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Swing-through with negative hold – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Improve your shooting with a top shot. Ben explains the technical aspects of swing-through and how…
General licences: June 2019 update + what Packham is up to
UK environment secretary Michael Gove is underway with his consultation on the general licences. In the…
Can you call in antelope?
Paul finds out in South Africa. He is out with Nico Els in the Eastern Cape…
Eco hunting clothing from Red Kettle
Forget microfibres and ceramic-based fabric. What could be more environmentally friendly than cotton? Well, that’s all…
Grilled Rabbit with garden herbs barbecue recipe
Jason Doyle takes rabbit meat from a recent shoot and gives us his grilled rabbit…
Pro gun fit – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Where do you put your gun stock on your shoulder? Top Shot Ben Husthwaite explains the…
Shooting geese in the Netherlands
We join a Dutch pest controller for a morning’s goose shooting. In a country where they…
Knocking over foxes in Co Wexford
Stephen Dunbar and Jason Doyle are up early to look for foxes and check the larsen…
Rabbit from field to barbecue
Stephen Dunbar and Jason Doyle go to a dairy farm in Co Wexford to shoot rabbits…
RSPCA ‘too middle-class’ to police dogfighting
Five years ago, Julie Wright, a single woman from Slough in Berkshire, had two happy Staffordshire…
Behind the scenes: Maral Movie, with Alberto Rizzini
Alberto Rizzini made a beautiful film about hunting a Maral stag in Kazakhstan with a Browning…
General licences: the blame game
Charlie Jacoby sits in on the parliamentary committee charged with finding out what went wrong at…
Summer deer management – A Year in the Life of Highland Sport part 2
For around three months of the year, red deer are off the shooting menu. Well, that…
Birds kill 200 lambs on a single Isle of Wight farm
We visit Cheverton Farm on the Isle of Wight, where ravens, crows and other birds have…
Why push and pull when you can twist? – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Top clay shot Ben Husthwaite does the hokey-cokey to explain how to shoot clay pigeons better.…
On Test: seven different carbon-stock rifles
Gun reviewer Tim Pilbeam has more than £50,000-worth of rifles to test. He looks at the…
How to prepare for shooting – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Top clay shot Ben Husthwaite explains the pre-shot routine: what you need to do to get…
Rifle skills with Browning: shooting beyond 1,000 metres
Want to shoot super-accurately at more than half a mile? Browning brings the new X-Bolt Pro…
General licences protestors plan London march
Shooters, farmers and other country people are planning a London March on Saturday 29 June 2019.…
Now Natural England mucks up the new general licences
The first of the new general licences is not fit for purpose, the second ‘appalling’. That’s…
First look at the new general licences
Two shooters – the same problem. How do they shoot pest birds legally? Shooter A is…
Not a very ‘Good Morning Britain’ with Chris Packham
As the general licences chaos rumbles on, Packham has been on British television at his manipulating…
Crow hits the jackdaws – just before Packham’s ban – Crowhow
Andy Crow has one more chance to shoot the jackdaws and keep them off his bean…
Hunt & Cook: the appetite for game meat
You’d be amazed how many people don’t know the first thing about meat they can shoot…
Knife buyer’s guide
Knife maker Phil Siddell explains the three things to look for in a new knife: tang,…
Sea Eagles take lambs: Fieldsports News, 1 May 2019
Here is this week’s news stump: ▶ Sea eagles catch lambs ▶ Packham manipulates the…
Piers Morgan blathers at elephant hunter
Celebrity anti-hunting campaigner Piers Morgan is floored on his own chat show, by a hunter who…
Skinning and butchering a deer, start to finish, with John Griffin
Here’s a masterclass on how to skin and butcher a deer. Jason Doyle meets game butcher…
Hooded up for hoodie shooting
Hooded crows (grey crows in Ireland) are coming into a farmer’s shed and stealing cattle feed…
Deer: from Field to Freezer
Jason is guiding a friend, Daniel, on his first sika deer. Sika deer were introduced to…
Gralloching a deer, start to finish, with Jason Doyle
Jason Doyle grallochs a deer: a sika hind his friend Daniel has just shot. ▶ here…
Nuclear power stations pause pest control
There are unconfirmed reports that England’s nuclear power stations have cancelled pest control while Natural England…
‘Don’t Sack Packham’ hits 100,000 just before ‘Sack Packham’
A petition on the petitions website Change.org, asking the BBC to sack its star presenter Chris…
Who will get sacked: Gove, Packham or Marian Spain?
Heads will roll. MPs furious about the general licences debacle want sackings. Most likely to lose…
Best of British: the shooting suit
Everything you always wanted to know about shooting suits: the tweed, the cut, the options. Charlie…
Marsupial pest hunt
Wallabies are an agricultural pest on New Zealand. They came from Australia, and now it is…
Gamekeepers fight wildlife: Fieldsports Channel News, 24 April 2019
General licences shambles Fcha.nl/generallicences Should gamekeepers be compulsory? ALF kills more pheasants The Times takes on…
The Times can’t crush a shooter called Callum
The Times of London might once have been called the Thunderer and brought down governments –…
White deer shows itself in Michigan
Magical, mysterious, white deer evoke a reaction wherever they are seen. The classic ‘white hart’ of…
Animal Lib Front slaughters more birds
After cutting the wire on a game farm in Wiltshire and driving 5,000 pheasants to…