Windowcleaning gundogs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFpMMSuIRs Working a gundog to flush game, says top trainer Dave Templar, is like windowcleaning. You want your dog to wipe the cover in front of you in the same action a windowcleaner uses to wipe glass. He is training a cocker to get ready for a field trial, the ultimate test of a dog’s […]
Stalking secretive Scottish sika
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY3MeOhqcM Helen Tinner continues her mission to shoot all six species of wild deer found in the UK. This time, she is out after a sika stag, near Biggar in the Scottish Borders. Using all the skills she has learned as a stalker so far, Nathan Whitehead guides her into animals in forestry. For […]
Fieldsports Britain – hide and sika
youtu.be/UZgLSd2xDtk It’s all about difficult deer and easy pheasants this week. Helen Tinner is in the Scottish borders after a sika stag. With guide Nathan Whitehead, they put in the hours to get close to an animal in forestry. Dave ‘the Dog’ Templar steps up to describe gundog training for a field trial, and how […]
RSPB lies and the language of hate
The RSPB president says that shooters are ‘subhuman’, a senior RSPB official tells lies about raptor persecution to a live audience, and the RSPB ‘bird crime’ report is a catalogue of hate speech aimed at gamekeepers. Deborah Hadfield talks to Andrew Gilruth of the Regional Moorland Group, Ian Danby of BASC and Gary McCartney of […]
Now you can’t disturb a fox – Fieldsports News, 23 November 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIG8RaGeGg Here are the links: Hunt master fined £600 for failing to call hounds – Shropshire Star Farmer’s sale of the century – Farmer’s Weekly English police target county lines poaching – BBC Countryside Alliance rural crime survey call for help – Countryside Alliance + link to survey Rural community cost of living crisis – Countryside […]
