Digital Marketing and the Future of Optics youtu.be/8S_Y9t9fQEc In this month’s industry insights interview for Fieldsports Channel for Business, Meredyth Grant catches up with Mark
Gerber Gear partners with Fieldsports Channel to secure a slice of the UK hunting audience Gerber, an industry-leading manufacturer of knives and multi-tools, is the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOR6efUAxHoWhen The Times newspaper decided to print its latest angry article about people going hunting, two of the people it planned to feature contacted Fieldsports Channel for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wceDemHlV5k Here are the links:Hunting tourism – UK consultationAnnie Lennox takes aim at Scottish rifle range – Change.org + Scottish parliament petitionAnti-hunting protest turns out
Wayne Martin attempts to set a new world catapult shooting distance record by hitting a clay with a steel ball at over 100m. Wayne’s kit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMe0fKZyov8 The Widdington Shoot on the edge of Salisbury Plain has built a new rifle range to go alongside its existing clay layout. Jeremy Horton,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DXGzjZLmc0 Here are the links: ‘Animal cruelty as a leisure activity’ in Wales Times newspaper plans trophy hunting splash Antis try to ‘cancel’ Phil Spencer
by Ben O’Rourke BBC TV’s Chris Packham wanted a debate that would lead to a ban on grouseshooting. Instead, he got a resounding thumbs-up for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCju1VxT5I TV presenter Piers Morgan ‘buggered up’ a chance to explain elephant management. While at the Good Morning Britain programme, he interviewed South African elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGVrFBsIuQ by Ben O’Rourke “What people don’t understand about the elephant situation is this,” says Ron Thomson, sharing an experience from his decades of wildlife
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd06nxjxkeU Following a tough shooting season in 2020/21, gamekeepers, shoot owners, operators and sporting agents are taking bookings for 2021/22. Some of them are being
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5mD1a3k6w Here are the links:MPs to debate grouseshooting – Countryside AllianceWild Justice announces money-wasting legal move – Countryside AlliancePetition aims to send Packham packing –
“It’s a big fight, we are into this for the next two, three, four, five years. I can see that we’ll have to litigate because
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFofXxdqzg by Ben O’Rourke In May 2021, I was buying some takeaway Thai food at a restaurant in York. When it arrived, I went over
This season’s Schools Pistol Championships has come to a climax with a national final – and three top three seniors winners are girls. It was
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7H6sdawWk by Ben O’Rourke “If I were going to choose somewhere to radio track pine martens, I wouldn’t have chosen this,” says Craig Shuttleworth, who’s
Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban didn’t help the fox. That’s the conclusion of a new book, which shows up the failure of Blair’s 2004 Hunting Act.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSj1N61ZvU Here are the links:Scotland drags feet on sea eagles – Scottish Farmer + Press & JournalAnimal rights extremists block McDonald’s distribution centres – Instgram
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGZbocMX8 Here are the links:Scottish unborn red calf massacre – Facebook + Twitter + Evening StandardDEFRA plans minimum numbers of animals – DEFRAVine & Craven
youtu.be/tFmTp6WmSHU Charlie Jacoby talks to Francis Ray Hoff, author of Fur, Feathers & Fish. Click here to buy the book on Amazon:
The Game Fair has bought the World Gunmakers’ Evening from its founder, ITAP Group, which runs GunsOnPegs.com. The Game Fair paid an undisclosed sum for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDT0MhTP_I The government in England wants to bring in laws making it illegal to cause distress to various animals in a range of different circumstances.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqVD02TVfo Here are the links:Boris plans animal rights laws – Fieldsports News English Heritage attacks local wildlife management – TwitterRSPB gets its talons into Invercauld Estate
Mark Heath from Staffordshire is a fieldsports photographer-turned-Zuckerberg. Back in the 1990s he worked as a photographer specialising in hunting and shooting sports for titles
John Bright from Highlander Outdoors talks about his adventures building a Webley gun factory in India.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2u7yZkaHXI “There’s a pair of grey partridges that like this particular feeder. Whether we shall see them or whether they’ll keep a low profile…” shrugs
Here are the links: Sea eagle dies after collision with wind turbine – Facebook National Trust’s ban on muirburn ‘worsened Marsden Moor blaze’ – The
Africa is no stranger to Western bullying, with green policies that deny development or pressure from animal rights groups to stop big game hunting. Namibia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyxInmL0Iz0 “When I first came I was eight. My son’s now ten and I’ve been looking forward to bringing him in on the pier fishing,”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_KgjZAlDY Here are the links:National Trust shuns keepers who put out moor fire – Examiner Live and National TrustNational Trust destroys ancient grassland – BBC Have
South Africa’s wildlife management associations have joined forces so they have the clout to fight threats to their conservation work from foreign governments. They’re calling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqbJkLQzyU It’s a sunny spring day on the North York Moors and there’s a light breeze. We’ve managed to find a spot where we’re treated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zb6eZylw8 Here are the links:RSPB spams newspapers with hen harrier propaganda – News & Star and RSPB press releaseDozens of dogs seized from traveller site
Top British trap shooter Abbey Ling is making one final push to win a place competing for Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dQzLcgwY8 An example of British engineering at its best, Foley Specialist Vehicles in Essex takes the Land Rover 130 Defender and turns it into a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgkRH1Dj48 Here are the links:Delayed grouse shooting debate set for this month – GWCTSick greens bash Prince Philip – YouTubeBASC backs Yorkshire Post awards –
The Tokyo Olympics will definitely go ahead on 23 July confirms John Coates, chair of the IOC Coordination Commission. He was speaking as the countdown
Prince Philip’s death at 99, announced today by Buckingham Palace, brings to a close the life of a great countryman. A keen gameshot throughout his
Let’s remind the government who their friends are Are you a hunter, shooter or fisher who enjoys your sport in the UK? Please can you
Here are the links: Greens con Scots on grouse – Facebook Moss grows better on burnt moors – Science Direct + GWCT + Daily Mirror
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W4w0XYKCE Eduardo Gonçalves brought out three books in 2020 supporting his own Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and we have found someone who has read
www.youtube.com/watch?v=98bqSvhCykk Here are the links:Wildfires spread like, well, wildfires – C4PMC + Facebook + Facebook Northern Ireland mulls rabbit dog ban – Countryside Alliance Sheep worrying to
youtu.be/9hUHxq6ZqA0 Charlie Jacoby talks to James Field, who wrote the book, Of Hunters and Men: Some notes about hunting, Africa, and the future. Buy it
Stalking deer for sport in Scotland could be very different in a couple of years time: you may need a licence, you may be able
England’s government is considering a lead ban. That’s despite a voluntary phase-out by 2025 promised by shooting and countryside organisations last year. According to The
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__0IrxvxUs by Ben O’Rourke “Change is possible for every single one of us,” says a quote on the Facebook page of Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWObH-BTXo Here are the links: Scottish government review plans Deer Act reforms – Fieldsports News English government plans lead cartridge ban – Fieldsports News Packham
BBC celebrity Chris Packham is accusing gamekeepers of “ruthlessly killing” hares on estates across the UK. The TV presenter made the comment in an article
If you are thinking of a hunting app, the two market leaders are Huntstand and MyFieldsports (called MyHunt outside the UK). Huntstand from the USA
youtu.be/0OCXaIjt0B8 It’s taken four months, but the police have at last agreed that they will bring no charges against the deerstalkers in the Stag-in-Watergate scandal.
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