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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

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

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 […]

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Hunting ‘rare’ capercaillie with a Blaser drilling

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDp6t3Kgo_s Niall Rowantree is in Swedish Lapland to shoot capercaillie over Finnish spitz. Plus he tries out a Blaser D99 drilling in 7×57, and he looks at why the RSPB has failed to reintroduce the capercaillie to Scotland where, in Sweden, they hunt and eat them for lunch. For the Blaser D99, visit Blaser.de […]

Fieldsports Britain – shooting the world’s biggest grouse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=50j800QOEoM The world’s biggest grouse, capercaillie, were abundant in Scotland within living memory. Since then, a combination of hopeless management by the RSPB and a change in climate has wiped them out. Niall Rowantree goes to Swedish Lapland where they are doing well – so well that the locals hunt and eat them. He finds […]

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

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 […]

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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 […]

Walked-up grouse over German wirehaired pointers and a bracco Italiano

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfX3Ka8_5Y Malin Hewins has brought together members of the German Wirehaired Pointer Club, plus friends (including a bracco Italiano), to pick up on a walked-up grouse day designed specifically for them. It’s on moorland above Edale in Derbyshire, beautifully organised by the Edale Estate. We see hundreds of grouse, shoot a few and all the […]

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 […]

Countryside mourns Queen – Fieldsports News, 14 September 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmpo0iJa20 Here are the links: Balmoral gamekeepers carry Queen’s coffin – Fieldsports News Anglers consider legal action over pollution – Glos Live Anti-hunting Goldsmith family hangs on in government – DEFRA English farmers allowed to kill beavers – DEFRA Shooter Amber Hill wins gold in Cyprus – British Shooting Eat Game Awards calling for entries […]

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 £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

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Charity clay shoot raises £135,000 for GWCT

Bushbeaters’ Ball 2022 The annual Charity Clay Shoot at Warter Priory Estate in East Yorkshire has raised an incredible £135,000 for the Game and Wildlife

What will Liz Truss do for the countryside? – Fieldsports News, 7 September 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCHHk5hNgI Here are the links: What the new PM will do for the countryside – Twitter Government consultation on firearms – Home Office NSRA opposes

Ollie Williams hunts Mandela’s favourite: blesbok

If it’s good enough for Nelson Mandela, it’s good enough for Ollie Williams. He is stalking blesbok in Africa with the trainee professional hunters from

Caroline Bedell on the value of shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 67

youtu.be/X93ipWbnihU UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance,

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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Borth Zoo: from lions and lynx to dogs and ducks

by Ben O’Rourke This is the story of the British relationship with pets and livestock. In June 2020, Fieldsports News visited Borth Wild Animal Kingdom

Fallow buck stalking with the new Pulsar Merger

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBM_8ZfvONo Tom Davies has his work cut out. There are fallow in plague proportions on his ground. In the three weeks from the start of

Fieldsports Britain – buck meat hunt

www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqTOjmHock Are there more deer than ever before? Deerstalker Tom Davies says yes, as he heads out to shoot fallow prickets and sorrels for his

Plan to eradicate deer in England – Fieldsports News, 31 August 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHNih-sctk Here are the links: BASC attacks England’s deer strategy recommendations – BASC Countryside Alliance Packham sabs complaint – Daily Mail Government crackdown on sewage

Win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun – Fieldsports Extra #235

Trouble with flies? You can win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun and knock them out of the sky in this week’s show. Plus we have Niall Rowantree in the Arctic, a complaining zoo owner and a Tom Davies gets his hands on the latest thermal from Pulsar so he can go fallow buck stalking.This week’s prizes and

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African predator hunting platform

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl8kd6b0pE How do they shoot pesky predators in Africa? The distances can be bigger and the terrain wilder than the south of England. The principal

Fieldsports Britain – modern foxshooting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9h0C8nPWr4 A lot of foxes fall over in this week’s episode, which asks the question: what’s happened to foxshooting in recent years? Gamekeeper’s Diary legend

Hen harrier success – Fieldsports News, 24 August 2022

Here are the links: Hen harrier brood scheme success – YouTube + Moorland Association Scottish government looks at snaring ban – Fieldsports News Anti media

Win foxhunting history – Fieldsports Extra #234

You can win a print commemorating the 2004 action by the #WestminsterEight, bursting in to the chamber of the House of Commons during the passage of Tony Blair’s bill to ban hunting with hounds. Plus we look at deer RTAs, foxshooting vehicles and how much lead to give a running fox.This week’s prizes and other

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The 2022 Ken Hill wildfire and what happens next

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09b6SGDOR4 The flames and smoke from one lowland wildfire in Norfolk in July 2022 could be seen from miles away. The fire damaged 120 acres

The magic of roebuck stalking

It’s the end of the roebuck rut – and it’s a bumper outing. Roy uses the last of the bucks’ mating drive to call them

Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s treble

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAAFU2eWhc With his woods overrun with muntjac and roe, Roy has a go at a deerstalking treble. It’s the last knockings of the roebuck rut

RSPB’s new attack on gameshooting – Fieldsports News, 17 August 2022

youtu.be/zichjyqUi-M Here are the links: RSPB ignores evidence on gamebird releasing – BASC Secrets of merlins revealed in NGO film – YouTube Study links broken

Why Roy Lupton will stalk deer until the day he dies – Fieldsports Extra #233

We have Roy on why he goes deerstalking, a wildfowling club that’s dealing with a wildfire on its marsh, and how spearfishing is taking off in Cornwall. Plus you can still win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra.This week’s prizes and other links:BestFoxCall Gen2 IcoTec HellionGull on TikTokWhale on

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The Westminster Eight – 18 years on – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 66

youtu.be/jeHHVbF7C94 In September 2004, eight campaigners burst in to the chamber of the House of Commons to protest against Tony Blair’s ban on hunting with

What’s ‘Hunting Kind’? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 65

youtu.be/0jq9OhE9AUM The antis brought in bills to restrict hunting in England, Wales and Scotland – but none of them work. So they want to bring

Helen’s Way raises £6,000 for gamekeepers

www.dailymotion.com/video/x8d0aoy Gamekeepers Welfare Trust chief executive Helen Benson has finished her journey from the north of Scotland to the south coast and back up to

Grouse-shooting 2022 season preview

www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDtyq0sX14 Antis target the grouse season. They know that disrupting a grouseshooting day will bring them publicity. Their biggest target is opening day, the glorious

Countryfile under fire – Fieldsports News, 10 August 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJbbr1bywGo Here are the links: BBC fails to represent rural issues – Daily Mail Packham vs Gareth Wyn Jones Tweet spat – Twitter + C4PMC

Roe, rainbows and Paul’s tale of a tick 🪲 on his tackle

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAqhfTQCpM Paul’s out stalking with Mark Bellamy in Wiltshire. The pair of them start by showing they are not flyfishers. However, they prove they certainly

Fieldsports Britain – roebuck rut hunt

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyEIeMs1ys The roebuck rut is at its height. Summer evening sport in the dry, dusty days of July and August in the south of England

Win a BestFoxCall fox-caller priced at £195 – Fieldsports Extra #232

You can win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this and next week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Paul Childerley fishing, a shooting clothing ambassador talking about that, a man who found a ferret on a beach, the extraordinary sales of 20-calibre rifles, and Deborah is on a grousemoor.This week’s prizes and other

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