Related Clues:

• Time to finish off the game
• When game shootable
• Play first game of new campaign: anyone could be opposition here
• When game may be shot
• Old boy bags bird before main period designated for shooting
• When killing is permitted, off-shore area is further forward
• Hunter's active months
• Free fall enjoyed by some sportsmen
• Public have three months free hunting period
• Period when swans may be captured by a noose, perhaps?
• Start to add flavour to food at this time of year
• Time to kill?
• Legal hunting period, or what each starred answer does
• Prime hunting time
• Frank Spring is killing time on the estate