Pheasant shooting in Wiltshire with a team of young shots

Christopher Robinson is best known as managing director of sporting agency Roxtons but today he's hosting a shoot for eight young guns near his home in Wiltshire. The group of friends have some shooting experience. Watch them try to stay on best behaviour. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 7. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsp...
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Why shoot game birds?
Game is wild, natural and free range, and it is one of the healthiest meats available today. It is low in cholesterol and high in protein. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Both pheasant and partridge contain high levels of iron, protein, vitamin B(6) and selenium, which helps to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.
In addition to the nutritional benefits of game, game shooting is worth £2 billion annually to the rural economy and supports 74,000 jobs. There are 480,000 (UK government figures) active game shooters in the UK who enjoy bird shooting under the principles of the Code of Good Shooting Practice.
More than 2 million hectares are actively managed for shooting in the UK creating proven (PACEC, 2014) conservation benefits and preserving important habitats for a diverse range of flora and fauna, in particular farmland birds. UK shooting providers spend £5.4 million on cover crop seeds every year and maintain over 25,000ha of wild-bird cover.
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Great to see young people enjoying Fieldsports weather it's ferreting , fishing or driven game shooting

[@raybede]

Good to see the youngsters out and enjoying themselves. Its a real shame that someof the people who have said such negative things and don't seem to be able to do sowithout being coarse and swearing can't be more encouraging to our future generation.

[@twodogshawkeye9968]

I enjoy pheasant hunting to

[@mikeyduke10]

future ponces. i do gamekeeping at college and nobody on my course is anything like that and at the moment our college is abit useless too to be honest

[@tbrowniscool]

sorry, i meant the people. i have no problem with the hunting. its a great sport.

[@panama-canada]

Need more youngsters or new shooters overall to promote the sport.

[@TheBuitenman]

good to see the next generation, driven shooting how it should be done..

[@user-fg4ok6bv9b]

UGLY from start to finish.