Sponsored by… Bagging a shooting permission is one of the biggest challenges faced by airgun shooters – Mat Manning offers 10 top tips to get you on the right track 1. Use your connections Think of people you already know…
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How to get yourself a shooting permission
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Posted in Features, September Shooting Special
Posted in Features, September Shooting Special
The best kit options for airgun shooting w/ Richard Saunders
Richard Saunders takes us through his kit bag and reveals the essential shooting items he never leaves home without. I like to travel as light as possible when I go hunting and work on the principle that the more stuff…
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Posted in Reviews
Wildlife management with FAC air rifles
Ex-firearms and rural crime officer Pete Brookes now prefers an armed response of a different kind – wildlife management with his FAC air rifle. Photo credit: David Jinks I was driving to work to start an afternoon shift whilst listening…
Tagged with: air rifle, airguns, fac, farm, farmland, fieldcraft, firearms, hunting, permissions, pest control, pete brookes, pheasant shoot, pigeons, Range, rangefinder, rats, rimfires, rural crime, shoots, stalking, wildlife management
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Rabbit hunting with Richard Saunders
Rich Saunders takes a break from his pure pest control duties to stalk a few rabbits and see if there’s any light at the end of the polytunnel. A set of trigger sticks helps provide a more stable position to…
Tagged with: air arms, air rifle, ATN, brocock sniper xr magnum, farm, field, fx impact, hawke, pellets, permissions, pest control, rabbit, rabbits, rangefinder, Richard Saunders, rifle, Sport
Posted in Hunting
Posted in Hunting
Getting new permissions with Shawn Minchin
Shawn Minchin recalls how he managed to snare a new permission that turned out to be quite a bit different to what he’d been expecting. The feeder was 23 yards from Shawn’s shooting position – with him sitting on a…
Tagged with: airgun show, backstop, basc, feeder, grey squirrels, hunter field target, hunting, mat manning, permissions, rabbots, rangefinder, rifle, scope, shawn minchin, shooting, vermin, weihrauch hw100
Posted in Features, Hunting
Posted in Features, Hunting
The fast and the furryous!
Richard Saunders is left scratching his head about how to deal with some troublesome rats around the stable Setting up on a bench at a distance of 20 metres meant Richard had a perfect, stable platform from which to shoot…
Tagged with: .22, air arms diabolo, airgun hunter, bsa r-10, eagle ir, equipment, kit, magazine, magazines, night vision, nughtsite, pellet, permissions, pistol, rats, red-dot sight, repairs, Richard Saunders, rifles, shooting, shots, sights, stable, stables, targets, vermin control
Posted in Features, Hunting
Posted in Features, Hunting
