Flying start to the game season – Fieldsports News, 4 September 2024
Here are the links New game season underway – BASC Blue tongue fears – BASC and Gov.uk Hunting knife surrender call – Gov.uk Warter Priory
Here are the links New game season underway – BASC Blue tongue fears – BASC and Gov.uk Hunting knife surrender call – Gov.uk Warter Priory
Lewis Dedman told us his gun grab story at the start of the summer (Watch that one here). The professional pest controller contacted us because
Here are the links: Brian May badgers the nation on the BBC – Youtube and BBC European trophy hunting ban may be illegal – CIC-wildlife.org Wildfire
by Charlie Jacoby British Olympic hopeful Courtney Palmer-Jones speaks for all shooters when she complains that Facebook’s restrictions on guns are ‘a form of censorship’.
Here are the links: Fears over Brian May BBC badger documentary – BBC, Nature.com and Countryside Alliance No action over Packham’s Barclays outburst – Telegraph Moorland
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94141m by Charlie Jacoby Chris Packham really doesn’t like UK bank Barclays. “If anyone here is banking with Barclays, then I suggest you stick your
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch70wPTAexg Here are the links: Packham lashes out at Barclays customers – FieldsportsChannel.tv/actionforwildlife2024 Media debates rights for hunters – Telegraph.co.uk and FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast93 DEFRA minister Zeichner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZrA5-LI-aA Here are the links Packham scores own goal – FieldsportsChannel Podcast Rutter robbed of Olympic gold + Peter Wilson speaks out – Fieldsports News Grouse
Britain’s Olympic skeet silver medallist Amber Rutter drew praise for the sporting way she reacted to Olympic officials robbing her of gold. Amber won a
The BASC clay shooting line was a smash hit at the 2024 international Scout jamboree in Essex. Thousands of excited children grabbed the opportunity to
Here are the links: Olympic gold for GB trapshooter Nathan Hales – TeamGB.com Grim outlook for grouse – WilliamPowellSporting.co.uk Shooting organisations have positive dialogue with
Here are the links: NGO launches deer strategy – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk Government hands out DMQ funding – BASC Estate hit with general licences restriction – Strathspey
It’s all the action from the 2024 Sea Angling Classic, an international fishing event combining a major sea angling competition, conservation, and environmental initiatives, education, and research, while introducing a whole new generation to the sport of angling. It took place from Wednesday to Sunday, 20-23 June 2024, out of Premier Marina Port Solent, and offered the largest prize table of any event of its kind in the UK – worth in excess of £100,000 including a fabulous fully rigged Extreme 646 Game King boat and SBS trailer. Find out who won it…
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.
Scottish government begins moorland licensing scheme – Nature.Scot
Starmer government drops trail-hunting and trophy imports ban – no mention in King’s Speech – Westminster government
17-year-old wins DTL world champs – CPSA results
Hunting Kind fires up morale for hound sports – HuntingKind.com
Arms co buys clayground – Newark Advertiser
Anti attacks on Aussie duckhunters on the rise – Victoria Game Management Authority + Weekly Times Now
Dutch wolves attack dog and child – NOS.nl + RTL.nl + Instagram + Euractiv.com
Cull response to bear attacks – NDTV.com + BBC + YouTube
Angler hits drone – Telegram
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCnYan5IxBU Here are the links: Fox eats curlew chicks on camera MoorlandAssociationNew DEFRA minister offers hope BASC and TheyWorkForYou.comShooting Show dates announced ShootingShow.co.ukCautious optimism for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vtuRQ0lOo Armed police subjected gundog-owning granny Helen Cadman to a terrifying and painful ordeal. They smashed down the gates to her Warwickshire home at 8am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irnNGp_V27o WokeWatch: Government-owned Forestry England now uses non-lead ammo to shoot grey squirrels. The government agency uses non-lead airgun pellets and shotshells, and it leads
There have been several failed attempts to push through a trophy import ban – and now, as we approach the 2024 election, both Conservatives and
Here are the links GB Olympic team selected British Shooting Scottish grouse moor licensing shambles BASC and GWCT Trail hunting ban pitfalls for Labour Countryside
Here are the links: Antis march on London Parliament.uk, RestoreNatureNow.com and YouTube Met crack down on illegal firearms Met.Police.uk Police gun grab latest FieldsportsChannel.tv/fab3 Salmon
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
Farmer and former MP Neil Parish and Charlie Jacoby discuss the 2024 election manifestos from Labour, the Conservatives, the LibDems, Reform and the Greens, and
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
Here are the links: Which party manifesto is best for hunting and shooting? FieldsportsChannel.tv Anglers launch their own manifesto Angling Trust FACE demands recognition for
It was a shooting accident on a farm in the Forest of Dean late at night. The police and the ambulance service were magnificent. Gloucestershire
Here are the links: Election manifestos for the countryside Manifesto.Conservatives.com and LibDems.org.uk/manifesto Labour to ban snares and trail hunting Labour.org.uk Surrey poachers caught on camera
Lifelong fieldsports enthusiast Chris Sharp was the victim of an unprovoked assault – and police took HIS guns away. Shockingly, 10 months later Chris was
Here are the links: Shooting is worth £3.3 billion to UK economy ValueOfShooting.co.uk Contact your election candidates BASC Pine martens get £1.2 million lottery grant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrU_rYmz-c Here are the links: ‘Biggest election ever’ for fieldsports BASC Countryside Alliance demands recognition Countryside Alliance Curlews and lapwings thrive on grouse moors Peak
Here are the links: Lynx ‘will eat cats and dogs’ CairngormsCroftersFarmers.org and ScotlandBigPicture.com Forestry Commission calls for massive deer cull BBC Clarkson calls for venison
Here are the links: Crime commissioners in favour of shooting BASC Scottish lynx plan latest ScotlandBigPicture.com Women’s deerstalking event FieldsportsChannel.tv/ladiesdeerstalkinguk Police attend National Shooting Show
Lewis Dedman returned home after an argument with his wife to find a police car in his driveway. Kent police had come for his guns.
Here are the links: West Mercia Police backtrack on online certificate applications BASC Cumbria Police tackle backlog BASC Underwater film reveals pollution horror Twitter and
Here are the links: Scottish political chaos ‘could be good’ for countryside Countryside Alliance Refugee foxhounds head to France Hunting Kind Scottish land management pleas
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8xpdr4 While it’s OK to plant trees in some places, it seems it’s not OK when you are planning to shoot in your wood. That’s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYyIGQzXWpY Here are the links: Brewdog’s lost forest Instagram Natural England block tree planting Fieldsports News Deer return to Gloucestershire park Twitter Facebook censors British
It was going to be an ordinary day for Phil Waymouth, picking up his son from school, spending time with him. Within 24 hours, he
Here are the links: CA blasts RSPB over hen harriers Countryside-Alliance.org Hunting’s ‘prisoners of conscience’? BBC.co.uk PCC elections plea BASC.org.uk + BASC.org.uk/pcc-contact-page/ Wild Justice wins
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8wv8sk Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk talks to Charlie Jacoby about Mitchell’s three-day Country Sporting Sale on 17-19 April 2024 in Cockermouth, Cumbria. They discuss the
Here are the links: Partners to rule on their loved-ones’ guns BBC.co.uk Green minister orders ‘slaughter of innocents’ DailyMail.co.uk + Facebook Hen harrier numbers on the
Here are the links: Shooting organisations committed to lead-free future AimToSustain.org.uk Gun trade honours top gunmakers Gunmakers.org.uk Hampshire dead hares arrest Facebook Trail hunting cop
The Worshipful Company of Gunmakers has issued new certificates honouring the work of the UK’s top gunmakers. In the first ceremony of its kind, held
youtu.be/QsipGADjYFw Here are the links: Scotland licenses grouse moors ScottishLandAndEstates.co.uk Can grouse shooting survive? Countryside-Alliance.org and Gov.Scot Scottish deer management consultation Bit.ly/deer2024 African countries slam trophy
Saj Rahman and Andy Ford Southern Water’s pumping station at Fullerton in Hampshire, on the banks of the River Test, dumps millions of gallons of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUB8gYHYVy8 Here are the links: Dead hares horror – Daily Mail Bans head back to parliaments – Fieldsports News Botswana economy faces ‘crisis’ – New
Grousemoor licensing and a partial muirban ban have passed their latest stage in the Scottish Parliament. The Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill looks like it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvmotJcJFGQ Here are the links: Nations join forces against trophy hunt bill Fieldsports News Packham backs ‘terrorist’ sab groups HuntSabs.org.uk and TheGuardian.com Keepers and farmers hit
Protests Botswana against the UK government British authority and influence in southern African countries is ‘as bad as in the Zulu Wars’ says one commentator.
Angry farmers and gamekeepers have hit back against their landlords with a damning report. Called ‘United Utilities at Haweswater’, the document examines failures by landowners
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