Preaching the Gospel of Game

As the shooting season draws to a close, the awards season opens. Last week the Eat Game Awards nominations process came to a conclusion and you can now vote for your favourites in a number of categories, from Best Game Cook to Best Game Educator and Best Game Butcher. 

The awards are a chance for the shooting community to highlight the important work carried out by individuals and businesses large and small, in bringing the delights of game to a wide audience, be that through the sale and promotion of game, the innovative use of game or the education of the general public about the health and sustainability credentials - not to mention the wonderful flavours - of game.

Shooting is, at root, about food production, and it behoves all shooting folk to ensure that all shot game is treated with the respect that it deserves. This means making sure that there is a vibrant market for the end product of ‘the best days of our lives’ and that game ends up not only on our own dinner plates, but on those of as many people as possible.

Proud sponsors of the Eat Game Awards

This year GunsOnPegs is proud to be the sponsor of the Best Media Storm / Noise / Influencer category. This is a category that seeks to honour the work of people who have been using the power of both mainstream and social media to spread the Gospel of Game far and wide. These Prophets of Pheasant, these Disciples of Duck, these Venison Evangelists, [OK, enough now. ed.] play a vital role, whether they are household names or working behind the scenes.

The nominees include game dealers, celebrity chefs and social media influencers - here they are:

Anna Rogers  - Very Good Venison

Anna runs the popular Facebook and Instagram “Very Good Venison” Anna shares a wide range of simple (and not so simple) game recipes to her thousands of followers, and is also a contributor to Rifle Shooter Magazine.

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Ben Rigby Game

Ben Rigby started game dealing in 1979, aged 17, with knowledge gained from a farming background. Since then Ben has created a company that has grown from its small beginnings into one of England’s foremost game dealerships with a portfolio of loyal customers in the UK and Internationally.

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Billy Wyatt - Giving up the Game

Billy is the creator and driving force behind the Giving Up The Game Facebook group. With 23,000 members, the group seeks to give people access to cheap or free local game, and for those with more game than they can use a way to ensure that it doesn’t go to waste. The group is incredibly active, with members sharing recipe ideas, requests for game, and offers of everything from rabbit to venison.

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Bute Street Foodie

This personal recipe blog began as a way of sharing recipes with the author’s fellow attendees of the Bute Street market. Although the blog is mainly focussed on fish and shellfish, for Great British Game Week the blog created Game4Spice, a culinary tour of India using game, with more than 25 amazing recipes.

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Joey and Katy Cook

Joey and Katy live and work in Suffolk and specialise in seasonal cooking using as much local produce as possible. Although many of their recipes focus on veg, they don’t shy away from using venison and other wild foods in their dishes.

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John Cavana - #GiftOfGame

John is another person using game to improve people’s lives, particularly those who are finding life hard. His #GiftofGame project provides hot game-based meals to people living rough, through churches and community kitchens, using game donated by shoots. He has also been distributing meals to members of the emergency services.

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Keith Greig

Keith is a food enthusiast and cook from Edinburgh. His passion for local, seasonal produce sees him share recipes to his thousands of Instagram followers using everything from goose to pheasant and venison. The photography on his account is mouthwatering!

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Louisa Clutterbuck (North)

As Head of Operations at British Game Assurance, Louisa is a key person in helping to promote high standards in the game industry and helping to grow the market for British game. Louisa also heads up the BGA’s public-facing Eat Wild Campaign, designed to convert the wider public to eating game.

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Mike Robinson

Celebrity chef, restaurateur, deer manager and TV star, Mike is a huge advocate of wild food. In recent weeks he has appeared on the BBC’s countryfile programme making the case that more people should be eating British Venison, while his US TV show ‘Hunting the Wild’ has given him a huge profile in the UK and abroad. The menus in his restaurants regularly feature game, especially venison from the ground he manages.

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Scott Rea - The Scott Rea Project

Scott Rea, a butcher with a passion for field-to-fork and nose-to-tail eating, has racked up nearly 85 million views on his YouTube channel. In his videos he demonstrates artisanal butchery skills, recipes and more, frequently demonstrating the techniques required to process game.

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To see all of the nominees in all the categories and cast your votes, visit Eat Game Awards