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Advice for young shooters from Robert Bucknell

Posted on September 14, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

Robert Bucknell continues his foxing patrol, and offers advice for shooters missing out on this year’s game fairs. Regular readers will know that we’ve pretty much cleared our ground of foxes, and our neighbouring farms keep on top of theirs…

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The Shooting Show with arch decoyer Geoff Garrod

Posted on July 21, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

Arch decoyer Geoff Garrod is back on crop protection duties in this week’s episode of The Shooting Show, trying to deter the wood pigeon hordes from a precious oilseed crop. Everything is against him as the wind dictates the hide…

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The Shooting Show – Pigeon decoying with Geoff Garrod – 100 birds before lockdown

Posted on April 21, 2020 by towens — No Comments ↓

The latest episode of the Shooting Show is now available to view! Shortly before the lockdown, Shooting Show regular Geoff Garrod was out after pigeons that were damaging young oilseed crops – unable to shoot them over the crop he…

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The Shooting Show – oilseed pigeon shooting with Geoff Garrod

Posted on December 10, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

Geoff’s back, and he has some winter crop protection to do. The pigeons are hammering an oilseed crop field, and as Geoff shows, the damage they can do even in a single day is staggering. So it’s time to stoke…

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From the Archives: winter oilseed pigeon control with Geoff Garrod

Posted on September 26, 2019 by towens — No Comments ↓

It’s #ThrowbackThursday and in this week’s episode of The Shooting Show: From the Archives, we’re going back to the end of 2017 as we join Geoff on a much-needed day of winged pest control, shooting pigeons over an oilseed crop.…