Alongside a rifle, the key piece of kit any stalker needs is… a scope? A stick? A bag? Take a look and see if any of these resonate. Hawke Frontier All Frontier models feature Hawke’s new H7 optics with high…
cartridge
Best stalking kit – our must-stock options
Tagged with: best stalking kit, Blaser, cartridge, casstrom, conquest v4, Deerhunter, element, Hawke, hunting, kit, optics, plane, rifle, riflescope, Sportsman Gun Centre, stalking, stalking gear, Swarovski, zeiss
Posted in Features, Market Opportunities
Posted in Features, Market Opportunities
Game Fair 2021 preview w/ Simon West
With excitement building for the Game Fair, Simon West reflects on the progress we have made and the obstacles that remain as we struggle back to that elusive ‘normality’. Here we go! With us facing the roll back of restrictions—hopefully…
Tagged with: airguns, cartridge, game fair 2021, gta, gun trade news, gunmakers theatre, lockdown, shooting, simon west, sport
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
Gun of the Week: Mossberg Patriot Predator
Stuart Wilson finds that ‘good things often come in small packages’ as he gets to grips with a newly calibred American hero – this week’s Gun of the Week, the Mossberg Patriot Predator. Mossberg has been making guns for over…
Tagged with: ammunition, bipod, bullet, calibre, cartridge, fallow, foxing, gun, gun of the week, hunting, mossberg, mossberg patriot predator, pistol, roe, Sako, shotgun, Stalkers, stalking, stock, stuart wilson
Posted in Gun of the Week
Posted in Gun of the Week
Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP – GTN Interview
The MP for the Cotswolds, Sir Geoffrey is chair of the influential all-party parliamentary group on shooting and conservation and a keen shot himself. We caught up with him to hear his opinion on the current state of shooting in…
Tagged with: ammunition, british shooting sports council, cartridge, clay, conservation, countryside, covid, deer, deer stalking, eley, firearms, general licences, geoffrey clifton brown, gtn, guns, hunting, interview, live quarry, partridge, quarry, shoot, shooting, shotgun, trophy hunting, wildlife
Posted in Interviews
Posted in Interviews
Best new shooting products in January
A bit of a bumper month this time as we catch up with a few products released in the last quarter that didn’t make it into the Christmas gift list but remain worth your attention, along with all the usual…
Tagged with: cartridge, christmas, element optics, Eley Hawk, fibre wad, game shooting, January, maximum, products, range, shoot, shooting, Sportsman Gun Centre
Posted in Market Opportunities
Posted in Market Opportunities
Gun of the Week: Lee Enfield AK-74
There’s a new CO2-powered BB gun that’s waiting to say “preevyet” (Hi!) to a host of Western airgun shooters – the AK-74 from Lee Enfield (Guns) Key Specs Gun supplied by: The Shooting Party (www.shootingparty.uk)Manufacturer: Lee Enfield (Guns)Model: Kalashnikov AK-74Price: £249.99Overall length: 943mmLength of pull: 328mmSafety: ManualBarrel: Smooth…
Tagged with: airgun, Airgun Shooter, ak74, ammo, bb gun, cartridge, co2, gun of the week, rifle, shooters, shooting party
Posted in Gun of the Week, News
Posted in Gun of the Week, News
Updated: Covid-19 safe shooting and gathering limits
Shooting has been added to a list of sports that are exempt from the latest Covid-19 restrictions in England. The ‘rule of six’ restrictions brought in yesterday (14 September) in England could have disrupted game shooting which usually includes eight…
Tagged with: basc, business, cartridge, coronavirus, covid-19, firearms, firearms certificate, game shooting, government, health and safety, ian bell, outdoor, self-isolation, shooting, shoots, shotgun, shotgun certificate, social distancing, sports
Posted in News
Posted in News
The latest auction reports on rifles and shotguns
Big Game, Black Powder and Bolt Action brought a whiff of excitement and adventure to recent auctions reports Michael E. Haskew. Springtime auction events have produced intriguing results regarding rifles of particularly storied provenance. In the March Holts event,…
Tagged with: ammunition, auction, big game, black powder, bolt action, bolt action rifle, cartridge, firearms, game hunting, Gavin Gardiner, german mauser, grip, Hunter, hunting, John Rigby, lee enfield, magnum, pistol grip, rifles, Rigby, shooting, shotguns, Sporting Rifle, stock, target shooting
Posted in Features
Posted in Features
New shooting products for August 2020
A veritable smorgasbord of delights this month from the insanely practical to the immensely enjoyable, we’ve something to tempt every budget… Rigby wine carrier Clinking bottles and fear of breakages ruining field lunches can now be a thing of the…
Tagged with: August, bio-wad, bisley, boot, budget, cartridge, clothing, dark storm, evolution eyewear, fibre wad, field, fiocchi, game, game bird, gamebore, gun, gun bag, gunmaker, helion, highland, james keyser, John Rigby and co, outdoor, outdoors, pheasant game lady, Pulsar, rangefinder, Rigby, scope, shooting, shooting products, south africa, steel, steel shot, swazi, swazi apparel, thermion, thomas jacks, vision, wad, walther
Posted in Products
Posted in Products
Eley Hawk Interview: Catching up with Practical Shooting family
Leading exponents of the surgingly popular practical shotgun discipline, the Williamsons, have been working to create a cartridge specifically for their sport. GTN caught up with them for an interview on the Eley Hawk stand at The Great British Shooting…
Tagged with: alpha elite, cartridge, FITASC, gbsa, gtn, handguns, practical shooting, rifle, shotgun, sport, sporting
Posted in Interviews
Posted in Interviews
