We’re out on the range with something very special: A Purdey bolt-action rifle, possibly the ultimate in London-made rifle craftsmanship. Stuart Wilson and Nigel Musto have set out the gongs ready to test it at increasing ranges – but before…
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The Airgun Show – Night vision rat shoot, PLUS the Umarex RP5 pump-action pistol on test…
An infestation of rats is causing problems on one of Mat Manning’s farmyard permissions and a bumper bag could be on the cards. These nocturnal rodents are wary, though, so Mat has coupled his Brocock Bantam Sniper HR air rifle…
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The Shooting Show – high-octane driven wild boar shooting
We’re back in Poland for the second instalment of a driven boar hunt with Norma, Merkel and Aimpoint. Jason’s thrown straight into the action, with a flurry of wild boar on the very first drive providing almost non-stop action and…
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The Shooting Show – day-and-night foxing in Ireland
Jason Doyle has been called into urgent action by an angry farmer suffering form heavy fox predation. It’s an all-hours fox that has made raids in broad daylight, so we’re going to need to camp out 24 hours for this…
The Shooting Show — French wild boar hunt and Richard Ali interviewed
We continue our European hunt as we follow Nick Latus in France. He’s after boar, undertaking some population control on the young pigs. It’s shooting from a high seat, but the action comes thick and fast with dozens of pigs…
The Shooting Show – British boar under moonlight and Heym SR21 review
In south-west Scotland, Byron tracks down hunting operator Steve Sweeting who has a spot of boar control to take care of. Boar damage has reached high levels in one of his hunting areas, and he’s got a big keiler in…
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The Shooting Show – hind stalking on Skye and rifle set-up
We’ve made the long journey north to the isle of Skye for this week’s show. It’s perfect stalking territory and we’ve sniffed out the one sporting estate on the island, Eilean Iarmain. There we follow professional stalker Scott Mackenzie on…
