Trailhunters hit back at Starmer ban plan – Fieldsports News, 1 April 2026
Here are the links: Starmer lashes out at trail hunters – Countryside Alliance and Gov.uk Antis fear Starmer will allow most hunting with hounds – The
Here are the links: Starmer lashes out at trail hunters – Countryside Alliance and Gov.uk Antis fear Starmer will allow most hunting with hounds – The
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLuAFUR9ikTim Pilbeam is learning about the challenges of night-shooting deer, starting in daylight with the Thermtec Oryx thermal scope. Have grey squirrels in Somerset evolved
Here are the links: Labour’s shooting ban bonanza – Gov.uk, DEFRA and Gov.uk Cops chase poacher vehicle – Facebook Nature.scot gannet hunt protest – Daily Record Phil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkGaLzoYL-8Dogwalkers cry wolf – so police arrest the farmer and grab his son’s guns. How to become a loader on the big game shoots: we
A farmer tells dog walkers to get back on the footpath – and ends up in a cell for eight hours, while police grab his
youtu.be/ZXr_Q0XRJYo Every year, José Souto and Paul Childerley bring a roe carcase to the Game Fair and show how they break it down. They come
youtu.be/aTUed2IvIY0 What’s it like reintroducing a large predator to the wild? One person with firsthand experience is Maria Davidson, who manages the large carnivore programme
Rob Ward-Dutton and Simon Sutton run a business-networking-fun-shooting club called Clay Connections. Currently in the North-West of England, they have ambitions to expand it across
Here are the links: Government hands out deer chiller cash – BASC DEFRA uses bird flu as stick to beat shoots – NGO Welsh Labour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rbJCjLkOoQPony power – we are out culling fallow deer in East Sussex with the aid of a beer-swilling cob. Plus, how bursting into song could
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
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
Here are the links: Record turnout at Boxing Day meets – AOL YouGov says only half the country wants trailhunting ban – YouGov Bean geese
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