Graham Downing

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Graham Downing is a lifelong field sportsman. A keen rough-shooter since his early teens, he is both an active game shooter and a passionate wildfowler and deer stalker. Graham hunts waterfowl ...

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lundi 13 mai

The swings of fortune

One of the most gripping aspects of deer stalking is the way in which fortune can swing first one way, then the other and then back again many times over the course of a single hunting trip. That is never more so than when you are stalking muntjac, undoubtedly one of the most challenging quarry animals ...

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mercredi 30 janvier

Woodcock in Pembrokeshire

For those who enjoy hunting truly wild game, there can be few other birds as exciting or as unpredictable to hunt than the woodcock. Arriving in its winter haunts as if by magic a few days after the full moon, staying in particular locations for weeks or moving on after just a couple of days, the ...

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jeudi 10 mai

Yeswehunt Monteria 11-12 February 2012

‘Yeswehunt enables keen hunters from across Europe to get together and share the different national traditions of our sport.’ That was the proposition which was made when our website was first set up, and over the four days of 10-13 February 2012, the organisation proved that it did exactly what it said on the tin. Twenty ...

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mardi 27 mars

Muntjac Magic

Am I the only one who has a soft spot for the little muntjac? Everybody seems to hate it, whether they are a farmer, forester, gardener or gamekeeper.

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jeudi 16 février

Sporting travels

It has been a rather unusual hunting season for me. Writing this in mid January, the temperature outside is in double figures and daytime temperatures have not been much below that for the whole of the winter. The consequence is that migratory birds such as wildfowl and waders have been notable for their absence. Estuaries which ...

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jeudi 9 février

New Arrivals

Say hello to these two little guys! Here are Teal and Wigeon, our two new Labrador puppies, just 19 weeks old and full of fun. My old bitch, Pintail, is now 11 years old, so it’s really time that I have a new puppy to bring on for the time when the old girl is no ...

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dimanche 4 décembre

Driven partridges at Glemham

Partridge shooting in England is usually associated with crisp autumn mornings when there is a chill in the air, a heavy dew on the grass and maybe a fine day to come later. But this autumn has been a bit different. When I arrived at Glemham Hall on 30 th September for my first day’s partridge ...

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jeudi 31 mars

Five days of hunting

One of the drawbacks to hunting at this time of year is that dusk and dawn are now so close together that there is very little time in which to sleep.

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mercredi 1 décembre

Hard weather fowling

Hard weather is something which the wildfowler always looks forward to, but which is usually a rare commodity in the south of England.

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mardi 24 août

The Glorious Twelfth

If there’s one date in the British shooting calendar of which everyone has heard, it is the 12 th of August, the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ on which the season opens for red grouse. This is one of the few occasions when game shooting leaps from the pages of the specialist sporting press into the national media. There ...

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