Dartmoor foxing: lamb alert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h53B6TGDHkg Tom Davies has two problem foxes. One of them is hitting a farmer’s guinea-fowl. Both of them are hanging around lambing fields. He zeroes his new Pulsar Krypton thermal scope on a special thermal target and he is good to go and take them on. Pulsar comparison website Click here for more about the […]
Dublin homeless get venison from Irish deerstalkers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8viV4RyvDY by Deborah Hadfield Rising prices are forcing people into poverty in Ireland. There are now 7,000 homeless in the country, and 2,500 of them are children. The Wild Deer Association of Ireland is helping by feeding them hot venison on the streets of Dublin, provided by Ireland’s deerstalkers and served by volunteers from the […]
Foxshooter on chicken killer patrol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM49JivegNs Gamekeeper Paul Childerley is used to shooting problem foxes out in the countryside. Now a local poultry owner wants him to take out a chicken run on the edge of a town. Paul moves in the latest thermal kit plus a .22 rifle to do the job quietly, so as not to disturb the […]
Fieldsports Britain – town & country foxshooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjejZg1hVNo Paul Childerley has an unusual hunting challenge. Softly and silently, he has to rid an urban chicken run of foxes. He chooses to do it with his Tikka .22. Meanwhile, out in the wilds of Dartmoor, Tom Davies is using his Tikka in 6.5 Creedmoor to despatch foxes closing in on lambing fields. Both […]
Highland buyout folds losing millions – Fieldsports News, 13 April 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvMjOOExMk Here are the links: Highland buyout folds losing millions – Twitter + Scottish Mail on Sunday Sea eagle cull call for killing lambs – Twitter + Facebook Foxhunting forced to become Northern Ireland election issue – Fieldsports News + Antrim Guardian Irish hunters deliver game meat to Ukraine refugees – Fieldsports News Antis close […]
Pulsar Krypton FXG50 thermal imaging attachment – review
youtu.be/5CoRrGEKIwg The Pulsar Krypton FXG50 thermal imaging attachment attaches to the front of your scope and gives you useable thermal vision out to 200 metres/yards. In this video, Dartmoor foxshooter Tom Davies recommends it and says why. Click here for more about the Pulsar Krypton FXG50 The thermal scope attachment on Tom’s 6.5 Creedmoor […]
Win Northern Shooting Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra #215
This week’s prize draw is for one of five pairs of tickets to the Northern Shooting Show on 7 and 8 May 2022 in Harrogate. Plus we have an 18-year-old rabbit-shooter from Kent who learned to love his sport during lockdown, we launch the Big Garden Pestwatch competition, Deborah Hadfield is on the streets of […]
Gun licensing shambles in England
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR1vxdXE6U by Deborah Hadfield The firearms licensing system in England and Wales is in crisis. Shooters claim the fiasco has made getting a grant, renewal, or variation a postcode lottery. Nottinghamshire Police is the latest force to announce it has stopped processing applications. Livens Gunsmiths is a family business which started in 1850 in Burton […]
How to cover your bitch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZCIMH3RuE Ollie Williams is worried. Dave Templar is wearing rubber gloves. Ollie has come to Countryways Gundogs in Gloucestershire, which Dave runs, to find out how to help a dog cover a bitch. With breeding in gundogs, there is a lot at stake. You can’t just put a dog and a bitch together and let […]
Save a songbird: shoot a squirrel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2IvPddrzmI A Sussex shoot is holding a squirrel day for guns. Jack Feaver asks David along to film the day, which will do two things. Grey squirrels are significant predators of songbirds’ eggs and chicks. They also eat gamefeed which, with increasing prices for wheat, means a bag of 50 squirrels like today can make […]
Fieldsports Britain – big spring squirrel hunt
youtu.be/qoiiK3qQqKQ We’re saving woodland, saving wildlife and saving wonga in this week’s show. A squirrel shoot is a good way to do all three, as invasive grey squirrels damage trees, devour songbird eggs and cost shoots money by munching their way through pheasant feed. David joins Jack Feaver on a shoot in Sussex where the […]
Anger at Welsh government magpie rules – Fieldsports News, 6 April 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcoKDd85CmQ Here are the links: Welsh farmers fear general licences change – Fieldsports News Westminster government advises us to eat venison – Telegraph Shoot price rises may not be as bad as feared – Fieldsports News Peak District hare loss disagreement – Bio One Hunters set up charity to support Ukraine refugees – GoFundMe How […]
Shoot costs go up by half
Game feed is 32% more expensive and poults are up by a half, if they are available at all. That’s the conclusion of one shoot captain. James Marchington runs a small shoot in the South-East of England. Last year, they put down 1500 and shot 450. He says he is struggling to find a game […]
Win a Stalker’s Mate – Fieldsports Extra #214
Win a Stalker’s Mate – Fieldsports Extra #214 This week’s prize draw is for a Stalker’s Mate pulley and gambrel from Keith’s High Seats, as featured in Fieldsports Britain last week. We discuss the rising costs of running a shoot and what’s going wrong with firearms licensing in England and Wales. Plus we have a
Police gun grabs: a former Met detective advises…
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Former Metropolitan police detective Ian Jensen says police have limited legal rights to take a gun. He says: “The
Gun grab victim: a serving police officer writes…
A serving police officer wrote this for Fieldsports News on condition of anonymity I, too, have been duped into coercively handing over my legally and
Police offer compensation to gun grab victim
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xkgjLhVB4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Many shooters have lost their guns to police in the South-West of England since the shooting in Plymouth
Paul Cox: Devon & Cornwall gun grab victim
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEctbsFPXbA by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Paul Cox is a respected member of his community, a deerstalker and captain of the local shoot. Devon
Adam Troman: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
youtu.be/NRY47rdRvgc by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Adam Troman was lying in bed on a Sunday morning when armed police arrived, unannounced, to take away
Chris Hart: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpQrSfjNn4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Stories are piling up of legal shooters in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, with decades of blameless firearms ownership
Nigel Doney: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Nigel Doney from Cornwall has been shooting for 40 years. He had an unexpected police visit after he sold
Andrew Alger: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEqxkWtEo by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Devon & Cornwall Constabulary started revoking shooters’ certificates in August 2021. Back then, the situation was confused. A
Gary Ivey: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Gary Ivey was returning home from a day’s shooting in October 2021 to his home in Plymouth when one
Roe doe for the freezer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPApwnNtHkU Helen Tinner continues her mission to eat her way through the UK’s deer species. This time, she is after a roe doe for the
Fast-action rabbit-shooting from a quadbike
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydhLV1A87w Rabbits are munching their way through the crops on ground Paul manages in Bedfordshire. Paul Childerley has tried many ways of reducing their numbers
Fieldsports Britain – Bronco bunny hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpkl278kAqo Paul Childerley has tried everything on the rabbits on his ground. Last resort is to attack them with a semi-auto and a quadbike under
Next season’s shoots fear this season’s bird flu – Fieldsports News, 30 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1udSdtJTU Here are the links: Bird flu may hit partridge imports – NGO UK trophy import ban still twitching – The Guardian + AfricaHunting.com UK
HuntingKind.com: new lobbying group for UK hunting sports
There’s a new group to help hunting. HuntingKind.com is lobbying the UK parliaments in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont to help stop bans on hunting
Flying fibs: RSPB skews tourism figures in favour of birdwatching
The RSPB is trying to ramp up the importance of white-tailed eagles to tourism. In a new report, the birdwatching organisation says that white-tailed or
Win tickets to The Stalking Show – Fieldsports Extra #213
We have five pairs of tickets (£12 per ticket) to The Stalking Show at the Staffordshire Showground in April to give away. Plus Paul Childerley explains what to look for in a rabbiting quadbike, Ed Swales discusses his new hunting lobbying organisation HuntingKind.com, a former gunshop owner in Devon speaks out against Devon & Cornwall
The gunshop YouTuber who hunts Russians
youtu.be/BjlFn8H3zBg by Deborah Hadfield The hunting season in Ukraine runs from September until February. Ukrainians and overseas hunters stalk wild boar, deer and mouflon. Bear
Epic goose shooting
It is one of the most exciting goose hunts in the world. Sweden has a massive goose pest problem, and Wayne Martin from the UK,
Fieldsports Britain – Wayne goes goose
youtu.be/nY-YbXTdBos Geese are coming in low and fast. Wayne Martin is disguised as a giant swan, lying in a field in Sweden, at dawn. He
Wales mulls magpie shooting ban – Fieldsports News, 23 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zArS1ApwfME Here are the links: Wales mulls magpie shooting ban – Fieldsports News BASC welcomes new firearms licensing database – BASC Poachers convicted of killing
Win a Cattyshack slingshot – Fieldsports Extra #212
There’s a Cattyshack catapult kit up for grabs in this week’s prize draw. Plus its maker, Wayne Martin is shooting geese (with a shotgun) in Sweden. A Ukrainian explains how hunters/shooters in his country are helping in the war against Russia, and David catches up with an old friend, Max Hunt, who is driving a
Hunters and anglers mount huge Ukraine aid effort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkGmRB1bxY by Deborah Hadfield Around the world, people are watching the relentless and ruthless assault on Ukraine. Many are not just horror-struck. They are moved
Cattyshack Wayne’s giant ferrets bolt rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXiSgnUS-g Wayne Martin brings his ferrets for a day out with the South Somerset Ferreters. Where Jaf and the gang in Somerset favour small ferrets,
Killing deer at night – how Scotland is failing its wildlife – part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nujNMWZog You want a healthy herd of deer, in numbers that don’t cause environmental damage, and visible enough to admire in Scotland’s beautiful Highlands? Apparently,
Fieldsports Britain – nightshooting red deer
youtu.be/pbWYkTY-YCg Shooting deer at night may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Niall Rowantree is enacting Scottish government policy through gritted teeth, and pointing out
Spain’s failing hunting ban
by Deborah Hadfield A conservation group claims that the Spanish government plans to slaughter 5,000 red deer in a national park. Robbie Kroger of Blood
How mankind first came up with weapons
by Martin JacobyIncreasing aridity in East Africa 7 to 5 million years ago caused a reduction in forest cover and the spread of savannah. This loss of habitat obliged some populations of arboreal ape-like mammals to spend more time on the ground and to evolve adaptations to that way of life.They no longer had access
Win £150 Muller chokes + how we invented guns – Fieldsports Extra #211
Win £150 Muller chokes + how we invented guns – Fieldsports Extra #211 You can win £150-worth of Muller chokes from Derbyshire gunshop Premier Guns, this week. Plus Niall worries about the cost of kit for the modern deer contractor, Deborah is out with a trailhunter collecting clothes for Ukraine, and Charlie’s Dad explains the
Duchy College pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS3u8-ooxE Meet the young gamekeepers on the gamekeeping course at Duchy College in Cornwall as they put on a shoot day. They have picked one
Europe’s hunters send Ukraine relief – Fieldsports News, 9 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipoEJkVjDY Here are the links: Shooters across Europe support Ukraine – Fieldsports News Fundraising for family of dead gamekeeper in Northamptonshire – GoFundMe Vinnie backs
Driven vs stalking deer – which is more effective?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ58dYRzS6A Roy Lupton is out on a ‘deer move day’ in the South of England. He is also out on an ordinary stalking day. So,
Shooters across Europe support Ukraine
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters from across Europe are supporting refugees. The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation is mobilising its members and partners to
Fieldsports Britain – fast-moving muntjac hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9pGYoszfE Roy is after muntjac and fallow, one of them on the move and one of them stalked. He is using skill and Aimpoint sights
Zac Goldsmith’s back-door ban on hunting trophies
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters say Boris Johnson and Lord Zac Goldsmith are being sneaky about trying to introduce a ban on the import and export
Cheap Holland & Hollands – are they worth it?
Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk looks at the cheapest Holland & Hollands on the secondhand market. Are they worth buying? Are they true Holland & Hollands?
Win £190 rifleslip and cushion – Fieldsports Extra #210
You can win £190-worth of rifle slip and shooting cushion from Staffordshire gunshop Shooting Sports UK, this week. Plus Roy explains shooting muntjac with an Aimpoint, Deborah previews her piece on trophy imports and a gamekeeping student gives some good advice. Here are the links:ISOTunes Caliber RRP £169.99Blaser Shooting Pillow £14.99 Blaser rifleslip £175For 10% off
