British Shooting Show announces 2021 dates
The British Shooting Show is going ahead next spring. The NEC is still unable to hold shows because of the coronavirus so, for 2021
The British Shooting Show is going ahead next spring. The NEC is still unable to hold shows because of the coronavirus so, for 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFywZRuptJ4 Ben O’Rourke Driving round in pick-up trucks shining powerful lights in bushes is not everybody’s idea of hunting. As different as it sounds, the
Push pheasants over guns with a following wind and you are always in for a spectacular day. That’s all very well – but those
Here are the links: New general licences in England – Fieldsports News Did antis hit newspaper grouseshooting poll? – Fieldsports News SNP recognises benefits of
Some shotguns are steel-proofed, others aren’t, but what happens to your barrels when you put a lot of steel shells through them? In this
Because government scientists can’t prove they cause harm, you are no longer allowed to protect your songbirds from jackdaws and rooks in England. A statement
Antis may have used internet ‘bots’ to change a newspaper grouse-shooting poll from overwhelming in favour of the sport, to appearing to show that Scotland
Driven shooting to be banned during English lockdown – Fieldsports News Hunting Office falls in with lockdown measures but angling fights for exemption –
Meet the badger, the raven, the fallow doe and the man who keeps them in his house: the headkeeper. David Whitby kicks off our
Bad news for shoots: driven game shooting should cease on Thursday 5 November and is expected to resume on Wednesday 2 December. England will return
It’s hard to imagine being more socially-distanced in a sport than one gunshot away from the next shooter, riding your horse across the English shires,
Ireland’s minister for heritage, Darragh O’Brien, has called on coursing clubs to release hares caught up for the forthcoming season. Coursing now starts on 1
The English government is to ban pheasant release on around 10% of the countryside unless under licence. The announcement by environment minister George Eustice came
The Irish government has banned game shooting and deerstalking due to ‘level 5 lockdown’ in the Republic of Ireland. The ban will come in just
What’s the going rate for saving a songbird? The RSPB successfully persuaded one local council it should get £74,193 of taxpayers’ cash per pair of
Roy goes for dramatic stalking success in the New Forest, hunting a massive sika stag, and using his Aimpoint Acro on a muntjac, too.
Here are the links: Goldsmith urges government not to criminalise trespass – Daily Telegraph Owners devastated by rising dog thefts – Fieldsports News Crackpot doomsday
It’s the shot at the sporting clay shot that’s bound to let you down – but it doesn’t have to, says Browning-sponsored world champion Sam
Thieves took a black labrador from a car parked at an Exmoor shoot. Marg was snatched from a Toyota Hilux on 17 October 2020. The
Veteran BBC nature programme host Sir David Attenborough appears to have lashed out at hunting tourists, calling them ‘psychopaths’ who want to show-off how much
Channel 4 News made a one-sided and bitter attack on moorland conservation in a news piece, fronted by its reporter Jane Dodge. Ben O’Rourke
Here are the links: Lockdown loses Welsh shoots £1 million+ – Cambrian Birds Coronavirus lockdown year ‘worst ever’ for dog thefts – BBC Boxing
The Jack Pyke shoot day in Bedfordshire is a glorious day in the English countryside, with Andy Crow, Jason and Carly Doyle, Dan Thor,
Swarovski’s new binoculars have an amazing field-of view, great quality glass at an eye-watering £2,370. Tim Pilbeam tries them out as he searches for
Here are the links: Civil servant turned activist calls for ‘taking back the countryside’ – Facebook Bid to protect post-Brexit food standards rejected –
What clay guns do Fieldsports Channel viewers use? There is one clear winner, one runner-up, and viewers vote up several of the smaller shotgun
Andy Crow faces some of the highest clays he has ever seen. He is on a sim game day in Oxfordshire with a range
Ben O’Rourke The RSPB is threatening to call for a ban on gamebird shooting if moorland managers don’t do what it wants. That’s the
How come the RSPB gets to accept government and National Lottery grants for conservation work in 2020, and then furlough half its staff. Ben
The fallow rut is starting in the south of England, the red rut in Scotland, two deerstalkers go out in each to bag
Here are the links: Channel 4 steps up anti-shooting campaign with mindless muirburn ‘scoop’ – Channel 4 MI5 Creates New Left-Wing Terrorism Unit –
Ben O’Rourke The UK’s wildlife is in danger and needs protecting, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He doesn’t say from what, but says
Here are the links: High Court allows BASC to join general licences review – Fieldsports News Capgen 1: Petition to make trespass criminal could
Top catapult shot Wayne Martin is out after pests on Andy Crow’s farm – and he has a thermal spotter to help him do
This month we go green and test the shotgun shells with the best eco credentials. Presented by David Wright, Jason Doyle and Tim
How much does steel shot affect your barrels? We speak to Jack Clutterbuck from Raytrade, UK, importer of Turkish shotgun make Yildiz, about how
If you watched Channel 4 News on the evening of Monday 21 September 2020, you may have been outraged by coverage of the apparent killing
One thing that the sport of shooting knows all about and that’s safety. Like thousands of shoots up and down the UK, the Steventon
Lots of firsts this season: driven gameshooting is covid-safe, there’s the new Beretta Silver Pigeon III to try, and Olympic medallist Steve Scott has
Ben O’Rourke In the ancient ballad Scarborough Fair, a man tells his ex-girlfriend, who lives in the North Yorkshire town, to complete some
Here are the links: Channel 4 News targets moor managers in rule-breaking report – YouTube Channel 4 complaints: Ofcom and Channel 4 – we want
Vermin controllers have shot an unusually large fox on a south London golf course. Ross Vanner sends in this picture of the 27lb animal next
Councillors at Ards North Down Borough Council are to let grey squirrels breed, even though that will lead to the extinction of local red squirrels.
BBC TV host Chris Packham is criticising the government for extending its badger culling. The celebrity describes the decision as “devastating”, insisting it “makes very
We’re all about fox shooting this week. Roy Lupton is out to test new night vision on foxes in Kent, filmed by David. Meanwhile,
Ben O’Rourke “The whole project about Hoveton Great Broad is about restoring clear water, using things like biomanipulation,” says Duncan Holmes, who has lived
Here are the links: Media targets grouse shooters – Mirror Packham promotes fieldsports magazine – Facebook ‘Experts’ call on Westminster to protect nature Saboteur
Ben O’Rourke Five years ago, Tim Newcombe was working for three farmers and a school, clearing their land of pests. Now he has no licence
Fishing events in the UK report great turnouts as the sport welcomes 100,000 new anglers (government figures). Organisers of two fishing events in September say
Enjoy spectacular crow and pigeon shooting on Exmoor on the same ground that the world’s greatest guns come to shoot pheasants. Matt Turley and Nigel