Niall’s Swedish elk adventure

Niall’s Swedish elk adventure

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxms_rO9NA Take a Scottish wildlife expert to Scandinavia and his imagination runs away with him. Niall Rowantree is elk hunting in Swedish Lapland. While there, he imagines a Scotland with moose roaming free. Plus he gets up close to moose and to the hunt.  . For deals on the Blaser R8, go to Kitfinder.co.uk/blaserr8 For […]

Win a Jack Pyke jacket – Fieldsports Extra #244

Win a Jack Pyke jacket – Fieldsports Extra #244

Prize draw this week is for a green Jack Pyke Rannock jacket priced at £69.95. Plus Niall predicts the future for Scandinavian wildlife (based on Scotland), Tom Davies runs out of light and Dan Thor can’t count. There is also news about how we would like to turn Fieldsports Channel plc into Fieldsports Channel Ltd. […]

Paul’s Highland stalk of a lifetime

Paul’s Highland stalk of a lifetime

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5U51Q1as8 Paul Childerley has the stag stalking outing of his life – a dream come true. He is going up the hill in the Highlands of Scotland in the most traditional manner possible. It’s the red rut and the stags are holding hinds in this part of Inverness-shire. Tweeds, two-draw scopes and a garron pony […]

Speedy sheep – Fieldsports Extra #243

Speedy sheep – Fieldsports Extra #243

Prize draw this week is for five party packs of airgun pellets from Crackshot and, if you win, you get to choose which five airgun pellets you will get. Plus Charlie talks to member John Buxton about Fieldsports Live, Dominic Boulton from Aim to Sustain explains the human cost of bird flu, Dog & Field […]

Shooting for the blind

Shooting for the blind

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ngwrseOUJw Jason Ford is one of the best target shooters in the UK – and he is blind. He uses new technology to enjoy his sport, which is backed by the National Smallbore Rifle Association. Click here for the NSRA   Visually-impaired lad trains as professional hunter:

Foxshooting and a limping fallow

Foxshooting and a limping fallow

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hrSSow26g Roy Lupton has hold of two new pieces of foxshooting kit. He is out to try them out. He has the InfiRay TD50L Tube night vision scope and the Unique UH35 thermal spotter. They bring him success: five foxes on the ground.     For the InfiRay scope and spotter, check out deals on Kitfinder […]

Wild Justice aims at woodcock – Fieldsports Extra #242

Wild Justice aims at woodcock  – Fieldsports Extra #242

Prize draw this week is for a £285 CCTV/trailcam, plus a woodcock guide explains why shooters are the best people to look after the bird, Roy Lupton gets technical on when you can shoot deer, and James Marchington find a new gadget: it’s a whistling device that guides blind shooters on to their targets.This week’s […]

Essex pigeonshooting: back with a bang

Essex pigeonshooting: back with a bang

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtV7d-f8XU Geoff Garrod is back in the pigeon hide, shooting over freshly-drilled wheat. The birds have been absent from his part of Essex all summer. He uses all of his autumn tactics to bring them in. Find instant deals on the Browning Maxus 2 on Kitfinder  For info on the Browning Maxus 2, visit Bit.ly/maxus2 […]

Win a £379 rifle accuracy course – Fieldsports Extra #241

Win a £379 rifle accuracy course – Fieldsports Extra #241

Prize draw this week is for a £379 ticket to a rifle accuracy course with Richard Utting of #SharpShootingUK. Richard is a Fieldsports Nation member and runs his excellent courses on miles of beautiful moorland in Co Durham. Plus Geoff Garrod is missing pigeons, Dominic Boulton of the Game Farmers Association has a bird flu […]

Thieving foxes in the crosshairs

Thieving foxes in the crosshairs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IxpJ5EF_I Foxes are stealing cake from the mouths of sheep. Down on the farm in Dorset, foxshooter David Pomeroy has an unusual problem. The farm milks ewes and feeds them on cake while they are milking. Local foxes are sneaking in and taking the cake. David has his rifle, night vision and Pulsar Accolade II […]

Fieldsports Britain – cakesnatching foxes

Fieldsports Britain – cakesnatching foxes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pziEGd1JYxQ Foxshooting, gamekeepers’ vehicles, rifle accuracy, bird flu, a venison recipe and the story of a rifle – it’s a truly packed programme this week. Dorset foxshooter David Pomeroy has to deal with foxes that are stealing the sheep’s cake. Richard Utting from #SharpShootingUK explains how to shoot straighter (given that you shoot straight anyway). […]

How animal rights extremists conned the world with Cecil

How animal rights extremists conned the world with Cecil

The Cecil the lion story was simply a fundraiser for a Zimbabwean NGO. That’s the conclusion of big game hunter Ron Thomson, who has spoken up about the story to Fieldsports News. He calls out the lies during the 2015 scandal, including the revelation that the lion was enticed out of Hwange National Park in […]

Win £170 of night vision kit – Fieldsports Extra #240

Win £170 of night vision kit – Fieldsports Extra #240

You can win £170-worth of night vision kit from Mileseey. Plus members unite to provide us with Fieldsports Britain this week, including David Pomeroy foxshooting in Dorset, James Bendall coordinating our bird flu coverage and Richard Davis introducing us to a scheme to provide the Ukraine front line with foxshooting vehicles… not for shooting foxes.This […]

Fieldsports Britain – pigeon shooting banter

Fieldsports Britain – pigeon shooting banter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVIGCCOKCSU How to turn a pigeon shooting problem into a success story. Dan Thor is decoying pigeons on crops in Essex. It doesn’t start well but, with characteristic banter, it gets better. Meanwhile, a barrister warns that government underfunding of police firearms licensing is going to lead to more mass shootings. And James Head shows […]

Cornwall Council kicks out anti hunting ban – Fieldsports News, 28 September 2022

Cornwall Council kicks out anti hunting ban – Fieldsports News, 28 September 2022

youtu.be/8wOi9m3R1Kg Here are the links: Antis fail to ban trail hunting on Cornish council land – Countryside Alliance Trail hunting ban remains on NRW land – Countryside Alliance Farmer furious after antis leave rubbish – Farmers Weekly Osprey chicks fledged at Scottish estate – Scottish Land & Estates Antis vandalise Norfolk pheasant release pens – […]

Win £100 of gundog training kit – Fieldsports Extra #239

Win £100 of gundog training kit – Fieldsports Extra #239

You can win £100-worth of gundog training kit from Dog & Field, plus it’s the last few days of the Baileys discount, Ian Jensen warns about the future of firearms licensing and Dan Thor discusses doughnuts.This week’s prizes and other links:For Rifleman Firearms, go to Bit.ly/riflemanfirearms Dog & Field prize Bit.ly/dogandfield Ursula Von Der Leyen pony Baileys […]

HM Queen’s sporting gun salute – Fieldsports News, 21 September 2022

HM Queen’s sporting gun salute – Fieldsports News, 21 September 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUCgsLwyT4 Here are the links: HM Queen’s funeral gun salute – Facebook + Twitter Police face criminal investigation over Plymouth shooting – Independent Office for Police Conduct  Police whistleblower sacked over gun claims – Employment Tribunals [PDF] Lord Goldsmith sacked as environment minister – Guardian Packham firebombing ‘hit job’ claims – Mirror Countryside Alliance Awards open […]

Useful crow decoy – Fieldsports Extra #238

Useful crow decoy – Fieldsports Extra #238

We look at the Prime Minister’s contribution to corvid shooting, and you can still win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms. Plus Niall Rowantree talks about capercaillie and Cai Ap Bryn and Mat Coombe discuss this year’s Cornish spearfishing festival.This week’s prizes and other links:For Rifleman Firearms, go to Bit.ly/riflemanfirearms Baileys Shooting […]

Rural Devolution Bill

Rural Devolution Bill

Background The highest levels of government started to discuss rural devolution in the 2010s. In 2017, Liz Truss backed English counties’ call for ‘radical’ rural devolution. A report by Oxford Economics called Understanding County Economies, commissioned by the County Councils Network, said that providing counties with full devolution of public spending and tax raising powers […]

Fieldsports Britain – muntjac surprise

Fieldsports Britain – muntjac surprise

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLVU-L4Kk8 A muntjac takes Helen Tinner by surprise. She is out stalking deer on the Le Strange Shoot in North Norfolk with her new Browning X-bolt. Meanwhile, Charlie joins a group of unusual dog owners at Edale in the Peak District for a walked-up grouse day, especially designed for German wirehaired pointers and even a […]

Air rifle range opens

Air rifle range opens

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNXD32mgqeU Rifleman Firearms in Somerset, UK, has opened a sparkly new airgun range. Here is how they do it. The building, which opened in February 2019, has five firing lanes and includes 500 metres of rail for the targets to run on. WARNING: This item includes a sweet little girl saying how much she likes […]

Win a £600 scope – Fieldsports Extra #237

Win a £600 scope – Fieldsports Extra #237

Win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms, ideal for varminting and not bad for deer. Plus we have a laughing deerstalker in Helen Tinner, a couple of Northern Irish politicians, and Fieldsports Nation member Lloyd Birch talks walked-up grouse.This week’s prizes and other links:HM The Queen tributeBuy the Odepro KL62 flashlight on

Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236

Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236

Win an Odepro scope lamp priced at £107, ideal for foxing and rabbiting after dark. Plus we have flag trouble at the British Open clay championship, a clever idea for holding up trophy heads and Deborah itroduces this week’s news feature: the disaster that is UK firearms licensing.This week’s prizes and other links:Bug-a-Salt film or

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