Recovering from illness, Ian Barnett ventures out on a weekend of pest control that ends up being one he’d care not to remember… Before the weekend had even started, I’d got this feeling that it was going to be one…
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Hunting: .20 calibre
Returning to his hunting routine after the annual holiday break, a refreshed Ian Barnett enjoys a post-rain foray with a new .20 pellet on the grey stuff… Sitting in a British wood during rain can be an exhilarating experience –…
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Posted in Features, Hunting
Posted in Features, Hunting
Early birds – roosting wood pigeons
Ian Barnett ventures to a box wood over an arctic weekend in order to catch the early-bird woodies… The bounty from air rifle hunting may not lie in a freezer-full of prime venison such as my stalking friends enjoy, but…
Farm Forays: Farmyard Hunting
No matter what the time of year, a working farm will always be a hub for vermin activity – as Ian Barnett explains…
Scoring in the Field
Ian Barnett continues his .20 calibre hunting experiment, this time trying out the heavyweight H&N Barracuda under field conditions… A few weeks ago I put my back out, lifting a box full of lightweight decoys into the X-Trail, of all things!…
Nutcracker Sweet!
Set another long-term hunting experiment by the editor, Ian Barnett takes to the fields with the ‘in-between’ .20 calibre – and sees how it rates against his old adversary, the grey squirrel…
Sound Advice
Sounds – and often the lack of them – are a countryside language’ that reveal much to the hunter who is able to decode them. Ian Barnett
translates it all into human-speak…
Fowl play
With the trees beginning to shed their leaf cover, Ian Barnett and his lurcher target woodies and squirrels in 16-Acre Wood
Valuating airgun hunting
Ian Barnett explains why the cheapest shooting sport of all is worth a million bucks to him…
Hunting on FAC
Ian Barnett takes a look at the pros and cons of hunting with FAC-rated air rifles, as he embarks on a year-long study of pest control through the seasons, using high-powered kit. This month, getting licensed…
