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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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