More than 30,000 visitors are expected to descend on Scone Parklands this weekend for a jam packed Scottish Game Fair.
Scotland’s biggest and best outdoor country sports event will be held at Scone Palace from Friday through until Saturday.
This year’s programme promises to be bigger than ever before, with a huge variety of things to see and do for all the family as well as country sports enthusiasts.
The Royal Marines Unarmed Combat Display team are topping the Main Ring bill, with other new attractions such as Strathearn Horse Logging offering an insight into this environmentally sensitive means of timber extraction.
The baking trio that is Three Sisters Bake will once again headline the cookery theatre with Christopher Trotter also making a welcome return with his Forgotten Foods culinary displays.
More than 450 traders, including 50 new brands, will be on site this year alongside the ever popular falcons, gun dogs, duck and sheep show, terrier racing and Hill Ponies (Sunday only).
A plethora of pipe bands and hunting hounds, as well as the multitude of ‘have a go’ sports and competitions from clay and drone shooting, fishing, scurry and gun dog tests, will also be on show across the three days.
An exciting development for 2016 is the new forestry section, sponsored by Scottish Woodlands.
Fisherman’s Row also returns stronger than ever with an especially vibrant area for fly fishermen and Gunmakers Row has been extended for 2016.
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is an independent wildlife conservation charity and the GWCT Scottish Game Fair raises essential funds to support research and conservation, whilst educating people about Scotland’s rich natural heritage.
The income generated and overall regional economic impact of the Fair in 2015 was estimated at £4-4.5 million.
This year, the GWCT’s flagship central exhibit will be themed Grass to Grouse. The exhibit will have displays promoting how sympathetic management of a hill edge livestock farm can be efficient and carefully integrated with sporting enterprises without loss of biodiversity.
