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20 PAGES OF
SHOOTING
& GUNDOGS
12 gifts you don’t want
•
a recipe for roast goose
•
brand–new Sporting Gun cartoon
10 pages of shooting answers
•
a cracking day for a new shoot
•
a new competition for Young
Shot conservationists
•
wildfowling
•
rie review
•
stalking
•
pigeons and much, much more!
Inside our bumper Christmas issue
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OPENING SHOTS
A WARM
WELCOME IN
COLD WEATHER
hope you’ll
enjoy our
cracking issue
over Christmas,
hough of course
many of you will
be out shooting. At
east this will give
you something to
read during the long, dark evenings.
We’ve got some great new faces to
introduce to you this month. Rupert
Blackwall has taken over from Jason Harris
as our gun tester. Sadly for us, Jason’s
business as a gunsmith needed more time.
Rupert is also a gunsmith, and what’s
more, he’s a passionate Shot, both with
rifle and shotgun. He spends a fair bit
of time in Latvia, taking stalkers out
to find some huge stags, and between
that and his gunshop near Charlbury,
R.J.Blackwall’s, he’s kept fairly busy.
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Photography:
NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY
We’ve also got a great new page with
a quick and easy recipe, a practical
tip of the month (feel free to send
suggestions!) and a fantastic new
cartoon: Sporting Gun’s very own
Ned and Ted. I’m looking forward to
following their mishaps and adventures.
Of course we’ve included the 2016
wallplanner for next year, which has
some great sporting images from the
talented Redspot Artists. Not only that,
but it’ll let you know what date Sporting
Gun hits the shops every month.
A reader recently told me he had kept
his wallplanners going back years – he’d
saved them because he wrote down what
he’d shot and where on the relevant date,
like a quick gamebook. What a great idea
- I’m going to do the same from now on!
Of course we’ve got an amazing deal
on offer for a Sporting Gun subscription,
so don’t miss out – you can get yours
“If the day was anything to go by, there’ll be
some very good gamekeepers next year”
delivered to your door, or give it to
someone as a gift. See pg 16 for details.
I hope you’ve all had some very
good shooting so far this season. I
had a fantastic day at Newton Rigg
recently, where the second year
gamekeeping students run the entire
operation. It poured with rain, but I
was truly impressed by how well the
partridges were flying. The beaters’
line was one of the most enthusiastic
and orderly I’ve seen for ages - a rare
combination. If the standard of that
day was anything to go by, there’ll be
some very good young gamekeepers by
the end of next year. They’re a credit to
Malcolm Riding, who runs the course.
As we went to press there were finally
some predictions of colder weather.
Who knows, we may even have a white
Christmas… I’ll be spending much of
mine up on the high seat, trying to get
our does culled, and hopefully we’ll see
a few birds on our little shoot at home.
Happy Christmas, and happy shooting!
KATE GATACRE
EDITOR
JANUARY 2016
SPORTING GUN
3
STALKING
6
CASTAWAY
Could you survive on an
unhabitated island, with only a
gun? Kate Gatacre nds out.
Pg55
CONTENTS
YOUNG KEEPER
65
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
Jack Depledge learns how to
hatch gamebirds.
SHOOT REPORT
12
FIRST DAY JITTERS
Richard Faulks visits two
friends on their debut shoot.
GAMESHOOTING
76
THE RIGHT COMPANY
Ian Mason reveals some of the
sins seen on the shoot from a
roving single Gun.
PIGEON DECOYING
21
HAVE A RECCE
Peter Theobald on why the
only way to expect big bags is
good reconnaisance.
NORTHERN NOTES
CLUB OF THE MONTH
44
THE HITMAN
Our man visits the only CPSA
Premier Plus Spring ground in
the North of England.
MARSH SHOOTING
55
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Even a well-planned ight can
go belly up, as Richard
Brigham nds out.
100
THE RESPONSIBLE
DEERSTALKER
Jon Snowdon gives insight into
why culling deer is benecial
to the species and the ground.
Pg12
GAMESHOOTING
47
WHAT IS A ROUGH DAY’S
SHOOTING?
What is the difference between
rough and walked-up shooting?
FOX CONTROL
58
ENLIGHTENED TIMES
What style of night vision
would be best for you? Dr
Patrick Hook investigates.
VET’S ADVICE
108
SPREAD OF INFECTION
Neil McIntosh’s tips on what to
look for in your working dog
prior to every shoot.
DUCK FLIGHTING
50
FLIGHT OF THE GOSLING
Tom Sykes recalls the rst
time he took his young
Labrador on the job.
CONSERVATION
61
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
Roger Draycott explains how
counting farmland birds can
bene
oting.
RABBITING
111
DEPLOYING A DROPNET
Ed Cook on how and when the
dropnet should be used.
ON TEST
Pg18
Adding a zero to the end of
18
BERGARA
your budget opens up a
Sporting Gun’s new gunsmith different catalogue of guns.
reviews a rie, moderator
AUCTION WATCH
and optics combo.
122
VALUATION DAYS
RIFLE SKILLS
If you are selling at an auction,
96
WHAT’S THE RIGHT
make sure you attend a
BULLET FOR YOU?
valuation day beforehand.
Two bullets of the same
calibre can still have different
ANTIQUES
123
GUN ICON
effects on your rie.
The Browning A5 is one of
SECOND HAND BUYS
Robert Morgan’s favourites,
120
WORTH THE CASH?
but it was nearly never made.
CT
Pg91
CHRISTM
GIFTS
88
NOT ANOTH
PAIR OF SOCKS!
Although not a Grinch,
Robin Scott is not grateful
for every present he opens.
GUN TEST
GEAR GUIDE
91
NEW LAUNCHES
This month’s latest
products, plus six great
thermals in time for winter.
Pg88
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SPORTING GUN
JANUARY 2016

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