In this week's magazine, With little more than a week to go, don’t miss Shooting Times’s last-minute Christmas shopping guide on page 48, featuring great ideas for even the most hard to please of your friends and family.

With little more than a week to go, don’t miss Shooting Times’s last-minute Christmas shopping guide on page 48, featuring great ideas for even the most hard to please of your friends and family. Plus: Alastair Balmain witnesses the result of one clever planter’s foresight generations ago on the Cefn Mine shoot, in North Wales; Pete Wadeson carries out some daytime pest control in the farmyard; Lamping may not be everyone’s bag, but being out at twilight hits the spot for Ian Barnett; Like a Macnab but different. Ian Valentine witnesses a team of Guns trying to bag their pheasant and fish, McDougal-style and Finally, don’t forget to buy next week’s issue, bringing you all the highlights, pictures and results from the IGL Retriever Championship, held last week in Suffolk. Get down your local newsagents now.