First Place! We decided that this photo was so fascinating, informative and well timed with the camera that it had to win!  Osberton estate, hen pheasant missed behind. The shot pattern is circled in red. You may need to look from a different angle to see it clearly. The gun used was a Beretta 687 EL 20 gauge with Eley VIP 28g 5 shot, fibre wad cartridges. Jane Myers was the one pulling the trigger, taken by Richard Myers |
| Second Place. This photo made us all smile. It very nearly won for that reason alone but was pipped at the post.  “Like Father……….”
The lads first shoot day – Dad looks the most nervous! - Derek Stubbs
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| Third Place. We enjoyed this photo just because of the dedication that went into it!  Cold but worth it!! Cormac McSherry and a friend with their first ever geese in Scotland. Sent in by Chris McSherry, Armagh, N.Ireland. |
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 Shooting on Oak Hammock Marsh in Manitoba, Canada. In Manitoba our game laws state that we're allowed to shoot eight ducks a day. We had a four person limit in under half an hour. Chris Benson |
|  Peter Evans' son Stuart on a BASC young shots day in North Wales |
|  On the last drive of the day on the Gwernant Shoot in Llangollen North Wales - Brett Davies |
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 Crossing the river - Las Beatas, Spain - Sue Bowman |
|  Jazz in training, her first pick-up, from the car to the house! - Georgie Gillings |
|  Rough in the morning! - Steve Cox |
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 Darren Northcott's daughter Haley, after a long stalk |
|  Lock Stock and two smoking!! - Steve Cox |
|  Clive O'Neill pigeon shooting |
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 Clive O'Neill pigeon shooting |
|  High Pheasant at Mutehill 2008 - Clive O'Neill |
|  A truly great day in Bedfordshire! Paul Dunn |
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 girls on pegs !! From Paul Dunn, the headkeeper on an estate in Bedfordshire |
|  girls on pegs !! From Paul Dunn, the headkeeper on an estate in Bedfordshire |
|  Taken whilst beating for a shoot near Newington Oxfordshire - John Hayden |
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 One of my English Partridges as part of my (small scale) conservation project to get them back into the wild in Dorset. It has been a huge success with all the birds returning the next year with a few poults to my new birds who had started to call them in! Lovely to hear and watch! - Will Horner
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|  Kevin Sharpe after a great day in Croatia |
|  A duck return to the pond in Fletching Sussex - Melissa Rodway |
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 Taken in Tiree from a low lying position waiting for the geese - Melissa Rodway |
|  Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla marking grouse. "Compare the Meercat.com" P. Williams. |
|  "Hurry up dad....."
This is a photo of my seven year old lab as keen today as his first day at a shoot, waiting for me to finish the packing of the car. James Elliott
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 A joker on the quad bike with swipe – or something else on his mind! |
|  A team of Guns at Selkirk - Peter Stephen |
|  The beaters in a straight line (for once!) going through the cover on the 1st drive at Bluefields shoot in Essex- Giles Peeters (The Keeper). |
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 "One man, one gun, one dog, one peg." - Kevin Brooker |
|  "Reloading......Danby 2008" - Sue Bowman |
|  Grandfather & Grandson (his first day out) picking-up on Faygate Shoot, Sussex - Paul Renaut |
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 "Young Nell presenting a good retrieve to her Owner taken at Kinnordy Shoot, Kirriemuir, Angus" - Phil Milton |
|  Dog fed up with waiting! Norfolk Suffolk Border - Stuart Alexander |
|  A frosty morning on the Norfolk/Suffolk Border- Stuart Alexander |
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 Tosh and Ziggy contemplating - photo taken by Tim Henniker-Parker |
|  Rabbit shooting at Methwold, Norfolk - Steven Simpson |
|  Arden, North Yorkshire- January 2009 - Camilla Mason |
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 FTAW Garranard Super Trooper
Entering water duck shooting in early Nov2009
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|  Peter's First walked Up Grouse on Thornton Moor, Penines, Yorkshire |
|  Ferreting in January Near Upper Cumberworth - Dave Oddy |
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 On the Moor - Raby Castle Estate - Dave Oddy
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|  Day out with the team, Tur Langton, Leicestershire- Rob Mallison |
|  A Fresh Scottish Morning- From Steve |
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 Taken by Derek Stubbs in January this year at a private estate in Oxfordshire. |
|  This was a nice buck taken on the Douneside Estate, Aberdeenshire and my young Spaniel “Honey”- Peter Savage |
|  Sophia Davies shooting at Apley Estate Shropshire 2009. |
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 Mr Perfect... Sent in by Martin Harris |
|  Heather Burning, Camps Estate, Crawford, Lanarkshire. Peter Stephen |
|  "Enjoyable Soltitude" - Mark Simkins |
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 Waiting for the covey to break. |
|  Nothing can get in the way of a man and a days shooting........Great day at fulbourne shooting with the threlfall family.... Ali Wallace
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|  After a wet and windy shoot a couple drinks does wonders. Mark Angwin |
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 Rockets in the wind at Westermill, Exmoor. Nick McDiarmid |
|  Richard Myers at Empingham estate |
|  'whats up cock?' - India Day
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 Robert Myers at Empingham estate (string of shot leaving the barrel) |
|  "The end of a woodland stalk" - Andy Hunn |
|  October Grouse shot by Chris McSherry |
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 Amanda May. Shooting at Hutton Wandesley. |
|  Isa Edham, Paul Fryer and Jim Henderson at the Kirkby Overblow shoot. North Yorkshire. |
|  Dolce after the first drive- Lorna Riley |
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 Dolce with a partridge- Lorna Riley |
|  "Come on! We've got birds to pick up!" Amber at the Mongewell shoot in Oxfordshire last season- Mark Baillie
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|  Rafe Colenso's dog, Shaka, marking a partridge on a brilliant day shooting in Hampshire.
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 Waiting for the gold!- Rodney Watson |
|  Malv Frost spying the glen on the cliff edge.
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|  Tim and Malv spying the Glen at Boreland 2009.
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 Lady Loader Sylvia Whitby at at Foley Manor Liphook Hampshire November 2007- Lady Loaders 01798 861779 |
|  A range day with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, Ash ranges Surrey October 2009. I am shooting the military issue browning pistol, with Royal Marine Dixie. |
|  Catie Thomas loading for Malcolm Robinson in October 2009 at Whithorn Estate, Brook, Surrey |
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 Archie, Paul Fryer's 8 month old Drakes-Head lab being trained to the gun. |
|  James Pritchard and his first stag shot in Stranraer, Scotland 2009 |
|  The result of a long hard stalk! |
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 The Gillies at Kingairloch |
|  I'll keep an eye on whats goin on dad if your going to mess about takin pic's! From Michael Harris |
|  An 'extreme' day at Whitfield 2008 |
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 Simon Cook with his dog Looe and a brace of woodcock. |
|  After partridge in Aberdeenshire!- George Long
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|  Dave Carr shooting clays |
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 'End-of-the-day' shot from Crewkerne.
The end of a great days West Country pheasant shooting, 27 bird bag, 5 guns. From Anthony Lacey
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|  Last Drive of a good day. |
|  A high bird at Clovelly. |
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 Kath Mcdiarmid's terrier that thinks its a gun dog has trouble retreiving (dragging) the birds! |
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shooting photo competition...
