Rough Shooting

This is the most common method of live quarry shooting. Shooters use their trained dogs (usually spaniels or labradors) to flush game out of the hedgerows, woods or other cover as they walk along. These dogs also retrieve the shot game. Should the quarry be wounded, the sportsman will retrieve and despatch it quickly and humanely.

Virtually all the quarry species listed can be walked-up (i.e. where the shooter flushes out the quarry as he or she walks through cover). The countryside knowledge and hunting skills required plus the fresh air, exercise and the training and working of specially bred dogs makes rough shooting one of the most popular, rewarding and cheapest forms of live quarry shooting.

Codes of Practice

Picking-up Code of Practice

Code of good shooting practice

Respect for quarry

Gundogs

Shotgun

Lamping

Woodpigeon

 

BASC Game and Gamekeeping department