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Airgun |
Gun discharged by compressed air or gas |
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Artificial Target |
Clay or card target used for shooting practice |
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Antlers |
Pair of bony outgrowths on the head of a male deer |
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Bag |
Total number of birds or animals shot in one day/session |
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Beater |
Person who flushes wild game |
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Bullet |
Single projectile fired out of a rifle |
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Cartridge |
Metal (rifle) or plastic (shotgun) casing containing propellant charge and projectile |
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Clay pigeon/clay |
Disc of pitch and chalk thrown into the air to practice shotgun shooting |
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Close season |
Dates during which a quarry species is protected by law and may not be shot |
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Code of practice |
Set of rules by which the shooting industry regulates behaviour |
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Country Sports |
Sports carried out in the countryside, such as shooting and fishing |
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Cull |
To kill selectively (especially old and weak) individuals, to maintain the health of the herd |
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Decoy |
A dummy designed to lure birds, especially woodpigeon, within shooting range. Also refers to a pond used for trapping ducks |
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Deer Stalker |
Person who approaches deer without being noticed in order to shoot selective animals |
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Driven (shoot) |
Form of sport in which game birds are flushed over the standing Guns |
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Estate |
Land over which farming, forestry and shooting activities take place |
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Estuary |
Tidal area where a river reaches the sea |
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Fieldsports |
See Country Sports |
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Flight |
Movement of pigeon or wildfowl at dawn and dusk between resting and feeding areas |
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Flightline |
Paths in the sky routinely taken by birds to move between roosting and feeding areas |
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Flight pond |
Area of water into which wildfowl drop to feed and roost |
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Flush |
To rouse game |
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Game |
Selected wild animals and birds defined in law and hunted for sport and food |
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Gamekeeper |
Person who rears game birds for release into the wild and manages their habitat |
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Ghillie |
A hunting guide, particularly in Scotland, who accompanies shooters or fishermen |
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Gundog |
Specially bred and trained dog for locating, flushing and retrieving game |
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Gun |
Another word for a shooter |
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Hanging |
To suspend meat so that the flavour matures |
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Head (of game) |
Number shot |
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Hide |
Place of concealment blending into the natural environment |
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Hunting |
The pursuit and killing of a selected wild bird or animal for food, sport or management |
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Inter-tidal |
Area covered by water only at high tide. |
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Lamping |
Night shooting of pests and predators using a powerful spotlamp |
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Open season |
Dates during which quarry species may be taken legally, also known as the shooting season |
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Over-and-under |
Shotgun in which one barrel is on top of the other |
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Pest |
Animal that damages crops or wildlife stocks |
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Picker-up |
Person who retrieves dead and wounded game with the aid of gundogs |
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Plucking |
The removal of feathers from a bird destined for the table |
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Poacher |
A person who kills or takes game belonging to another person without permission |
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Predator |
An animal which hunts for food |
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Prey |
An animal hunted, or captured, by another for food |
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Rearing and releasing |
The act of breeding game birds for release into the wild |
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Refuge |
A safe haven for wildlife where human activity is restricted |
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Rough shooting |
Form of sport which is not pre-planned. See Walked up |
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Shot |
One of many pieces of lead or steel fired out of a shotgun cartridge, the person using a gun |
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Side-by-side |
Shotgun in which one barrel is alongside the other |
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Stalker |
See Deer stalker |
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Sustainable harvest |
The amount which can be shot without detriment to the population as a whole |
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Syndicate |
Group of people who shoot together, sharing the costs of a day's or season's sport |
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Trap |
Mechanical device to capture legal pest and predatory species. Also the device which throws clays |
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Trophy (head) |
Head or full body of an animal or bird preserved for display by taxidermy |
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Twelve bore |
Standard shotgun |
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Velvet |
Furry covering on the newly formed antlers of deer |
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Vermin |
See Pest and Predator |
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Walked-up |
Form of shooting in which the shooter flushes the quarry as he walks through cover |
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Wildfowler |
Person who shoots ducks and geese on the foreshore |
