Lies and statistics colour the blue hare debate
by Ian Coghill It is odd what triggers a train of thought. The origins of this are some of the language chosen for the BBC piece covering a survey of mountain hares in the Peak District, funded by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES). According to the BBC article, there are, ‘Only 3,500 mountain […]
How to shoot off sticks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDIfy5wZMm8 In the fifth of our series of expert rifleshooting tips, Josh McKeown from Braces of Bristol enlists the help of a customer to explain how the Blaser quad sticks can give you a versatile and steady support for longer shots when on foot. We filmed this at the Braces of Bristol range. Braces offers […]
How a Kyiv gunshop is helping to fight the Russians
by Deborah Hadfield Hunters and shooters are still fighting for their lives in Ukraine. Taras Oliynyk works for local gunshop IBIS Hunting and Guns in Kyiv. He says their skills are making all the difference. The 47-year-old says they’ve helped keep the Russians have been kept out of the capital. He says: “Now the Russians […]
Gamekeeper’s Diary: 15 years on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCTThkq0scGeoff Garrod is a gamekeeping legend. The estate where he works in the East of England is famous thanks to his Keepers Diary DVD series, which he made in the early 2000s. Now he looks back on those DVDs and explains how gamekeeping has moved on, and how gamekeepers are the best people to manage […]
Fieldsports Britain – how gamekeepers run the countryside
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhs2ZsKS1-A When Geoff Garrod started gamekeeping in the 1970s, techniques were different. Today he is a wildlife guardian as much as a ‘pheasant presenter’. He looks back over his Keepers Diary DVDs, which he made 15 years ago, to show where gamekeeping is today, and what it does for the countryside. Meanwhile, Taras from the […]
Hunt sabs in the dock – Fieldsports News, 20 April 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPto2VXJyEg Here are the links: Sabs face trial over Boxing Day hunt clash – BBC Peak District gamekeepers reject blue hare study – Fieldsports News Welsh anglers convicted after two decades of illegal fishing – Tivyside Advertiser Foxhunting supporter confronts Northern Irish politician – Facebook Cairngorms’ anti-wildlife plan protest – Facebook Hunting stands smashed – […]
Anti fury over animal sentience bill
Boris Johnson’s animal rights allies are spitting fur and feathers. The animal welfare (sentience) bill will receive royal assent and become law, but it does nothing for animals, they say. Johnson’s government has fanfared the rights that the bill will give lobsters and octopuses among other wildlife. Even the House of Commons Library website acidly […]
Hunting trophies: the boom in home decoration fashion items
A major sale of hunting trophies takes place today (20 April 2022) in Yorkshire. Thanks to a revival in hanging game heads on walls, Tennants auctioneers in Leyburn expects to raise more than £100,000 from the auction of Indian and European game trophies from Kilberry Castle, Argyll. Many of the trophies date from the second […]
Win a camo suit from LeafySuits.com – Fieldsports Extra #216
Win a camo suit from LeafySuits.com – Fieldsports Extra #216 This week’s prize draw is for a camo suit from LeafySuits.com. The rest of it is devoted to another interview with Charlie’s dad, which is at YouTu.be/YVELyFunSl0This week’s prizes and other links:Northern Shooting Show tickets For the Leafy Suits prize, visit LeafySuits.com – and the film
Hot-smoked pheasant bagels – recipe – from Bradley Smokers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyP-LTjruU A delicious hot-smoked pheasant bagel snack, from Cai Ap Bryn. This recipe is brought to you by Bradley Smokers. Visit Bit.ly/bsmoker and use the
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
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
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
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
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 –
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
