The Loddington Shoot - part of the GWCT's Allerton Project - is a fully functioning game shoot, but it is also where the organisation's boffins can test theories about habitat creation, predator management, stocking densities and a host other important factors that impact the running of a shoot, helping to shape best practice and advice for gamekeepers and farmers up and down the land.

Alex Keeble is a Game and Wildlife Advisor for GWCT and has the honour of managing the Loddington Shoot. He joins Chris and George to discuss the shoot, the findings, and the idea of a million pound pheasant.

Before joining GWCT as a Game and Wildlife Advisor, Alex Keeble was a fulltime gamekeeper and deer manager. He joins Chris and George to tackle some listener questions that range from the benefits (or costs) associated with maintaining your own personal standards and stingy beaters' pay to whether gundogs should wear goggles in the beat.

As the game shooting season draws to a close once more, Jake, Avian, George and Sam talk beaters' days, what to do with the game cards you've collected over the past few months, and review their progress against the goals they each set for the season... spoiler alert: the results weren't brilliant

Pete McLeod is best known as a fly fishing expert and guide, but when the rods are back on the rack, and the reels have been stowed away, he's just as passionate about shooting, whether that's syndicate days in Hampshire, walked up days in Scotland, talking about shotguns, or even indulging in a spot of amateur gunsmithery.

Pete joins Chris and George to discuss the similarities and differences between his two passions, as well as offer one listener some advice on small bores for youngsters, and adjudicate on a painful story of a greedy shot and the consequences he suffered

As we slide gently into 2026 George, Jake, Sam and Avian look back at the year just gone and forward to the one ahead.

They talk shooting-themed Christmas presents and take the chance to reward some members of the GunsOnPegs Podcast community for going above and beyond in 2025. They also take a look into the future and talk about the government's forthcoming consultation on shotgun licensing, and offer a listener some advice on how to build on their success in converting their friends and family to the joys of wild game.

Many years ago George made a guest appearance on A Break In The Action, a US podcast hosted by Ryan Doughty, all about his love for break action shotguns. Now it is our turn to repay the favour. Ryan is over for a shooting trip in the UK, so we took the chance to get him behind a mic and chat to him about everything from his love of 'double guns', his podcast, his impressions of shooting in the UK and his recommendations for Brits looking to try their hand at some US-style wingshooting.

We also settle a debate among a roving syndicate following a catastrophic piece of planning, and hear back from Oblamov on his work vs shooting conundrum!

Avian, Jake, Sam and George dive into the bulging email inbox and pick out a few gems - there's cider name ideas, peanut-flavoured pheasants, a heartwarming tale of childhood in the beating line, and a rather uncomfortable tale of one of our number...

Emily Graham has spent her life on the grouse moors of Weardale, but she's rarely - if ever- seen with a gun in hand. She's more likely to be out picking up with her trio of gundogs, or poking her long lens out of her car window as she snaps an award winning photo of a curlew brood. Now taking the helm of Conservation Communications, Emily is at the frontline of making the case for shooting in the wider world.

George, Avian, Sam and Jake are back behind the mics covering everything from cider-making to Great British Game Week and how to make a day out on the peg or in the beating line an unforgettable experience for the kids, and comparatively stress-free for you!

So much goes into a day's in the field, with a battalion of people working hard to put on the day - beaters, pickers up, and gamekeepers.

But all too often we overlook the people who quite literally put the icing on the cake - those who make sure that everyone is well-fed, that their glass is full, and that the conversation flows, manage the guestlist and keep the whole show on the road!