Ray Garner looks to the past – and looks through a Schmidt & Bender 425 Leichtmetall M riflescope. Marketing folk tell us that in order to sell something, you must first of all give it a name. And Leichtmetall M…
history
A glimpse of history
Tagged with: guns, history, leichtmetal, optics, rangefinding, ray garner, rifles, riflescope, rimfire, schmidt and bender, scope, shoot, shooter, sights, target
Posted in News, Reviews
Posted in News, Reviews
Aesthetic tradition
Diggory Hadoke explores the history of Rigby rifles and some of their famous clients The long timeline of Rigby’s existence as a gunmaker spans most of the major developments in the craft. Having started business in 1775, the first of…
Tagged with: Big Name, boxlock, firearms, gunsmiths, history, innovations, Maharajahs, rifle, rigby, shotguns, sidelock, traditional
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Changing times
Mike Powell reflects on the massive changes that have occurred in winter foxing in the last 50 years
Tagged with: fox control, foxing, history, hunting at night, lamping, shooting, thermal imager, winter
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
A happy warrior
David Barrington Barnes recalls the military and sporting career of Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, a fearless war hero but also a dedicated hunter
A rite of passage
Kevin Thomas recalls the introduction he had to hunting as a youngster in Africa, and wonders if his sons will have been the last generation to experience it in the old way
Uncertain Origins
Editor Pete Carr charts the history of the roe deer in the UK, from the rapid post-war population explosion back to near extinction at the turn of the 19th century
Hunters remembered: Jim Corbett
Jim Corbett’s .275 rifle is currently on display at John Rigby HQ in London. Here’s Sporting Rifle’s account of Corbett’s life as told through our Hunters Remembered column
The boar rises again
From 5,000BC to the present day, boar expert and hunter Steve Sweeting recounts the history and development of Sus scrofa in England
