Gamekeeping

High-fiving foxshooters

Two shooters from Somerset are on fox patrol around a shoot when they come across a foxshooting field of dreams. Find out how Stephen Phillips

On Test: Sauer Keeper Package

With foxes on the prowl for pheasant poults, it’s time for keepers to get out the rifles and start shooting. To coincide with this, Sauer

Gamekeepers’ rifle day

Gamekeepers’ rifle day

The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation gets its Midlands members on to a hillside in Derbyshire to try out Browning’s latest crop of rifles: the X-Bolt, T-Bolt

Tidying up around the Shoot

Tidying up around the Shoot

George Digweed is a busy man. He has just won his 25th world title in a domination of shooting sports that began in the 1980’s.

Gamekeeper and his JCB WorkMax

Gamekeeper and his JCB WorkMax

It’s July – a busy time of year for keepers – and we’re out with Gary Freegard, gamekeeper on a 4,000-acre shooting estate on the

Polaris RZR quadbike review

Polaris RZR quadbike review

Is this the ultimate gamekeeper transport? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes the Polaris range for a burn round the fields. This film first appeared

Pheasant shooting in Kent

The proof of the pudding is in the eating or, in this case, the shooting. Canal Game Farm’s birds are on shoots all over the

Foxing in Devon

With the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and Sporting Rifle expert Mike Powell is no exception. He’s protecting his

White pheasants

Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or

Game farm – chicks arrive

Game farm – chicks arrive

Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of April. Staff are there to make sure they settle

Game farm – hut building

Game farm – hut building

It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took them down at the end of last season and

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