Tim Pilbeam

Airgun vs Rimfire

Airgun vs Rimfire

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

Spanish Mouflon Hunting

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

Elkhound at Work

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.

Bloopers 2016

Work with people like Roy, Crow and the rest, and it’s not all going to go according to plan. And it doesn’t. Here is where

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Straight-Pull Rifle Test

Straight-Pull Rifle Test

Top rifle review Tim Pilbeam has a Merkel Helix, a Blaser R8 and a Browning Maral to play with as he runs through the pros

Hunting Badgers

Badgers are the countryside’s vacuum cleaners. They tidy up a lot of wildlife. Left unchecked, however, and they can suck up the rug with the

Wild Boar Shoot Training

  Tim Pilbeam is learning about charging boar, running boar and high seat boar. In his new outing in the Rucksack & Rifle series, he

How to Hunt Boar

Tim Pilbeam is out after boar in Sweden. Find out how he uses dogs to bring them down. For more about Mamima Jakt, go to

Tim Pilbeam is Seeking Sika

Tim Pilbeam is Seeking Sika

In the latest of our Rucksack & Rifle series, Tim Pilbeam is in Inverness-shire with Lachie Smith looking for a sika stag. It is autumn

Hunting driven deer

Hunting driven deer

Tim Pilbeam is on a montería in southern Spain. It is what they call a big driven game hunt, where they shoot in a day

Superb Spanish Montería

Superb Spanish Montería

Tim Pilbeam is off to try driven big game hunting in Spain. It’s an entire year’s worth of game management packed into one day, with

Mouflon Hunt, Croatia

Mouflon Hunt, Croatia

It’s part two of Rucksack & Rifle, and this time Tim Pilbeam is after mouflon on the craggy Croatian coast. With the Mediterranean as a

Roebuck hunting in Croatia

Roebuck hunting in Croatia

Tim Pilbeam is off on his first outing in our new series Rucksack & Rifle. He is stalking roebuck in Croatia. This film was first

Tim Pilbeam on Bullet Accuracy

Tim Pilbeam on Bullet Accuracy

Sporting Rifle magazine expert Tim Pilbeam uses tracer rounds to find out where his bullet is going. It’s a fascinating experiment and worth anyone who

Browning’s New Foxshooter

Browning’s New Foxshooter

It’s an extraordinary time to buy new guns in the UK. the slow collapse of the euro means any gun manufactured for the eurozone is

Best sporting rifles of 2015

Best sporting rifles of 2015

Sporting Rifle magazine review Tim Pilbeam selects his favourite rifles for deerstalking and foxshooting from this year’s offering by the gun trade. Find out here

Hind Cull Help

Hind Cull Help

Sporting Rifle expert Tim Pilbeam wants a hill-stalking warm-up. He is going to Scotland to take part in the hind cull and needs to make

Lamping with Lurchers

Lamping with Lurchers

They’re dogged up and ready to rabbit. When Sporting Rifle’s Tim Pilbeam wanted to show off the best of British sport, he thought ‘lurchers’. Cue

Foxing in Style

Foxing in Style

Sporting Rifle foxshooting expert Tim Pilbeam likes to do things in style. He has what he reckons is the most comfortable foxshooting set-up in the

Wreck fishing for record cod

In April 2012 we chartered a boat out of Eastbourne in search of the old king cod. Deep Blue Charters had just broken the record

Budget foxing rifle review

Budget foxing rifle review

Sporting Rifle magazine rifle reviewer Tim Pilbeam looks at three rifle kits designed for the fox shooter who wants something accurate, reliable and has less

Foxing for beginners

Rifle magazine’s Tim Pilbeam and Sporting Shooter magazine’s Roy Lupton. Tim has set up a course of targets on his farm in Sussex. And, of

Monster rabbiting truck

Monster rabbiting truck

Rabbit shooting with Tim Pilbeam, a man with a dark side. On the surface he is a successful businessman, farmer and family man with a

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