Shooting Times & Country Magazine - 11 Jun 2025
Find a fitting sporter
How can you help restore greys?
PLUS
STALKING IN THE FOREST OF DEAN
BASS FISHING ON THE MENAI
Teddy
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Catching Charlie
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Getting away from it all
High on the hog in the forest
Taking on double the trouble
On the Strait and narrow
Steel yourself for lead-free ammo
Why fit always comes first
Gamekeeper
Stalking Diary
Letters Features
Country Diary
Firearms database out to tender at £17m
Badger cull expanded to beat spread of bovine TB
King acts over pheasant shortage at Sandringham
Paws for thought in Scots parades
Stewardship boost for our farmers
BASC warning over fake firearms sales
Calls for hare close season grow as Bill stalls in Lords
New director appointed to lead GWCT Scotland
Kazakhstan gives green light to saiga hunting
“We must not forget that wolves are killers – quite simply, it’s what they do”
Applications open for 50% deer chiller trailer grants
Will Government limit ELMS to small farms?
To do this week
Rewilding and fires, a precautionary tale
PRICE OF USING STEEL SHOT
We must protect these custodians
DELIGHTING IN MARTIN RETURN
STEEL SHOT AND THE REAL DANGER
SOLUTIONS TOGETHER
CHALLENGING APPROACH
DEE (chipped as Demon) INDY Whippet bitch
BUDDY Deerhound dog BRENNA
PEGGY, PRETTY plus one other
Have you seen one of these dogs?
BEAU Jack Russell terrier bitch
SAGE Sprocker bitch
This long, dry spring could bring fewer insects, which in turn may mean that fragile grouse chicks will struggle to find enough food
Sporting Life
Give it to me Strait
This big piggy went to market
This big piggy went to market
Luke’s boar stalking kit
Chorus of approval for time at Choire
Chorus of approval for time at Choire
Let’s bite the bullet
WINCHESTER .308 EXTREME POINT COPPER IMPACT
BARNESTSX
SAKO .308 WIN POWERHEAD BLADE
NORMA ECOSTRIKE .308 WIN
HORNADY .308 WIN ECX
ON YOUR GAME
Counting grey partridges
Starting out? Make sure it fits
Starting out? Make sure it fits
GREAT BEGINNER GUNS TO EXPLORE
GUNFIT CHECKLIST
KEEPING WELL
Weatherby Live Wild Mark V 280 AI £1,739
NEED TO KNOW
IN DEPTH
FIELD TEST
CONCLUSION
17 18 17
88
18 /20
18 /20
Littermate lessons
NATIONAL SHOOTING SHOW’S HIGHLIGHTS
BRAND NEW BOOK
Game Cookery
THE METHOD Serves 2 or 3
Ingredients
Got game, got vermin
How can I fit a bipod?
The experts
No muntjac in Cumbria
Do roe always cast antlers?
The tale of two ospreys
Protecting gamecrops
Long-tailed duck doubts
Squirrel on the menu
Keep it simple on reticles
Our dog sleeps on his back
Crossword
Across
Buzzer
Competition:
Solution 1719 /28 May 2025
In the spotlight
Native Britain
JUNE MOON PHASE
EDITOR’S PICKS: PIGEON DECOYS
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Flying pigeon deceiver
Sillosocks motorised Hypa-flap decoy
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Dog By Keith Reynolds
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