picked the bird with labrador
STUDENT gamekeepers from Warwickshire College saw off 23 other teams to win BASC’s annual Gamekeeping College Clay Shoot.
A SPORTING auction, raffle and shooting donations helped raised £20,000 to support BASC’s Youngshots project.
BASC’s work with children at an innovative state-run school in Sussex will feature in an upcoming BBC Countryfile programme.
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