The first and market-leading rifle shooting mag in the UK, Sporting Rifle covers rifle sports of all kinds, from rimfire rabbits to big game overseas and everything in between. With the very best writers on board, we cover foxing and UK deer stalking extensively in every issue, with tips and tricks as well as stories from the field to help your outings be more successful.
Bigger and better… • In this final stand-alone issue of Sporting Rifle, Patrick Galbraith looks ahead to the great opportunities presented by its merger with the weekly title Shooting Times
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The man who stares at goats • Feral goats have had some bad press but in Galloway they are part of the mountains — and they produce fabulous meat, reports Patrick Laurie
The buck stops here • Rather than bemoaning an opportunity lost, David Barrington Barnes gets back into the thick of the roebuck action
Return of the buck • Paul Childerley heads to Wiltshire to help with with a stalk of his favoured roebucks
Buck hit list • Chris Dalton gets familiar with the 6.5 Creedmoor and takes advantage of invasive roebuck
Forgotten work? • Rudi van Kets considers the role of the deer dog in the modern world and wonders if they are a misunderstood breed
Hound decisions • The growth of deer-tracking work in the UK has led to some forthright views developing on what is the ‘right’ breed to use. Rudi van Kets says we need to look beyond the arguments
Monster muntjac • In our final deer head round-up, James Sutcliffe celebrates a wealth of new trophies, including an impressive munty
The final Conquest • It’s tough for high-end riflescopes to penetrate a busy market, but the new Zeiss Conquest hits the mark, as Chris Parkin discovers
Hunting with the Haenel • Stuart Wilson has bagged a Haenel Jaeger 10 Varmint Sporter .308 Win on long-term test, which means plenty of opportunity to take it out after roe deer…
Going long range • Mark Ripley finds himself ‘far from dSappointed’ when testing the long-range capabilities of the Swarovski dS scope
Trail blazing • Mike Powell recalls one of his favourite foxing units, the Pulsar Trail XQ50 thermal rifle scope, and still finds it to be a market-leading device with plenty of after-dark appeal
Watch and learn • Foxers need to build their informant network if they’re to succeed, says Robert Bucknell – and that includes not just neighbours but local wildlife, too
Modern lambing • Mike Powell recounts the busiest spell of a foxer’s calendar – the age-old practice of pest control during the lambing season
Lambing season survival • Tasked with lamb protection over a large number of farms, Mark Ripley reveals his tricks of the trade for keeping the flock safe from vulpine attack
More than meats the eye • As Daryl Crimp and son Daniel head out to cull New Zealand’s fallow population, they could well end up with a year’s worth of meat from a single day of shooting
The famous four • Thomas Nissen joins the hunt for sing-sing waterbuck in Burkina Faso, as Jens Kjaer Knudsen aims to complete all four huntable subspecies of defassa
Conservation triumph • Kevin Thomas profiles the Bubye Valley Conservancy – a Zimbabwean wildlife conservation success story that owes much to the support of paying sport hunters
Going under grand • We take a look at 10 of the best rifle scopes on the market for less than £1,000, one of 14 categories in the Great British Shooting...