Shooting Times and Country Magazine, more commonly known as the Shooting Times, is a British

Great Britain

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 shooting

Shooting

Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman...

 and firearms magazine

Magazine

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, published by IPC Media

IPC Media

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. The magazine also features articles on hunting

Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.Fox hunting originated in its current...

, fishing

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....

, deer stalking

Deer stalking

Deer stalking is a British term for the stealthy pursuit of deer for sporting purposes, historically with dogs such as Scottish Deerhounds, or in modern times typically with a high powered rifle fitted with a telescopic sight to hunt them....

, gamekeeping

Gamekeeper

A gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure there is enough game for shooting, or fish for angling, and who actively manages areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland for the benefit of game birds, deer, fish and wildlife in general.Typically, a gamekeeper is...

, gundogs

Gun dog

thumb|right|A group of Gun dogs as printed in Dogs of All Nations by W.E. Mason in 1915Gun dogs, also gundogs or bird dogs, are types of dogs developed to assist hunters in finding and retrieving game, usually birds. Gun dogs are divided into three primary types: Retrievers, flushing dogs, and...

 and wildlife

Wildlife

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....

. There is also an unrelated magazine simply called Shooting Times published in the United States by Intermedia Outdoors

InterMedia Outdoors

InterMedia Outdoors is an outdoors magazine publishing group in the United States. They publish 17 hunting, fishing and shooting magazines, and own The Sportsman Channel specialty channel, which was purchased from its founders in June 2007...

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History

Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News, the publication's original title, was first published in September 1882 and has not missed a single edition since. Lewis Clement was the first editor.

Throughout its history, Shooting Times has offered a forum for debate in the shooting world—famously in the 26 October 1907 issue, Stanley Duncan, (a long-term contributor to the magazine) wrote in with a request: "Sir, I have been asked to suggest a Wildfowlers's Association, to which you, Mr Editor, might give some assistance by permitting your paper to be the organ through which proposals might be considered and views obtained?"

The name of the association born out of the ensuing correspondence was the Wildfowlers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland—now known as the British Association for Shooting and Conservation

British Association for Shooting and Conservation

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation is a non-profit making Industrial and Provident Society, whose mission is to promote and protect sporting shooting and the well-being of the countryside throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. With around 130,000 members and 105 staff BASC...

 (BASC) and one of the principal shooting organisations in the country.

Over the years Shooting Times has carried articles by writers and such sportsmen as Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, children's writer, and illustrator who wrote under the pseudonym "BB".-Early life:...

 ("BB"), Colin Willock, Arthur Oglesby, Gough Thomas, and the firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd

Geoffrey Boothroyd

Geoffrey Boothroyd was a Scottish firearms expert and author of several works on the subject, who is best known as giving weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming...

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Modern day

Shooting Times magazine is the official journal of both the BASC and the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

The Clay Pigeon Shooting Association is the National Governing Body for Clay Target Shooting in England.Founded in 1928, it is recognised by Sports England, the Department of the Environment, the Home Office, the Police etc...

(CPSA).

The magazine has a strong link to its past—the current magazine's content would still be familiar to those who picked up the original issue, with the same mix of shooting features, gundog articles and reflections on the wider aspects of countryside life.

The magazine has had 16 editors, the current being Alistair Balmain.

External links

• Shooting Times & Country Magazine