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The Airgun Show – shooting rats with night vision, PLUS top tips for autumn and winter hunting

The temperature is falling and the nights are drawing in, which means that peak ratting season is fast approaching. We join Mat Manning on a farm where greedy rats are raiding feed under the cover of darkness, and watch the

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The Shooting Show – Rimfire pest control on rabbits and pigeons

Even with the game season and deer culls in full swing, you can never neglect your pest control duties – and Stuart Wilson has a rabbit population he needs to reduce. So, grabbing his Savage .22LR, it’s time for some

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The Shooting Show – Day and night fox control with Mark Ripley

Long-range foxing supremo and Sporting Rifle Magazine contributor Mark Ripley is out on a protracted foxing mission on the South Downs. First, he’s out in the daytime, waiting out for a fox from a well-chosen vantage point. But his work’s

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The Airgun Show – Daytime rat shooting with the Daystate Red Wolf, PLUS Umarex Browning Buck Mark URX review…

We’re out rat shooting with Mat Manning this week but it’s not your usual night vision or lamping foray. The rats are out raiding feed in broad daylight, and Mat sets up in a barn to pick off the marauding

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The Airgun Show – night vision rat hunting with NiteSite, PLUS the BSA Ultra JSR junior air rifle on test

We’re back out shooting rats on a farm that’s home to some seriously spooky scaly-tails. Mat Manning uses the night vision stealth of the NiteSite to catch the skittish rodents off guard, and shares his latest baiting ruse to make

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The Airgun Show – night vision rat hunt, PLUS the ATN X-Sight II HD on test…

Marauding rats have homed in on a barn that houses a grain-packed trailer and Mat Manning has been called in to cull the nocturnal pests. A night-time ambush with the NiteSite Viper NV unit produces some action-packed hunting as the

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The Airgun Show – all-night ratting with the Brocock Compatto PLUS Hawke Sidewinder scope test

Stuart Wilson once again ventures out with intentions of pruning the local rat population. Setting up strategic bait stations around the permission, he then shoulders his Brocock Compatto to await his quarry. With a full night’s ratting ahead of us,

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The Airgun Show – ratting mania with Stuart Wilson PLUS the BSA Ultra XL on test

Stuart’s been given his Christmas present early: access to a new permission that’s teeming with rats. Shouldering his Brocock Compatto, topped with an MTC Optisan EVX scope, he heads out to prune their numbers a little… And Mat’s got the

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The Airgun Show – Night Vision Rat Hunting with Nite Site, plus the Tracer LEDRay F900 Lamping Kit Review

Night shooting season is getting into full swing, and in Episode 62 we’re shooting nocturnal rats with the Nite Site Wolf in R-TEK guise. Heavy rain forces Mat Manning to base his foray inside the farm buildings, where he picks off

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The Airgun Show – release pen ratting with night vision, PLUS the Optisan EVX scope from MTC on test

  We’re out after dark targeting release pen rats with the Air Arms Ultimate Sporter and NiteSite Viper after spotting signs of ratty activity during a daytime shoot. The rat-run proves to be a busy one, and Mat Manning gets

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