
The rabbits on one of Mat Manning’s shoots have spiralled in numbers after a successful breeding season, and their burrowing is posing a danger to livestock. Mat sets up an evening ambush, shooting from the prone position for added stability…
The rabbits on one of Mat Manning’s shoots have spiralled in numbers after a successful breeding season, and their burrowing is posing a danger to livestock. Mat sets up an evening ambush, shooting from the prone position for added stability…
Breezy conditions can make accurate shooting with an air rifle very tricky but Mat Manning refuses to let blustery weather hamper this week’s hunt. Mat finds a small, sheltered field and gets down low to the ground to ensure that…
Late summer is a great time for shooting rabbits, and we follow Mat Manning as he heads out to target them at dusk. It turns out to be a busy session, and Mat captures the action through the scope-cam as…
Making a mixed bag really adds to the enjoyment of an air rifle hunt, and Andy Watkins is setting his sights on rabbits and magpies. Success with the rabbits provides Andy with fresh bait for his corvid ambush, and the…
We’ve got a double-barrelled hunt this week as Mat Manning sets his sights on grey squirrels and rabbits on two different permissions. The shooting is tricky in bright, windless conditions but Mat shows how to use fieldcraft to put quarry…
Spring is here and rabbit numbers are on the increase so Mat Manning is out on a grassland permission keeping the coneys in check. Mat has chosen ambush tactics for this evening’s hunt, and he’s shooting with a scope-cam to…
Rabbit shooting can get tricky in the winter, when bunnies become very nocturnal, only venturing out under cover of darkness. Mat Manning gears up with the NiteSite and shows how night vision tactics can be used to bring wary rabbits…
With woodpigeons hammering an arable crop, Andy Watkins heads out on a hide based hunt to bring the birds to book. These pigeons are wily but, over a two-day sortie, Andy manages to bag a few birds for pest control…
With the rats proving reluctant to show themselves at night, we hit the farmyard in broad daylight to see if the rodents are on the move. And it seems that the rats here are keeping unusual hours, as Mat picks…