Shooting Times & Country
More than meets the eye
Vision plays a huge role in how well we shoot and eye dominance issues can be resolved — if we know who to ask, says Simon Reinhold
6 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Opportunity knocks for a new shoot
It’s important to do your homework before taking on any new ground, says Liam Bell
4 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Gunroom
A 250-year-old cartridge fashioned from the pages of a famous novel tells its own remarkable story of the American Revolutionary War
3 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Keeper of the month
Beating the drum for the benefits of game management is hugely rewarding, Miles Bentley tells Will Pocklington
3 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Going beyond the wall
At season’s end wildfowl are at their most plentiful below the high tide mark, but this doesn’t mean the shooting is easy, says Richard Negus
6 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Gamekeeper
Walking the estate as part of a pair of Guns is a rare opportunity to view both the sport and the landscape from a different perspective
3 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Country Diary
This is a time for increasing optimism — spring is almost with us, the dairy venture is off to a flying start and even predators have their uses
3 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
A fitting end and a hard-won bag
It’s been a season like no other and, with the end drawing near, Jamie Tusting decides it’s a good time for a woodcock walkabout
6 min |
February 17, 2021
Sporting Gun
Then and now
Peter Theobald reflects on how little has changed since shooting pigeon became regarded as a legitimate form of control
4 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
Island life
New Zealand ecologist Biz Bell is the scourge of rodents in remote places. She talks techniques with Ed Cook
5 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
The draw of the catapult
Tom Sykes has rekindled a childhood passion and been out hunting with his ‘new’ favourite weapon. Here he explains how satisfying the sport can be
5 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
Action required
Malcolm Plant takes you through the steps required to analyse how to shoot successfully
7 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
Sick as a parrot
Lord Botham is prepared to ruffle the RSPB’s feathers over its approach to the countryside. Good, says Robin Scott, who has his own beef with the charity about the culling of parakeets
4 min |
March 2021
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A countryman and a scholar
Sporting Gun recently caught up with retired professor and former Army captain Simon Denny to talk about his life and career
8 min |
March 2021
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A winter's tale
The cold snap can bring its benefits as well as its challenges, says Jon Snowdon
7 min |
March 2021
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You and the law
Geoff Garrod marks the card of shooters as a new general licence regime beds in
4 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
Adventures Of Nick & Ted
Nick Ridley enjoys a final walked-up hurrah with Ted before the season is brought abruptly to a halt. Now for Percy’s training …
4 min |
March 2021
Sporting Gun
The Over And Undergraduates
The Cambridge University Clay Pigeon Shooting Club has flourished as students find a day in the countryside a welcome release from the pressures of academia, says club secretary Maximilian Yale
4 min |
March 2021
Shooting Times & Country
The Suite Way To Protect Game
Mapping out a fully integrated approach will pay dividends for a shoot, says Mike Swan
6 min |
February 17, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Trigger's blind faith
The story of a black-and-white beating spaniel shows how a keen sense of smell can compensate for a lack of sight, says David Tomlinson
6 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Upland keeper
Fieldsports organisations are frequently engaged in ‘fighting fires’ in various issues as they crop up, but we need to take a longer-term view
3 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Sharpshooter
The rise of plant-based ‘meat’ is yet another sign that game shooting needs to defend its position and ensure the antis don’t gain a foothold
2 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Laying a foundation for sporting success
Combining the best drives of two Essex syndicates is a real game changer that results in some very fine birds, says Simon Garnham
6 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Skill, patience and resolve
Flighting pinkfeet in the sub-zero dawn offers plenty of chances, but marauding barnacle geese provide an unwelcome distraction on the freezing creeks
6 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Broads bonanza for peculiar little deer
Classed as vulnerable in its native Yangtze delta range, Chinese water deer are far from vulnerable in Britain, says Sam Carlisle
7 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
Make do and mend
COVID-19 put paid to Ellena Swift’s planned programme for Keepa and Lizzie so it’s a good time to give both dogs a refresher course
6 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
An escape by a feather
In need of a lockdown project to alleviate boredom, Adam Hart ventures out at dusk to try woodcock flighting in Wales
5 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
A sporting life in Africa
The great white shark landed by Swahili fishermen is the talk of Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast
3 min |
January 27, 2021
Shooting Times & Country
When The King Shot Thousands Of Rabbits
Once valued for fur, meat and sport, rabbits later became such a problem they were discussed in Parliament, says Simon Reinhold
6 min |
January 27, 2021
The Field
Smells like a HeroRAT
‘Rats’ – a four-letter word to many of us. But thanks to its olfactory skills, that much-decried rodent isn’t necessarily the villain of the piece
6 min |