To do this week

SWEEPSTAKE

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is urging shoots around the country to help raise funds for its important research by holding one of its annual sweepstakes. Individual shoots can help contribute to the GWCT’S efforts by holding a sweepstake on shoot days, with half the proceeds going to the winner and the other half to the GWCT. For every £100 raised, shoots will receive a bottle of Gordon’s sloe gin. You can apply for a sweepstake package, which includes peg markers, shoot cards, cartridge collection bags, a wall chart and a copy of the Code of Good Shooting Practice, completely free from the GWCT. Email hacors@gwct.org.uk or tel 01425 651010 to get yours.

BASC is hosting a charity auction at the House of Bruar by Blair Atholl in Perthshire on 21 October. The event is being held in aid of the Scottish Youth & The Countryside Educational Trust and there will be plenty of spectacular sporting lots up for grabs, including a day’s stag stalking for one Rifle on Atholl estate in Perthshire and a 100-bird driven pheasant day at Altyre estate in Moray. Tickets are £35 per person and payment is on the night, but guests must book by email — scotland@basc. org.uk — or tel

01350 723226.

BOOK

With the season now under way, BASC members can download the latest edition of the Association’s wildfowling permit scheme booklet, which contains a range of useful information, at po.st/wildfowlbooklet.

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