FAB update #4 – latest work of the Fieldsports Advice Bureau
Layla McGuigan from the FAB Fieldsports Advice Bureau says what she has been advising members who are battling police firearms departments against certificate revocations and
Layla McGuigan from the FAB Fieldsports Advice Bureau says what she has been advising members who are battling police firearms departments against certificate revocations and
Here are the links: Beth Norton breaks world Skeet record – ISSF and watch our interview on YouTube Hounds come to Westminster – BehindTheMasks.co.uk Antis
youtu.be/d-BdxqW5EQwTim Pilbeam is after summer roebucks with a new optical scope from Swarovski that combines tech with top-quality glass. Gamekeeper Kevin Copeland is bitting his
Remember Bethany Norton, the girl who won a car at age 13 in the Oxford Gun Company’s Schools Challenge competition? Six years on, she is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZG9qpH2iecHomekill skills: deerstalkers offer their services to farmers for livestock. Olympic hopeful: GB’s Beth Norton is a junior Skeet world champion and world record holder.
Here are the links: Attenborough gets it wrong on pheasants – GWCT Packham’s pop at our parakeet video – YouTube and Channel 4 Moorland Association loses
Here are the links: Palantir wins UK gun licensing contract – TheNational.scot Dog charity shoot’s final year – BardenClayShoot.co.uk Water Priory charity shoot raises £400,000
Kevin Copeland uses calls and decoys to shoot crows at a Kent sheep farm – and bags a bonus fox too. Robert Bucknell is back
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hsp8hK-gUoAndy Crow is laying in wait for foxes, using some new Nocpix thermal gear and a technique he calls ‘foxjacking’. Charlie is in China discovering
Here are the links: Northern Ireland drops gun certificate fee hike – BBC Politicians back NI hunting ban – Facebook Dorset gunshop owner retires –
Here are the links: Northern Ireland hunting ban moves a step closer – FieldsportsChannel.tv NZ helicopter hunting tragedy – GiveaLittle.co.nz and ODT.co.nz BASC urges Scotland’s first
Tim Pilbeam is shooting foxes on an SSSI, protecting precious wildlife and newborn lambs – but he can only wave at the badgers. Plus what’s
Northern Ireland hunting ban: what does it mean? by Charlie Jacoby In a move to disappoint Northern Ireland’s rural community, MLAs at Stormont voted through
Government electric vehicle strategy fails in the UK countryside by Charlie Jacoby The government’s push to make people buy electric vehicles has not worked on
Can you shoot a fox with an air rifle? Wayne Martin is after rabbits when a fox appears and he has to make an on-the-spot
David Beach is a wildlife filmmaker. He comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025 to talk about the difficulties that hunting tourism has
Here are the links: Licence fees are ‘hidden tax on shooting’ – BASC Trophy hunting film – Linktree/sarahsrealjob and YouTube Louisiana gator season extended –
youtu.be/uzhkJzxZU_Y Counting wildlife stops the government banning shooting. Roger Draycott from the GWCT, Jodie Case from Perdix Wildlife Supplies and Schöffel Working Conservationist Award-winning gamekeeper
Here are the links: Parliament call for wildfire evidence – Parliament.uk West Mercia backs down on semi-autos – YouTube Packham trail-hunting march flops – Facebook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcfRtq5JZUJaf is in corvid shooting heaven: a silage clamp for them to feed on, and a church tower for them to perch on. Robert Bucknell
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bzev3q-qAIWe’re out ratting with the pros, in the thick of the action with the Severn Valley Ratters and their dogs. It’s candling time at the
Here are the links: Eagle lamb attack video – Facebook Irish hunt supporters rally against Blair bill – Countryside Alliance Police firearms licensing still failing
Nigel Vardy suffered life-changing injuries when he and two friends got caught up in a storm on Mt McKinley in Alaska in 1999. Frostbite took
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt7AycjqRHsShooting with Mr Frostbite: mountaineer, author and dedicated shooter Nigel Vardy talks us through the expedition that nearly killed him and how he was determined
youtu.be/2W2p7-AI4sk Nigel Vardy lost his fingers and his nose in an accident on Mt McKinley in 1999. Since then, he has refound his love of
Here are the links: Proposed trail hunting ban – Countryside Alliance Northern Ireland faces bid to ban foxhunting – BBC Northern Ireland gun licensing fee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZKuoF_cLY This week it’s bring-your-kids-to-work day, so the show is presented by Ed Jacoby, and Hector Wright is on the Fieldsports Channel news stump. In
The CIC general assembly in Vienna, 2026, is a talking shop for the world’s hunters. Plus it included a service in St Stephen’s Cathedral, by
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplcitP8yoo This week it’s bring-your-kids-to-work day, so David’s son Hector is on the Fieldsports Channel news stump. Here are the links: BBC parrots anti-shooting propaganda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xAYcDON2g As the 2026 clay season kicks off we are at the West Kent Shooting School with Alex Levett-Scrivener from cartridge distributor Shooting Star and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8wIslACFqMGeoff Garrod is in clover – he is back on the pigeons, after a winter when the birds mysteriously disappeared for months. Gun licensing woes:
West Mercia Police has made up its own rules restricting Section 1 shotguns – that is shotguns with a magazine capacity greater than two cartridges,
Here are the links: SNP blew £135m on failed deer cull – TheFerret.scot RSPB advice could kill garden birds – RSPB Country people make the
Here are the links: Starmer splashes £90m on birdwatching groups – Gov.uk Perthshire farmer hands out two tonnes of free venison – Fairfeast.co.uk Rat up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03JcDazE4oWe are shooting spring corvids with the fabulous Rob Speed from the Fieldsports with Speed channel. Spring is in the air for newly-released beavers, too,
youtu.be/o2mzRWBL4wU Doyen of the barrellers Bill Blacker is part of the beating heart of the British gun trade. He joines Charlie on the stage at
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