Boris replacement might be pro-shooting – Fieldsports News, 13 July 2022

Boris replacement might be pro-shooting – Fieldsports News, 13 July 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImO16fJ2EP8 Here are the links: New prime minister could be shooting supporter – antis furious – Twitter DEFRA announces gamebird research programme – Countryside Alliance British shooting champion spearheads #TargetChange – Fieldsports News Scottish land reform must write fieldsports into its future – Scottish Government consultation A1 Shooting Ground to close – Fieldsports News Welsh […]

Kitfinder launches – Fieldsports Extra #228

Kitfinder launches – Fieldsports Extra #228

You can win Game Fair tickets in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we launch Kitfinder tommorrow – find out how it’s going. We have a deer tracker on shotgun cartridges for dee, Charles Jardine from the Countryside Alliance on the good fishing does, and Andy Crow gets a bit lary with David.This week’s prizes and […]

Fieldsports Britain – roebuck stalking with bells, whistles and pipes

Fieldsports Britain – roebuck stalking with bells, whistles and pipes

We’re in Scotland this week to report on a charity roebuck stalking outing with a pro guide and the ‘Kilted Chef’. We’re in Wales where the new general licences banning magpie shooting are set to turn back the clock on wildlife conservation. And we’re in South Africa, where a visually-impaired lad is learning to be […]

Win £165 Kite binos – Fieldsports Extra #227

Win £165 Kite binos – Fieldsports Extra #227

You can win Kite binoculars in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. The Fitis model has an RRP of £165. Plus there’s deer skinning (by car), driven buffalo (by car) and BASC tells us to get in touch with our MPs (not by car). And Kitfinder – how’s that going?This week’s prizes and other links:Reolink KEEN Ranger […]

Catapult masterclass: hunting steel

Catapult masterclass: hunting steel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyYBTyLqooI When it comes to well-dressed sports, you might think golf, you might think tennis, you could even think some of the top claygrounds. Now catapults are rising up the sporting class system. Top catapult shot Wayne Martin explains how he set the course at the Sussex Catapult Club and gives his top tips for […]

We launch Kitfinder – Fieldsports Extra #226

We launch Kitfinder – Fieldsports Extra #226

This week’s prize draw is for a FORM custom airgun stock priced at £600. Plus Sir Jackie Stewart explains how shooting helped him as a racing driver, Paul Hodson talks about the amazing world of thermal, and a sea lion uses an octopus as an offensive weapon.This week’s prizes and other links:Kitfinder.co.ukFORM Rifle Stocks – […]

Scottish foxhunting ban update

Scottish foxhunting ban update

by Deborah Hadfield The Scottish Countryside Alliance is appealing to the Scottish government not to ignore its evidence during the passage of the Hunting with Dogs Bill. The bill is making its way through committee stages at Holyrood.In its current form, it will have the greatest impact on landowners who rely on hounds to flush […]

Bird flu update – effect on 2022/23 UK shooting season

Bird flu update – effect on 2022/23 UK shooting season

by Deborah Hadfield Bird flu is bad news for game farmers and shooters who face a dire season ahead. There were more than 100 recorded cases of avian influenza in the UK during the winter of 2021/2022. As reported in Fieldsports News, outbreaks of avian flu in the UK and France have pushed up the […]

FORM Rifle Stocks – factory film

FORM Rifle Stocks – factory film

youtu.be/pTpz9Fx5j80 How does FORM Rifle Stocks make its custom stocks and grips for rifles, airguns and handguns? Peter McGregor, who founded the Devon-based company in 2017, explains the process, and talks about what FORM can do to make a great gun better. More from FORM Rifle Stocks here:

Win a £600 custom airgun stock – Fieldsports Extra #225

Win a £600 custom airgun stock – Fieldsports Extra #225

This week’s prize draw is for a FORM custom airgun stock priced at £600. Plus Sir Jackie Stewart explains how shooting helped him as a racing driver, Paul Hodson talks about the amazing world of thermal, and a sea lion uses an octopus as an offensive weapon.This week’s prizes and other links:Woox custom rifle stocks […]

Police plan to price shooters out of gun certificates

Police plan to price shooters out of gun certificates

Exeter Crown Court could set a nasty legal precedent in October 2023. If Devon deerstalker Andrew Andrew loses his gun certificate appeal, police throughout the UK could revoke certificates without reason. In August 2021, Andrew had his firearm and shotgun certificates renewed. A few days later, armed police came to his house at night and […]

Gamekeepers save stone curlews and turtle doves

Gamekeepers save stone curlews and turtle doves

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJFscjd0eITony Lowry is a gamekeeper in Hampshire. His shoot gets the stone curlew as a summer visitor. It’s also a working arable farm. That’s bad news for the birds, which are ground-nesters. In summer, part of Tony’s job looking after wildlife on his ground is to go out and save stone curlew chicks from the farm machinery. “If we don’t protect them […]

Foxes, evolution and where humans are heading

Foxes, evolution and where humans are heading

Start with two foxes: one is bold, the other is cautious. They both exhibit ‘foxiness’. What happens to foxiness if you shoot one of them? And what happens to the world if we continue to exhibit ‘humanness’? Charlie Jacoby’s dad Martin Jacoby has his say on the evolution of both genes and ideas. More from […]

Win a £500 custom rifle stock – Fieldsports Extra #224

Win a £500 custom rifle stock – Fieldsports Extra #224

This week’s prize draw is for a Woox custom rifle stock priced at more than £500. Plus Andy Crow is trying to shoot running boar, there’s superb footage of a barn owl coming in to a fox call, a newly qualified woman gamekeeper talks about the difficulty finding work, James Marchington is spotting turtle doves […]

Scramble for pheasant eggs – Fieldsports News, 8 June 2022

Scramble for pheasant eggs – Fieldsports News, 8 June 2022

youtu.be/IOYmk24k-eE Here are the links: Pheasant and partridge poults in price war – Facebook + Facebook Police tackle Animal Rebellion nutters – YouTube OM for New Zealand duck hunter – NZHerald Shops ignore UK ivory ban – Fieldsports News Game meat 60th on European lead list – EFSA research Birds of prey numbers up 22% […]

Wiltshire double roe buck fever

Wiltshire double roe buck fever

youtu.be/MZ0aUAwooTQ Cai Ap Bryn is out after a roebuck or two for the freezer. He is catering for lots of weddings this summer. And those lucky brides and grooms – it’s a perfect evening to find a buck in Wiltshire. He is out with local guide and taxidermist Tom Douglas.   For more about the […]

Fieldsports Britain – summer stalking

Fieldsports Britain – summer stalking

youtu.be/wo-YnpJ4kmQ Cai Ap Bryn is out after meat for his catering business, stalking roebucks in Wiltshire. His host is local taxidermist Tom Douglas. It’s a blissful English summer evening as they find an abundance of animals and talk about buck fever. From roe to rhinos and Charlie tells the story of a baby rhino that’s […]

How to save rhinos

How to save rhinos

by Charlie Jacoby It’s dark. The baby rhino is in the South African savannah with her mother. Dawn is coming. She has survived the night – but the mother senses there is something wrong. She moves away from her daughter. The little rhino makes frantic peeping noises and tries to follow. It’s hopeless. The mother […]

How to milk a rhino – Fieldsports Extra #223

How to milk a rhino – Fieldsports Extra #223

This week’s prize draw is for two entries to the British Open .410 Championships in August. There’s a stylish JCB gun bus and Purdey shows off its 1935 silver jubilee hammergun. Plus Cai talks through the pleasure he gets taking other people stalking, and you will learn the basics of how to milk a rhino.This […]

Amazon, Sotheby’s face £250,000 fines over ivory sales

Amazon, Sotheby’s face £250,000 fines over ivory sales

A day after the Westminster government introduced £250,000 fines and criminal convictions for dealing in ivory, shops such as Amazon and eBay and auction houses including Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams are still offering the product. The ban under the 2018 Ivory Act is designed to stop the trade in ivory. It came into force on […]

Cattle farm crow decoying

Cattle farm crow decoying

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8GMcDEl4k When crows, rooks and jackdaws hit the cattle feed, this Sussex farmer calls in Tristan Surgey. Tris explains how he decoys the corvids – and he gets some help from farmer’s son Aiden (who should be revising for his A-levels).  More corvids here:

❤️🏝 Ollie hunts waterbuck in South Africa

❤️🏝 Ollie hunts waterbuck in South Africa

The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School are hosting Ollie Williams. Three of them – SP, Jared and Reese – are guiding Ollie on to a waterbuck. Find out how they get on. For the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School go to NCPH.co.za or find it on YouTube For Ollie, visit CornishSportingAgency.com or […]

Roo shoot – Fieldsports Extra #222

Roo shoot – Fieldsports Extra #222

This week’s prize draw is for tick-proof Rovince trousers priced at around £100. Plus we have two teenage professional hunters, Tristan Surgey on crow calling, Johan Van Wyk on the Meopta scope, Dr Cathy Mayne on heather burning – and did you know that the Chilterns Macnab is a fox, a fallow and a wallaby […]

Lead ban: what it means for old guns

Lead ban: what it means for old guns

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ylO5M7kP4 With the government holding a consultation on lead shot, lead pellets for airguns and lead bullets, it’s time to act and make your views know. Dan Reynolds form BASC explains the timeline of the consultation anbd Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk says what will happen to prices for old shotguns. Take part in the consultation 

Are bunnies bouncing back?

Are bunnies bouncing back?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cj2hOFkE7s Tom Davies finds a field with a rabbit problem in Devon. Is that unusual? Well, yes. Rabbits populations have dropped across the UK as RHD (rabbit haemorrhagic disease) takes hold. He says this may be a sign that British rabbits are turning a corner and coming back.   Click here for Pulsar Find Tom […]

Will tree mania kill Scottish deer stalking?

Will tree mania kill Scottish deer stalking?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRLeXeMhZo Niall Rowantree and Dr Cathy Mayne go hindstalking with heavy hearts. They have to help bring down deer numbers so that Scottish landowners can plant trees. But is this mania for treeplanting self-defeating? Cathy looks at the science and Niall tells the story from a deer manager’s perspective.  Find Niall and Cathy on Facebook […]

Win a rifle scope, priced at £617 – Fieldsports Extra #220

Win a rifle scope, priced at £617 – Fieldsports Extra #220

This week’s prize draw is for a new 3-18×50 Meopta scope with a 4C reticle priced at £617. Plus we have Dr Cathy Mayne on trees and whether they are worth it, Diggory Hadoke on compensation for guns that can’t shoot steel, Neil Wragg talks about a week in the world of running a gunshop, […]

How the Scottish government is forcing hunters to vote for a ban on hunting

How the Scottish government is forcing hunters to vote for a ban on hunting

Opinion by Charlie Jacoby Anti-hunting civil servants are clever. Like spetznaz sleepers, they look like normal people and do their jobs to the best of their ability. Give them an opportunity to stick the knife into Britain’s rural community without getting caught and they do it. Then they turn to their colleagues and smile as […]

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