Those who are shooting (the guns) walk up (spring) their own quarry. Rough shooting can be carried out by a single person or a small group, often using a dog to spring the quarry. The weapon used is a shotgun and the quarry may be game or rabbit.
Popularity
Rough shooting is a very popular form of shooting with guns from all backgrounds, being far less formal than driven shooting. rough shooting can be carried out throughout the year, although the permitted seasons of individual game must be respected.
Location
Rough shooting is carried out across the countryside, including arable, pasture and woodland.
Age
There is no age restriction on shooting, although to take a gun out unaccompanied you must have a shotgun licence, for which there is a minimum age of fourteen years. And a person must be seventeen years before purchasing a gun.
Ability
A person going shooting must be able to handle the gun, and posses the knowledge to use it safely at all times. When rough shooting you must expect to encounter, and be able to walk rough, muddy, often sloping, bush or tree covered land.
Description
Rough shooting is probably the most common form of hunting today, simply walk the areas and haunts of the quarry you are after and try to make it bolt (spring), from its cover, Rabbit, Pigeon and vermin can be shot at any time of the year, where as game has seasons when they may or may not be taken. A game licence is necessary to take game. Commonly shot game includes Deer, Hare, Pheasant, partridge, Snipe, Woodcock, Wild Duck and Geese.
Dedication
Like all reflex activities regular participation improves the performance none more so than using a gun. When shooting or carring a gun you must be at all times fully aware of the dangers and safty implications, not only of yourself but others in the vacinity as well as property and wildlife,
Potential
There is no competitive potential in rough shooting, just the pleasure of being out in the open countryside, and the taking home of meat for the table, that you have hunted. Also the satisfaction from training and working a good gun dog.
Closely
Related Activities
Clay pigeon shooting 526, driven shooting 740, Pigeon shooting 528, working dogs 217, Wild Fowling 1091 and all country sports 254.
Cost
A suitable shotgun can cost from a hundred pounds upwards. A shotgun licence costs ?50 and is a legal necessity. The cost of cartridges although expensive is normally off set by the value of meat taken, especially by an experienced and good shot. Public liability insurance is essential. Some land owners allow shooting over their land as a form of vermin control, while others especially keeper-ed land see shooting as a crop and part of the leisure industry and charge accordingly.
Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.
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