weimaraner

Bloat in dogs is uncommon but often fatal, as the winner of The Field’s Best Family Gundog award discovered a few years ago. David Tomlinson describes the symptoms and stresses the need to act quickly. Bloat in dogs One of the most enjoyable tasks I have undertaken whilst working for…

salmon fishing

Have a fishing bucket list? If not perhaps it is about time to start one. The fishing bucket list is here to enliven your familiar fishing patterns. Season after season our sporting lives are set and familiar beats. Try something new and you will be one step nearer to sporting…

air rifle

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…

Sam Heughan

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…

Side-by-side shotgun

The choice between over and under or side by side shotgun will be forever open for debate. While tradition has favoured side by sides, an over and under will not receive the snide comments on a shoot as it once did thirty years ago. In fact, many guns find they…

Fabarm Autumn Elite 20-bore

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…