About this outlet
Overview
Now in its 128th year, the UK's leading weekly shooting magazine has become a familiar part of life for a large section of the country's shooting community — the Wednesday fix of shooting news, sport and countryside action has developed a hugely loyal readership over more than a century of publication. Wildfowler's Shooting Times and Kennel News, the publication's original title, was first published in September 1882 and has not missed a single edition since. Lewis Clement, the former kennel reporter to The Field, whose nom de plume was "Wildfowler" was the founding editor. Throughout its history, Shooting Times has offered a forum for significant debate in the shooting world — famously in the 26 October, 1907, issue, Stanley Duncan, (a long-term contributor to the magazine) wrote in with a request: "Sir, I have been asked to suggest a Wildfowlers's Association, to which you, Mr Editor, might give some assistance by permitting your paper to be the organ through which proposals might be considered and views obtained?" The name of the association born out of the ensuing correspondence was the Wildfowlers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland - now known as the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and one of the principal shooting organisations in the country, if not the world. Over the years Shooting Times has carried articles by the most renowned writers in the shooting world with such noted sportsmen as Denys Watkins-Pitchford ("BB"), Colin