Fieldsports Britain – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Squirrels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LUqedcczs It’s squirrel time. Paul and Johnny are out after the pesky greys ahead of the songbird nesting season. They are shooting out the dreys on woodland in Bedfordshire. Meanwhile, Dartmoor deer manager Tom Davies is taking the pressure off woodland in Devon. We follow him for a day to see what his job entails, […]
Dartmoor Deer Services
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxWP2dMPdE Professional deer manager Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services is out to shoot or at least spot three species of deer today. Dartmoor, where he lives, has the habitat for red deer, fallow and roe. He starts his day with a fallow cull outing on a local pheasant shoot. Then he heads into one […]
Huntress Tatiana Orosová and the Slovak brown bear boom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQG9CK_W98 Tatiana Orosová (pictured below) is a hunter and conservationist. She is a former contestant on Extreme Huntress, the TV competition in the USA. She has been studying brown bears in Slovakia for more than 15 years and says the population is booming. 100 years ago, they were nearly extinct. The trouble today is there […]
Pump-action squirrel hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUjIc-LqtuY Paul Childerley and Johnny Muston are on a squirrel-shooting mission – and they knock down a couple of dozen. The invasive grey squirrels are damaging trees, pheasant feeders, and are all set to prey on the songbird nesting season. By shooting out the squirrels’ dreys, Johnny and Paul can reduce numbers, and so reduce […]
Antis add weight to lead shot ban pressure – Fieldsports News, 24 February 2021
Here are the links: Most pheasants sold for food ‘contain lead shot’ – BBC Tory thinktank wants probe into PM’s fiancée – Fieldsports News Call for Scotland to become first ever ‘rewilding’ nation – MSN Dead hinds and calves shock walkers – The Times and SGA Scotland’s country sports tourism sector to get lockdown relief […]
