Fox shooting with night vision during lambing
When it comes to protecting lambs from foxes, it’s often the rogue fox that the dedicated huntin’ varminter is after. Roy Lupton is out shooting foxes with night vision on English downland in this first in our OutFoxing series. More on the kit: Nightmaster 800-IR www.taclight.co.uk/dereelight/night-master-800-ir.html Bushwear www.bushwear.co.uk/collections/calls-and-lures Blaser www.blaser.de Zeiss www.zeiss.com This item first […]
Browning new gun launches 2013
The new A5 semi-auto, the B725 ‘English’, the Maral rifle and the new stock for the X-Bolt GRS are all on show at this review of Browning’s 2013 product launch day. British hunting/sporting journalists gather to see the wares at the Ian Coley Shooting School in Gloucestershire – and pass judgement. This item first appeared […]
Rubbish dump Ratting – They’re everywhere!
We’re hunting rats with airguns. And before that we’re testing which pellet has the most penetrative power – a .177, a .20 or a .22 – on a copy of rude bestseller ’50 Shades of Gray’. It’s Pellet Power & Performance episode 4. Roy Lupton, Mark Gilchrist and Andy Crow are armed with Webleys in […]
Fox plays with terrier – funny animal film
We’ve got a gamekeeper who’s a bit of an old softie. Although he has ‘dealt with’ lots of foxes in the line of his work, he couldn’t resist this one as a cub, and adopted it. Now, we in the hunting/shooting community use terriers to catch foxes. Judging by the way it’s besting the terrier […]
Fieldsports Britain – Saucy airgun pellet test + fox shooting + new guns
It’s Carry On Ratting this week. First we test which is the best airgun pellet for penetration – the .22, .20 or ,177 – on a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey (and get Roy Lupton, Andy Crow and Mark Gilchrist to read out the passages their pellet hits – fnarr). then we use the […]