Shooting in the UK covers more ground than most sports. A walked-up day on the hill for grouse, a drive on a lowland pheasant shoot, a winter morning in a hide waiting on pigeons, a foreshore dawn for wigeon — the disciplines are different, the skills are different, and the knowledge required for each one runs deep.
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I've started pigeon shooting on my dad’s farm and love every minute of it. My shooting's getting better but I have yet to manage a double, is there a secret or recognised approach to doing this?
When pigeon shooting last summer, I enjoyed a couple of days on laid wheat in hot weather - the only trouble was the heat haze from the barrels caused problems when the gun was mounted. How do you sto...
Pigeon shooting: In your opinion, are more pigeon shooters now using steel shot cartridges to keep costs down? The reason I ask is that nobody seems to be talking about the subject, yet clay shooters ...
Deer stalking: Yesterday I stalked a fairly large wood and spotted several roe deer, but didn’t get a shot. After a while the deer started to bark at one another.
<strong>Head north for some memorable stalking</strong>
DEFRA minister's partridge shooting estate wins top prize: An estate owned by Richard Benyon MP has won a coveted Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust grey partridge trophy.
<strong>The need to raise ferrets with a strong prey drive</strong>
Why are accurate-shooting rifles frequently advertised as having fully floating barrels, and what is a fully floating barrel anyway?
Deer stalking: Why do fawns have spots when the young of other animals don’t seem to need them?
<strong>How to hunt out woodies in the summer</strong>
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