
2022 CPSA Major Championship dates announced
The 2022 clay season is taking shape, as the CPSA announces dates and venues for its major championships. The British Open Sporting Championship will be
The 2022 clay season is taking shape, as the CPSA announces dates and venues for its major championships. The British Open Sporting Championship will be
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
John Macnab, the 1925 novel by John Buchan, has inspired an entire subculture of imitators, including the taking of a salmon, grouse (or brace) and
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=tmak7fCaAGg Wildlife artist Katie Hargreaves was vegan. Then she took up deerstalking. Now she is an ‘ethical eater’ – only eating the meat she shoots
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=ubvq_EsekRw Imagine a hunt where it’s only about the hunting. You find your deer, you crawl into position, and then instead of fiddling with maths
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
youtu.be/cpcf1KTKV1Q Going pheasant shooting on a fabulous shoot in North Wales – sounds lovely but what’s it like when it all goes wrong? We look
Tristan Breijer takes the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre back in July 2021. He is one of the team behind the MyFieldsports
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnY9YrzRqE We bring together two vegans and two hunters to debate the issues. They meet on stage at the 2021 Game Fair at Ragley Hall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_bny8uXCU New husband-and-dad Jason Doyle is delighted to get out of the house – and even more delighted to go fallow stalking. He and David
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/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q-8aMXu14s David finds himself in a flailing maelstrom of terriers, vermin and men, women and children with sticks as he joins the Kent & Sussex
After years of telling them that wild meat is good for, it’s traceable and comes with low food miles, the mainstream is picking up on
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
(Photo: CPSA) There’s a new registered version of Sporting clays which promises to add an extra challenge over the familiar English Sporting. The CPSA, the
The man who gave us the grouse on the Famous Grouse bottle, Rodger McPhail is one of the top sporting artists in the UK. Charlie
It’s the Marvel Guardians of the DC Beano comic galaxy shooters’ day at the Upperwood Estate in the Peak District. Everyone in the line-up of
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=DODVprQAt8I There’s something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world – and especially the
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=o5NhNkWWWW4 Paul is in Swedish Lapland after his first moose. It’s the middle of the rut so if the impressive moose hounds can’t find the
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
Matt Coward-Holley, Nathan Hales, Amber Hill and Ben Llewellin head the list of athletes named by British Shooting for its World Class Programme 2021/22. “The
CPSA members have until Friday 26 November to nominate individuals and clubs for the association’s annual Awards. Once nominations are in, members will then be
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=y4nZGjspFeg Bill Harriman – whom you may recognise as an arms expert from BBC TV’s Antiques Roadshow – has written the definitive book on the
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=7JNdbT0XtOY The fallow buck with the rope tangled around its head is gnawing away at Roy Lupton – at least, the idea of it is.
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
youtu.be/Ri24ThwPbDo The Rizzini Venus Sporting is a gun designed specifically for the female shooter. All too often ladies start shooting with a borrowed gun that
youtu.be/VkPLBvGxBgY The BR460 EL Sporter is a serious claybusting gun, but also exquisitely made, with woodwork and engraving that lifts it above the run-of-the-mill competition
youtu.be/13AJ1D54uYw Ian Coghill has written the book that the RSPB, the National Trust, Natural England and Wild Justice ought to read. But they won’t. He
youtu.be/46MWAqsyOZc Roy Lupton has fallow trouble. The rut is underway but he keeps bumping into problem animals, and it his duty to deal with those.
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’
youtu.be/uMGxpOal-IYHow much damage can you do to a rifle before it blows up? We take a .243, .270 and a .308, and we do terrible
youtu.be/NLhWeh0Rk7A In 2004, Tony Blair restricted hunting with hounds because, he said, it was good for the welfare of the fox. Since then, some estimates
Here are the links: Sabs step up attacks on hunts – ITV Is Packham ‘burning car’ for real? – Twitter Antis declare open season on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgLnmfln5w We have wild sport for you this week. Paul is on the high ground of Swedish Lapland, walking up ptarmigan over setters. It is
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