Airguns have always had a slightly subversive image. Their stealth made them ideal tools for poachers, and in the past many windows have been broken by stray pellets. Lots of us learned to shoot with airguns and they have wormed their way into our subconscious. For example, British Army squaddies…
It is impossible to talk about Sam Heughan without mentioning the television phenomenon Outlander. Based on the romantic novels by Diana Gabaldon, the drama follows the story of a Second World War nurse who, while on honeymoon in Scotland, falls through ancient standing stones and travels back in time to…
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This gun review concerns a Fabarm Autumn Elite 20-bore: a 28in-barrelled, trigger-plate side-by-side with single selective trigger. It is a bells-and-whistles version of the firm’s Autumn model, with silver nitride coin finish, open scroll laser engraving, (fairly restrained) gold gamebird inlays and upgraded wood. The basic Autumn, which may still…
It was around half a century in the making. Engraving took 2,915 hours and a decade was devoted to its production. The result is one of the most stunningly original rifles of all time. The ‘First Spear’ double rifle The seeds for the ‘First Spear’ double rifle were sown when…
The featured gun this month is a Chapuis Armes Super Orion Artisan C140 sideplate, a fairly recent model from the firm and the sideplated version of the C135 (also an extra-finish gun). Chapuis has been owned by Beretta since 2019 and its guns are distributed here by GMK. The C140…
My house sits in the middle of a farm surrounded by forestry. We love to see the wildlife in our garden but are unable to have flower beds as the muntjac and fallow deer come and help themselves. As we don't want to fence the garden are there plants we…
