Chris Dalton's stalking diary: a dew-soaked late September dawn along the hedgerows, the rifle left slung, and a robin ...

The countryside in 1954, from the Shooting Times archive: ivy and hungry-gap pigeons, a pipistrelle on her dusk beat, two old ...

Giles Catchpole's Country Diary: a lake held by 106 hissing swans, pinkfooted geese whiffling in from the coast, and ...

Jeremy Hobson on the old rule that shooting clothes should never look new, AA Gill on tweed, and the Edwardian Gun whose loud ...

Lloyd Pattison tests the Beretta 687 500 Years LE, a limited run of 1,526 Sporters and Field guns marking 500 years of ...

Reader Carol on going from fieldsports sceptic to deerstalker at 55 – her mentor, DSC1, the FAC process and why she found ...

The GFA's Dominic Boulton on Defra's gamebird call for evidence, closing 1 November, and how to back the Rural Reset by ...

Jan Roosenburg argues game shooting's future rests with the undecided middle, and that honesty, education and how Shots ...

Eat Wild's Dylan Williams on treating game meat as food from the moment a bird falls, what processors reject and why the 50p ...

The London Proof House has opened secure firearms storage to certificate holders and dealers. Who can use it, how it sits ...

Mike Swan recalls a September flight on the Medway marshes: a first foreshore greylag, a teal, and pack after pack of wigeon ...

A CLA survey of 700 rural family businesses finds 89% have paused investment since inheritance tax reliefs were cut, with ...