Since its launch in 1882, Shooting Times & Country Magazine has been at the forefront of the shooting scene. The magazine is the clear first choice for shooting sportsmen, with editorial covering all disciplines, including gameshooting, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling and deer stalking. Additionally the magazine has a strong focus on the training and use of gundogs in the field and, because it is a weekly publication, the magazine keeps readers firmly up-to-date with the latest news in their world.

DOG OF THE WEEK

Nothing to hide

Courser threatens to shoot farmer at point-blank range • Three arrests have been made following the incident, which is the latest in a series of violent attacks involving illegal hare coursers

EU game export law change

Emergency bird flu rules

Weekend Twitter poll

To do this week

Keepers to help hares start new populations • Mountain hares thrive on managed moorland and transferring some of them to nature reserves would help reverse the animals’ decline

THEY SAID WHAT

Whitefronts flock to our shores as the chill sets in

Farmer ‘vandalises’ river

NEWS IN BRIEF

LETTERS

Depression — don’t suffer in silence

SHOOTING TIMES

NEXT WEEK IN SHOOTING TIMES

Country Diary • A woodcock or two over dogs is one thing — but is it right for Guns to shoot the migrants on days when there is plenty of reared game?

Ding dong merrily on high • For Patrick Laurie, heading out to try to bag a duck for the Christmas table is as much of a tradition as putting a fairy atop the tree

WHY WE SHOOT

Easy come, easy go • A new permission across three boggy woodlands offers an excellent chance to go hunting for migrant woodcock — but nothing lasts forever

When those wheels fall off • Positive thinking on a shoot day is essential when you start missing, says Simon Reinhold

A low blow to calm a squirming grayling • Formerly reviled by trout anglers, the sweet-scented ‘lady of the stream’ makes for a fine sporting challenge, says Edward Barder

Game cookery, Roman style • Philip Womack delves into antiquity to discover how our forebears prepared, cooked and served game meat, from boar to dormice

Moving the goalposts • It’s not the classic time for pigeon roosting but in a far from normal year you should take your chances when you can, says Tom Payne

WHY WE SHOOT

High time for a cull • Stalking as a team is an excellent way to get on top of deer numbers but it can be difficult to know whom to invite, says Graham Downing

Hyundai Santa Fe £45,155 • If you want a high-spec SUV with bags of room at a reasonable price, then this fourth-generation Hyundai fits the bill, says Ed Coles

CONCLUSION

A little light work • The ratting season is in full swing, when the farmyard offers easy pickings and decent night-vision kit helps Mat Manning clean up

The French connection • Britain and France share a common love of fieldsports but very few Gallic gundog breeds cross the Channel, David Tomlinson asks why

RUG THEM UP • Hunting out the perfect festive gift for your dog

Polar’s express style • An evocative description by BB of a typical small shoot on an overcast November day, with enjoyment surpassing the relatively modest bag

Game Cookery • A Texas road trip gave Cai Ap Bryn a taste for authentic American barbecue food, and the idea for this leaner, richer take on pulled pork

SPORTING ANSWERS

THE ULTIMATE SHOOTING QUIZ TEAM

SPORTING EPHEMERA

Native Britain • Plants, flowers and fungi of Great Britain at a glance

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