Scottish Shooting Information

"In Britain we are rightly proud of our shooting sports. Game management and conservation shape and enhance our landscape. Wildlife thrives where land is managed for shooting. Over a million people are involved in shooting; many more enjoy the end product as consumers of pheasants, partridges and other game. Moreover, shooting makes a substantial contribution to the rural economy - 

often at times and in places where income is scarce." 

The Code of Good Shooting Practice 2003

 

September 2006 saw the publication of a report by PACEC, which shows that shooting benefits the UK economy by £1.6 billion pounds per year, £240 million of these benefits are to the Scottish economy.

 

This income is brought into Scotland through 1.5 million shooting days (approximately 250,000 people shooting 6 days each per year) per year and supports the equivalent of 11,000 full time jobs.

 

Shooters in Scotland spend around £43 million pounds per annum on habitat and species conservation work on around 700,000 hectares of land (ie 9% of Scotland’s land). In addition to this 4.4million of Scotland’s 7.8million hectares are influenced by shooting.

 

Despite the huge positive impact that shooting has on Scotland, it still suffers from a lack of understanding amongst the non-shooting public and certain sections of the media and government.The SCA Campaign for Shooting seeks to promote shooting to a wider audience in order to protect shooting from damaging legislation in the short term and preserve it for the benefit of Scotland in the long term.
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