Shooting Times

This article is about the British magazine. For the unrelated American magazine, seeOutdoor Sportsman Group.

Shooting Times & Country Magazine,more commonly known as theShooting Times,is aBritishshooting,fieldsports, and conservationmagazine,published byFieldsports Press Ltd.The magazine also features articles onfishing,deer stalking,gamekeeping,gundogs,cookery, and conservation.

Shooting Times

Cover ofShooting Times,2 August 2007.
Categories	Shooting
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	21,303 (ABC Jan - Dec 2013) Print and digital editions
Publisher	Fieldsports Press Ltd
First issue	September 1882(1882-09)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	Shooting Times

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 Timeshas 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 theBritish Association for Shooting and Conservation(BASC) and one of the principal shooting organisations in the country.

Over the yearsShooting Timeshas carried articles by writers and such sportsmen asDenys Watkins-Pitchford("BB"), Colin Willock,Arthur Oglesby,Gough Thomas, gun expertGeoffrey Boothroydand Major Archie Coats, the grandfather of modern pigeon shooting.

Modern day

Shooting Timesmagazine is the official journal of both the BASC and theClay Pigeon Shooting Association(CPSA).

The magazine has had 18 editors. Shooting Times, in recent years, has had a renewed focus on good writing, with columnists such asJamie BlackettandPatrick Laurie.It has also become more focussed on conservation with writers and commentators such as Richard Negus appearing regularly. The magazine is published weekly and is considered to be the leading shooting publication in Britain.