Graham Downing has written freelance in the countryside and farming sector over a period of 35 years. He is a regular contributor to leading UK country sports magazines Shooting Times & Country Magazine and The Field. He edits and publishes Deer, the magazine of the British Deer Society, and has contributed to titles ranging from The Daily Telegraph, Farmers Weekly and Countryman's Weekly to Shooting Gazette, Sporting Gun, Sporting Shooter, The Gun Collector, Shooting and Conservation, The Shooting Field and Ducks Unlimited.

His most recent books include The Sporting Shooter's Handbook (Quiller Publishing 2018), Stalking Muntjac (Quiller Publishing 2014), The Deer Stalking Handbook (Quiller Publishing 3rd edition 2013), Practical Woodland Stalking (Quiller Publishing 2010), and A Sporting Century (Quiller Publishing 2008).

He is a member of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists.