Game shooting: What is the going rate for sporting rights, and is the charge usually given per acre? We have been offered the lease of a farm, but it seems to me to be a little high.
Humane despatch: I am going to apply for a pistol for the humane despatch of deer. I generally stalk Roe but also take the occasional Red and Sika.
<strong>Q) Do we need to fit “bits” to our poults? They have a new brooder house and shelter pen, together with a run that is more than 40ft square, with plenty of cover and small trees. We would ...
<strong>Teaching dogs during spring grouse counts</strong>
What do you do to fill your time with when you’re not ferreting during the summer months?
John Glover salutes the highly focused and hard-working terrier known as the Patterdale
<strong>Simple steps to boost wildlife on your shoot</strong>
<strong>Wildlife organisations demand that no further licences for the destruction of buzzards or their nests are issued</strong>
Clay pigeon shooting: Why do I seem to give longish left-to-right crossers less forward allowance than similar ones going the other way. Do other people see the same thing?
Firearms licence conditions: Chief constable advises that conditions for firearms licensing should be streamlined to prevent delays and save police time.
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