Fieldsports News

#TheGameFair Theatre Preview

What’s on at the Game Fair Theatre in 2017? It’s all being organised by Fieldsports Channel. Here’s a preview. Friday 28 July 9.30am-10am Justin Urquhart

Cricketer bats against hunting

Cricketer bats against hunting

Kevin Pietersen, the South African born England cricketing star has launched a campaign to save rhinos and to show off his anti-hunting credentials at the

No hope for Double Trap

Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson lams into ISSF – International Shooting Sport Federation for ditching Double Trap from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The International

Hunt Sabs March on London

Hunt Sabs March on London

Foxhunters are delighted. A small group of antis held the biggest anti-hunting march London has seen. Around 5,000 people marched through the West End and

Bird flu and gameshooting

Bird flu is on the rise. It was found in Norfolk in early June 2017. DEFRA confirms that H5N8 avian flu is in a small

New German hunting channel on Amazon

There is a new hunting, shooting and fishing TV channel on Amazon in Germany. Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality hunting/shooting/angling documentaries and programmes

Australia mulls shark cull

Australia is considering a shark cull after the death of a teenage surfer. Laeticia Brouwer was on a family holiday at Kelp Beds in the

Bear scares bicyclists

Bikers and bears don’t mix. Dušan Vinžík was biking with his buddy in Slovakia when a Eurasian brown bear dashes out at them. It looks

The first Guntiques Roadshow

Forget the Antiques Roadshow – it’s the Guntiques Roadshow and it is taking place at this year’s Game Fair, at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire on

Seagulls run over ‘on purpose’

It looks like Eastbourne residents are taking the law into their own hands. A local wildlife rescue outfit reports that person or persons baited a road

HS2: bad news for fieldsports

HS2: bad news for fieldsports

A coalition of hunting, shooting, fishing and even anti-hunters are lined up against the proposed London-Birmingham rail link HS2. In our film, Martin Salter from

Trump backs guns at NRA convention

President Trump speaks to the National Rifle Association in Atlanta: watch the full speech. It’s the first time a sitting US president has spoken at

Shooting gets a touch of glamour

And finally, the Femmes Fatales don’t just shoot. We have filmed the glamorous British all-women group enjoying gameshooting. Here is one of their number, stuntwoman

Maltese poacher caught and convicted

Maltese hunters voluntarily did not hunt turtle doves this spring, with poachers facing large fines. The island’s hunters won a referendum on hunting two years

Good news for wolf hunters

Russians are taking a robust view of their wolf population. An MP in the Yakutia region, home to 12,000 wolves, is backing a plan to

Stoat traps to get new rules

An international plan to make beaver trapping more humane is to have a knock-on effect to UK stoat traps. Bureaucrats started work 20 years ago

Hunter untangles deer

A shooter has saved a deer tangled in netting. Colin Asquith from Yorkshire freed the roebuck and posted the video on Facebook, saying: “My good

Man kills eight-legged pig

Man kills eight-legged pig

An hog hunter in the USA shot a pregnant feral pig and found one of the piglet fetuses had one head, two torsos and eight

New hunting kit at IWA 2017

New hunting kit at IWA 2017

RWS 10.3×68 rifle cartridge Hunters in the mountainous Swiss canton of Graubünden have relied on the effectiveness of 10.3mm calibres for the past 150 years.

Yet another #EagleCam

Everyone’s getting in on the eaglecam act. Following our video made with a camera on the back of an eagle, GoPro itself has released one.

Hyena hunter hounded

A journalist from Jordan is under fire for vermin control. A video of Hayam Awad killing endangered striped hyena cubs has gone viral. It shows

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