Lovely small shoot day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-O5YcLvkOMHow does a small shoot run? Charlie Jacoby joins a shoot in North Cornwall, where almost anything can happen – and usually does. Thanks to Ian Hodge Fieldsports for asking him along. More pheasant shooting stories here:
Threats to shooting: the fightback
Fieldsports groups claim shooting is under threat from over-regulation: you can’t shoot a magpie in Wales but you can in England, the Scottish government plans to restrict the use of gundogs, and DEFRA wants a ban on lead airgun pellets. Those are just a few of the pointless new laws affecting shooting. Aim to Sustain, […]
Recipe: smoked rabbit on an open fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkwE85uINE Joe Wood (@high_elms) hot smokes rabbit loins over an open fire. Firstly, he cures them, sprinkling on a mixture of salt, sugar, star anise, bayleaf and black pepper. Cure the rabbit for 15 minutes, rinse off the cure and get the smoker going, using Half a cup of rice, 3 tbsp brown sugar and […]
How to hunt with a flintlock musket
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqHE2LgWkaY Fieldsports Nation member Joe Wood is a black powder enthusiast. He owns a reproduction 18th-century Brown Bess muzzleloading flintlock musket, and he wants to take it mooching for a rabbit or a pigeon. First, though, he needs to set up a target and check everything is working as it should. Put your fingers in […]
Fieldsports Britain – shooting a Brown Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdaHGUFQ3U Flash bang – ever thought about going shooting with a musket? That’s what Joe Wood from the Lincolnshire Wolds does. Today he is after rabbit, plus serves up a tasty smoked rabbit, cooked over an open fire. Meanwhile, Charlie is off to a pheasant shoot in Cornwall, where things never go according to plan. […]
Moderators get lighter and more efficient
Gone are the days of fitting a huge, heavy moderator on the end of your barrel, making the rifle unbalanced and unwieldy. That’s the view of Robbie Shedden of Cluny Country. His company import the Freyr & Devik range of moderators which are lighter and more efficient than anything that’s gone before. The existing Freyr […]
At last, Scottish wind farms admit killing birds of prey – Fieldsports News, 11 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvV-OWaM5Q4 Here are the links: Wind turbines kill Scottish birds of prey – Daily Telegraph Quarantine for caught-up pheasants and partridges – DEFRA (PDF) HSE postpones lead ammo report – Countryside Alliance RSPB wants pheasant releasing halted – BBC Countryfile RSPB seeks island ferret hunter – job ad Elon Musk lights up antis on Twitter […]
