Bigger and better…

In this final stand-alone issue of Sporting Rifle, Patrick Galbraith looks ahead to the great opportunities presented by its merger with the weekly title Shooting Times

News

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Mailbag

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Monster muntjac

In our final deer head round-up, James Sutcliffe celebrates a wealth of new trophies, including an impressive munty

Going under grand

We take a look at 10 of the best rifle scopes on the market for less than £1,000, one of 14 categories in the Great British Shooting Awards 2021

The Great British Shooting Awards 2021

Check out the five shortlisted products for the coveted Optic of the Year Award (Under £1,000)

Hit the roe, Jack

Gear up for the start of the roe season, with all of the essential kit you’ll need to bag a buck

The Buyer’s Guide

If you’re after something new, there are plenty of new releases on the market to catch your eye – whatever quarry you’re after

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Almanac

As most readers will be aware, this will

Field to fork

Chicken satay is a perennial favourite – but have you tried it with partridge? This version from Wild and Game demonstrates how well it works

The last ivory hunter

Byron Pace recalls the life of Wally Johnson, one of the last great elephant hunters of the 20th century

The man who stares at goats

Feral goats have had some bad press but in Galloway they are part of the mountains — and they produce fabulous meat, reports  Patrick Laurie

The buck stops here

Rather than bemoaning an opportunity lost, David Barrington Barnes gets back into the thick of the roebuck action

Return of the buck

Paul Childerley heads to Wiltshire to help with with a stalk of his favoured roebucks

Buck hit list

Chris Dalton gets familiar with the 6.5 Creedmoor and takes advantage of invasive roebuck

Forgotten work?

Rudi van Kets considers the role of the deer dog in the modern world and wonders if they are a misunderstood breed

Hound decisions

The growth of deer-tracking work in the UK has led to some forthright views developing on what is the ‘right’ breed to use. Rudi van Kets says we need to look beyond the arguments

The final Conquest

It’s tough for high-end riflescopes to penetrate a busy market, but the new Zeiss Conquest hits the mark, as Chris Parkin discovers

Hunting with the Haenel

Stuart Wilson has bagged a Haenel Jaeger 10 Varmint Sporter .308 Win on long-term test, which means plenty of opportunity to take it out after roe deer…

Going long range

Mark Ripley finds himself ‘far from dSappointed’ when testing the long-range capabilities of the Swarovski dS scope

Trail blazing

Mike Powell recalls one of his favourite foxing units, the Pulsar Trail XQ50 thermal rifle scope, and still finds it to be a market-leading device with plenty of after-dark appeal

Watch and learn

Foxers need to build their informant network if they’re to succeed, says Robert Bucknell – and that includes not just neighbours but local wildlife, too

Modern lambing

Mike Powell recounts the busiest spell of a foxer’s calendar – the age-old practice of pest control during the lambing season

Lambing season survival

Tasked with lamb protection over a large number of farms, Mark Ripley reveals his tricks of the trade for keeping the flock safe from vulpine attack

More than meats the eye

As Daryl Crimp and son Daniel head out to cull New Zealand’s fallow population, they could well end up with a year’s worth of meat from a single day of shooting

The famous four

Thomas Nissen joins the hunt for sing-sing waterbuck in Burkina Faso, as Jens Kjaer Knudsen aims to complete all four huntable subspecies of defassa

Conservation triumph

Kevin Thomas profi les the Bubye Valley Conservancy –a Zimbabwean wildlife conservation success story that owes much to the support of paying sport hunters