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010.jpg Somerset gamekeeper Nathan Hards, 2304 x 3456ORIGINAL ARTICLEThere is a choppy bit of country on the way from the Rest Of The World to Exmoor. It lies on and around the Brendon Hills. Somerset is blessed with several evocative ranges of hills. Romantic poets loved the Quantocks, the quarry companies love the Mendips, Exeter commuters the Blackdowns but shooters love the Brendons.In the 60 square miles of land bounded by Wellington, Tiverton, Bampton and Wiveliscombe, you will not find many visitors apart from shooters. The few roads there are don't follow the valleys and most of the signposts, local folk reckon, are still off being melted down to be made into Spitfires.There are some big shoots there but Saturdays are characterised by numerous small farmer syndicates and family days out. One such shoot is Bathealton Court. Until this season, it was a family shoot providing 30-bird days five times a season. Part-time keeper Nathan Hards would put down and bring on 300 birds every season. The estate changed hands recently and the new owners, both keen shooters, have stepped Nathan's work up a gear to give nine days a season of 100+ with two or three rough days.Bathealton still maintains its relaxed family atmosphere. However, Nathan now has his work cut out.To do that work, Nathan has been thinking more carefully about his kit and his methods. What he worked out is not good news for rimfire shooters. There is plenty of the kind of quarry here that rimfire aficionados are used to shooting - such as rabbits and crows - but there are better ways to get into this kind of pest. He will use a .22LR but he has found that, in this kind of country, characterised by streams among small but steep hills and patches of woodland on both the tops and the bottoms, the most effective methods are his .222 foxing rifle, traps and his shotgun.Nathan is no stranger to rifle shooting. He used to do most of it walking around the estate. When he saw what he was after, he would take
 
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009.jpg Somerset gamekeeper Nathan Hards, 2304 x 3456ORIGINAL ARTICLEThere is a choppy bit of country on the way from the Rest Of The World to Exmoor. It lies on and around the Brendon Hills. Somerset is blessed with several evocative ranges of hills. Romantic poets loved the Quantocks, the quarry companies love the Mendips, Exeter commuters the Blackdowns but shooters love the Brendons.In the 60 square miles of land bounded by Wellington, Tiverton, Bampton and Wiveliscombe, you will not find many visitors apart from shooters. The few roads there are don't follow the valleys and most of the signposts, local folk reckon, are still off being melted down to be made into Spitfires.There are some big shoots there but Saturdays are characterised by numerous small farmer syndicates and family days out. One such shoot is Bathealton Court. Until this season, it was a family shoot providing 30-bird days five times a season. Part-time keeper Nathan Hards would put down and bring on 300 birds every season. The estate changed hands recently and the new owners, both keen shooters, have stepped Nathan's work up a gear to give nine days a season of 100+ with two or three rough days.Bathealton still maintains its relaxed family atmosphere. However, Nathan now has his work cut out.To do that work, Nathan has been thinking more carefully about his kit and his methods. What he worked out is not good news for rimfire shooters. There is plenty of the kind of quarry here that rimfire aficionados are used to shooting - such as rabbits and crows - but there are better ways to get into this kind of pest. He will use a .22LR but he has found that, in this kind of country, characterised by streams among small but steep hills and patches of woodland on both the tops and the bottoms, the most effective methods are his .222 foxing rifle, traps and his shotgun.Nathan is no stranger to rifle shooting. He used to do most of it walking around the estate. When he saw what he was after, he would take
 
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008.jpg Somerset gamekeeper Nathan Hards, 2304 x 3456ORIGINAL ARTICLEThere is a choppy bit of country on the way from the Rest Of The World to Exmoor. It lies on and around the Brendon Hills. Somerset is blessed with several evocative ranges of hills. Romantic poets loved the Quantocks, the quarry companies love the Mendips, Exeter commuters the Blackdowns but shooters love the Brendons.In the 60 square miles of land bounded by Wellington, Tiverton, Bampton and Wiveliscombe, you will not find many visitors apart from shooters. The few roads there are don't follow the valleys and most of the signposts, local folk reckon, are still off being melted down to be made into Spitfires.There are some big shoots there but Saturdays are characterised by numerous small farmer syndicates and family days out. One such shoot is Bathealton Court. Until this season, it was a family shoot providing 30-bird days five times a season. Part-time keeper Nathan Hards would put down and bring on 300 birds every season. The estate changed hands recently and the new owners, both keen shooters, have stepped Nathan's work up a gear to give nine days a season of 100+ with two or three rough days.Bathealton still maintains its relaxed family atmosphere. However, Nathan now has his work cut out.To do that work, Nathan has been thinking more carefully about his kit and his methods. What he worked out is not good news for rimfire shooters. There is plenty of the kind of quarry here that rimfire aficionados are used to shooting - such as rabbits and crows - but there are better ways to get into this kind of pest. He will use a .22LR but he has found that, in this kind of country, characterised by streams among small but steep hills and patches of woodland on both the tops and the bottoms, the most effective methods are his .222 foxing rifle, traps and his shotgun.Nathan is no stranger to rifle shooting. He used to do most of it walking around the estate. When he saw what he was after, he would take
 
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007.jpg Somerset gamekeeper Nathan Hards, 2304 x 3456ORIGINAL ARTICLEThere is a choppy bit of country on the way from the Rest Of The World to Exmoor. It lies on and around the Brendon Hills. Somerset is blessed with several evocative ranges of hills. Romantic poets loved the Quantocks, the quarry companies love the Mendips, Exeter commuters the Blackdowns but shooters love the Brendons.In the 60 square miles of land bounded by Wellington, Tiverton, Bampton and Wiveliscombe, you will not find many visitors apart from shooters. The few roads there are don't follow the valleys and most of the signposts, local folk reckon, are still off being melted down to be made into Spitfires.There are some big shoots there but Saturdays are characterised by numerous small farmer syndicates and family days out. One such shoot is Bathealton Court. Until this season, it was a family shoot providing 30-bird days five times a season. Part-time keeper Nathan Hards would put down and bring on 300 birds every season. The estate changed hands recently and the new owners, both keen shooters, have stepped Nathan's work up a gear to give nine days a season of 100+ with two or three rough days.Bathealton still maintains its relaxed family atmosphere. However, Nathan now has his work cut out.To do that work, Nathan has been thinking more carefully about his kit and his methods. What he worked out is not good news for rimfire shooters. There is plenty of the kind of quarry here that rimfire aficionados are used to shooting - such as rabbits and crows - but there are better ways to get into this kind of pest. He will use a .22LR but he has found that, in this kind of country, characterised by streams among small but steep hills and patches of woodland on both the tops and the bottoms, the most effective methods are his .222 foxing rifle, traps and his shotgun.Nathan is no stranger to rifle shooting. He used to do most of it walking around the estate. When he saw what he was after, he would take
 
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006.jpg Gavin Wiggins-Davies shooting squirrels on the Revesby Estate, Lincolnshire, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: Out with the newSTANDFIRST: This warm winter has made dray poles and shotguns almost redundant for squirrels. Charlie Jacoby visits one estate that’s been dusting off its old .22What’s the point cuddling up in your dray this January if the mallards are laying, the daffs are already out and winter just hasn’t happened? At Revesby estate in Lincolnshire which saw regular bags of 20-plus squirrels in days gone by, an argument has raged between father and son Wiggins-Davies as to whether the usual system of shooting out the drays with a shotgun works or whether the more specialist use of a .22 does the job.It is all the fault of global warming, they reckon. The squirrels just aren’t at home.Going out with Peter Wiggins-Davies (son) and his shotgun, it was apparent that all the drays were deserted. Each one he shot produced clouds of pulverised leaves but no squirrels. The animals themselves were out foraging – unusual behaviour at this time of year. We saw plenty but generally at long ranges.Lincolnshire has been like Cornwall this year with dozens of woodcock in Revesby’s woodlands. The pigeon shooting has been excellent too and, at the beginning of February, they held a hare shoot which produced a bag of 90. You could hardly sneak up on the squirrels to get into shotgun range without a menagerie of hares, woodcock and pigeons alerting them to your presence, sending them scuttling into the ivy-clad trunks, from which they were impossible to spot.If you got a shot, the bang of the shotgun sent everything diving for cover for hundreds of yards. An old gamekeeper told Peter he reckoned it took 20 minutes for “Nature to calm” after a shot – and before you can expect to see another squirrel in the area.Step forward Gavin Wiggins-Davies (dad). He would tamp down his pipe and come into his own. Spot a squirrel and he would be able to shoot it at 70 yards-pl
 
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001.jpg Mike Powell shooting squirrels with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304
 
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002.jpg Mike Powell shooting squirrels with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304
 
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003.jpg Mike Powell shooting squirrels with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304
 
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004.jpg Gavin Wiggins-Davies shooting squirrels on the Revesby Estate, Lincolnshire, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: Out with the newSTANDFIRST: This warm winter has made dray poles and shotguns almost redundant for squirrels. Charlie Jacoby visits one estate that’s been dusting off its old .22What’s the point cuddling up in your dray this January if the mallards are laying, the daffs are already out and winter just hasn’t happened? At Revesby estate in Lincolnshire which saw regular bags of 20-plus squirrels in days gone by, an argument has raged between father and son Wiggins-Davies as to whether the usual system of shooting out the drays with a shotgun works or whether the more specialist use of a .22 does the job.It is all the fault of global warming, they reckon. The squirrels just aren’t at home.Going out with Peter Wiggins-Davies (son) and his shotgun, it was apparent that all the drays were deserted. Each one he shot produced clouds of pulverised leaves but no squirrels. The animals themselves were out foraging – unusual behaviour at this time of year. We saw plenty but generally at long ranges.Lincolnshire has been like Cornwall this year with dozens of woodcock in Revesby’s woodlands. The pigeon shooting has been excellent too and, at the beginning of February, they held a hare shoot which produced a bag of 90. You could hardly sneak up on the squirrels to get into shotgun range without a menagerie of hares, woodcock and pigeons alerting them to your presence, sending them scuttling into the ivy-clad trunks, from which they were impossible to spot.If you got a shot, the bang of the shotgun sent everything diving for cover for hundreds of yards. An old gamekeeper told Peter he reckoned it took 20 minutes for “Nature to calm” after a shot – and before you can expect to see another squirrel in the area.Step forward Gavin Wiggins-Davies (dad). He would tamp down his pipe and come into his own. Spot a squirrel and he would be able to shoot it at 70 yards-pl
 
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005.jpg Gavin Wiggins-Davies shooting squirrels on the Revesby Estate, Lincolnshire, 3456 x 2304 Gavin Wiggins-Davies shooting squirrels on the Revesby Estate, Lincolnshire, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: Out with the newSTANDFIRST: This warm winter has made dray poles and shotguns almost redundant for squirrels. Charlie Jacoby visits one estate that’s been dusting off its old .22What’s the point cuddling up in your dray this January if the mallards are laying, the daffs are already out and winter just hasn’t happened? At Revesby estate in Lincolnshire which saw regular bags of 20-plus squirrels in days gone by, an argument has raged between father and son Wiggins-Davies as to whether the usual system of shooting out the drays with a shotgun works or whether the more specialist use of a .22 does the job.It is all the fault of global warming, they reckon. The squirrels just aren’t at home.Going out with Peter Wiggins-Davies (son) and his shotgun, it was apparent that all the drays were deserted. Each one he shot produced clouds of pulverised leaves but no squirrels. The animals themselves were out foraging – unusual behaviour at this time of year. We saw plenty but generally at long ranges.Lincolnshire has been like Cornwall this year with dozens of woodcock in Revesby’s woodlands. The pigeon shooting has been excellent too and, at the beginning of February, they held a hare shoot which produced a bag of 90. You could hardly sneak up on the squirrels to get into shotgun range without a menagerie of hares, woodcock and pigeons alerting them to your presence, sending them scuttling into the ivy-clad trunks, from which they were impossible to spot.If you got a shot, the bang of the shotgun sent everything diving for cover for hundreds of yards. An old gamekeeper told Peter he reckoned it took 20 minutes for “Nature to calm” after a shot – and before you can expect to see another squirrel in the area.Step forward Gavin Wiggins-Davies (dad). He would tamp down his pipe and come into his own. Spot a squirrel and he would be able to shoot it at 70 yards-pl
 
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