Thieving foxes in the crosshairs

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Fieldsports Britain – pigeon shooting banter

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

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

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 […]

Why does the conservation industry want to kill off African wildlife? Answer: cash

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

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

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

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 […]

Northern Ireland hunting ban: battlelines drawn

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

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

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 […]

Air rifle range opens

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 £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

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,

BASC firearms licensing overhaul

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

Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236

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

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!

Dog trainer lams into the Kennel Club

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

Win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun – Fieldsports Extra #235

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

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,

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