In reaction to the Government announcement this evening The Game Fair team can confirm the event will be going ahead safely from 23-25th July as planned. Events such as The Game Fair, agricultural shows, flower and garden shows, were previously sanctioned as part of the Government’s Phase Two relaxations announced on April 12th with greater freedoms given as part of May’s Phase Three measures. “We have been overwhelmed with positive support and reaction” commented Managing Director, James Gower. “The Game Fair team have already planned and implemented additional measures to safeguard and reassure our visitors and ...

If you want to inject some distance into long-range shooting, then the Vortex Venom riflescope is a great first step. Packed with great features including a 5-25x mag range built into a 34mm tube for a huge amount of turret travel (85 MOA / 25 MRAD maximum elevation / windage), the Venom also boasts Vortex’s RevStop Zero System for a fast, easy and reliable return to zero. The First Focal Plane EBR-7C reticle ensures accurate holds at distance while the addition of a throw lever allows fast transitions between maginifcations. If you’re looking for a quick ...

As well as being the managing director of East Anglian gun importer and distributor ASI, Edward King has also headed up many of the shooting industry’s bodies, including the Gun Trade Association and the Gun and Allied Trades Benevolent Society, among others. He said: “Back in the early 1990s, when I had been in the gun trade for half a dozen years or so, I had the opportunity to join the council (board) of an organisation called the Shooting Sports Trust; it was a body which specifically represented the importers, wholesalers and manufacturers in the UK ...

The iconic footwear and accessories brand just loves The Game Fair and is all set for this year’s event. We asked founders Marcus Fountaine and Felix Parker to tell us a bit more about the Fairfax & Favor journey. TGF: When and why did you set up Fairfax & Favor? F&F: Late in the spring of our 18th year, we had an epiphany – to combine our middle names and launch our very first business venture, a bouncy castle company. It was the unconventional birth of Fairfax & Favor. We had tried to unlock other name ...

Cotswold brand Black Lion will be giving visitors their first taste of a unique vodka, made using milk from a rare breed of sheep. The full-bodied drink is being produced sustainably and distilled using Cotswold spring water. Handcrafted using a unique process, Black Lion Vodka is made using the milk from Valais Blacknose sheep, which graze on the founders’ family-owned farm. Using selective breeding, Tim and Tanya Spittle have created the Black Lion sheep, allowing them to contribute to the preservation of this iconic breed, which originated in the Swiss mountains. At the same time, they ...

Some of the best-known names in fine shotguns will be going under the hammer at Holts’ next auction of Fine, Modern & Antique Guns & Accessories, on June 21st and 22nd. Among the lots on offer is a Henry Atkin that was built for the well-known writer on shooting sports Gough Thomas Garwood (Lot 1450). Another outstanding gun is a fine and impressive eight-bore single trigger sidelock ejector by William Ford (Lot 799). Although built in 1939, this lot comes with a letter from the makers specifying it as a gun for shooting crocodiles in India. Any ...

The CEO of top egg supplier Clarence Court, which is sponsoring The Game Fair’s Main Arena this summer, took the chance to ‘eggs-perience’ the Ragley Hall venue for himself this week. Adrian Gott met with The Game Fair managing director James Gower and Marketing Executive Eleanor Usborne for a tour of the grounds of the stately home near Alcester, Warwickshire. They were joined outside the hall itself by the estate’s owner, Lord Hertford, keen to welcome any visitors to his home. Clarence Court supplies eggs to leading supermarkets – stamped with a blue crown emblem – ...

The future of grouse shooting is set to be debated in Parliament on June 21st and the industry needs everyone’s help to ensure the facts are fully represented. Organisations such as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Countryside Alliance are doing all they can to provide politicians and journalists with the true facts about grouse shooting. These organisations, along with Game Fair exhibitor William Powell Sporting, other businesses and individuals who are actively involved with grouse shooting and fieldsports, are urging you to contact your local MP to ensure they understand and defend the ...

GunsOnPegs managing director Chris Horne and his father, James, who is chairman, set up the business up from what started out as a little hobby website beside their day jobs. Chris explained: “Being able to turn your hobby into your livelihood is a huge privilege because the conversations you have at ‘work’ and with customers are nearly always about the thing you do for fun! It helps that secretly I’m a little techy geek behind the scenes and running a tech-based business is such an exciting blend of hobby and face-paced business. “Shooting itself is going ...

If you are stumped for original Father’s Day gifts then food specialist Wild & Game has an innovative and unique Present Box that will delight game lovers and foodies alike. Priced at £49.99, the box contains a selection of the company’s top selling products, including not only game meat but also beef, cheese, pâté and a pheasant Wellington. The full contents are one T-bone beef steak, one pheasant Wellington, two venison steaks, one pack of four venison and wild boar burgers, a 1lb huntsman pie, venison, juniper and gin pâté and a chunk of Wookey Hole ...

Some of our long-lost species, including beavers, wildcats, golden eagles could make a return to our countryside, alongside some in decline such as pine marten, dormice, corncrake and large blue butterfly. After an announcement by the Environment Secretary George Eustice MP, Natural England is set to establish a species reintroductions task force, alongside habitat restoration and greening of urban spaces to meet new legally binding biodiversity targets to reverse the decline of wildlife. Natural England will be heading up the task force as secretariat, considering the reintroduction of species which have been lost to England and ...

Gundog training equipment supplier Sporting Saint has a string of new arrivals it is launching, just in time for The Game Fair. The Air & Go Remote Control Dummy Launcher is exclusively sold via the company in the UK and is a fast, self-filling, quality air launcher with no bang sound. Two options are available, either with or without a duck sound, and it is suitable for both professional and leisure use, with two, four, six or eight shooters. Sporting Saint is also working with renowned gundog trainer Andy Cullen to bring a specially designed Puppy ...

Wrackleford Estate is set in the lush Frome valley near Dorchester and offers some of the best fly fishing and shooting (game and simulated), thanks to its unique position and topography. Having passed into the fifth and sixth generation of the family, current owners Katie and Oliver Pope told The Game Fair Trade News all about the estate. TGF: Can you tell us a little bit about the history of the Wrackleford Estate and your part in it? Oliver Pope: The estate has been in the hands of the family for six ...

Hilary Roper-Newman is an artist, author and illustrator, who will be showcasing her game-related artwork and her books at this year’s Game Fair. Trade News caught up with her to find out what got her started and what inspires her. TGF: What got you started in painting / illustrating? HRN: I have painted since a child and won competitions in both junior and senior schools for writing and illustrating books – one on trees and one on wildflowers. I still have a school painting I did of a mandolin. I remember, aged six, painting an underwater ...

Maude and Fox launches the new Houndstooth Tweed Gamekeeper hoodie just in time for The Game Fair 2021. It boasts a fleece lining for warmth, tweed from Scotland plus Teflon milled through it for additional weatherproofing, suede shoulder pads, large front pouch pocket, drawstring hood, brass zip. Wrist straps allow for tightening the cuffs and suede trims prevent wear and the garment has been cut slightly lower at the back to keep draughts out. Perfect in the field and also great for walking in the cold and great for town or country. www.maudeandfox.com ...

Eoghan Cameron is chairman of the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). He is dedicated to protecting and promoting sustainable shooting for generations to come. Elected as BASC chairman in 2019, he has participated in fieldsports since childhood. His passions are deer stalking, all forms of driven and walked-up game shooting, as well as casting the odd fly. He said: “BASC has enjoyed a longstanding and successful involvement with The Game Fair. I am extremely proud of the excellent working relationship that has developed between us. The coming together of ...

English gunmaker Longthorne has assured customers to key dealers and shooting grounds of a very warm welcome after it commissioned a number of high-quality entrance mats. The mats feature the Longthorne logo and slogan along with an impressive image of one its shotguns and the Union Jack flag and are being sent to selected dealers to enhance their stores even more.

Rutland and Melton MP Alicia Kearns has begun campaigning for the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to open an office in Melton Mowbray, home of the pork pie, Stilton cheese and with a fieldsports community at its heart. She says the move would bring jobs to a town which can boast longstanding food and agricultural heritage and expertise. As part of the Government’s historic commitment to level up every part of the country, it has pledged to move 22,000 civil servants outside central London by 2030 The East Midlands already suffers from some of ...

His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Canal & River Trust, visited nearby Coventry Canal as part of the launch of the Coventry – City of Culture 2021 celebrations. Waterways and wellbeing charity, Canal & River Trust, which is supplying the fishing tuition on the lake at Ragley Hall for this year’s Game Fair, welcomed its patron to the canal-side former Daimler factory and now home to the arts, before boarding the working heritage boat Scorpio for a short ride to Coventry Canal Basin. On board were representatives from the local community and ...

The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), is calling on the Government to utilise the resources and experience of recreational deer stalkers within its newly actioned deer management strategy. The deer management strategy was unveiled as part of the England Trees Action Plan in a suite of announcements made by the Environment Secretary, George Eustice MP last week. The Action Plan is offering £500 million in grant funding to meet the government’s target of trebling tree planting rates by 2024 to 30,000 hectares a year. The UK’s deer population is ...