www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXB3CE_ozI It’s Jaf Jefferson’s day in the pigeon hide. Best-known as a ferreter, Jaf loves the summer sport of decoying, and David joins him to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJv6KTS4Bxk James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers.
youtu.be/6_6O-iaAOX4 Gamekeeper Steven Musk is one of the lucky ones. DEFRA granted him a licence to release birds near a Special Protection Zone. It’s one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxLxIg6HIs When is ‘everything goes according to plan’ ever entertaining? Charlie Bull leads a team of guns up to 2,300ft in the Cumbrian fells to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gkAndIQFY Here are the links: Glorious 12th beats off protests and weather – Independent + NGO + Countryside Alliance BASC submits de-banking evidence to FCA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30FXnWxGn8 It’s Shooting Times editor Patrick Galbraith versus sporting agent Mark Osborne in this one-hour debate at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. The
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ucLfxb4-w Paul is on a roebuck cull day in Aberdeenshire. It’s the roe deer rut and the animals have just one thing on their minds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQmUi_rvUA Here are the links: Jeremy on the Hunt for de-bankers – Sky Gamekeeper slams Scottish government over deer cull policy – SGA Fieldsports Channel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa99-n1tJ30 The anger in the countryside is palpable. It came to a head at the 2023 Game Fair, when Tory MPs lined up to criticise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_spEywQss Vinnie Jones says it’s time to stand up for fieldsports. He was at the 2023 Game Fair at Ragley Hall, where the hunting and
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWb3lSWyfeM It’s a big game week in #FieldsportsBritain. Charlie takes his combination rifle out with John Dodd in Caithness & Sutherland looking for roebucks, and
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
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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
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