The real cost of gun licensing delays
Firearms licensing delays don’t just frustrate shooters, they hurt the sport and businesses like shops and grounds. We visit Sporting Targets in Bedfordshire – one
Firearms licensing delays don’t just frustrate shooters, they hurt the sport and businesses like shops and grounds. We visit Sporting Targets in Bedfordshire – one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lf_a0UUVCAKids love a hog hunt: American dads who watch Fieldsports Channel take their teenagers out after feral pigs in Florida. Gun licensing woes: we’re at
Here are the links: Lloyds Bank freezes shooter’s accounts – Lloyds Bank Starmer’s lead ban timetable – BASC Scottish sporting rates climbdown – Countryside Alliance
Here are the links: BASC clears first fence in Natural England judicial review – BASC Government looks at knife licensing – BASC Mods to come
We are at IWA 2026, the massive trade show in Nuremberg, Germany – where the big names in guns and thermal are showing off their
The SCI Convention 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, shows off all that’s best and biggest in hunting, sporting guns and taxidermy. A major theme this year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Ibs4dG7s8Roy Lupton and cameraman David are limping after muntjac: one has titanium hips, the other a dodgy ankle. Roy wants to cull the muntjac that
Here are the links: New deer night-shooting general licence – Gov.uk Back off hunting, Labour lords urge Starmer – FarmingUK.com Court orders huntsman’s horn flattened
It wasn’t so much a debate, more a pile-on. In Westminster Hall on Monday 23rd February 2026, 24 MPs from across the political spectrum spoke
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOyDIqaOUwIComing to you from the British Shooting Show: How looking after wildlife can land you in trouble – the RSPCA snatched a badger that wildlife
Here are the links: Shooting community gears up for Westminster debate – Parliament.uk, Countryside Alliance and BASC Preserve grouseshooting’s ‘intangible culture’ – OurUplandLivingHeritage.com Town councillor slams
When Morgan Myers decided to help a sick young badger he found close to his home, he had no idea it would lead to a
In the first case of its kind, former gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleaded guilty at York Magistrates Court to conspiring to commit wildlife crime. The RSPB
Here are the links: ‘Missing’ hen harrier died naturally – Facebook Eat Game Awards finalists – BASC BBC backs venison – BBC Packham attacks hunting
We have explosive greyhound action at the 100th Irish National Coursing Meeting. Plus there’s confusion among birdwatchers who don’t know if they won or lost
@rivermonsters star Jeremy Wade comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about rivers and fish. Other ways to listen
World sporting clays champion Sam Green is shooting mallard and teal at dusk beside a flight pond in Norfolk. A recently retired Firearms Enquiry Officer
Here are the links: MPs to debate firearms licensing – MP’s contact details Members.parliament.uk – and show them this petition Petition.parliament.uk Scotland’s Environment Bill watered down
When Powys police started asking shooters to provide drug tests as part of their shotgun and firearms certificate applications, it sent shockwaves through the world
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zvtFZrZAI Here are the links: Trophy ban ‘would harm Africa’s animals and villagers’ – Daily Mail Making money out of venison – TheBittescombeInn.com and FieldsportsChannel.tv/high-fiving-foxshooters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV4fe3rIewcWayne Martin is in Sweden for two days of driven boar and deer with the new Aimpoint COA red dot sight – his first time
We shoot a deer in a police station. It’s a good-news story for UK deer managers as a constabulary and the RSPCA call in a
The Scottish Government has tried all sorts of cunning plans to kill off recreational hunting and shooting of game. This time there are real fears
Here are the links: Scotland plans to hammer sporting estates – BASC Mass poaching bust on the Fens – YouTube RSPB ‘bird crime’ reports rubbished
The US government has written to the UK’s environment department DEFRA to ask it not to ban trophy imports. A letter from Doug Burgum, US
We are shooting and eating woodcock in Co Kerry with an outfit called The Hunter & The Chef. Owen from Cumbria Country Sports tries for
Here are the links: Police firearms licensing is failing the public – HMICFRS.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk Gun grab victim Sandy’s sheep attacked by fox – YouTube Gamekeeper kills
Here are the links: Sabs’ plans for trailhunting – TheNewHuntingBan.com/ Government stuffs up petition response – Petition.Parliament.uk/petitions/750236 Get yourself ‘enshrined’ for your intangible cultural heritage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpO464Z3fEHighland boar numbers are booming: Niall Rowantree looks at whether we can solve what could become rewilding’s latest horror story. Jaf Jefferson and the South
Here are the links: Record turnout at Boxing Day meets – AOL YouGov says only half the country wants trailhunting ban – YouGov Bean geese
What is Keir Starmer planning to throw at the countryside in 2026? We ask Gareth Dockerty from BASC, Tim Bonner from the Countryside Alliance, Ed
Helen Tinner is out to fill her freezer with venison. Attacks on fieldsports: We look ahead at what’s coming at us in 2026. Plus it’s
Here are the links: Starmer government reveals animal rights-driven welfare strategy – Gov.uk Shotgun licensing petition passes 100,000 signatures – Petition.parliament.uk BHSA drops terrierwork from
Lifelong shooter Darren Easton has finally won his case in court, with help from Fieldsports lawyer Layla. Cambridgeshire police seized Darren’s guns when he struggled
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdqNW-weWSsWe’re out with the gang Keir Starmer wants to ban – ladies who go trailhunting. We have a gun grab story with a happy ending
Here are the links: 50,000 sign to keep shotguns off Section 1 – Sign the petition here Will Scotland end calls for deer wipe-out? –
youtu.be/qrHBbLVX0xo Retired professor Simon Denny comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about the future for upland gamekeepers. Simon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwhamkwLzREWe are on Luing in the Inner Hebrides, walking up woodcock and snipe over dogs. Plus the excitement of coursing: we relive the Waterloo Cup.
We are on a young farmers’ game day, where George Lawrence tries out a new kind of non-lead shot on pheasants and partridges. John Myhill
Here are the links: UNESCO protection available for hunts and shoots – RuralPursuitsCommunity.com Write to your MP about shotguns on FACs – FieldsportsChannel.tv/shotguns-on-facs/ Hare poachers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiwKFkGWSZw Here are the links: Posting a picture with a gun lands man in cells – Daily Mail Cumbria fox death leads to 16 arrests
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxP5UbQq6ts We have Wayne Martin testing lead vs steel shot with Tim Pilbeam’s help. Wayne is shooting at ‘wildlife-wrapped’ ballistic gel to compare the two
The Westminster government plans to released a consultation on the future of shotguns, which it has indicated it wants to put on to section one
Here are the links: Farmers’ budget day protest – Facebook and Facebook Home Office shotgun survey – Home Office Gleaves returns as airgunning champ – Facebook
Owen from Cumbria Country Sports is hunting rabbits by day and by night. Another gun grab nightmare, this time for physiotherapist and smallholder Sandy who
Nottinghamshire physiotherapist and smallholder Sandy wanted a shotgun to protect her livestock from predators. She did everything right, applying for a certificate and getting professional
Here are the links: Wildlife crime convictions drop – WCL.org.uk Tiverton town council back antis – Devon Live Cornish birds of prey stolen – BBC
We are pheasant shooting on a Worcestershire estate that combines driven game with wine, weddings and deer. How does shooting kit from across the world
youtu.be/D6ZE8T1iRHc The last slipper at the Waterloo Cup came to the Carer Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2025, 20 years after the last meeting at
Here are the links: Grass thy neighbour say Cumbria cops – Crimestoppers Bird releases near SACs must be reported to DEFRA – Gov.uk Campaigners persuade