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Restoring your old shotgun
Restoring your old shotgun is not the easy business it used to be. Michael Yardley…
Forward allowance. 9 techniques for shooting well
Forward allowance is one of the hardest shooting techniques to master, but it is also…
Reeves’s pheasant: a high flyer and hefty fine
The Reeves’s pheasant will occassionally appear at a British shoot, but only as an escapee…
Cheer pheasant: a Himalayan native
The Cheer pheasant originates from the Himalaya region from western Pakistan to Nepal, but it…
Grey junglefowl: the wild ancestor
The Grey junglefowl is very distinctive, with neck hackles dotted with pale yellow spots, and…
Satyr tragopan: the Crimson-horned pheasant
The Satyr tragopan, also known as the Crimson-horned pheasant, can be found in thickly forested…
Impeyan pheasant: Himalayan monal
The Impeyan pheasant, also known as the Himalayan monal, is far bigger than other pheasants,…
Caucasian pheasant: the Old English Blackneck
The Caucasian pheasant was originally brought to England by the Romans, but a long history…
Shooting etiquette: are standards slipping?
Shooting etiquette has slipped for Robert Gibbons. Butlers serving champagne, pins badly placed, dogs despatched…