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The Government stated it has “no plans” to ban the sport, recognising the significant environmental, economic and ...

Grouse shooting got going when the Victorians built railways that made it easier to get up onto the moors, back in the mid-19th century. Suddenly you could travel relatively comfortably with all your ...

An unusually cold breeding season was blamed for the shortage, which has led some sporting estates to cancel shoots altogether. Others offered only “walked up” grouse shoots, rather than ...

Posh food supermarket Marks and Spencer has announced that it won’t be selling grouse this year because it is unable to find enough birds that have been ethically shot. What a condemnation of those ...

Animal welfare campaigners have criticised the decision to exempt grouse shoots from Covid restrictions limiting gatherings to six people. Scottish charity OneKind said wildlife had "thrived ...

The final hunt of the season went about as well as most of the others. I followed the dog with optimism, punching through ...

Perhaps a less well-recognised, but equally valid, addition to that list is grouse shooting. Each year, scores of tourists from Europe, America, the Middle East and many other places visit ...

For Wall Streeters, media, and tech tycoons, and other top-of-the-food- chainers who are planning safaris to Africa, driven grouse shoots to Scotland, duck hunts to Argentina, and the like ...

I don't do much small-game hunting anymore, but I do enjoy getting out there, especially if some snow lies on the ground.