Police gun licensing fail
You couldn’t make it up. Darren Easton struggled to renew his certificates because Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s online form kept kicking him out, and he was stuck
You couldn’t make it up. Darren Easton struggled to renew his certificates because Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s online form kept kicking him out, and he was stuck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRCixmwHqYWayne Martin is walking the fields after dark, shooting rabbits with his FAC airgun and night vision scope. Police grab guns from an ex Para
Here are the links: Gun ownership falls in England and Wales – Gov.uk MP calls for firearms licensing reform – YouTube New coursing museum –
youtu.be/p2TY2x6jfTI TV chef James Martin and his friend, celebrity barman or ‘mixologist’ Merlin Griffiths, came to the Game Fair in 2024 – James to run
Here are the links: Moderators to come off FACs – Parliament.uk BASC sues DEFRA over gamebird release – BASC Packham show attacks falconers – Facebook
Hot scope swap: Tom Davies is out shooting foxes and rabbits on the newly-cut fields of Devon with just one thermal scope between his .17HMR
Regular UK game fair visitor Ashley Vellacott visits the French Game Fair, to see what it’s like. For more about the show, visit GameFair.fr Browning
youtu.be/RnpCMEF5hWc TV chef James Martin came to the Game Fair in 2024 to run the restaurant. He took time out to visit Charlie at the
Blasts from the past at Browning’s birthday bash: Charlie and David head to Belgium for the 100th anniversary of the B25 shotgun. Plus explosive greyhound
Here are the links: Starmer’s trophy fail – FieldsportsChannel.tv/replicatrophies and FieldsportsChannel.tv/africatrophybankickback Packham group forces grouseshooting debate – Parliament.uk Scottish MSP wants to release lynx –
Here are the links: New report condemns ‘money-grabbing’ nature groups – c4pmc.co.uk Controlled burning pollution report – PPP-online.org Ravens to be shot on Orkney –
Nicole Moore draws on all her patience to ambush a roebuck. Charlie Jacoby talks to a Somerset gamekeeper who has to deal with a farmer
The Taylor family bought the Cricket St Thomas estate in the 1960s. They are among the original diversifiers, finding ways to make 1,000 acres in
Here are the links: Moorland groups’ message to the RSPB – YouTube Royal support for wildlife rangers – YouTube Antis attack game farms – Nation.cymru and
Terry Doe is shooting rabbits with a groundbreaking new night vision scope for airgunners, the HIKMicro Alpex 4K Lite. Tom Davies has a similar pest
Who is currently the best Sporting clay shot in England? We’re about to find out at the English Open Sporting Championship, this year held at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5dM1kqMWnIThe English Open Sporting clays championship attracts the cream of the UK’s shooting talent. We are there to capture the action – and the winner.
Here are the links: Gamekeepers support our uplands – Regional Moorland Groups Police seize MP’s guns – Linkedin.com Wild Justice challenges badger cull – Badger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iicEsRkGpBw Here are the links: Shoots take action against DEFRA – BASC Online fire risk map – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk and Natural England Assistance dog inspires charity shoot
A software company has come up with the solution to the UK’s gun licensing woes. It will clear the backlog, it will mean the government
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDNpB4lVqY Crow on crow action: Andy Crow is back, keeping corvids off a freshly drilled maize crop with his shiny new blue Blaser. We’re at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWaNTfO0f0 Here are the links: Princess Charlotte wears Jack Pyke – Instagram Have your say on new shotgun rules – Countryside Alliance Gamekeeping course closure
Wayne Martin is shooting long-distance rabbits with an FAC airgun, fitted with a high-tech scope that measures the range and shows the correct aiming mark
Professor Rory Putman and deer expert Niall Rowantree discuss Scotland’s next big deer problem: sika. The Scottish government has successfully wiped out large numbers of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZPVpZyH5sk We are off to shoot a turkey with a pregnant huntress – until she goes into labour. Can you have a sensible discussion with
Hunters are tolerant. Anti-hunters are not. How do you mediate with the intolerant? At CIC’s 71st annual congress, held in Doha, Qatar, some say look
Here are the links: Government delays recognition of hunting culture – Gov.uk Oxford Gun Company pair lost – Facebook Scottish government’s muirburn muddle – BASC
Simon Grimmer heads to central London to show how to shoot an urban fox without alarming the neighbours. The roebuck season is well underway, and
youtu.be/QHKVqqVci3I Charlie’s dad, Martin Jacoby, explains how the hunter-gatherers of 200,000 years ago slowly evolved into both sport hunters and animal rights activists. Find Martin’s
Here are the links: Hunters take legal action against The Mirror – Mirror.co.uk Police recover stolen gundogs – BBC Sea eagle snatches lamb – Facebook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLK2TEMOfcE Ben Harrower from BH Wildlife Consultancy uses a thermal drone for a unique aerial view of how the six UK deer species populations, and
Experts warn that sika deer are replacing the iconic red deer of Scotland – and it’s too late to stop them. In the fourth and
Here are the links: Deer damage the broads – EADT DEFRA bans SPA gamebird release – Gov.uk and BASC Wildfires rage on National Trust land –
Here are the links: League Against Cruel Sports boss arrested – Sky News UK uplands wildfires: Woodhead, Derbyshire – Facebook Staffordshire – ITV Northern Ireland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM34v6DQk6UCharlie Jacoby is zeroing his deerstalking rifle with help from some Royal Marines snipers, and learning a better way than the old “inch high at
We spend a day in a Suffolk pigeon hide with a shooter who has launched his own YouTube channel. Charlie Jacoby is at a BASC
Here are the links: Bird flu restrictions for SPAs – GWCT Labour plans heather-burning ban – The Guardian RSPB-managed moorland ablaze – Facebook Government land
Here are the links: Gun laws may be tightened – YouTube and BASC Cheshire Police want to be told you’re going shooting – Facebook Wild Justice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyS0xYqaVGQIt’s our 800th episode, and this week we call in the deer hound to track a Scottish roe. Charlie Jacoby gets a surprise when an
Yorkshire gamekeepers James and Jono were astonished to be confronted by armed police, complete with helicopter, while heatherburning on the Upperwood estate on the edge
Here are the links: Policing minister misleads MPs – Facebook and Judiciary.uk Deer ‘damage waterways’ – Broads-Authority.gov.uk (pdf) Hen harrier brood management trial ends – NaturalEngland.blog.gov.uk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-hs8RVLkcArmed police pounce when Yorkshire gamekeepers shoot a magpie. We investigate who is at fault. Venison is on the menu at the Grand National, courtesy
youtu.be/VHE3xLhT2Uw Nick Fox has been working on this book all his life. The hunter, zoologist and falconer has brought out Hunting Ethics: A Personal Journey.
Scottish sport in grand style: Charlie Jacoby is stalking red hinds with Browning’s new X-Bolt 2 rifle – and staying in a castle. Tom Davies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-77NW0qf8o Here are the links: Upland wildfires blamed on ‘rewetting’ – Facebook and c4pmc.co.uk Nathan Hales wins clayshooter of year – Instagram Scotland deerstalking courses surge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7buaYg-gQXU The rocket-fuelled cocker is a firm favourite on the shoot, but these lively little spaniels can apply their skills in other areas too, from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAXrluFj8E Here are the links: Sab thugs attack hunt – BehindTheMasks.co.uk Europe lays out lead ban timetable – ec.europa.eu John Rigby’s 250th birthday – YouTube
youtu.be/JKX8exmYtq4 Teresa Dent CBE led the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as chief executive for 22 years. In the spring of 2025, she retires. In
Here are the links: Scotland could halve deerstalker numbers – News.stv.tv Rubbish keeps fox numbers high – GWCT LACS tears itself apart in High Court
youtu.be/l90cTv7xEy8 SJ Hunt runs the Country Food Trust, a charity that delivers game, venison, poultry and vegetarian meals to food banks and the homeless. It