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In this week’s episode Chris Castle is in Aberdeen to flight ducks. After a morning of decoying geese, Chris and his pals return for an evening of testing sport. Then Mark Ripley heads to Hungary, setting up in a high seat and waiting out in the forests for the ever elusive wild boar. FULL KIT…

Wild boar hunting in the UK The United Kingdom’s native wild boar population officially became extinct in the late part of the 17th Century. Roughly three hundred years later, in the early 1980’s, the species retuned as keeping of wild boar in a captive environment became popular with British farmers looking for viable and unique…

The boom was so loud I thought the sky was falling in. I crouched down, so adamant something awful was about to unfold I was in the first nanoseconds of bolting down into the belly of the valley below. My eyes struggled to adapt to the shock of the explosion. My ears felt soft and…

The thrill of stalking driven boar in Germany

Boar hunting in Croatia: In the depths of a wintry Croatian forest, Patrick Laurie is consumed by the primal thrill of wild boar hunting with sporting agent Frank Ille from Basswood Sporting Agency.

In the soft gloom of the Normandy woods, the silence is broken only by the soft patter of trotters. James Ashcroft holds his breath on the hunt for the French wild boar

The hunting of wild boar with a bow and arrow in the north-western Italian region of Liguria has been legalised thanks to the efforts of Councillor Alessio Piana. The Ligurian Regional Council recently approved an amendment that allows wild animals to be killed with bows and arrows. Wild boar, deer, and mouflon can all now…

Nothing beats thermal and digital infrared day/night vision optics when it comes to giving hunters a clear view of their quarry by day and by night. Modern thermal gear provides an unmissable view of your target species’ heat signature, even when it’s partially obscured by cover, while full-colour day and infrared night vision offers clear…

 There was a time when the only way it was possible to engage in exotic game hunting in untamed and dangerous corners of the globe was to be called something like Baron Bror ‘Bullet’ von Blixen-Finecke or Lady Grizel ‘Killer’ Cochrane. These professional hunters and adventurers had been sired from long lines of bloodthirsty aristocrats…

If you want a practical Estonian hunting tip, it is this; don’t go hunting in Estonia in a Volkswagen Polo. It is great for battering up the E67 from Riga in Latvia to Pärnu in Estonia; a little too great if the image of it taken by a speed camera on the border is anything…