Game Shooting

This form of shooting is usually confined to pheasant, partridge and grouse shooting.

On the shoot day, a team of shooters, or Guns, line out at numbered pegs.
Meanwhile, under the gamekeeper's instructions, a group of beaters and their dogs move through areas of woodland or covert, flushing the game ahead of them.
The aim is to get the birds to break cover and fly high over the line of Guns to provide sporting shots.
Shot game is retrieved quickly by a picker-up who sends his/her trained gundog to where the shot game falls.

Here are the legal game shooting seasons for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Shoots	England, Scotland and Wales	N. Ireland
Pheasant	Oct 1 - Feb 1	Oct 1 - Jan 31
Partridge	Sept 1 - Feb 1	Sept 1- Jan 31
Grouse	Aug 12 - Dec 10	Aug 12 - Nov 30
Common Snipe	Aug 12 - Jan 31	Sept 1 - Jan 31
Jack Snipe	Protected at all times	Sept 1 - Jan 31
Woodcock	Oct 1- Jan 31	Oct 1 - Jan 31
Woodcock - Scotland	Sept 1 - Jan 31	--
Duck & Goose - inland	Sept 1 - Jan 31	Sept 1 - Jan 31
Duck & Goose - below HWM of ordinary spring tides	Sept 1 - Feb 20	Sept 1 - Jan 31
Coot/Moorhen	Sept 1 - Jan 31	Protected at all times
Golden Plover	Sept 1 - Jan 31	Sept 1 - Jan 31
Curlew	Protected at all times	Sept 1 - Jan 31

Woodpigeon shooting

There are 3 different types of Woodpigeon shooting.

Decoying
Woodpigeon decoying is the art of building a hide on a field where pigeons are feeding and using artificial or dead bird decoys to attract pigeons to within shotgun range (20 to 35 yards). The sport requires considerable reconnaissance and much patience and fieldcraft to achieve results.

Flighting
Shooting pigeons on flightlines is very popular and, after reconnaissance has determined the line of flight, Guns stand concealed on the edges of woods or in hedgerows and shoot passing birds without the aid of decoys.

Roost shooting
For roost shooting Guns position themselves before dusk in woods where pigeons are known to roost during the winter and wait for the birds to return from their day's feeding.

Stalking Red Deer

Deer stalking is the term used for hunting and shooting deer.
Red deer stalking is a traditional field sport. A stalk often takes most of the day as you hike through the mountains to find the deer. The stalker will then select which deer is to be shot, taking account of the health of the herd. After the kill, many estates still use the traditional method of bringing the deer back to base, by strapping it to the back of a pony and walking it back down.

Roe Deer Stalking

Deer Roe deer are found across Europe and are commonly found in Scotland. A recent survey has shown that there are now more roe deer in Scotland than there are red deer.
Roe deer stalking is very different from red deer stalking, which takes place on open hillsides. Roe deer stalking is conducted mostly at dawn and dusk when roe deer are moving to and from cover into feeding areas.