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Regular readers will know that I often extol the benefits of having a pigeon shooting partner who not only shares your passion for pigeon shooting but also goes about the business of decoying in the same way as you.  I was lucky when Paul won a BASC auction for a day’s pigeon shooting with me…

Spring is around the corner — I’m sitting here writing this looking at snowdrops, and daffodils are beginning to make an appearance in the garden. What I’ve actually been concentrating on in the garden, though, is not pretty flowers — I’ve been watching how much the clover has started to move. The early to middle…

The winter pigeon will mostly be feeding on rape. I don’t know of a single pigeon shooter who doesn’t miss the warm days decoying over late summer stubble in a T-shirt, but the only other option to shooting in the cold is to stay indoors and not shoot. That’s an easy decision for me to…

As seasons go, this one has been far from plain sailing. Most Guns have struggled for regular sport, and to say shoots have had their issues would be an understatement. Of course, an important part of being able to enjoy driven game is actually having the game to shoot at in the first place. As…

Understand the jargon heard on the clay shooting ground with Mark Russell’s tips for shooting beginners

This week Geoff Garrod gives in a lesson in preparation, taking advantage of favourable conditions to shoot young woodies over drilled winter rape before moving onto the cultivated wheat stubble. Then Jonathan McGee joins the Newton Rigg students for a day of driven grouse shooting on their Shap Moor in Cumbria. Kit List Part A…

This week Tom Payne is joined in the hide by Leon Challis-Davies from the British Game Assurance. After a quick pigeon shooting outing, Leon preps some tasty treats and explains how we can get more food from field to fork. Then Thomas Nissen joins Daniel Smith in Scotland for an action packed couple of days….

 Mark Ripley takes us out on another foxing mission armed with his trusty .223 topped with the latest in thermal technology – the Pulsar Thermion 2 XP50 Pro riflescope from Thomas Jacks Ltd. Using his Pulsar Accolade 2 LRF XP50 Pro binoculars, also from Thomas Jacks Ltd, Mark soon finds a fox or two out…

I won’t keep on about my jaw injury, but it feels like months since I fell out of that ash tree. I was recently speaking to a friend, who is an ex-England rugby player, about injuries. He was absolutely right when he said it will feel like eternity to me and to everyone else like…

Mark Ripley is out during the lambing season to protect vulnerable lambs on the hills using the new TH50 thermal rifle scope from InfiRay. Using his Pulsar Accolade thermal spotter, Mark wastes no time in culling several foxes with this awesome set up. Then Geoff Garrod is back out on spring drill with his essential…