When I was growing up I used to spend a lot of my school holidays with my grandparents in a small rural village in Kent. Next door lived an old man…
Nick Ridley
Clumber spaniels – a genuine gundog breed
During 2015 there were 217 Clumber spaniel puppies registered in Britain. Compare this with 10,500 springer spaniels and 22,500 cocker spaniels registered and you will realise that this is not…
What is a rough day’s shooting?
Last week, I received an email from one of the subscribers to my YouTube channel. He had been watching one of the latest head-cam videos and he asked what the difference is…
A good day’s sport roughshooting in Buckinghamshire
I was feeling pretty fed up as I checked as many weather apps and websites I could find, the forecast ranged from thick fog to dense mist, the worst conditions possible for a walked-up day…
Picking-up with a Sealyham terrier
I get a real buzz out of watching any kind of “working” dog do what it was bred for, whether that is a hard-going spaniel tearing apart a bramble bush…
Continental pointers in action
It was over 25 years ago when I first saw an HPR (hunt, point, retrieve) pointer working. I was photographing a spring pointing test and the dog was a German…
Gloucestershire gundog training
Norman and Sandra Onens of Kestrelway Gundogs are experienced gundog trainers and handlers and at their training ground, based near Evesham in Gloucestershire, they have developed a superb area for…
Which dog is best for rough shooting?
Which dog for rough shooting? For many gundog owners there can be nothing more exciting and rewarding than shooting over their own dog. However, it takes hours and hours of…
Rough Shooting in Worcestershire
I am a chap of simple pleasures: give me a gun, a spaniel, and some scrubby ground on which to hunt and I promise I will walk around all day…
How gundogs are used abroad
Nick Ridley looks at how the same gundogs are used abroad and asks why we use two breeds in the UK when we could just use one
Ladies’ partridge shooting in Oxfordshire
Nick Ridley observes the next generation of female shooters coming through at one of Oxfordshire's most progressive driven game shoots
Sealyhams – leaders of the rat pack
Nick Ridley sees what a pack of Sealyhams can do when he joins them in action on a chicken farm, hunting down that most persistent of foes – the common…
The Fenn Valley Shoot
An informal but impressive family day in Buckinghamshire
Kimpton Hoo Farm shoot
Nick Ridley visits the Kimpton Hoo Farm shoot in Hertfordshire
Pheasant shooting in Buckinghamshire
Nick Ridley joins some friends for a days rough pheasant shooting in Buckinghamshire with his Circle of Trust Roughshooting Syndicate
Beckerings Park shoot: Indian summer partridges
An early-season redleg shoot in Bedfordshire
Sealyham Terrier pack hunt rats on the river Taw
Nick Ridley joins Harry Parsons as he hunts his Sealyham terriers in Devon
Rabbiting: A walked-up run
Flushing and retrieving bolting bunnies
How your dog’s vision affects its training
What your dog sees and how he sees it
Gundog training Video: Bolting Bunnies
Gundog training Video: Nick Ridley joins a rabbit training day where gundogs are taught the vital skills for flushing and retrieving bolting bunnies