Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom
![Snowden Slights with retriever and shotgun around 1910 'the last of Yorkshire's Wildfowlers'[5]](/uploads/202502/10/Snowden_Slights,_front_view_YORYM-S135233.jpg)
In the United Kingdom hunting without qualification generally refers to hunting with hounds-normally fox hunting, beagling, stag (deer) hunting or minkhunting-whereas shooting is the shooting of game birds. What is called deer hunting elsewhere is deer stalking.