A 293g shirt and 219g trousers carried Keith Edmunds through a heatwave summer of roebuck stalking. He pulled the fabric until it should have torn, and it held. His verdict on the Stoney Creek Fast Hunt Ascent: shootinguk.co.uk/gear/shooti…

The London Proof House has opened secure, climate-controlled storage to certificate holders and dealers in an unused armoury on Commercial Road. media.twsgroup.com/go/p5hvza…

A red kite found with pellets in its wing in the Peak District has died. Derbyshire police want information, however small the detail. shootinguk.co.uk/news/red-ki…

Wildlife trap licensing in Scotland is now not expected until 2027, the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission’s annual review records, giving keepers another season to prepare. media.twsgroup.com/go/8o5yq0…

A Farmers Weekly Lifetime Achievement Award for the GWCT’s Alastair Leake, after 25 years making Loddington the blueprint for farming with wildlife. media.twsgroup.com/go/bxatdw…

The Moorland Association has put six questions to Rewilding Britain over claims rewilding cuts wildfire risk: no baseline, no fuel-load data, web-page sources, while upland fuel grows by a tonne every seven minutes. media.twsgroup.com/go/4vg195…

A run of 1,526 Sporters and 1,526 Field versions, the number marking 1526, the year Beretta began. Lloyd Pattison tests the 687 500 Years LE on Skeet, Sporting and Sportrap and finds a Silver Pigeon beneath the gold: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/sh…

Half of responding fire services hold no wildfire PPE and a third of stations have no drones, CLA FOI returns show, as it calls for controlled burning to come back. media.twsgroup.com/go/t0npih…

National Trail Hunting Day returns on Saturday, 17 October, with flagship meets from the Percy, Suffolk, Worcestershire and East Devon hunts and a newcomers’ week to follow. media.twsgroup.com/go/82mv1n…

Natural England granted 20 of 37 SPA gamebird release licence applications in 2026. 65% sat on or near the North York Moors, and where tough conditions looked likely, nobody applied at all. media.twsgroup.com/go/1zwngv…

Biggest roebucks live in the open, not the woods: a Berkshire guide’s trail cameras upend received wisdom on a spring stalk with Craig Boddington. media.twsgroup.com/go/y57qzf…

Licensing performance after the fee rises is for chief constables, the policing minister says: full cost recovery came in 2025, a 3% rise in June, and forces now face a quarterly-measured four-month certificate target. media.twsgroup.com/go/2xcpfe…

For years Carol argued against deerstalking with the neighbour who did it. At 55 she went out with him, passed her DSC1 and now has her own Sako S20. A Shooting Times reader on taking the plunge: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/de…

Defra’s call for evidence on gamebirds closes on 1 November. Dominic Boulton of the Game Farmers’ Association says the outcome could be decisive for shooting, and there is not much time to act: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/ga…

Nocpix ACE 2 off to a great start media.twsgroup.com/go/3zrq08…

The greatest threat to game shooting is not legislation or anti-shooting campaigns but the undecided middle, argues Jan Roosenburg, and the clock is moving faster than many realise. His case for winning them over: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/ga…

Scotland’s first urban roe deer pilot starts this month in East Kilbride, with SGA-trained managers culling to cut road collisions. shootinguk.co.uk/news/urban-…

Two roebucks down in a steep ravine, the roe sack left at home and 40kg of deadweight to drag uphill in the dark, twice. Al Gabriel’s hard lesson: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/de…

After 10 years without a breeding pair, 20 pairs of lapwings came back to a Galloway glen the spring after its old pasture was ploughed. Patrick Laurie’s Country Diary: shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/ga…

“Gamekeeper trained” was once a selling point in the Shooting Times classifieds. Jeremy Hobson on the keepers whose spaniels and labradors earned it: shootinguk.co.uk/gundogs/spo…