Two phone calls this afternoon have highlighted the fact that some shooters don’t do themselves – or the rest of us – any favours. The first was from a council employee in Leeds, who had shot from a nearby pheasant shoot rain down around him as he worked. He was the most reasonable bloke imaginable, [...]

    I’ve been making the most of the sunshine, and a couple of spare hours, to shoot some of the obligatory cute puppy photos. Bracken is 12 weeks now, and if I don’t get on with it she’ll be a big hulking brute and I’ll have missed the chance! More photos in my collection [...]

I woudn’t normally suggest you go and read anything from the League Against Cruel Sports. But the latest confused ramblings from their chief fruitloop, Douglas Batchelor, are worth a look, if only for a glimpse into the sort of poisoned mind that can look at a day’s shooting and see perversion and cruelty. As an [...]

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The BBC’s Inside Out South East programme has produced an excellent piece on young people and shotguns, featuring the West Kent Shooting School, and presented by a young shooter, 12-year-old Victoria. It’s available on the BBC iPlayer until Monday 14 Dec – grab a look while you can. Share and Enjoy:

I opened the window quietly, poked the camera through, and snapped a few photos before the woodie flew off. Share and Enjoy:

For the first time, the ProStalk camera has captured two foxes at once. Also a magpie that visited the site during daylight. There are one or two ‘blank’ photos, day and night, which I guess are the result of something whizzing past the sensor and being out of shot by the time the shutter opens. [...]

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The ProStalk camera nabbed this photo of my night-time visitor last night. There are 9 photos in all, taken in 3 bursts of 3. The info on the card shows that foxy came through twice – once around 8.40pm and then again this morning at around 6.15. Event 0001 2009/11/25 20:39:06 Event 0002 2009/11/26 06:14:04 [...]

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