Tradition in a bottle: the art of Foxdenton fruit liqueurs
No shoot is complete without a nip of sloe gin. We talk to Nick Radclyffe of Foxdenton to discover what goes into making a delicious fruit liqueur for the field – and Nick reveals a few trade secrets on how to make the best shooting tipple. For more about Foxdenton visit FoxdentonEstate.co.uk or find them […]
Labour is failing the antis – Fieldsports News, 16 July 2025
Here are the links: Antis lose faith in Labour – The Guardian Rigby lashes out at Labour– Telegraph Shooting gives Scotland £246m in benefits – BASC Drunken tree cutting prison sentence – BBC and YouTube Irish eagles go hungry – Yahoo Oslo Court rules on bear hunt – Nettavisen.no and Nrk.no Mozambique’s lion population rebounds […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mike Yardley’s driven pheasant tips
We’re looking forward to the game season with a driven pheasant masterclass with Mike Yardley at the glorious Sandricourt estate near Paris, celebrating the launch of Browning’s new 825 over-and-under. Will you be shooting game with steel this season? Our viewers are not keen – 85% say they don’t support a ban. We gauge the […]
Massive majority against lead ammo ban
The world of shooting does not want a lead ammo ban. Look into it more carefully and a complex picture emerges. Charlie Jacoby talks to Warter Priory headkeeper Frank Croft, who banned lead on his shoot in 2021, pigeon shooters Geoff Garrod and José Souto who have moved over to steel, Simon Reinhold from gun […]
Driven pheasants with the Browning 825
We are at the glorious Sandricourt estate outside Paris, shooting driven pheasants, English style, with the new Browning 825 as the gunmaker celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first commercially produced over-and-under shotgun. In between flushes, shooting journalist Mike Yardley explains the two classic styles of shooting developed by Percy Stanbury and Robert Churchill, and […]
