Gold for GB in Junior World Cup
Photo: Karen Norton / Nortonsport The GB Women’s Skeet team won gold at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl. The team of Phoebe Bodley-Scott, Sophie Herrmann and Beth Norton did it in style with a massive 7-1 win over Slovakia in the final on 18 May 2022. Berkshire CPSA posted: “Phoebe and her team […]
Lead ban: what it means for old guns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ylO5M7kP4 With the government holding a consultation on lead shot, lead pellets for airguns and lead bullets, it’s time to act and make your views know. Dan Reynolds form BASC explains the timeline of the consultation anbd Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk says what will happen to prices for old shotguns. Take part in the consultation
Are bunnies bouncing back?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cj2hOFkE7s Tom Davies finds a field with a rabbit problem in Devon. Is that unusual? Well, yes. Rabbits populations have dropped across the UK as RHD (rabbit haemorrhagic disease) takes hold. He says this may be a sign that British rabbits are turning a corner and coming back. Click here for Pulsar Find Tom […]
Will tree mania kill Scottish deer stalking?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRLeXeMhZo Niall Rowantree and Dr Cathy Mayne go hindstalking with heavy hearts. They have to help bring down deer numbers so that Scottish landowners can plant trees. But is this mania for treeplanting self-defeating? Cathy looks at the science and Niall tells the story from a deer manager’s perspective. Find Niall and Cathy on Facebook […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish rewilding madness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wSBbY1vPI Niall Rowantree and Dr Catghy Mayne go out after red hinds in Scotland in order to tell the story of Scottish Government wildlife policy and where it is going wrong. The new mania for wiping out deer in order to plant trees can only end, they say, in more deer. Meanwhile, better news on […]
Act now to save the pheasant season – Fieldsports News, 18 May 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahQqY7GFA8 Here are the links: Pheasant and partridge imports hang in the balance – NGO + please write to your MP to say that DEFRA should allow 28 days (not 90 days) for bird flu no-movement – or thousands of jobs in shooting will be at risk and 20 million+ gamebird chicks destined for the […]
