Thermal head-to-head
Simon Barr has a heated debate over two leading thermal imaging units currently on the market and available to night shooters
Czech mate
Nick Latus gets his hands on a popular rimfire from CZ and soon fills his boots on a rabbiting mercy mission for a local lady landowner
From dusk till dawn
Top foxer Mark Nicholson shows how effective lamping is after suffering more than a little anxiety owing to the late harvest in East Yorkshire
Beech leaf brilliance
Simon Barr heads to the woods with roe calling expert Glen Boxall who passed on some of his roe calling skills that he learned from an old master
Looking and seeing
‘Foxspert’ Robert Bucknell says that noticing foxes in cover is all about looking for what isn’t there rather than what is there, and that time taken to train the eye is time well spent
Management in practice
Brian Phipps accompanies one of the UK’s most renowned deer experts and his client on a buck cull in Hampshire
Return of the tusker
Editor Pete Carr researches the return to Britain of our only dangerous game animal after an absence of 300 years and looks into the legends of this formidable quarry
Straight and narrow
Nick Latus tests the straight-pull action of the Blaser R8 topped with a Zeiss scope, grassing a big buck and a fox with a swift double shot
An interesting incidental
Rimfire aficionado Byron Pace sets out on a bunny-bashing foray with his .17 HMR, and at the last minute ends the depredations of a feral ferret When I first applied for my firearms licence, the first .17 HMR rifles were just reaching British shores. I had grown up seeing every man and his dog using [...]
Head start
Respected trophy measurer Dominic Griffith looks forward to a new buck season, and defines the difference between typical and non-typical heads