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027.jpg Webley Spectre Mk2The Spectre Mk2 rates alongside the Weihrauch as one of the most attractive looking rifles in this round-up – one that boasts a traditional but luxurious walnut sporter stock design but with such fine detailing one that has been transformed into a rifle any shooter would be proud to own.The Spectre Mk2 stock has a fully ambidextrous relatively high cheekpiece with a fore-end that offers a good compromise of rounded feel with a semi-flat underside. A small air pressure gauge sits in the underside of this stock.The detailing on the stock is what Webley term ‘Fishscale Deluxe’ pattern chequering.This attractive and practical grip aid adorns the pistol grip and almost fully wraps around the fore-end. The laser etched detailing is as practical as it’s eye-catching because it’ll offer grip in the wettest and grimiest of conditions. The pistol grip has a shallow rake with a neat discreet thumb rest to offer a comfortable hand position for optimum trigger control.Filling is by a simple push fit probe adaptor that slips into the uncovered fill point at the front of the air reservoir. Fill to 207-bar gives approximately 100 full power shots per fill in .22 calibre – enough firepower for any airgun hunting session and more to spare.As the rifle is made in association with FX of Sweden it’s cocked and the magazine action cycled by operating a vertical drop down side-lever action cocking facility.The rifle runs the familiar Fredrik Axelsson designed 8-shot rotary removable magazine, but the retaining pin that has been cause for concern on certain rifles that use this magazine system has on the Spectre Mk2 been well and truly sorted for ease of use. As the cocking lever is pulled fully rearward, a brass plunger extends from the rear of the action block. On this ‘plunger’ is a sliding banded collar that when slid back along the plunger extracts itself from the magazine unlocking the ‘drum’ shape magazine so it can be removed for filling and re-fitting.As
 
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032.jpg Cess Mitford-Slade in his camouflaged Land Rover. Covered in cleavers / goosegrass. Shooting rabbits on his farm in Somerset. Using his 19th century Marlin .22, 2304 x 3072
 
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006.jpg Rabbit Control; Jackie Drakeford1763 x 2543
 
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018.jpg Matt Brammer shooting rabbits with his Ruger M77R .243 from a gorse bush.3072 x 2304
 
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007.jpg Northamptonshire pest controller Danny Sumpter shows his foxing rifle, based on a Sako .223 and customised by Norman Clarke of Rugby. It has a Swarovski scope. 3456 x 2304
 
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020.jpg Robert Bucknall goes foxshooting on his Essex farm. He built this high seat himself3456 x 2304
 
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033.jpg Cess Mitford-Slade in his camouflaged Land Rover. Covered in cleavers / goosegrass. Shooting rabbits on his farm in Somerset. Using his 19th century Marlin .22, 2304 x 3072
 
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031.jpg Cess Mitford-Slade in his camouflaged Land Rover. Covered in cleavers / goosegrass. Shooting rabbits on his farm in Somerset. Using his 19th century Marlin .22, 2304 x 3072
 
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004.jpg Dead fox shot lamping - stuck in bramblesFoxshooting in Somerset with Matthew Turley3456 x 2304
 
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013.jpg Mike Powell shooting rabbits with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLESLUG: air rifleHEAD: Professional airgunner at workUSE MIKE POWELL PHOTO BYLINESTANDFIRST: Pest controller Mike Powell bought the Air Arms S410 for rabbits, pigeons – and even foxesCHAZ: PLEASE GIVE ME DUMMY CAPS AND PULLSThe first rifle I ever used was at the age of nine when I gained access to an ancient BSA air rifle. I was only a little chap and the rifle seemed huge, in order to line up the sights the stock had to either be rested on my shoulder or tucked underneath my arm, not ideal but I spent many happy and exciting hours wandering through the local fields shooting at but not connecting with the many rabbits that occupied the red soil. Now, sadly long buried under the inevitable creeping cancer of development. I do seem to remember shooting the odd sparrow and probably other now protected species.Then on my tenth birthday, my Grandmother for some reason known only to her gave me a 177 BSA Cadet air rifle. No PCP this, such things did not exist in those far off days. I remember all too clearly hanging a cotton reel on the fence and with the third or fourth shot scored a direct hit, excellent, except for the fact that the resulting ricochet cracked the lounge window! Not the best start to my shooting career. With my new and much lighter and manageable weapon I
 
A good bag of rabbits
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002.jpg Charlie Jacoby uses a Callmaster call, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEI had with me an electronic caller from Decoying.co.uk, which Howard Heywood tested in the last issue of Sporting Rifle. A point he made was to use it sparingly. A few squeaks of a rabbit here and there is more realistic for a fox than a rabbit squeak going on and on. The digital caller comes with chips loaded with sounds. It did not have, I noticed, the mewing of a vulnerable kitten.Surveying the farmyard where there were cats, chickens, duck and all of it a potential feast to a fearless fox, I reckoned the predator could only come through one of two gates. The wind was wrong for one of them, so I followed the fox’s future path back out into the field from whence it would come. There was another gateway on the other wide of the field and covering both it and the farmyard gate was a perfect thorny corner. I’m a great fan of these. I use my pigeon hide kit but I use the camo net to make a roof as well as a wall to take the sun off my face. Having set up the digital foxcaller, built the hide and put the stool and dog inside it, it was a question of waiting. And waiting. And waiting.It took two hours, during which time the pheasants went noisily to bed, the thin winter sun ducked behind the hedgerows then sat sulkily for 30 minutes, I could hear the poultry being shut up, I could see two cats scouring the hedges for rabbits (leave some for me) and a bat flitted over head. It’s December – shouldn’t they be hibernating?As the fox slipped through the gate in front of me, I leveled the M03 and silently cocked it. The first shot was a definite hit but the fox bolted forward, then slowed. It took a couple of seconds to work the bolt and send another round in as a safety shot. The fox was dead.The Callmaster costs £165 and spare chips are £39.99 each. www.decoying.co.uk
 
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044.jpg Lamping foxes in Cumbria with Keith Varley, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: ‘Find me a fell fox’STANDFIRST: Shooting on England’s uplands requires special skills and kit. Charlie Jacoby heads to the beautiful Cumbrian Lake District to meet professional foxshooter Keith VarleyIt’s a tall order. It’s August – normally Keith Varley’s downtime, when he doesn’t do much foxing. Now I want him to find me a fox and shoot it.We’re in the Duddon Valley in the Cumbrian lake district where foxes have plenty of places to hide. The bracken is high, the trees are in leaf and fox numbers were heavily thinned earlier in the year.Keith hooks up with his friend Eric Morrison and we set out at night to walk the fells with a lamp. In the daytime in this beautiful country, you see plenty of ramblers dressed in state-of the-art walking boots, thermal cagouls and carrying aluminium sticks. It would be interesting to see them attempting their high fell walks in the black cold night. But now Keith, Eric and Keith’s son Stephen are in their element. This is their passion.Keith’s foxing year starts in September, when he is terrierman for local fell packs. These footpacks do “control” days for Cumbrian sheep farmers with two hounds to guns. Keith is also widely used by shoots, which phone him when they have foxes taking their pheasants.In March, Keith heads north to Argyllshire, where a group of 30 local farmers and forestry concerns pays him to spend nine weeks clearing out foxes. He has been doing this job for the last 16 years and his son Stephen has come up to help him for the last three. “I get a fixed fee – it’s a nice earner – and I usually get a bonus,” he says.The same Argyllshire farms has run this system for more than a century. Keith’s predecessor was a local gamekeeper, who was on call all year round. “There are a few cooperatives like this,” he says.Argyllshire is fox heaven. There’s food for them all year– lambs, rabbits and, especially, mice. When he is in Argyllsh
 
Lamping foxes in Cumbria with Keith Varley
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029.jpg Dominic Alers-Hankey in Realtree APG camouflage with his lurcher, Stuka - stalking but missing a rabbit1693 x 1271
 
Lurcher work
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022.jpg Ashley Vellacott pointing out rabbit damage on his farm. This can be very hazardous to horses. 3081 x 2304
 
Rabbit damage
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016.jpg Dominic Frith (driving) and Tom Garth, former members of the Blundell's Ferreting club, lamping rabbits from a quadbike.3456 x 2304
 
Rabbit lamping
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015.jpg Dominic Frith, Ben Garth and Tom Garth, former members of the Blundell's Ferreting club, lamping rabbits from a quadbike.1998 x 1926
 
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041.jpg Schmidt and Bender 5-25x56 PMII-LPUK Distributor: Global Rifle www.snipersystems.co.uk2171 x 1867
 
Rabbit lamping in Somerset
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040.jpg Somerset shooter Paul Power (left) and Peter Horn, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEThey are a contrary couple, Peter Horn and Paul Power. “Because everyone’s driving around on trucks at night to go shooting, we’re going the other way,” says Paul. “It’s a bit more lugging of materials – bags and lamps – but we reckon there’s enough technology in our guns and vehicles nowadays. It’s a question of taking a backseat on technology. So we shoot off sticks.And they are always arguing. “I shoot off two sticks,” says Paul. “Peter shoots off three sticks – because he’s older” – which provokes Peter at once, to Paul’s delight. They argue for a minute until honour is even and then it is back to the job in hand.Retired bank manager Peter and builder Paul have some 6,000 acres of permissions across farms in West Somerset. They shoot rabbits with rimfires but also have the firepower for foxes and deer. Paul favours a .22 and a .17HMR for rabbit shooting. Peter uses a .22 and brings his .22-250 in case they have to deal with a fox.“I acquired some of my permissions from my grandfather,” says Paul. “He had shooting rights dating back to the 1980s. I shot my first rabbit with him, aged eight, with a Belgian fold-away .410. Much of the rest of my land I got through recommendations.”Peter and Paul met 20 years ago through a local shooting syndicate. Peter had some ground. Paul says: “I did some deer management for him.”Peter adds: “He did – he shot all my deer.”Then Peter did a supervision order on Paul for a .222 he wanted. Peter’s shooting goes back to the 1950s when he was brought up in Nigeria. He recalls his .22 with iron sights which he used to shoot small game through chair legs on the verandah. Today his .22-250 is a Blaser R93 Luxus with a Nightforce NXS 12-42x56 scope and PES moderator. Paul's is a .22 CZ 452 with a Walther 3-9x56 scope and Soundbiter moderator and his 17HMR is a CZ452, too. It is heavy-barrelled and has a 3-12x50 scope and JLS moderator.All the guns
 
Rabbit lamping in Somerset
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038.jpg Mike Powell shooting rabbits with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLESLUG: air rifleHEAD: Professional airgunner at workUSE MIKE POWELL PHOTO BYLINESTANDFIRST: Pest controller Mike Powell bought the Air Arms S410 for rabbits, pigeons – and even foxesCHAZ: PLEASE GIVE ME DUMMY CAPS AND PULLSThe first rifle I ever used was at the age of nine when I gained access to an ancient BSA air rifle. I was only a little chap and the rifle seemed huge, in order to line up the sights the stock had to either be rested on my shoulder or tucked underneath my arm, not ideal but I spent many happy and exciting hours wandering through the local fields shooting at but not connecting with the many rabbits that occupied the red soil. Now, sadly long buried under the inevitable creeping cancer of development. I do seem to remember shooting the odd sparrow and probably other now protected species.Then on my tenth birthday, my Grandmother for some reason known only to her gave me a 177 BSA Cadet air rifle. No PCP this, such things did not exist in those far off days. I remember all too clearly hanging a cotton reel on the fence and with the third or fourth shot scored a direct hit, excellent, except for the fact that the resulting ricochet cracked the lounge window! Not the best start to my shooting career. With my new and much lighter and manageable weapon I
 
Rabbit shooter
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023.jpg Ashley Vellacott shooting rabbits on his farm in Somerset. Using his .22LR and a fence to lean on.3276 x 1991
 
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024.jpg Ashley Vellacott shooting rabbits on his farm in Somerset. Using his .22LR and a fence to lean on.3456 x 2304
 
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025.jpg Dominic Alers-Hankey in Realtree APG camouflage with Brno .22LR and his lurcher Stuka3456 x 2304
 
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012.jpg BSA XL TacticalUK Distributor: BSA (UK) Ltd www.bsagun.co.uk3240 x 834
 
Rabbit shooting
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011.jpg BSA Hornet MS Carb with SAS Silencer and Catseye scopeUK Distributor: BSA (UK) Ltd www.bsaguns.com3992 x 2656
 
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010.jpg BSA Hornet MS with SAS Silencer and Catseye scopeUK Distributor: BSA (UK) Ltd www.bsaguns.com3992 x 2656
 
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009.jpg BSA Hornet with SAS Silencer and Catseye scopeUK Distributor: BSA (UK) Ltd www.bsaguns.com3992 x 2656
 
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039.jpg Mike Powell shooting rabbits with his Air Arms PCP air rifle.`3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLESLUG: air rifleHEAD: Professional airgunner at workUSE MIKE POWELL PHOTO BYLINESTANDFIRST: Pest controller Mike Powell bought the Air Arms S410 for rabbits, pigeons – and even foxesCHAZ: PLEASE GIVE ME DUMMY CAPS AND PULLSThe first rifle I ever used was at the age of nine when I gained access to an ancient BSA air rifle. I was only a little chap and the rifle seemed huge, in order to line up the sights the stock had to either be rested on my shoulder or tucked underneath my arm, not ideal but I spent many happy and exciting hours wandering through the local fields shooting at but not connecting with the many rabbits that occupied the red soil. Now, sadly long buried under the inevitable creeping cancer of development. I do seem to remember shooting the odd sparrow and probably other now protected species.Then on my tenth birthday, my Grandmother for some reason known only to her gave me a 177 BSA Cadet air rifle. No PCP this, such things did not exist in those far off days. I remember all too clearly hanging a cotton reel on the fence and with the third or fourth shot scored a direct hit, excellent, except for the fact that the resulting ricochet cracked the lounge window! Not the best start to my shooting career. With my new and much lighter and manageable weapon I
 
Rabbit shooting
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035.jpg Roger Francis shooting rabbits with a rimfire rifle.3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: It’s a kind of magicSTANDFIRST: For one man, the magic of rimfires was so great he renamed his gunshop Rimfire Magic to deal in them. Charlie Jacoby interviews Roger FrancisRoger Francis, as you can see in the picture, has a slight interest in rimfires. That’s a CZ American .22LR isn’t it? With a 16in barrel? And do my eyes deceive me or has someone taken the time to fit it with a Hogue stock an – did I hear you say – tune the trigger? And would that be a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm Varmint scope aboard it? Yes, Roger has more than a slight interest in rimfires.While other kids Roger’s age liked air rifles and many graduated to centrefires, Roger stuck with rimfires for rabbits and, when he was allowed to, handguns for target shooting. For him, rimfires represent everything that stalking-shooting is about. They are light, manoeuvrable, powerful enough to despatch quarry and even objects of beauty and fun.Roger and his wife Sheila started South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies in 1985. They run it from their farmhouse outside Sheffield where it threatens to spill into every room. It was a handgun specialist but the 1997 handgun ban put paid to that and to 85% of the business. With the arrival of the Internet at about that time, Roger didn’t pull the plug, however. He concentrated his attentions on another side of shooting that interested him – rimfires. His shop is now better known all over the world now as Rimfire Magic.Roger decided to start base his rimfire business at first on the Ruger 10/22 as he felt that this little rifle would replace handguns for many shooters. That turned out to be the case. What he didn’t foresee was the interest these rifles would generate with pest control shooters. The business grew at a fast pace and now provides a complete service for pest controllers.Soon, it was not just little rimfires on the shelves. Roger started to sell all kinds of guns, ammuniti
 
Rabbit shooting
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008.jpg Shooting rabbits on Somerset farm. Using ferrets to bolt the rabbits, 3456 x 304
 
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034.jpg Roger Francis shooting rabbits with a rimfire rifle.3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: It’s a kind of magicSTANDFIRST: For one man, the magic of rimfires was so great he renamed his gunshop Rimfire Magic to deal in them. Charlie Jacoby interviews Roger FrancisRoger Francis, as you can see in the picture, has a slight interest in rimfires. That’s a CZ American .22LR isn’t it? With a 16in barrel? And do my eyes deceive me or has someone taken the time to fit it with a Hogue stock an – did I hear you say – tune the trigger? And would that be a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm Varmint scope aboard it? Yes, Roger has more than a slight interest in rimfires.While other kids Roger’s age liked air rifles and many graduated to centrefires, Roger stuck with rimfires for rabbits and, when he was allowed to, handguns for target shooting. For him, rimfires represent everything that stalking-shooting is about. They are light, manoeuvrable, powerful enough to despatch quarry and even objects of beauty and fun.Roger and his wife Sheila started South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies in 1985. They run it from their farmhouse outside Sheffield where it threatens to spill into every room. It was a handgun specialist but the 1997 handgun ban put paid to that and to 85% of the business. With the arrival of the Internet at about that time, Roger didn’t pull the plug, however. He concentrated his attentions on another side of shooting that interested him – rimfires. His shop is now better known all over the world now as Rimfire Magic.Roger decided to start base his rimfire business at first on the Ruger 10/22 as he felt that this little rifle would replace handguns for many shooters. That turned out to be the case. What he didn’t foresee was the interest these rifles would generate with pest control shooters. The business grew at a fast pace and now provides a complete service for pest controllers.Soon, it was not just little rimfires on the shelves. Roger started to sell all kinds of guns, ammuniti
 
Rabbit shooting
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048.jpg Roger Francis, 3456 x 2304 ORIGINAL ARTICLERimfiremagic.docSLUG: RimfiresHEAD: It’s a kind of magicSTANDFIRST: For one man, the magic of rimfires was so great he renamed his gunshop Rimfire Magic to deal in them. Charlie Jacoby interviews Roger FrancisRoger Francis, as you can see in the picture, has a slight interest in rimfires. That’s a CZ American .22LR isn’t it? With a 16in barrel? And do my eyes deceive me or has someone taken the time to fit it with a Hogue stock an – did I hear you say – tune the trigger? And would that be a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm Varmint scope aboard it? Yes, Roger has more than a slight interest in rimfires.While other kids Roger’s age liked air rifles and many graduated to centrefires, Roger stuck with rimfires for rabbits and, when he was allowed to, handguns for target shooting. For him, rimfires represent everything that stalking-shooting is about. They are light, manoeuvrable, powerful enough to despatch quarry and even objects of beauty and fun.Roger and his wife Sheila started South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies in 1985. They run it from their farmhouse outside Sheffield where it threatens to spill into every room. It was a handgun specialist but the 1997 handgun ban put paid to that and to 85% of the business. With the arrival of the Internet at about that time, Roger didn’t pull the plug, however. He concentrated his attentions on another side of shooting that interested him – rimfires. His shop is now better known all over the world now as Rimfire Magic.Roger decided to start base his rimfire business at first on the Ruger 10/22 as he felt that this little rifle would replace handguns for many shooters. That turned out to be the case. What he didn’t foresee was the interest these rifles would generate with pest control shooters. The business grew at a fast pace and now provides a complete service for pest controllers.Soon, it was not just little rimfires on the shelves. Roger started to sell all kinds of guns, ammunition
 
Roger Francis
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005.jpg Anschuetz .22LR distributed in the UK by Frank Dyke & Co, 1772 x 1178
 
Shooting rabbits
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036.jpg Roger Francis shooting rabbits with a rimfire rifle.3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEHEAD: It’s a kind of magicSTANDFIRST: For one man, the magic of rimfires was so great he renamed his gunshop Rimfire Magic to deal in them. Charlie Jacoby interviews Roger FrancisRoger Francis, as you can see in the picture, has a slight interest in rimfires. That’s a CZ American .22LR isn’t it? With a 16in barrel? And do my eyes deceive me or has someone taken the time to fit it with a Hogue stock an – did I hear you say – tune the trigger? And would that be a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm Varmint scope aboard it? Yes, Roger has more than a slight interest in rimfires.While other kids Roger’s age liked air rifles and many graduated to centrefires, Roger stuck with rimfires for rabbits and, when he was allowed to, handguns for target shooting. For him, rimfires represent everything that stalking-shooting is about. They are light, manoeuvrable, powerful enough to despatch quarry and even objects of beauty and fun.Roger and his wife Sheila started South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies in 1985. They run it from their farmhouse outside Sheffield where it threatens to spill into every room. It was a handgun specialist but the 1997 handgun ban put paid to that and to 85% of the business. With the arrival of the Internet at about that time, Roger didn’t pull the plug, however. He concentrated his attentions on another side of shooting that interested him – rimfires. His shop is now better known all over the world now as Rimfire Magic.Roger decided to start base his rimfire business at first on the Ruger 10/22 as he felt that this little rifle would replace handguns for many shooters. That turned out to be the case. What he didn’t foresee was the interest these rifles would generate with pest control shooters. The business grew at a fast pace and now provides a complete service for pest controllers.Soon, it was not just little rimfires on the shelves. Roger started to sell all kinds of guns, ammuniti
 
Shooting rabbits
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043.jpg Matt Brammer shooting rabbits from his bathroom with a .22LR rifle3072 x 2304
 
Shooting rabbits from a bathroom
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042.jpg Matt Brammer shooting rabbits from his bathroom with a .22LR rifle3072 x 2304
 
Shooting rabbits from a bathroom
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037.jpg Fiona Lloyd shooting rabbits with an Anschuetz .22LR semi-auto rifle3072 x 2304
 
Shooting rabbits from a bathroom
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026.jpg Dominic Alers-Hankey in Realtree APG camouflage with Brno .22LR and his lurcher Stuka3456 x 2304
 
The complete rabbiter
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072.jpg Tom Garner, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLETom’s got the perfect jobIt’s nine-to-five, day ion, day out plus tons of overtime. The thing about Tom Garner’s job is that it is almost all shooting, as Alistair Macgregor finds outImagine a job where you have to go stalking every morning and where the pressure is on to shoot foxes, rabbits and squirrels when you are not stalking. It’s the perfect job for a Sporting Rifle reader, surely.This is the day to day reality for Tom Garner, Estate Ranger for the Clinton Devon Estates in East Devon, where he is responsible for the management of wild deer, control of vermin and is part-time keeper on the owner’s shoot.It’s a family business with a professional management team running nearly 25,000 acres, most of it around Exmouth and Beer on the East Devon coast. There are home farms in hand, which have just gone organic – but much of the farming is let. There is one shoot with a fulltime keeper on the southern part of the estate and the other shoots on the tenant farms are part-time keepered.Tom took over three years ago from an estate ranger who had been at Clinton Devon Estates for 35 years. Tom’s arrival coincided with the Estate investing in its deer management operations with a purpose built chiller and handling facility, development of direct venison sales and conducted stalking.They are all roe deer here. The ground varies so much on the huge acreage that Tom gets all kinds, from woodland deer, through seaside deer to field deer that hide out in Devon’s’ big hedges. There are hills on the estate with gorse moorland on top and there is seven miles of the River Otter. There are farms on the estate that do livestock and others that specialise in arable.Cull numbers are agreed with the Estates Woodland Manager and are based on regular monitoring of browsing impacts within the Estates woodlands. “I hold the Forestry Commission as the leading light in deer management,” says Tom. “The way we do things here takes a lot fr
 
Tom Garner
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073.jpg Tom Garner, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLETom’s got the perfect jobIt’s nine-to-five, day ion, day out plus tons of overtime. The thing about Tom Garner’s job is that it is almost all shooting, as Alistair Macgregor finds outImagine a job where you have to go stalking every morning and where the pressure is on to shoot foxes, rabbits and squirrels when you are not stalking. It’s the perfect job for a Sporting Rifle reader, surely.This is the day to day reality for Tom Garner, Estate Ranger for the Clinton Devon Estates in East Devon, where he is responsible for the management of wild deer, control of vermin and is part-time keeper on the owner’s shoot.It’s a family business with a professional management team running nearly 25,000 acres, most of it around Exmouth and Beer on the East Devon coast. There are home farms in hand, which have just gone organic – but much of the farming is let. There is one shoot with a fulltime keeper on the southern part of the estate and the other shoots on the tenant farms are part-time keepered.Tom took over three years ago from an estate ranger who had been at Clinton Devon Estates for 35 years. Tom’s arrival coincided with the Estate investing in its deer management operations with a purpose built chiller and handling facility, development of direct venison sales and conducted stalking.They are all roe deer here. The ground varies so much on the huge acreage that Tom gets all kinds, from woodland deer, through seaside deer to field deer that hide out in Devon’s’ big hedges. There are hills on the estate with gorse moorland on top and there is seven miles of the River Otter. There are farms on the estate that do livestock and others that specialise in arable.Cull numbers are agreed with the Estates Woodland Manager and are based on regular monitoring of browsing impacts within the Estates woodlands. “I hold the Forestry Commission as the leading light in deer management,” says Tom. “The way we do things here takes a lot fr
 
Tom Garner with roe heads
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001.jpg Charlie Jacoby usign a camo net hide in the corner of a hedge. Early evening fox shooting with a Mauser MO3 in .243 calibre and Winchester X ammo (M03). Also using a digital fox caller to attract the foxes. 3456 x 2304
 
Using a camo net hide
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