Shooting rights up for grabs Shooting rights in the busy south of England don’t come up for sale often, and the ones that do are fascinating. Symonds & Sampson is selling the freehold shooting rights for 210 acres of water meadow along the River Avon south of Ringwood in Hampshire. The lot, just off the appropriately named Duck Island Lane, includes 7,500m of river frontage along the Avon and Bickerley Mill Stream, but sadly no fishing rights as these remain with the Christchurch Angling Club. The shooting rights to the water meadow have been listed with a guide price of £35,000, but the level of interest suggests it may go for considerably more. Morgan Clement of Symonds & Sampson said that interest for the lot doesn’t seem to have been dulled as a result of any GL43-based controversy or the incoming ban on lead shot. It is currently used for wildfowling, low-level deerstalking and a small amount of hay is taken. Despite its location five miles west of the New Forest Nati