The Blaser R8 ‘family tree’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MXo8BnRUDA Cluny Country is a Blaser main dealer. Robbie Shedden explains the various options for the Blaser R8 rifle. Click here for more on Cluny Country’s Blasers More from Cluny Country here:
British gamekeepers supply shooting trucks to Ukraine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAU6cYf10U The Ukrainian army needs gamekeeping trucks. They are less of a target than military trucks and they have amazing offroad capabilities. Step forward London builder Dmytro Andreichuk. He and his wife are buying up ex hunting vehicles – typically used for lamping foxes on rough ground – and delivering them to the Ukraine. Ipswich […]
Bullet speed, drag and distance, with #SharpShootingUK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4vdUreHoU Ballistics apps are amazing. They are, says Richard Utting of SharpShootingUK, perfect. When it comes to shooting a 600-yard crow, we know all the numbers but one. We can feed all the information we need into our ballistics app. But we have to estimate down-range wind speed and direction. He gives a taste of […]
Venison jerky – recipe – from Weschenfelder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfoL17-mlCw Cai Ap Bryn makes delicious venison jerky. Watch and learn the recipe here. Ingredients: Venison Soy sauce Worcester sauce Garlic Brown sugar Get 10% off Atacama Pro Dehydrator. Use discount code FS10 at checkout. Offer valid until 31 October 2022. Bit.ly/profooddehydrator Click here for more from Weschenfelder For more from Cai, visit GameandFlames.com
Thieving foxes in the crosshairs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IxpJ5EF_I Foxes are stealing cake from the mouths of sheep. Down on the farm in Dorset, foxshooter David Pomeroy has an unusual problem. The farm milks ewes and feeds them on cake while they are milking. Local foxes are sneaking in and taking the cake. David has his rifle, night vision and Pulsar Accolade II […]
Fieldsports Britain – cakesnatching foxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pziEGd1JYxQ Foxshooting, gamekeepers’ vehicles, rifle accuracy, bird flu, a venison recipe and the story of a rifle – it’s a truly packed programme this week. Dorset foxshooter David Pomeroy has to deal with foxes that are stealing the sheep’s cake. Richard Utting from #SharpShootingUK explains how to shoot straighter (given that you shoot straight anyway). […]
How animal rights extremists conned the world with Cecil
The Cecil the lion story was simply a fundraiser for a Zimbabwean NGO. That’s the conclusion of big game hunter Ron Thomson, who has spoken up about the story to Fieldsports News. He calls out the lies during the 2015 scandal, including the revelation that the lion was enticed out of Hwange National Park in […]
Win £170 of night vision kit – Fieldsports Extra #240
You can win £170-worth of night vision kit from Mileseey. Plus members unite to provide us with Fieldsports Britain this week, including David Pomeroy foxshooting in Dorset, James Bendall coordinating our bird flu coverage and Richard Davis introducing us to a scheme to provide the Ukraine front line with foxshooting vehicles… not for shooting foxes.This […]
Firearms licensing crisis warning
youtu.be/EjbfeeA0utk With the firearms licensing system in crisis, barrister Nick Doherty fears there’s an increased risk of a tragic incident. Nick, who wrote The Firearms Law Handbook with his wife Laura Saunsbury, says: “I say that with a heavy heart. I don’t want that to be the case. But no system of firearms licensing is […]
Replacing the regulator in a faulty PCP airgun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmtOJuXEDME Your PCP airgun making a funny sound, and shots not going where you put them? It could be the regulator. It’s especially a problem with the BSA R10. Never fear – Huma is here. Huma makes a replacement regulator. James Head from South-Devon airgun centre Crackshot explains what it’s for and shows how to […]
Decoying: how to turn the pigeon tide in your favour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mAGAtNLhO0 You know the pigeons are there. You set up your hide, you put out the decoys, you stack up the cartridges – but no pigeons. What do you do? Dan Thor is in Essex showing his strategy for turning a pigeon no-show into a pigeon showtime. For Browning and Miroku shotguns visit Browning.eu For […]
Fieldsports Britain – pigeon shooting banter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVIGCCOKCSU How to turn a pigeon shooting problem into a success story. Dan Thor is decoying pigeons on crops in Essex. It doesn’t start well but, with characteristic banter, it gets better. Meanwhile, a barrister warns that government underfunding of police firearms licensing is going to lead to more mass shootings. And James Head shows […]
Cornwall Council kicks out anti hunting ban – Fieldsports News, 28 September 2022
youtu.be/8wOi9m3R1Kg Here are the links: Antis fail to ban trail hunting on Cornish council land – Countryside Alliance Trail hunting ban remains on NRW land – Countryside Alliance Farmer furious after antis leave rubbish – Farmers Weekly Osprey chicks fledged at Scottish estate – Scottish Land & Estates Antis vandalise Norfolk pheasant release pens – […]
Win £100 of gundog training kit – Fieldsports Extra #239
You can win £100-worth of gundog training kit from Dog & Field, plus it’s the last few days of the Baileys discount, Ian Jensen warns about the future of firearms licensing and Dan Thor discusses doughnuts.This week’s prizes and other links:For Rifleman Firearms, go to Bit.ly/riflemanfirearms Dog & Field prize Bit.ly/dogandfield Ursula Von Der Leyen pony Baileys […]
Hunting ‘rare’ capercaillie with a Blaser drilling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDp6t3Kgo_s Niall Rowantree is in Swedish Lapland to shoot capercaillie over Finnish spitz. Plus he tries out a Blaser D99 drilling in 7×57, and he looks at why the RSPB has failed to reintroduce the capercaillie to Scotland where, in Sweden, they hunt and eat them for lunch. For the Blaser D99, visit Blaser.de […]
Fieldsports Britain – shooting the world’s biggest grouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50j800QOEoM The world’s biggest grouse, capercaillie, were abundant in Scotland within living memory. Since then, a combination of hopeless management by the RSPB and a change in climate has wiped them out. Niall Rowantree goes to Swedish Lapland where they are doing well – so well that the locals hunt and eat them. He finds […]
Why does the conservation industry want to kill off African wildlife? Answer: cash
youtu.be/KU-11RVVDwQ by Deborah Hadfield The role of trophy hunting in conservation and the economic survival of communities in Africa is in the spotlight. A new film produced by South African film producer Phillip Hattingh focuses on Namibia. The inspiration for his documentary The Eco Colonialists – an Exposé came back in 2020 when, in the […]
Great value shotguns for clays and game 2022
youtu.be/Cm-q9ucYsiY You want a stylish, well-made shotgun that handles well and looks good – but you don’t want to spend a fortune. What do you buy? Dan Bibb from Shooting Sports UK recommends you take a look at the Zoli range of over-and-unders. “Zoli isn’t a brand that’s as well known in the UK as, […]
HM Queen’s sporting gun salute – Fieldsports News, 21 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUCgsLwyT4 Here are the links: HM Queen’s funeral gun salute – Facebook + Twitter Police face criminal investigation over Plymouth shooting – Independent Office for Police Conduct Police whistleblower sacked over gun claims – Employment Tribunals [PDF] Lord Goldsmith sacked as environment minister – Guardian Packham firebombing ‘hit job’ claims – Mirror Countryside Alliance Awards open […]
Useful crow decoy – Fieldsports Extra #238
We look at the Prime Minister’s contribution to corvid shooting, and you can still win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms. Plus Niall Rowantree talks about capercaillie and Cai Ap Bryn and Mat Coombe discuss this year’s Cornish spearfishing festival.This week’s prizes and other links:For Rifleman Firearms, go to Bit.ly/riflemanfirearms Baileys Shooting […]
Rural Devolution Bill
Rural Devolution Bill
Background The highest levels of government started to discuss rural devolution in the 2010s. In 2017, Liz Truss backed English counties’ call for ‘radical’ rural devolution. A report by Oxford Economics called Understanding County Economies, commissioned by the County Councils Network, said that providing counties with full devolution of public spending and tax raising powers […]
Walked-up grouse over German wirehaired pointers and a bracco Italiano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfX3Ka8_5Y Malin Hewins has brought together members of the German Wirehaired Pointer Club, plus friends (including a bracco Italiano), to pick up on a walked-up grouse day designed specifically for them. It’s on moorland above Edale in Derbyshire, beautifully organised by the Edale Estate. We see hundreds of grouse, shoot a few and all the […]
Northern Ireland hunting ban: battlelines drawn
by Deborah Hadfield For a people who have seen more than their share of fighting, the anti-hunting lobby is drawing up new battle lines. In 2021, the Northern Ireland Assembly rejected John Blair’s private member’s bill which sought to ban hunting wild animals with dogs. The Stormont Assembly has been unable to sit since the […]
Helen Tinner has to take a quick shot on a muntie
youtu.be/UZx6dsMJ5Uc Helen Tinner is in North Norfolk to improve her deerstalking and, if she can, take an animal for the freezer. Gareth Maund of the Le Strange shoot at Hunstanton has asked her along. He teaches her about different shooting positions, and then a muntie takes her by surprise. It’s her first solo stalk – […]
Fieldsports Britain – muntjac surprise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLVU-L4Kk8 A muntjac takes Helen Tinner by surprise. She is out stalking deer on the Le Strange Shoot in North Norfolk with her new Browning X-bolt. Meanwhile, Charlie joins a group of unusual dog owners at Edale in the Peak District for a walked-up grouse day, especially designed for German wirehaired pointers and even a […]
Countryside mourns Queen – Fieldsports News, 14 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmpo0iJa20 Here are the links: Balmoral gamekeepers carry Queen’s coffin – Fieldsports News Anglers consider legal action over pollution – Glos Live Anti-hunting Goldsmith family hangs on in government – DEFRA English farmers allowed to kill beavers – DEFRA Shooter Amber Hill wins gold in Cyprus – British Shooting Eat Game Awards calling for entries […]
Air rifle range opens
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNXD32mgqeU Rifleman Firearms in Somerset, UK, has opened a sparkly new airgun range. Here is how they do it. The building, which opened in February 2019, has five firing lanes and includes 500 metres of rail for the targets to run on. WARNING: This item includes a sweet little girl saying how much she likes […]
Win a £600 scope – Fieldsports Extra #237
Win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms, ideal for varminting and not bad for deer. Plus we have a laughing deerstalker in Helen Tinner, a couple of Northern Irish politicians, and Fieldsports Nation member Lloyd Birch talks walked-up grouse.This week’s prizes and other links:HM The Queen tributeBuy the Odepro KL62 flashlight on
HM Queen Elizabeth: a country life
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had a lifelong love of the countryside. Born in Mayfair, she once told a friend that, if she hadn’t been Queen,
Charity clay shoot raises £135,000 for GWCT
Bushbeaters’ Ball 2022 The annual Charity Clay Shoot at Warter Priory Estate in East Yorkshire has raised an incredible £135,000 for the Game and Wildlife
What will Liz Truss do for the countryside? – Fieldsports News, 7 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCHHk5hNgI Here are the links: What the new PM will do for the countryside – Twitter Government consultation on firearms – Home Office NSRA opposes
King of the castle – British Open Sporting Champion 2022
youtu.be/utcky0zq10E Who is the top Sporting clay shot in Britain? James Marchington reports from Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire, where the nation’s top clayshooters are
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s best sporting shot
youtu.be/BB5kOKDjbDo Who is the top sporting clayshooter in Britain? James Marchington reports from the British Open Sporting Championship at Barbury in Wiltshire, where 1,250 clayshooters
Ollie Williams hunts Mandela’s favourite: blesbok
If it’s good enough for Nelson Mandela, it’s good enough for Ollie Williams. He is stalking blesbok in Africa with the trainee professional hunters from
BASC firearms licensing overhaul
youtu.be/GCi5JQRX0Sc by Deborah Hadfield It’s time to scrap the existing gun certificate system across England and Wales and replace it with another. That’s the conclusion
Caroline Bedell on the value of shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 67
youtu.be/X93ipWbnihU UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance,
Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236
Win an Odepro scope lamp priced at £107, ideal for foxing and rabbiting after dark. Plus we have flag trouble at the British Open clay championship, a clever idea for holding up trophy heads and Deborah itroduces this week’s news feature: the disaster that is UK firearms licensing.This week’s prizes and other links:Bug-a-Salt film or
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Best airguns for hunting 2022
You don’t have to spend £1,000 on a pre-charged pneumatic airgun – or PCP for short – in order to hunt rabbits, but it helps!
Borth Zoo: from lions and lynx to dogs and ducks
by Ben O’Rourke This is the story of the British relationship with pets and livestock. In June 2020, Fieldsports News visited Borth Wild Animal Kingdom
Fallow buck stalking with the new Pulsar Merger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBM_8ZfvONo Tom Davies has his work cut out. There are fallow in plague proportions on his ground. In the three weeks from the start of
Fieldsports Britain – buck meat hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqTOjmHock Are there more deer than ever before? Deerstalker Tom Davies says yes, as he heads out to shoot fallow prickets and sorrels for his
Dog trainer lams into the Kennel Club
Controversy over force-free approach to gundog training by Deborah Hadfield There’s a growing split at the heart of gundog training, and it centres on the
Plan to eradicate deer in England – Fieldsports News, 31 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHNih-sctk Here are the links: BASC attacks England’s deer strategy recommendations – BASC Countryside Alliance Packham sabs complaint – Daily Mail Government crackdown on sewage
Pulsar Merger LRF XP50 thermal binos – on test
youtu.be/dhseNtUWUa0 Professional deer manager Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services has swapped his Pulsar Accolade for the new Pulsar Merger LRF XP50 thermal binoculars –
Win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun – Fieldsports Extra #235
Trouble with flies? You can win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun and knock them out of the sky in this week’s show. Plus we have Niall Rowantree in the Arctic, a complaining zoo owner and a Tom Davies gets his hands on the latest thermal from Pulsar so he can go fallow buck stalking.This week’s prizes and
Scotland snare scare
by Deborah Hadfield The Scottish government is considering the future use of snares. It has approached a range of fieldsports groups for their views. However,
A car hits a deer every seven minutes in England
youtu.be/zCwrztM7YVU In the UK, in 2022, you are twice as likely to hit a deer than in 1997. That risk has gone up fourfold since
African predator hunting platform
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl8kd6b0pE How do they shoot pesky predators in Africa? The distances can be bigger and the terrain wilder than the south of England. The principal
