Essex farmer Robert Bucknell has a problem with rats around his pheasant feeders. He doesn’t like to use poison in case it harms the owls. But he has a plan. He’s fitted a HIK Micro Thunder thermal scope to his Hushpower .410 shotgun. If he waits up in the warmth of his truck at dusk, he should be able to hit the rats while they’re lurking in the undergrowth.
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Last month we were with Sam Green in Norfolk for a driven pheasant and partridge day. Now we’re back at the shoot for a different kind of sport – ratting with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack. We start at the piggery buildings, then move on to compost heaps and
Airgun supremo Terry Doe is back at the fancy fowl centre for another go at the rats – and this time he’s upped the stakes in technology. He’s brought an RTI Arms pre-charged pneumatic, fitted with the latest Infiray TL35 SE Tube thermal scope. It’s a super-accurate combo, so much
Smoke and dogs: those are the main sporting equipment that the West Lancs Rat Pack uses. And the results are explosive. Today’s venue is a large pile of rotting grain near Wigan. Farmers used to plough this back into the ground. Nowadays, it’s more ‘sustainable’ to leave it to rot.
Essex farmer Robert Bucknell has a problem with rats around his pheasant feeders. He doesn’t like to use poison in case it harms the owls. But he has a plan. He’s fitted a HIK Micro Thunder thermal scope to his Hushpower .410 shotgun. If he waits up in the warmth
Where there are chickens there are usually rats. That’s bad news for the owner of the fancy fowl, but great news for Terry Doe, former editor-in-chief of Airgun World, who has a load of new kit to deal with our pest problem. Unfortunately the quality of the image through the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgV0554Fzag Roy is tired and grumpy, and giving David grief. David’s one hope is that Roy takes his rattiness out on the local rodent population. With the end of the falcon breeding season just around the corner, Roy has just a couple of hours to perform some important rat control