English Open Sporting Championship 2022
youtu.be/Z8Q0Dh7Niko There’s a surprise winner at High Lodge in Suffolk, where clayshooters gather for the first CPSA Major Sporting Championship of the year, the English
youtu.be/Z8Q0Dh7Niko There’s a surprise winner at High Lodge in Suffolk, where clayshooters gather for the first CPSA Major Sporting Championship of the year, the English
This week Charlie and Ollie Williams are in sunny South Africa doing some keeping the locust-like doves and pigeons off the sunflower seeds. Ollie has
Photo: Karen Norton / Nortonsport The GB Women’s Skeet team won gold at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl. The team of Phoebe Bodley-Scott,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ylO5M7kP4 With the government holding a consultation on lead shot, lead pellets for airguns and lead bullets, it’s time to act and make your views
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wSBbY1vPI Niall Rowantree and Dr Catghy Mayne go out after red hinds in Scotland in order to tell the story of Scottish Government wildlife policy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahQqY7GFA8 Here are the links: Pheasant and partridge imports hang in the balance – NGO + please write to your MP to say that DEFRA
Opinion by Charlie Jacoby Anti-hunting civil servants are clever. Like spetznaz sleepers, they look like normal people and do their jobs to the best of
by Charlie Jacoby You can see the relief on Gary Ivey’s face. Until eight months ago, he had been a firearm certificate holder. He was
While others go to the shops, Cai goes to the woods. He needs venison for his catering business and the woods can supply it better
Here are the links: UK shooters urged to take action over lead ban proposals – HSE consultation + Fieldsports News UK drops trophy imports ban
by Deborah Hadfield British shooting organisations may not unanimously agree on a future for lead ammunition – but they all want shooters to respond to
Browning sponsored shooter Sam Green has won the 2022 Essex Masters – and he’s over the moon. The shoot is widely regarded as ‘the big
youtu.be/twiXg9H6Xuk by Deborah Hadfield There are rumours that poult prices have bust through the £10 barrier and gone as high as £17 per poult. If
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FahTuit8Bdk Wayne Martin is wading through the feral pigeon guano to get to the birds who are causing it. He and buddy Matt are knocking
GB’s Amber Hill has won silver in Olympic Skeet at the ISSF World Cup in Lonato. Amber continued her fantastic form following her gold medal
The Government of Botswana has formally condemned British MP Sir Roger Gale for his attack on Botswana’s president. As reported in Fieldsports News, in an
Paul is on top of the world. He shoots wild boar every day of a three-day hunt in Portugal. It’s a farm shoot, and he
A senior Tory MP has lashed out at the president of Botswana. In an online video, Sir Roger Gale said Mokgweetsi Masisi committed ‘vandalism’ for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kq-fnJSsEI Video by Nicolas Berry. George Digweed has won the World English Sporting Championship in USA after a thrilling super final. George was delighted to have
GB’s Kirsty Hegarty won gold at the ISSF World Cup in Lonato, on a day where all GB’s Tokyo 2020 shotgun shooters reached semi-finals. She
Thirty-two schools travelled to compete amongst 59 teams in the Holland & Holland and School Notices Clay Pigeon Championships on Thursday 17 March 2022. It
by Ian Coghill It is odd what triggers a train of thought. The origins of this are some of the language chosen for the BBC
by Deborah Hadfield Hunters and shooters are still fighting for their lives in Ukraine. Taras Oliynyk works for local gunshop IBIS Hunting and Guns in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhs2ZsKS1-A When Geoff Garrod started gamekeeping in the 1970s, techniques were different. Today he is a wildlife guardian as much as a ‘pheasant presenter’. He
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPto2VXJyEg Here are the links: Sabs face trial over Boxing Day hunt clash – BBC Peak District gamekeepers reject blue hare study – Fieldsports News
Boris Johnson’s animal rights allies are spitting fur and feathers. The animal welfare (sentience) bill will receive royal assent and become law, but it does
A major sale of hunting trophies takes place today (20 April 2022) in Yorkshire. Thanks to a revival in hanging game heads on walls, Tennants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8viV4RyvDY by Deborah Hadfield Rising prices are forcing people into poverty in Ireland. There are now 7,000 homeless in the country, and 2,500 of them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjejZg1hVNo Paul Childerley has an unusual hunting challenge. Softly and silently, he has to rid an urban chicken run of foxes. He chooses to do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvMjOOExMk Here are the links: Highland buyout folds losing millions – Twitter + Scottish Mail on Sunday Sea eagle cull call for killing lambs –
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR1vxdXE6U by Deborah Hadfield The firearms licensing system in England and Wales is in crisis. Shooters claim the fiasco has made getting a grant, renewal,
youtu.be/qoiiK3qQqKQ We’re saving woodland, saving wildlife and saving wonga in this week’s show. A squirrel shoot is a good way to do all three, as
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcoKDd85CmQ Here are the links: Welsh farmers fear general licences change – Fieldsports News Westminster government advises us to eat venison – Telegraph Shoot price
Game feed is 32% more expensive and poults are up by a half, if they are available at all. That’s the conclusion of one shoot
West Country junior Olympic Skeet shooter Denzil Grose is one of five young athletes selected to represent GB in the Junior Men’s Olympic Skeet at
After missing a year due to the Covid pandemic, the Ian Hodge charity shoot returns on 23 April 2022. The shoot is in aid of
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Former Metropolitan police detective Ian Jensen says police have limited legal rights to take a gun. He says: “The
A serving police officer wrote this for Fieldsports News on condition of anonymity I, too, have been duped into coercively handing over my legally and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xkgjLhVB4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Many shooters have lost their guns to police in the South-West of England since the shooting in Plymouth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEctbsFPXbA by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Paul Cox is a respected member of his community, a deerstalker and captain of the local shoot. Devon
youtu.be/NRY47rdRvgc by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Adam Troman was lying in bed on a Sunday morning when armed police arrived, unannounced, to take away
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpQrSfjNn4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Stories are piling up of legal shooters in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, with decades of blameless firearms ownership
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Nigel Doney from Cornwall has been shooting for 40 years. He had an unexpected police visit after he sold
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEqxkWtEo by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Devon & Cornwall Constabulary started revoking shooters’ certificates in August 2021. Back then, the situation was confused. A
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Gary Ivey was returning home from a day’s shooting in October 2021 to his home in Plymouth when one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpkl278kAqo Paul Childerley has tried everything on the rabbits on his ground. Last resort is to attack them with a semi-auto and a quadbike under
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1udSdtJTU Here are the links: Bird flu may hit partridge imports – NGO UK trophy import ban still twitching – The Guardian + AfricaHunting.com UK
There’s a new group to help hunting. HuntingKind.com is lobbying the UK parliaments in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont to help stop bans on hunting
The RSPB is trying to ramp up the importance of white-tailed eagles to tourism. In a new report, the birdwatching organisation says that white-tailed or
Action from the 2021 championships. Photo: Jonathan McGee. Most of us find it hard enough shooting clays with a 12-bore, but a .410 is a