Fieldsports News review of 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZV78_WxdQ By Ben O’Rourke It was always going to be a tough year, hampered by lockdowns and animal rightsists pushing their lunatic agendas. However, there
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZV78_WxdQ By Ben O’Rourke It was always going to be a tough year, hampered by lockdowns and animal rightsists pushing their lunatic agendas. However, there
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGjSUetK1vU Here are the links: Hunt supporters out in force for Boxing Day meets – Twitter Hunt sabs vandalise church – Facebook Priti makes plans
Here are the links: Police maintain crackdown on gun owners – Fieldsports News Botham zaps RSPB over electric fences – Daily Telegraph Bird deaths lead
Updated 23 March 2022 This page shows advice by country: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland After two years of shambles, general licences across the UK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xukFvf5z0Y The Welsh government says it no longer supports shooting sports, which casts doubt on the future of huge swathes of the Welsh countryside. Shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Lj56VS4I Here are the links: Devon & Cornwall Police sends out wrong revocations – Fieldsports News Countryfile attacks game meat marketing – BBC + Daily
DEFRA secretary George Eustice has put out a joint press release with animal rights extremists. Marking a lurch to the animal rights agenda in government,
Two Scottish gamekeepers and a gamekeeper’s wife talk to Charlie about the Revive conference in Perth in November 2021. They bravely went along and listened
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Shooters in Dorset, Devon & Cornwall say the police are punishing them as a kneejerk reaction to a shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0D0RdGxRA When Storm Awen blew through in November 2021, it took trees and powerlines with it. On the front line, with firecrews and the Army,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6vlsWGEEM Here are the links: British police step up gun confiscations – Fieldsports News Irish foxhunters win parliamentary vote – Fieldsports News + TheVirtualGameFair.com Gamekeepers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9kkXFSNvY Here are the links: £23 million Scottish sporting estate under offer – Abergeldie Estate + YouTube Countryside Alliance urges Northern Irish to campaign against
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3Ma14-N5Y Here are the links: Seven years in prison for hanging a head on your wall – Mirror + Twitter RSPB shocked into action by electric
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUkrPHypjo Here are the links: Natural England wants to put mallards on the banned list – publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6534172534636544 Packham faces court and media battles – basc.org.uk/rspb-loses-hen-harrier-judicial-review-2/
Releasing pheasants is good for wildlife. That’s the headline of new research [PDF] by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – as long as shoots
Some shocking footage has emerged of illegal hare-coursing in Bedfordshire this week pic.twitter.com/MCFkQPMdAw — Johann Tasker (@johanntasker) November 12, 2021 Police in Bedforshire have their
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwfBupetgfo Here are the links: Hunters are scum – the movie – LinkedIn Northern Ireland anti hunting law published – Fieldsports News Sabs snap photos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcruzbbhQAo In early November 2021, antis had their day in front of MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. The Government in England
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEZdY5IvCg By Ben O’Rourke A handful of League Against Cruel Sports supporters waved banners and shouted slogans as members of the National Trust made their
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LTzIYKCWg Here are the links: Welsh plan to restrict magpie shooting – consultation Hunt opening meets take place as National Trust plans ban – Facebook
Ben O’Rourke In the latest fallout from the hack of the website Guntrader.uk, A new company replaces the company behind online gun listing service. In
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMgNUYbE5M The River Windrush is a tourist attraction. But so many tourists are now coming to the river and staying in pretty Bourton-on-the-Water in the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HzkK162H1k Here are the links: Medical gun checks in England now compulsory – FirearmsMedicalReports.co.uk + NGO + BASC + Daily Mail Wild Justice coughs up
Andrew – featured in the film above – had his certifivcate renewed on 12 August 2021. The police evn asked if her would like extra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdB6CBacpzc Here are the links: Antis scare birds off bay – Facebook BASC rejects Packham attack – Fieldsports News Six shots to destroy stag –
Shooting organisation BASC has hit back at BBC TV presenter Chris Packham’s attack on shooters and gamekeepers. BASC spokesman Garry Doolan says it is ‘ludicrous’
Here are the links: Sabs step up attacks on hunts – ITV Is Packham ‘burning car’ for real? – Twitter Antis declare open season on
Swarovski has moved into the thermal market. Its new TM35 is an add-on that mounts on the front of your scope, and doubles up as
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS2J_pw09NI You can’t win an election without winning rural seats. That’s Sir Keir Starmer’s credo. The man he has appointed to shadow the countryside is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oho8J69_q-k Here are the links: Sabs buzz bricks at hunters – Facebook Police ask for opinions about gun licensing – APCCS Wild Justice’s pheasant season
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWXitRd1Ww Here are the links:Labour Party ‘too urban’ admits politician – Countryside Alliance Shoots optimistic for the game season – GWCTSGA names Young Gamekeeper of the
“We need to be moving away from this convenience idea, moving away from going to a supermarket and buying asparagus all year round, etc,” says
youtu.be/TeeZc_C0Zxw Here are the links:Leaked Hunting Office webinar used in court against Master of Foxhounds – Guardian + YouTube‘Time-wasting’ council tries to stop trail hunts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLBkjrmHtg Here are the links:RSPB agrees to target predators in seabird ‘rescue’ – RSPBBig shops are donating to animal rights extremists – FacebookWildfire pollution kills
Brody Woollard, a 20-year-old junior shot, fought his way to winning the coveted British Open Sporting Championship at EJ Churchill’s Swinton Shooting Ground near Masham
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYZ6QC_cpE Here are the links:Burglars steal guns: is there a Guntrader leak link? – Fieldsports NewsNational Trust members to vote on trail-hunting ban – The
youtu.be/r0TBHg2X84g by Ben O’Rourke In 2010, stoats mysteriously turned up on Orkney, perhaps as stowaways on lorries carrying hay for farmers to feed their cattle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ce7yCnA9jE Here are the links:Guntrader leak goes graphic – Fieldsports NewsScottish government authorises deer massacre – The TimesBotham hits DEFRA plan with prawn jibe –
youtu.be/-s_FJP3iE04 The English government says it plans a gun licensing review in the wake of the August 2021 Plymouth shootings. Ben O’Rourke asks Christopher Graffius
It’s got better since 1 February 2020 when Brexit threw it into doubt. Research by the SCI’s UK chapter reveals that most European countries only
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxns1fmq4U Here are the links:Travelling with guns gets easier – Fieldsports News + film courtesy of EurotunnelScotland unveils plans to dismantle grouseshooting – Scottish Government
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8tNhHPkzA Is YouTube still on the prowl for airgun channels or does it hav an over-active algorithm? In July 2021, it deleted Replica Airguns, a
Here are the links: Plymouth shootings shock nation – BASC Do satellite trackers kill birds? FedEx stops firearms distribution worldwide – SIFA Trophy ban consultation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRtSwFKxeU Antis have been trying it on in the run up to the Glorious Twelfth 2021. They claim that nearly half the Cairngorms is made
youtu.be/27S0DGoar34 Here are the links:Solicitors swoop on Guntrader victims in bid to cash in on leak – Fieldsports News + Fieldsports News follow-upUniversity releases landmark
youtu.be/rb-EfO3D9G0 Lord Botham talks to Charlie Jacoby about grouseshooting, cricket and the meaning of life at the 2021 Game Fair. The interview takes place in
Breaking news: The Northern Ireland Assembly has rejected John Blair MLA’s private member’s bill which sought to ban hunting wild animals with dogs in Northern
youtu.be/cjNOO0VVtbg Here are the links:Grouse count down but money for merlins – GWCTDAERA cancels general licences consultation – FacebookShooting team wins single medal – Fieldsports
Photo: British Shooting GB’s Matt Coward-Holley has won bronze in the Men’s Trap at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Matt, 26, from Chelmsford, shot brilliantly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPzsool6v9E “It’s a bit weird, but personally I’d love this country to have a sustainable wolf population,” Ian Coghill tells me after spending several minutes
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