Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Training a Team
Top gundog trainer Gilly Nickols gives her tips for training a team of gundogs and keeping them up to the mark during the close season.
Top gundog trainer Gilly Nickols gives her tips for training a team of gundogs and keeping them up to the mark during the close season.
Andy Crow has a rabbit problem on the farm he manages in Kent. After years of low rabbit numbers, this year they are back. He
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When pigeons are feeding around a huge area, how do you bring them back to the point where you want to shoot them? Andy Crow
How fast can you gralloch a deer? Paul Childerley puts in an impressive time in our speed challenge – and he gets to keep all
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It’s a laidback drive-around local farms looking for foxes – and answering the knotty question whether to shoot vixens at this time of year and
Keep your gundog interested in water. Gilly Nickols offers her tips for summer gundog training. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our
Richard Leonard is protecting a farm from attack by starlings. He is hunting them with an Air Arms S510. This item is supported by Air
Gilly Nickols says start your summer gundog training programming with steadiness. Reinforce that and it will make it easier to drop the rest of your
Andy Crow is out helping a local pheasant shoot with its roebuck cull. For Crow’s films go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ This item appears on YouTube in
Browning invites a gang of shooting writers to France to burn through 24,000 rounds of ammunition. Shooting Sports editor Peter Moore, Rifle Shooter editor Dom
Tim Pilbeam is looking at the Kipplauf, a rifle designed by Continentals for heading up hills – and he has three different models to play
Cai is protecting pear and apple orchards with a .22 rimfire. We shoot rabbits in daylight then cook them over a fire. After eating our
Kent farmer Andy Crow has drilled his crops – and now he has to keep the pigens away while they grow. He reveals his tactics
We go behind the scenes at Staffordshire clayshootiung ground Oakedge. How do they set up the targets? We talk to Oakedge’s Paul Hodson. For more
Paul Hodson wants to see how far he can break a clay with an airgun. 30 yards? 50 yards? 70 yards? more? Find out here.
Tim Pilbeam is a powder hound. He likes guns that use cartridges with propellant. Chris Kemp works for airgun manufacturer Air Arms. So whose rifle
The roebuck stalking season is open. Charlie Jacoby heads to Cumbria with two US hunting TV stars: Larysa Switlyk and Lindsay Christensen. They are out
The seagull menace on Britain’s coastal resorts is getting out of hand. After being attacked by gulls in Eastbourne, we look at the options for
Tim heads into the hills behind the Costa del Sol to go mouflon and wild boar hunting. It’s a great way to end a hard
Being and all-round shooter means learning to shoot from many different positions. When you need to shoot quickly, you must be accurate and you must
Jamie Chandler has time for a crafty rabbit shoot without his wife finding out – and if he is quick. Ironically, he is on an
Where pigeons are a pest and pheasants a gamebird in the UK, in South Africa, it is all about doves and guineafowl. Rich Leonard is
Foxes are after lambs and baby deer in England at this time of year – and Roy is after foxes. This time he is calling
Do you smack, correct or punish a gundog when you are training it? Do you train only with rewards and treats? Is a working dog
Paul Childerley shows how to skin a deer in preparation for a full head mount by a taxidermist. For Sako rifles, go to GMK.co.uk For
Charlie Jacoby is off with his son and two cousins – all of them descendants of World War I sniper Major Hesketh-Prichard – to find
Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers – and to try out the #eaglecam he
Ryan Dawson of Cymru Hunters and Nick Richards of British Shooting Services ask Charlie Jacoby up for a day’s pigeon shooting in South Wales. Unfortunately,
Andy Crow has a hush-hush mission on this pigeon shooting outing. Of course, he is protecting the crops on his Kent farm from marauding pigeons
Paul has been offered a trophy 75-80cm trophy mouflon in Hungary. They grow to more than 90cm here. He is on a recce to find
Champion shot Josh Bridges is at Coniston Shooting Ground to give his tips on shooting targets from the high tower, plus why he likes
There is something of the night about this kind of clayshooting. Find out how Andy Crow gets on, shooting in the dark. Visit www.DartfordClayShootingClub.com This
Paul Childerley is hosting a field trial – and Andy Crow joins him to help put birds on the ground for the dog handlers. Find
Paul Childerley, Cai Ap Bryn and Johan ‘Trigger’ Solheim are stalking the field margins of Bedfordshire in search of Chinese water deer, perhaps the UK’s
Roy Lupton is in Scotland flying his goshawk on rabbits over pointers. It is fast-action sport – and a beautiful combination of man, dog and
Jamie Chandler investigates what makes animals including rabbits and squirrels jump in the air when you shoot them in the head. This item is supported
Rich Leonard is after doves on a farm in Cape Privince, South Africa, armed with his Air Arms S510. This item is supported by Air
Expert deerstalker Roy Lupton shows the kit and the techniques you need to reload your own rifle ammunition, from start to finish. For more info
The Swedish work their elkhounds on a variety of big game. Tim Pilbeam is out to shoot wild boar flushed by an elkhound in Sweden.
Top game shot and 26-times world champion George Digweed had a lucky escape when his tractor caught fire. George was mowing maize at the shoot
Mark Winser joins Andy Crow to shoot pigeons on the farm in Kent. The birds are coming in hard on the oilseed rape crop and
What a mixture! Roger presents items on our airgun show AirHeads about BSA guns – and lots of other stuff too.
In the latest ‘Federal on the farm’, Andy Crow takes his Sako Quad and two different cartridges out into the field to see what works
Roger Lait is off to an undisclosed fotball stadium to shoot foxes. Happily he has the latest Pulsar kit from Thomas Jacks. Find out how
Sporting Shooter and its sister titles Rifle Shooter and Clay Shooter are all under the editorial control of the extraordinary Dom Holtam.
Hunters and wildlife watchers both love the Eriksberg estate in Southern Sweden. You can go there to drink in nature with a pair of binos,
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