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Shooting hares to control poachers

When aggressive, destructive poachers get out of hand, drastic action is needed. The poachers are targeting this farm because it has plenty of hares. Sadly

Tangled buck in the rut

Roy Lupton is after fallow bucks in the rut, trying out a new set of antlers and call, when he comes upon a buck in

Superb Aikengall partridges

Ollie Williams and his father are shooting partridges at the superb Aikengall shoot in East Lothian. There are plenty of birds, and the weather is

A Year in the Life of Sika

Sika deer have become firmly established in the UK following escapes from private collections, but due to their secretive nature their success has largely gone

Hampshire Countryside Day 2024

Andy Ford enjoys a traditional celebration of everything that’s great about the countryside – from the people and animals to every sort of hunting, shooting

Athletic Welsh partridges

Paul Childerley heads to North Wales to shoot legendary driven partridges on the Gwysaney shoot near Mold. Trouble is, he still hasn’t fully recovered from

British Open .410 championship 2024

Geoff Garrod and Paul Childerley shoot it out between them at the 2024 British Open .410 championship at EJ Churchill, with help from James Marchington,

Stalking a roe for its cuts

Chef José Souto knows how to present game. He can take a roebuck and make it look as appetising as any cut of meat gracing

Pigeon pluckers

David has bought a plucking machine to help him prepare chickens for the table. Cai Ap Bryn wants to try it out on pigeons, so

Grey squirrel tree killers

After a successful squirrel eradication programme in the winter, disaster strikes in the summer. A dozen good-quality oak trees are dead and all the indications

Pig farm corvid epidemic

Helen Tinner is out with Nick Elsdon from Anglia Sporting, on a pig farm with a massive corvid problem. Nick does his best to put

First cut foxes

The first silage has been cut, and Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services is taking advantage of the new vistas that have opened up, having

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