Treetop black cock hunt
It’s like deer stalking but in this case our deer is perched on 25 metre tall stilts. Game chef Cai Ap Bryn is in Finland
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It’s like deer stalking but in this case our deer is perched on 25 metre tall stilts. Game chef Cai Ap Bryn is in Finland
To go elk hunting in Finland, you have to be fit. You watch the dog chasing the elk in real time via GPS. Then you
Ingredients 4-6 pheasant breasts 8-12 rashers smoked back bacon Butter For the stuffing: 2 small onions diced 100g bread crumbs Small handful of sage leaves
Ingredients Diced onion 300g fruit 500g venison 1 heaped tbsp marmalade Generous glass of port 400ml venison or beef stock 1 heaped tsp cinnamon 1
Cai Ap Bryn is meeting a man in a car park… Chris Dewbury from rifle, clothing and accessories distributor Blaser Sporting has come along with
Roy is out with the guys from Jelen Premier, trying to get on to a big old sika stag. They use every calling trick in
It’s all new, new, new in this episode of Crowhow. Andy’s Blaser F16 has been off to the factory for a series of bespoke tweaks,
Cai Ap Bryn is a hunt swap. He goes to visit Johan Trygve ‘Trigger’ Solheim of the Svanøy Foundation in Norway to go deerstalking. While
Andy Crow gets the call-up to a driven partridge shoot in Bedfordshire. As part of his Crowhow series, he is enjoying the hospitality of Jack
There are fallow deer munching Crow’s crops. The farm manager from Kent gets out his Blaser R8 and waits out for them, partly because he
Deer manager Niall Rowantree is travelling Planet Deer again, looking at how New Zealand produces monster red stag heads, and going hunting for Tahr in
Top clay shot Hannah Gibson has never been pigeon shooting. Thanks to Andy Crow, that problem has now been solved – and she turns out
Deer don’t just yield roast haunch and tender venison backstraps. Here is Cai Ap Bryn’s recipe for delicious deer heart wraps. Ingredients: ▶ 1 deer
How did New Zealand produce the largest red deer the world has ever seen? In the first in our series Planet Deer, Scottish deer expert
A good stick and long pockets is all you need – not because you need to pay for anything, but because Niall Rowantree has a
Andy Crow is out with his shotgun. Oilseed rape is vulnerable to pigeons and the Kent farm manager is decoying them to prevent crop damage.
150 people came to the The Blaser/Mauser/Sauer/Minox skills day at Braces’ range just south of Bristol. They learned about how to shoot off sticks, how
Cai Ap Bryn shows how to cook a southern fried venison steak on an open fire, with paprika, chilli, parsley, ground coriander, black pepper, salt
Cai Ap Bryn shows how to cook a fallow haunch steak on an open fire. Make sure the fire is burning hot. Just add butter,
Cai has to set up an ambush if he is to shoot a fallow buck for the pot. He knows where they are – but
Andy Crow shows how planning and reconnaissance can make a pigeon day work. He sets up his hide under a tree in the middle of
What a combination: Andy Crow and Jason Doyle head out roestalking on a lovely warm day in the south of England. Andy is sponsored by:
Crows are hitting the newly-drilled barley. So, Andy Crow is out to hit the Crows. He shows how he decoys these wily birds and how
It’s an animal feed crop and pigeons love it. That’s why April sees Andy Crow out protecting lucerne fields from the birds. He explains decoying
The crops on Andy Crow’s farm in Kent are under attack from pigeons. With a good wind whipping them along, it’s challenging decoying and shooting.
Red stags in the rut, fighting other stags, defending their hinds, and hunted by stalkers: the cycle of life and death continues in the Scottish
Close-up, slow-motion photography reveals just how much lead a high pheasant needs, as Andy Crow goes shooting in Yorkshire on of the UK’s specialist high-pheasant
There’s a big, fat fox taking ducks on a shoot, and other foxes congregating in the lambing fields. It all means work for Dorset foxshooter
Planning your Christmas kit special? Click on the images for links to their high-res jpegs in Dropbox. All caption info on this page. For more,
A young stalker is out after a red stag for the first time. He is stalking at the Ardnamurchan with Niall Rowantree of West Highland
Crow has been sent loads of new kit to try on pigeons and deer: – a new stock on his Blaser F16 – a new
Is this the future of the local country show? More than 150 Firearm Certificate holders went for a free day sending ammunition down range at
The wildlife – the scenery – the deerstalking. Over 12 months, we follow wildlife manager Niall Rowantree as he looks after the deer on
Jackdaws are damaging the crops and farm manager Andy Crow is going to do something about them. He packs his pigeon-shooting kit – with a
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
Tim Pilbeam is looking at the Kipplauf, a rifle designed by Continentals for heading up hills – and he has three different models to play
RWS 10.3×68 rifle cartridge Hunters in the mountainous Swiss canton of Graubünden have relied on the effectiveness of 10.3mm calibres for the past 150 years.
It’s time for the Ardnamurchan hind cull. Niall Rowantree is up the hill with Robert Sajitz and Alexandra Baur of Blaser, Sporting Shooter editor Rebecca
When the rest of Europe freezes in winter, woodcock head for the west coast of the British Islaes where the gulf stream keeps the land
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
Mario Theus of Palorma Hunting has come up with a stunning new series on YouTube about hunting ibex in the Swiss Alps. Charlie Jacoby goes
Niall Rowantree is in the middle of the red hind cull (female red deer) at Ardnamurchan in the Highlands of Scotland. Robert Sajitz from German
After the first showing of Blaser’s new shotgun at the British Shooting Show the F16 is in the hands of journalists at E J Churchill
Blaser and Browning are launching new shotguns. We look at the Blaser F16 sporter and game gun, and the new John Moses Browning collection from
Paul Childerley gets to use the latest kit from Carl Zeiss Sports Optics and Blaser Rifles on a driven hunt in Germany. Find out how
Long range shooters Ulf Lindroth and Thomas Haugland travel to the Arctic Circle to perform a serious field test combining the new Blaser R8 in
In some countries they are treated as rural heroes. The UK has a long way to go. There is a small group of men dedicated
Blaser flew in to the UK this week to make three big announcements: ✩ It is hooking up with top clay ground EJ Churchill ✩
We’re in fox patrol on a sheep farm. 13 foxes have been spotted by the farmer and Roy, Darren and Gary are in the Gator
A fox breaks in and kills falconer Roy Lupton’s oldest and favourite goshawk, he only has one thought on his mind – get that fox.
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