GPO Passion ED 8×32 binoculars on test
As a keen rifle shooter and deer stalker, Ryan Charlton of Highland Outdoors has used a lot of binoculars, and he’s particularly impressed with the latest offering from German Precision Optics: the GPO Passion ED 8×32. The first thing that catches his eye is the packaging. “It’s all recyclable, which is in line with GPO’s […]
Hunting deer with a WWI Mauser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdhRQW2Ma7M Joe Wood MBE takes his First World War Mauser out to find a muntjac or roebuck in Lincolnshire. It’s an unusual rifle, with open sights and he talks through its capabilities to a backdrop of deer. More deerstalking here:
First flight of the crow-copter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NMuBDaqy_s Matt Turley is showcasing his big new idea. What Sikorsky did for the helicopter, Matt is doing for crow shooting. Behold: the crowcopter (also known as the Turley-Whurley) . It’s a brilliant method of bringing in corvids when you are shooting from among trees. Click here for more from Jack Pyke More from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Turley-Whurley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMyIpGocjbg Matt Turley has a new kind of crow decoy. It’s a rotary on a pole that makes it look like crows are circling over the apple orchard where he is shooting. The crowcopter or ‘Turley whirlie’ is the highlight of a morning’s corvid shooting on this Somerset farm. Meanwhile, in Lincolnshire, Joe Wood MBE […]
How the fieldsports community can get mental health support without involving the NHS
by Deborah Hadfield Getting help doesn’t have to mean risking your firearms licence. The Gamekeepers Welfare Trust offers a helpline which is manned by nurses. And the GWT is encouraging people to keep an eye on their friends with its ‘Check-in With a Mate’ scheme. Following years of covid and bird flu, Helen Benson of […]
How DEFRA is trying to kill off gamebirds – Fieldsports News, 21 June 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-iZ1kH7ePs Here are the links: Gamebird licence welfare warning – Fieldsports News Wales gamebird release plan will cost jobs – Fieldsports News Calls for urgent action on NI firearms fiasco – Countryside Alliance Trophy hunting import bill under fire – MSN Firm fined £500,000 for ‘devastating’ river pollution – Environment Agency Scottish stag welfare concerns […]
