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News Release Fantastic opportunity for Young Shots Due to the outstanding generosity of David Hendry, five BASC Young Shots will enjoy a superb driven day at Cardney Estate, Perthshire on Saturday 4th December. David Hendry is the owner of Cardney Estate, near Dunkeld, and he has invited five junior members of the East of Scotland Wildfowlers (ESAWC) to shoot with him on a fabulous day in the height of the pheasant and partridge season. The young shots must be junior members of ESAWC and be under 21 years of age at the time of the shoot. If they are under 16, they should be accompa

East of Scotland Association for Wildfowling & Conservation E-Newsletter – Early Summer 2010 Communications The committee realises that it is very important to keep in touch with members throughout the year. Without wanting to increase costs by having more than four printed Newsletters each year, it has been decided to issue periodic e-mailed newsletters whenever there is news to give to members between those times. Scottish Game Fair, Scone The club will have its own stand at the Scottish Game Fair at Scone on 2nd, 3rd and 4th July when we will be giving some demo

A video of the fantastically successful Gun and Dog weekend run by the East of Scotland wildfowling club can now be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF9GLbmgRCc As with all YouTube videos, if your broadband connection is running a bit slow and the video keeps stopping, then click on the "pause" button and go and make a cup of coffee. By the time you return, it should have build up enough of a lead to allow you to watch uninterrupted. Enjoy!

.......So long as it is also on your friend's Shotgun Certificate and, if you have access to the cabinet, that all his shotguns are also on your certificate. Sounds daft but it is the law.

There is no discount. What I suggest is that you and your Dad apply at the same time and then, when your Dad buys a shotgun for you to use under his supervision, make sure that the gun is registered on BOTH your certificates. Also make sure that you both join BASC (if you are not already members). Happily there is a big discount for Young Shot membership of BASC. Good Luck.

It depends very much on whether the shoots are keepered or run on a DIY basis. If keepered, work on the basis of £30 per bird shot. If DIY, work on the basis of £17 per bird shot. So, for example, if it is a keepered shoot offering a syndicate of 8 Guns 10 200-bird days, then you would expect to pay about £7500 per Gun (probably with VAT on top). If it was a DIY shoot, offering a syndicate of 16 Guns 10 100-bird days on a "walk one, stand one basis", then you might expect to pay about £1100 each. You can work it out yourself for any example in between.

As long as you are working on a DIY basis and don't have any labour costs, you should be able to run the shoot on the basis of approximately £17 per bird shot. (That includes rent, poults, depreciation, feeding and unavoidable incidentals) If you can achieve a 40% return rate on poults released, then the "conventional wisdom" would be that a DIY shoot releasing 2000 poults should cost about £13,600 per annum in total. (Which works out quite nicely if you have 10 guns paying £1400 each and shooting 8 days averaging 100 birds per day. The nigger in that particular woodpile, of course,

Yes - but you obviously must be able to meet the security requirements and you have to notify the police if you change address. But being in rented property is not, in itself, a problem. Not sure about the necessity/advisability of informing landlord. Ask your Firearms Officer about that when you ask for the application form. Sometimes they take the view that the fewer people who know where guns are kept, the better. (although the terms of your tenancy might require you to notify the landlord before bolting a steel security cabinet to an external wall.)

He joined WAGBI in 1967 and was a member until he joined the Royal Marines. When he left the Service after 12 years active service, he then lived and worked in Ireland for several years and rejoined BASC when he returned to UK. He is an extremely energetic secretary of the East of Scotland Wildfowling Club and runs the Wildfowling Forum on the internet.

Inaccurate and alarmist reports have appeared in the shooting press and on email concerning BASC's position on lead ammunition. They misrepresent BASC’s position and the current situation. BASC would like to take the opportunity to put the record straight. The facts of the matter are: * BASC is firmly opposed to any unwarranted attempts to further restrict lead shot. * All other shooting organisations support this position. * BASC and all other shooting organisations agree that the shooting community must be involved in discussions on the future of lead ammunition. Not

The greatest enemy of shooting in Britain is apathy If you are a BASC member and have not already done so, please do use your votes in the current Council Election. Even if you have lost the ballot paper that came with the last "Shooting and Conservation" you can still vote online on the BASC website at www.basc.org.uk Although you have five votes, you do not have to use all of them. I recommend that you cast two votes - one for Lee Freeston and one for David de Gernier. I know both candidates personally and can vouch for the fact that both will do their utmost to protect sporting

In line with the recent change to BASC Young Shots age limits, the East of Scotland wildfowling club has just increased its age limit for Junior Members to under-21 (previously under-18) We only charge a subscription of £22, which is the BASC fee with no club add-on. We simply adopt the national legal requirements regarding gun ownership and shooting by young people. In Scotland we have to - because the foreshore is not "occupied land" where a youngster could shoot without a certificate in the company of the "occupier". Basically, although there is no lower age limit for acquiring a S

You're right. I have shot a lot of snow geese in Canada and, to eat, they are pretty well identical to pinkfeet. As a Scot, I would have thought that Gordon Ramsay would have known that.

They may get cheaper now that the British Army has phased them out - see today's news abpout the new multi-terrain camo that is replacing both the old forest and desert patterns. But for wildfowling over here, the Mossy Oak Shadow Grass was always a better pattern than the Real Tree Wetlands which tended to have too bold a pattern. Mark you, after a few morning flights in the mud, it doesn't matter much!

I have seen several white geese in Scotland but never snow geese. The ones I have seen have always turned out to be albino pinkfeet. If a snow goose did turn up in Scotland it would not be illegal to shoot it. Only native birds are protected. The definition of "native" is a bit vague but is usually taken to mean species that normally occur in UK either as residents or migrants. And, of course, the W&CA then defines those birds that may be shot and the seasons and conditions under which they may be shot. Some people think that if a bird does not appear on that W&CA list, it can