The UK government has widened out its ‘trophy hunting’ consultation to include UK deer. It looks…
Category: Fieldsports News
UK General Election 2019 – the good guys and the bad guys
The general election on 12 December 2019 gives UK voters a chance to support pro-hunting and…
What the UK election means for hunting and shooting – Fieldsports Channel News, 6 November 2019
Here are the links UK general election and MPs’ lies – Facebook DEFRA hunting tourism…
Hunters ride to the rescue of YouTube’s #TeamTrees
YouTubers from hunting and shooting channels are lending their support to top YouTubers’ efforts to plant…
The RSPB – Britain’s new gamekeeper?
The RSPB wants to get a job as the nation’s gamekeeper. It looks like it…
Want to save giraffes? Buy them
Anti-hunters are good at whingeing about hunting tourism, which provides most of the money for wildlife…
Is a Midland Game Fair rescue underway?
One of the companies connected with the organisers of the Midland Game Fair may be saved…
Copper’s top tips for hitting back at hunt/shoot sabs
We are not helpless when antis attack our shoots, our hunts or our birds and animals.…
Liverpool’s attack on shooting sports – Fieldsports Channel News, 16 October 2019
Here are the items Mayor of Liverpool attacks shooting sports – Fieldsports News Boris Johnson wants…
Boris Johnson’s hunting ban
UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans hunting bans that threaten all shooting sports. His first move,…
Mayor’s hunting show ban – Fieldsports Channel News, 9 October 2019
Here are the links British Shooting Show ban – Fieldsports News Antis won’t save black…
British Shooting Show Liverpool banned
First it was hunting tourism they didn’t like, now it’s legal gun ownership. After successfully banning…
‘Ban hunting tourism,’ says Boris – Fieldsports News, 2 October 2019
In this week’s news: Boris Johnson cracks down on hunting tourism – The Times Two…
Rook shooting banned in Wales
The Welsh government has banned the shooting of several birds under new general licences. Due to…
General licences chaos is coming back – Fieldsports News, 20 September 2019
In this week’s news: New general licences survey Bit.ly/defrasurvey Calor Gas gives £5,000 to LACS –…
RSPCA kills much-loved shoot turkey
A turkey that lived semi-wild on a shoot was impounded by the RSPCA and then killed.…
RSPCA kills much-loved shoot turkey
A turkey that lived semi-wild on a shoot was impounded by the RSPCA and then killed.…
Ruger skeletonises the 10/22
The new trend of ‘skeletonising’ rifles has reached Ruger. Maker of probably the most customised rimfire…
UK gets nasty about guns and animals – Fieldsports News, 11 September 2019
In this week’s news: Scotland wild mammal consultation – website UK consultation on firearms licensing –…
UK newspapers attack children
The London-based Daily Mirror, Evening Standard and Sun have lashed out at children who go on…
RSPB ramps birdcrime – Fieldsports News, 4 September 2019
In this week’s news: RSPB’s birdcrime report Capercaillie heads for extinction thanks to RSPB – blog…
Chris Packham: ‘I’ve never been anti-shooting’
TV wildlife presenter Chris Packham says he is not against shooting birds. On stage with…
Antis’ mass grouse shoot trespass underway
Mass trespass of grouse shoots is underway, as antis in black balaclavas take to the moors…
‘Team Grace’ exposes anti grouseshooting propaganda in Yorkshire
A small group of bedraggled League Against Cruel Sports supporters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, city centre,…
Fatal disease in hares briefly stops coursing in its tracks
A disease that has jumped from rabbits to hares briefly led to a ban on coursing…
Packham pulls out of general licences court case
Chris Packham’s Wild Justice group has withdrawn its latest legal action against the Government over the…
Animal Liberation Front kills thousands of pheasants
Last week, activists hit a small family game farm in Kent. They struck in the middle…
Grouse moors deny Packham raptor allegations
Managing Britain’s uplands is more about managing media attacks these days. Bewildered grousemoor keepers and other…
Wild Justice plans fabulous waste of taxpayers’ money
DEFRA’s most vexatious litigant is at it again. Wild Justice is crowdfunding a £40,000 legal bill…
NRA removes signposts to tenant it wants to run out of town
New visitors to Bisley Shooting Ground at the top end of Bisley Camp will now have…
Animal rights militant Jay Tiernan – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 8
Jay Tiernan is a militant vegan, who stamps on badger traps and condones the cutting of…
DEFRA secretary declares war on hunting
DEFRA secretary Michael Gove has moved from big game hunting supporter to anti hunter. The British…
Dr Mark Avery’s vision for the countryside – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 7
It’s the battle for who runs the countryside: Dr Mark Avery is part of the Wild…
Hunting show exposé funded by ads… for hunting show
Pressure from animal rights activists has scared the NEC Bimingham into banning hunting guides from exhibiting…
Swarovski launches new riflescope
Austrian optics manufacturer Swarovski has launched a new all-round riflescope to add to its Z8i line.…
China Hunting Show launches with a bang
The China Hunting Show is underway at the National Convention & Exhibition Centre in Shanghai. The…
Public bodies admit sea eagles in Scotland are killing healthy sheep
Sea eagles reintroduced to Scotland are preying on healthy lambs, it has been formally acknowledged for…
Bowland hen harrier chicks give ‘hope for future’
The hatching of hen harrier chicks at nests on a private estate for the second year…
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…
RSPCA ‘too middle-class’ to police dogfighting
Five years ago, Julie Wright, a single woman from Slough in Berkshire, had two happy Staffordshire…
General licences: the blame game
Charlie Jacoby sits in on the parliamentary committee charged with finding out what went wrong at…
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…
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…
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…
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…