As part of a 4,000-mile road trip to pick up a 1971 Volvo from 100km inside the Arctic circle, David and his son, Archie, meet
Professional pest controller Daniel Maddock has lost the tools of his trade and denied, for the moment at least, permission to own another. After applying for a firearms certificate in January 2024, because his boss wanted him to start taking on deer management jobs, he had a home visit by two officers from Police Scotland. He thought they were there to assess his security. Instead, they had come to charge him for ‘lying’ on his medical records.
A group of Maasai came to Marford Mill, BASC’s North Wales headquarters, and taught the staff there dancing skills, how to throw sticks at small
Ruaridh Ormiston’s family have been working with Highland ponies for more than 150 years. As he prepares to showcase this hardy pony’s historical significance at
Grousemoor licensing and a partial muirban ban have passed their latest stage in the Scottish Parliament. The Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill looks like it
Paul Childerley heads to Portugal for an action-packed, adrenaline-fuelled adventure hunting driven wild boar with the Sako 90 Peak rifle in .300 Win Mag fitted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cNpzi1TmM Catapult supremo Wayne Martin is pretty handy with a shotgun too – and he’ll need all his skills when the ferrets go underground and
Once they were pets. Now they are pests. Iguanas join a list of reptiles including monitor lizards and Burmese pythons that people have bought, kept,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVty1XF0Is Aimpoint is launching its new Acro S2 with a day’s duck hunting for its new ambassadors. We join Johannes Kesselstatt, Jules Breant and Wild
Paul Childerley is in Poland, helping with a government cull of red deer in and around the town of Piwniczna-Zdrój near the Slovakian border. The
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezNafXAMGw Improve your driven big game shooting the Aimpoint Academy way. David films Aimpoint Academy winner Johannes Kesselstatt from Germany on a driven deer hunt
Did you know that reindeer’s back legs click when they walk? Scottish deer manager Niall Rowantree is in Swedish Lapland learning all about Santa’s little
youtu.be/mmEs8VDu_O4 Charlie is on a plainsgame hunt in South Africa with the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, where he has trouble with hartebeest and learns
Swedish Lapland still has wild places, and that’s where Paul Childerley is headed with his guide Robert Magnstrom. We first met Robert when he took
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
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzcGoTOXGM What does a roebuck reaction to the call look like from the sky? Incredibly, we filmed one of four bucks we shoot on this
youtu.be/gKhLYAhNaS8 by Deborah Hadfield Kill the foxes and the curlews will thrive. That’s the conclusion of gamekeepers at an Irish Grouse Conservatiom Trust project in
youtu.be/lVO7F7MULUo by Charlie Jacoby Big African animals from a dozen species browsing next to each other on green savannah. It’s a scene that the British
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Fi8ElBodE John Dodd is trying to meet his cull roebuck targets and Charlie is not helping. Instead of a nice sensible bolt-action with an expensive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Rw0YM7lK4 Charlie buys a combination rifle from Gibbs Gunmakers (12-bore and .243, £1,500) and sets out to see whether it is the all-round gun he
youtu.be/w-kOhlsvwSI Deborah Hadfield A rural way of life under threat – politicians are targeting farming, shooting, land management and conservation. The Welsh government is calling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QSSuIxfIc Will thermal optics revolutionise deerstalking? Deer manager Niall Rowantree has his doubts, as he explains on the range, showing off his ideal set-up for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAzdPYn7zM It’s one of the most dramatic landscapes we have hunted. Paul Childerley is after Capercaillie in winter, with snow deep on the ground and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRtNccwrjQ Charlie is fishing for carp on the fly in South Africa. He is on the Vanderkloof Dam, one of the biggest bodies of water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnZIPJacas When it comes to fast-action shooting on driven big game hunts, Roy Lupton is one of the UK’s top shots. He goes to a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_A3P_9HJ4It’s a classic driven pheasant and duck shoot for Roy Lupton, except it’s in Sweden and all the shooters are using Aimpoint red dot sights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-qEJeIeRwQ Roy Lupton is one of the best shots with a rifle on driven big game that red dot sight manufacturer Aimpoint has come across.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxx_1iPK940 HIKMicro donates one of its thermal units to an anti-poaching patrol in Mozambique. Paul Chdilerley is there to make the handover, plus he learns
Explosive action as British big game hunter Paul Childerley hunts buffalo in the Mozambique bush. He finds out about poaching, poisoning and just how dangerous
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY3MeOhqcM Helen Tinner continues her mission to shoot all six species of wild deer found in the UK. This time, she is out after a
youtu.be/AbKZu8PCNOM It’s the Sako 100’s first outing in Africa. Paul Childerley takes the new rifle in .375H&H calibre to Mozambique. In this first film, he
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMyi8iLSULk Tim Pilbeam is shooting wild boar with thermal – but not in Europe, North America or Australia. He is in Argentina, where boar are
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxms_rO9NA Take a Scottish wildlife expert to Scandinavia and his imagination runs away with him. Niall Rowantree is elk hunting in Swedish Lapland. While there,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5U51Q1as8 Paul Childerley has the stag stalking outing of his life – a dream come true. He is going up the hill in the Highlands
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
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
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
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
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
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJ0Lv5Vbsk Thermal is a game-changer for wild boar hunters. British boar hunter Paul Donegani is out after pigs in Portugal and tries out the latest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ukUeLDjG4 It’s one of the best ways to spend a year after you leave school. The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School learn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9kirnvQhQ Malik Ezzi wants to be a professional hunter. His first problem is that he only has 40% daytime vision and no vision at all
by Charlie Jacoby It’s dark. The baby rhino is in the South African savannah with her mother. Dawn is coming. She has survived the night
The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School are hosting Ollie Williams. Three of them – SP, Jared and Reese – are guiding Ollie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxUpelY0Ruc Paul Childerley is on a three-day pest control job in Portugal, shooting wild boar or ‘javali’. It’s a driven hunt to bring down pressure
by Deborah Hadfield Hunters and shooters are still fighting for their lives in Ukraine. Taras Oliynyk works for local gunshop IBIS Hunting and Guns in
youtu.be/BjlFn8H3zBg by Deborah Hadfield The hunting season in Ukraine runs from September until February. Ukrainians and overseas hunters stalk wild boar, deer and mouflon. Bear
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