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Whether you’re decoying pigeons, stalking deer or creeping up on a butterfly with a camera, movement will give you away quicker than anything else. Keep still and your quarry stays there, even if it’s on high alert; move and it’s off in a flash.
17.10.2012
| Shooting
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Teaching your young dog to make blind retrieves is relatively straightforward, providing you have really established the basics – he should be showing style, power and confidence in his straight line, marked and memory retrieves. Without having mastered these, blind retrieves could not only prove to be difficult but, worse still, may undermine his confidence further. Confidence is key in getting your dog to take a strong line on a blind retrieve.
17.10.2012
| Training
| Gundogs
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There is quite a trend now amongst some English gunmakers to have guns made abroad to their own specs and have their name put on them. There is no ‘passing off’; everyone knows where the guns originate, and the process has produced some very interesting, if typically quite pricey, models. Something similar, it might also be noted, has been done for a very long time – 100 years plus – but the trade was not always quite so forthright about origin in the past (many a Belgian and Spanish gun having been passed off as British).
17.10.2012
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There’s a sharp frost this morning, and that’s just how Russell Summers likes it. So long as we can push the long net poles into the ground, the rabbits should bolt well in these conditions. Judging by the signs on the ground, it looks like there are plenty of rabbits about too. This could be a good day.
17.10.2012
| Ferrets
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Most of us would love to achieve that stereotypical cockbird shot on a cold, crisp morning, the bird folding neatly with its head back before tumbling gracefully down to earth. However, that screamer you brought down – which at lunch will be described to others as a 45-yarder and will quite often become a 55-yarder by dinner – may well have been significantly closer than you thought.
17.10.2012
| Game
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Light, breathable and elegant, the new Woodcock range from Seeland seems to be a great option for early season game shooting and I will be packing it for next month’s partridge shooting trip. It’s cut to emulate classic UK game shooting styles and should work well for shooters and pickers-up alike.
17.10.2012
| Clothing
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During the shooting season I try to keep a freezer full of game that later in the year I use for either photo sessions or for training the cockers. In truth, I quite often realise I have forgotten to get them out to defrost or, as happened the other day, I forgot I had got them out and Mrs R found a rather smelly mess in her workshop!
17.10.2012
| Kit
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When we spotted the press release for the Savage Axis combo, we were more than a little intrigued. It seemed too good to be true: £649 for a rifle (threaded), Weaver KASPA 3-12x50 scope plus Weaver top mount rings and a Picatinny rail. “Don’t confuse economical with cheap!” we were told.
17.10.2012
| Rifles
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There have been great leaps in lamping technology in recent years, notable in terms of LED illumination and battery technology. Cluson Engineering’s latest Clulite offering, the Interceptor Gun Light seems to combine everything that is good in one neat package. It has a tight and powerful 300m beam, easy switching between high and low power, a quick charge time and three hours continuous high power use from a single charge.
17.10.2012
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Mark enjoys being out in the woods even if he doesn't manage to shoot anything
03.08.2012
| Recipes
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