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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KING’S BENCH DIVISION Media and Communications List Before Mr/s Justice [xxx] Between:- Claim No. KB-2023-000965 CHRIS PACKHAM CBE Claimant -and- FIELDSPORTS CHANNEL LIMITED ANDREW O’ROURKE Defendants STATEMENT IN OPEN COURT Carol Day, Claimant’s Representative My [Lord], in this action for defamation, I appear on behalf of the Claimant, […]
Win Bollé shooting glasses – Fieldsports Extra, episode 296
Play Video We are giving away Bollé Altus shooting glasses priced at around £100 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re with deerstalkers Martin Curran and Tom Garner, staghunter David Renney, deer (and other mammal) campaigner Jim Barrington, angler Jeremy Wade and, from New Zealand, Katie Hargreaves and Rich Leonard.This week’s prizes and other links:Santoku […]
Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 84
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_u_U8ybaY Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states. This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham Other ways to listen to our […]
GRS Fenris adjustable rifle stock for hunting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVFb_JJqf0 Ryan Charlton from GRS’s UK distributor Highland Outdoors talks through the new Fenris adjustable rifle stock, designed for hunting. Click here for more about the GRS Fenris
Yankee squirrels vs Ukrainian airgun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUbMh8mwSc James Marchington reviews a Ukrainian pre-charged pneumatic bullpup air rifle, the Zbroia Sapsan. Once it’s pumped up and zeroed, it’s off to a local pheasant shoot to deal with some pesky grey squirrels which are helping themselves to grain from the pheasant feeders – but hunting squirrels in early autumn isn’t as easy as […]
BASC uncovers gun certificate police error – Fieldsports News, 25 October 2023
Here are the links: Backdated shotgun certificates: BASC investigates police blunder – BASC Countryside Alliance praises Suffolk council – Countryside Alliance Scottish trailhunting ban ‘may be illegal’ – Nature.Scot Trailcams to monitor people in Jersey countryside – BBC Marmot hunting to continue in France – FranceTVInfo Norway deer collisions up 15% – TV2.no Australia takes […]
Tim tests Swarovski Z8i+ scope
‘Circle, red dot, kill’ – that’s what you want a scope to do for you, says Tim Pilbeam, and the Swarovski Z8i+ does it. He is out on his range in Sussex with local deerstalkers and a gunsmith to put the scope through its paces and see what the advantages are. For more about the […]
Fieldsports Britain – new Swaro scope
Tim Pilbeam is going bang in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. He has his hands on the new Swarovski Z8i+ scope and he and his deerstalking friends are putting it through its paces on his range in Sussex. Elsewhere in the county, squirrels are under threat from a Ukrainian airgun. James Marchington reviews the Zbroia Sapsan and […]
Win a Flint & Flames knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 295
Play Video We are giving away a Flint & Flames knife priced at £125 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Tim Pilbeam has a new Swarovski scope to play with, Tristan Breijer from FACE explains the anti/pro-hunting battle lines, and we have a pair of American Fieldsports Nation members: Dan Hill in the rain in […]
Win how-to-cook game tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 294
Play Video We are giving away two tickets at £115 each to a game seminar by super-game-chef José Souto. Plus the boss of Formula One Ross Brawn says how to make clayshooting great again, member Trevor Knowles takes me out deerstalking and Ollie Williams goes guinea-fowl shooting.This week’s prizes and other links:Find the Pellet-Pod on […]
Ferreting and mental health – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 82
Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. […]
Win a Pellet-Pod – Fieldsports Extra, episode 293
Play Video We are giving away Pellet-Pods from a Fieldsports Nation member for your airgun pellets this week, plus Paul Childerley is filming the moose rut with David in Lapland, and Simon Whitehead talks about how ferreting is a kind of therapy. This week’s prizes and other links:Jack Pyke Sherpa Fleece gilet £36.95 and Sherpa fleece […]
Baby rhino update, from Rockwood – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 81
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJN2EQytQLs In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vets saved some of its sight. They named the animal ‘Hope’. Wicus Diederichs from Rockwood reports on Hope’s progress and how the other rhinos in the nursery are treating her. He […]
Is Prince Harry sending 2,000 rhinos to their deaths?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZz1QdPKvCQ US wildlife organisation African Parks (president: Prince Harry) plans to release 2,000 southern white rhino into wildlife parks across Africa. Stephen Palos from SUCO asks whether African Parks has thought this one through – or are the animals being presented with a ribbon around them to organised crime to poach the animals for their […]
Quickfire rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-6ktI7Exs Tom Davies shows off fast shooting with a .17HMR, controlling rabbits on farmland in Devon. He has a new rifle and he has to zero his Pulsar Thermion 2 thermal scope on to it, and then fulfil an order for rabbits. Charlie is not helping… For more about Pulsar, go to ThomasJacks.co.uk You […]
Thermal night vision fusion on deer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3CwA4Z3bs Essex foxshooter Robert Bucknell and his deerstalking buddy Nigel Fulton make their judgement about the new thermal / night vision fusion available from HIKMicro, plus Nigel takes it out to try for a fallow buck. For more from HIKMicro about the Falcon FQ50 Pro monocular, and the binocular Raptor Pro RQ50L with a built-in […]
Fieldsports Britain – old boys, new kit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4qCr-HrVkw Two old men are getting to grips with modern thermal this week. Robert Bucknell and Nigel Fulton have the latest from HIKMicro to try out on deer. Meanwhile, Tom Davies is on Dartmoor with kit from Pulsar on the hunt for rabbits. He puts in some pretty shooting to make his bag in record […]
Are empty bullet cases banned? – Fieldsports News, 4 October 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deGgWx3MIWI Here are the links: Are empty bullet cases banned? BASC says no Scotland brings in new laws on deer and hounds – links: Application form for the use of more than two dogs for the management of wild mammals above ground + licensing guidance + preventing serious damage application form Rural Reaction targets Tories […]
Win Jack Pyke shooting clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 292
We are giving away Jack Pyke fleece gilet and jacket, plus Robert Bucknell talks about thermal spotters, Alex Sayer is at the Conservative Party conference looking out for the countryside and Tom Davies criticises the cameraman.This week’s prizes and other links:Two Smoking Barrels Jack Pyke Sherpa Fleece gilet £36.95 and Sherpa fleece jacket £42.95 For 40% off […]
Ollie Williams’ hot tuna fishing ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwE3scAJNY4 Ollie Williams enjoys a bucket list experience on the hunt for getting a bite from a sea legend. He’s hunted and fished all over the world. It was out in the waters near his home in Cornwall he came face to face with a majestic Bluefin tuna. Ollie sailed with Steve Porter of the […]
Young shots’ driven day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jIeivhAnQ It’s a young shots’ day at the Gwysaney Estate in North Wales. The start of the partridge season sees a team of junior guns head out to shoot and enjoy exceptional birds. For Gwysaney Sporting, go to Facebook.com/GwysaneySporting or find it on GunsOnPegs More driven game here:
Fieldsports Britain – rocketing partridges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNMBGf84RI Who says there aren’t enough young guns out there? It’s partridge time for kids as we join a team of guns on the Gwysaney Estate in North Wales. Meanwhile, Ollie Williams is trying out the finest in British big game fishing with the CHART scheme for Atlantic bluefin tuna. And there’s a new political […]
Rural Reaction: new political party for the countryside
youtu.be/B7Xz85z_Li0 by Charlie Jacoby It’s not just the opening of the pheasant-shooting season. New political party Rural Reaction launches on 1 October 2023. An event will take place near the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Rural Reaction aims to take on the Tories in their rural heartlands. After Boris Johnson’s 2019 manifesto abandoned the countryside, […]
Gamebird licence climbdown – Fieldsports News, 27 September 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Amnp5frhPI Here are the links: Caution over game bird licence climbdown – BASC Fishing is good for you – MDPI French wolves hunted – Connexion France Packham ‘incitement to terrorism’ claim – Advertiser & Times £8 million to kill off Orkney stoats – press release Bass deadlines near – UK Bass Southern Water in court […]
Win BOG shooting sticks – Fieldsports Extra, episode 291
We are giving away BOG Death Grip shooting sticks priced at more than £200. Plus Ollie Williams talks about tuna fishing. James Davies Cooke says whey young shots are so important to game shooting and I go on a sim day with Fredercik Beesley gunmakers.This week’s prizes and other links:EdgeSport Hunting Combo Kit EdgeSport five-piece gut […]
Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival 2023
youtu.be/dgN7VT0i5vQ The Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival 2023 took place from Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September 2023 in Chichester Harbour and Hayling Island. Andy Ford guides us through The festival, based from the Langstone Quays Hotel, which aims to bring together likeminded anglers to forge new friendships, develop new skills and learn more about […]
Hunters’ chopper horror – Fieldsports News, 20 September 2023
youtu.be/CzP9inpKVw4 Here are the links: Hunters’ helicopter terror Banks under pressure Feeding deer to lions appals antis Scots estates win conservation praise Angler lands lake monster catfish Coffey criticised Canada geese on White House lawn Sika nipple test
Golf course rabbit control
Nicole Moore, Instagram’s Shooting Girl with an Afro, has taken on rabbit control duties at a golf course close to her home in Norfolk, where the rabbits are causing terrible damage to the greens. She’s using a .22 Sako rifle, subsonic ammo, and she has got a new ATN X-Sight day/night scope so she can […]
Fieldsports Britain – hole in one rabbit
youtu.be/n5qUhhjf_yY Nicole Moore looks after the greens on a Norfolk golf course with a rifle. With night vision, she is out to make every putt count by controlling the rabbits that dig extra holes for the golfers. She explains the job, why the golfers like her and what she does with the rabbits afterwards. We’re […]
Win deer butchery kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 290
We are giving away two deer butchery sets from Smith’s EdgeSport, including knives and sharpeners. Plus Ian Hodge asks the police round to his place, Richard Ryan showcases thermal, Nicole Smith has a rabbit recipe and Deborah Hadfield is shooting a feature film, that includes shooting.Muntjac Trading gundog training skirt EdgeSport hunting combo kitEdgeSport five-piece […]
Are we in danger of wiping out our deer? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 80
The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2023 discuss the animal’s future in the UK. They are deer experts Niall Rowantree and Martin Edwards, Mark Russell from Carter Jonas, whose clients deal with deer […]
Shooting Girl with an Afro – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 79
youtu.be/hqSEUM4D4gw Pigeon shooter, game shot and deerstalker Nicole Moore comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023 to talk to Charlie Jacoby about her love of the countryside and shooting sports. She talks about what she gets judged for. Do you think it’s being black, being a woman or how she shoots? Find out […]
Firearms licensing: the police view – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 78
Three firearms licensing officers came to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023 to make the case to Charlie Jacoby for how well they are doing. You may agree or you may disagree with them. They are Chris Downs from the Metropolitan Police, Adrian Davis from Warwickshire Constabulary and Paul […]
British Open .410 Championship 2023
youtu.be/6CFe3U7d4Zw It’s Battle of the Gamekeepers at the 2023 .410 British Open Championship. Geoff Garrod from Essex goes up against his squad mate Paul Childerley from Bedfordshire. See who wins – and see who wins overall (clue: Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds is shooting it this year). For more about Browning guns see Browning.eu […]
Don’t go ‘nuclear’ with thermal deer control
www.youtube.com/watch?v=khlu2bcZC5U Scotland faces big changes in the way it manages deer. The government wants the animals gone, and is introducing nightshooting, thermal shooting and removing the season for stags. Deer managers are taking a more sensible approach. Niall Rowantree looks at the modern deerstalking toolkit, what damage deer do, and how to deal with that […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scotland’s deer meister
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jak0zBZLWf4 On a block of forestry in the eastern Highlands, Niall Rowantree explains the changes that are underway for deer across Scotland. He shows deer damage and says how he plans to adopt the new rules on deer management and stalking. It’s a grim time for deer and other animals in Scotland. In its zeal […]
Squirrel burger squabble – Fieldsports News, 30 August 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LICVhZIjCc Here are the links: Squirrel burger criticism drives Gareth nuts – Nation.Cymru + Daily Post UK tuna on the table for first time in 80 years – Fishing News Government must see sense on British trophy ban bill – IUCN Scotland considers snare ban – Scottish Government Police investigation into Packham goshawk sniffgate continues […]
Win £135-worth of Muck Boots – Fieldsports Extra, episode 287
Play Video We are giving away a £135 pair of Muck Boots’ newly-launched Calder boots this week. Plus, Niall Rowantree says why he has to use thermal, fieldsports Nation member Trevor Knowles says why he signed up, and Ian Bell and Dr Marnie Lovejoy from BASC give an update on the general licences and gamebird […]
GL43: what went wrong? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 77
DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty, Ian Bell and Dr Marnie Lovejoy on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. Between them, they explain what GL43 is, how the system of […]
Deerstalking in among the Dartmoor trippers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOe9u4AYyKk Tom Davies is working late, deerstalking on Dartmoor. Part of the reason is that it’s August and sunset is later than usual. The other reason is that the number of trippers who come to Dartmoor during the summer season drive the deer to browse in darkness. With a venison order book to fill, it […]
Hen harriers hit new high – Fieldsports News, 23 August 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0caa-iVo-o Here are the links: Hen harrier success on grousemoors – Facebook Scottish Water mealy-mouthed on grouse shooting – The Times Stags under threat from Scottish government – Edward Mountain MSP Cumbria police drug tests shooters – Cumbria Constabulary Trophy ban has ‘less than 10% chance’ of becoming law – Independent Swedes shoot 120 bears […]
South Somerset Ferreters go pigeonshooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0ZV-q-DCM Jaf Jefferson is a pigeon shooter. You might know him as a ferreter and doyen of the South Somerset Ferreters but today he is in a hide and he has decoys and a shotgun. The only problem is that he is in Somerset. Don’t expect a big bag – but do expect a good […]
Fieldsports Britain – half man, half ferret, all pigeonshooter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXB3CE_ozI It’s Jaf Jefferson’s day in the pigeon hide. Best-known as a ferreter, Jaf loves the summer sport of decoying, and David joins him to find out why. It’s a story that goes back to Jaf’s grandfather. Meanwhile, Tom Davies is stalking on Dartmoor and avoiding the tourists that are such a feature of Britain’s […]
Win a £150 Accumax Airgun – Fieldsports Extra, episode 286
Play Video We are giving away a £150 Accumax airgun (if you enter, please make sure you have a UK address). Gun distributor ASI kindly donated the Accumax S1 Black Synthetic Airgun. Plus, Tom Davies says demand for venison has never been higher and Jaf Jefferson talks about his vehicle woes.This week’s prizes and other […]
James Wallace of River Action – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 76
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJv6KTS4Bxk James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers. For River Action, go to RiverActionUK.com Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Roy calls roe and muntjac bucks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjfdRq_zYw It’s a Fieldsports Channel tradition: Roy takes David out for an evening of friendly abuse and banter every July/August in order to capture the excitement of the annual roe deer rut. 2023 is no exception, with the pair of them luring both roebuck and muntjac with their calls. More from Roy here:
Glorious grouse, ghastly weather
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROkQjNc8NY Charlie Bull and friends are looking forward to shooting driven grouse on the Glorious Twelfth on the highest grouse moor in England. But there’s a problem. The weather is atrocious, and there’s no sign of improvement. They still manage to bag grouse on the first day of the 2023 season. Find out how in […]
Fieldsports Britain – wild weather grouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxLxIg6HIs When is ‘everything goes according to plan’ ever entertaining? Charlie Bull leads a team of guns up to 2,300ft in the Cumbrian fells to shoot drive grouse – but the weather has other ideas. He gets grumpy about that. And Roy Lupton gets a gold medal for grumpiness with David out stalking roebucks and […]
Glorious Twelfth delivers the grouse – Fieldsports News, 16 August 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gkAndIQFY Here are the links: Glorious 12th beats off protests and weather – Independent + NGO + Countryside Alliance BASC submits de-banking evidence to FCA – BASC Last call for gun ownership survey – government survey Natural Resources Wales ‘acts against nature’ – Fieldsports News + Change.org Water quality ‘disgrace’ as 90% of UK rivers […]
£26,000 rifle – Fieldsports Extra, episode 285
Play Video The Poke Packham Auctions page is up and top lot is a £26,000 Merkel rifle, built and specially engraved for an international exhbition. Thanks to Viking Arms for donating it. It’s week two of the beautiful custom knife prize draw from Danum Blades priced at £325. Plus, Ed Swales shouts out for the […]
