The 2023 Game Fair: home of the fieldsports fightback
youtu.be/4tpPephC0JM The Game Fair 2023 at Ragley Hall was a celebration of the best of British field sports and country life. More than 100,000 people
youtu.be/4tpPephC0JM The Game Fair 2023 at Ragley Hall was a celebration of the best of British field sports and country life. More than 100,000 people
www.youtube.com/watch?v=64w9UfUTqDI Here are the links: Water company’s shooting ban backlash – e-lobby Police hand back guns to pigeon shooters DEFRA approves commercial bluefin tuna fishery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEPtKuTD0V8 Greg Smith MP is horrified at the way DEFRA has handled crises such as rescinding GL43. He is at the 2023 Game Fair and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4pSqf-iCw Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP is our unofficial minister for shooting. At the 2023 Game Fair, he tells Charlie Jacoby how DEFRA is getting it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fhm7CCAh3Y Daniel Zeichner MP is shadow environment minister. He came to the Game Fair in 2021, 2022 and in 2023 he took to the stage
youtu.be/axiXD66RTtg José Souto plans to cut up a deer in front of an audience of 100s. It’s up to Paul Childerley to find him that
youtu.be/gKhLYAhNaS8 by Deborah Hadfield Kill the foxes and the curlews will thrive. That’s the conclusion of gamekeepers at an Irish Grouse Conservatiom Trust project in
youtu.be/XxpJsLw9Hv8 Here are the links: Armed police stop legal pigeon shoot and confiscate guns Water company’s grouse shooting ban – Countryside Alliance MP appeals for
youtu.be/TuplGqH6AH8 Two hunts – two different approaches: Oxfordshire squirrel shooters Des and Keith have worked out how to do their pest control in luxury, with
youtu.be/-Dg1qjseL9I Shooting is more than a pastime for these shooters in Northern Ireland. It can be a lifeline when bad health is causing them issues.
Here are the links: Princess Royal visits BASC HQ – BASC press release Firearms certificate revocations rise – Yahoo News George Digweed championship win –
Who is the best sporting clay shooter in the world? Maybe the legendary George Digweed? Or Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds? Perhaps one of the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6s4vA3W0KI Here are the links: Government launches fund for shoots (and antis) – DEFRA RSPB has cash to splash on predator control – BBC Banks’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKut5N4DaAU Paul Childerley wants to go quiet and simple this week. He is shooting pigeons over crops in Bedfordshire close enough to a footpath to
youtu.be/viFTqHSRcJs by Deborah Hadfield Sportfishing for bluefin tuna is back. Skippers say landing the English CHART 2023, catch-and-release program, was a monster fight. Delays and
youtu.be/lVO7F7MULUo by Charlie Jacoby Big African animals from a dozen species browsing next to each other on green savannah. It’s a scene that the British
youtu.be/uyM_t-srydg BASC says a new firearms consultation on firearms licensing is the most important in 35 years. The Minister for Crime and Policing Chris Philp
There should be birds ready for the shooting season. But this shoot on Salisbury Plain is in limbo because of the chaos surrounding general licences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wcf32tsaVM What to look for in a foxhound: Charlie travels to the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association 2023 hound show at Stradbally Hall, where the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS34mhRtwdw Roy has a rat problem – and he suffers from rattiness, too. He is out with David to control the rodents that are scavenging
youtu.be/3Z2u7FtXM8c Here are the links: BASC says firearms consultation most important in 35 years – Fieldsports News or click here for firearms licensing consultation Bluefin
youtu.be/32mgYnh0XsI Curlews are under threat. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust says in some areas of the UK their population is declining by 17% a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVLHjnaVyD8 Here are the links: Firearms licensing changes and fee rises looming MP predicts UK hunting trophy import ban may fail Scottish firefighters fears over
How relevant is Fieldsports Channel to your marketing? We have joined testing of a powerful social media analytics tool from Tubular Labs. To test the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMyIpGocjbg Matt Turley has a new kind of crow decoy. It’s a rotary on a pole that makes it look like crows are circling over
by Deborah Hadfield Getting help doesn’t have to mean risking your firearms licence. The Gamekeepers Welfare Trust offers a helpline which is manned by nurses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-iZ1kH7ePs Here are the links: Gamebird licence welfare warning – Fieldsports News Wales gamebird release plan will cost jobs – Fieldsports News Calls for urgent
youtu.be/T2zSD_1-tQY by Deborah Hadfield Gamekeeper Steven Musk is on the frontline of a battle which could cost him his livelihood. His shoot in Swaffham in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHM-7ViHujM It’s the perfect addition to any costa holiday: Paul Childerley heads into the mountains behind Spain’s Mediterranean coast with his trusty S20 to look
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J90YFYP3qwQ Here are the links: Police firearms licensing unit to split – BBC Man charged over goshawk deaths – East Anglian Daily Times Eighth fire
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lr0d5 Fieldsports Nation member Rod Entwistle shot a perruque buck in May 2023 on his ground in Berwickshire in the the Scottish Borders. He shot
youtu.be/3eM6UCOjqU4 Essential tool or harmful to a dog’s welfare? Electric shock collars divide opinion. The Kennel Club says it expects the Westminster government to ban
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUrtlGXmAvE Nick Doherty and his wife Laura Saunsbury live in France so they can carry on shooting. Nick shows Charlie around his local range and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-zNXf2WKQ Geoff Garrod has been shooting pigeons for 50 years. During a day’s decoying, he describes shooting as it was then and how it is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAqZ5wl2TDQHere are the links: BASC to take DEFRA to court over gamebirds – BASC + find the SAC near you Gun licensing to get national
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRb4PesBZeA At the beginning of 2023, Devon & Cornwall firearms licensing looked like it was getting its act together. Now local shooters say the fiasco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYDWbAMoF8 It’s time for an unusual gun. Charlie tries out a combination rifle – half 12-bore and half .243 rifle on all kinds of birds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXBL6di_Ig Here are the links: Shoots face uncertainty over changes to gamebird licensing – DEFRA + BASC Hunter wins copyright case – Fieldsports News Shooter
The Packham Three case is over, and Chris Packham has won against two of them. The judge dismissed the case against the third. A PDF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0AzRXZ3pSk&list=PL3KxM9c3T7K8f_vg8VspPHBWjxUbYHL3e&index=1 Deerstalker Al Gabriel has made it his mission to introduce as many women to deer stalking as he can. So far he thinks he’s
youtu.be/wR8lowOr-UU An invasion of Wales is underway. Large companies, many of them based in London, are buying up land to use carbon credits. It has
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd54rSaRmbk The CPSA English Open English Sporting at Eriswell Lodge was as good as shooters hoped and expected. James Marchington catches the glorious sunshine and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TP9GJeej08 Here are the links: BASC challenges ‘unlawful’ changes to gamebird release licence – BASC Packham gets RSPCA top job – Daily Mirror Anglers say
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYBCDAp6qk It’s the ultimate test of thermal and day-night riflescopes. We’ve brought together the experts, and we’ve got £38,500 worth of the latest high-tech kit
At a time when governments spend billions on reducing the amount of carbon that goes into the atmosphere, two organisations are still pumping it out.
youtu.be/VbbQbdiUFh4 With a new permission to shoot, Elliot Roberts is out after ferals, rooks and hooded crows. It’s a farmyard in the north of Scotland
youtu.be/t2KpGl58b_A Here are the links: Black panthers exist in UK countryside – Panthera Britannia documentary on AmazonDevon and Cornwall Police promise detailed review – ITV
A new permission is a blank canvas. Elliot Roberts has a farmyard in the north of Scotland that he hasn’t tried before. He gives it
youtu.be/NbW3UMIHwGU With children dying every week from an epidemic of human-wildlife conflict, the government of India knows it has to tackle the problem. It has
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jgoyrSzxs With tiger and leopard attacks on country people out of control, a wildlife conference in India has introduced the topic of hunting tigers. More