History of the Highland pony, the stalking ‘garron’
Ruaridh Ormiston’s family have been working with Highland ponies for more than 150 years. As he prepares to showcase this hardy pony’s historical significance at
Ruaridh Ormiston’s family have been working with Highland ponies for more than 150 years. As he prepares to showcase this hardy pony’s historical significance at
Maasai learn airgun accuracy and, in return, teach BASC staff how to use a rungu throwing stick – useful for knocking over both wounded game
Here are the links: Which party manifesto is best for hunting and shooting? FieldsportsChannel.tv Anglers launch their own manifesto Angling Trust FACE demands recognition for
It was a shooting accident on a farm in the Forest of Dean late at night. The police and the ambulance service were magnificent. Gloucestershire
Here are the links: Election manifestos for the countryside Manifesto.Conservatives.com and LibDems.org.uk/manifesto Labour to ban snares and trail hunting Labour.org.uk Surrey poachers caught on camera
How do you decoy pigeons when you don’t have any decoys? Geoff Garrod sets out empty-handed to build a bag from scratch. Plus a new
Lifelong fieldsports enthusiast Chris Sharp was the victim of an unprovoked assault – and police took HIS guns away. Shockingly, 10 months later Chris was
When Kent shooter Chris Sharp got beaten up, the police removed HIS certificate. It’s been a 15-month fight to get it back. Plus Helen Tinner
Here are the links: Shooting is worth £3.3 billion to UK economy ValueOfShooting.co.uk Contact your election candidates BASC Pine martens get £1.2 million lottery grant
Election ’24 with Neil Parish FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 91 youtu.be/aPAySfyRhV4 Former MP Neil Parish looks at the likely outcomes from the 2024 UK general election,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrU_rYmz-c Here are the links: ‘Biggest election ever’ for fieldsports BASC Countryside Alliance demands recognition Countryside Alliance Curlews and lapwings thrive on grouse moors Peak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFa5GBHw0AWith the first silage cut in Devon, Tom Davies is hitting the foxes hard, using a clever trick with his IR lamp. We’re off to
Here are the links: Lynx ‘will eat cats and dogs’ CairngormsCroftersFarmers.org and ScotlandBigPicture.com Forestry Commission calls for massive deer cull BBC Clarkson calls for venison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-GrszDt71g When rats get too close for comfort, Terry Doe explains how to put your pellet where it counts. Paul Childerley is showing how you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAhWApw63QStriking miners fed their families by hunting with lurchers – can Labour seriously be considering banning their centuries-old culture and tradition? Plus we hear some
Here are the links: Crime commissioners in favour of shooting BASC Scottish lynx plan latest ScotlandBigPicture.com Women’s deerstalking event FieldsportsChannel.tv/ladiesdeerstalkinguk Police attend National Shooting Show
Lewis Dedman returned home after an argument with his wife to find a police car in his driveway. Kent police had come for his guns.
Corvids are making a mess of George Lawrence’s dairy farm in Essex. Unlucky for them, he’s a bit of a hot shot with his Browning
Here are the links: West Mercia Police backtrack on online certificate applications BASC Cumbria Police tackle backlog BASC Underwater film reveals pollution horror Twitter and
There is a mountain to climb at the 2024 English Open Sporting Championships – and that’s not just the slog up the steep valley at
Here are the links: Scottish political chaos ‘could be good’ for countryside Countryside Alliance Refugee foxhounds head to France Hunting Kind Scottish land management pleas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7pl1MxTKDoRoy Lupton is after a roe for the freezer. He’s sporting a new beard, and he can’t shave for fear of putting off the birds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOKjkcYa42g The Essex Masters is seen as ‘the big one’ that kicks off the UK’s Sporting competition circuit each year, attracting well over 1,000 shooters
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8xpdr4 While it’s OK to plant trees in some places, it seems it’s not OK when you are planning to shoot in your wood. That’s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mSmqv18nQWayne Martin is a shotgunner through and through – but now he wants to take up rifle shooting. He heads to Tim Pilbeam’s range to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYyIGQzXWpY Here are the links: Brewdog’s lost forest Instagram Natural England block tree planting Fieldsports News Deer return to Gloucestershire park Twitter Facebook censors British
It was going to be an ordinary day for Phil Waymouth, picking up his son from school, spending time with him. Within 24 hours, he
Here are the links: CA blasts RSPB over hen harriers Countryside-Alliance.org Hunting’s ‘prisoners of conscience’? BBC.co.uk PCC elections plea BASC.org.uk + BASC.org.uk/pcc-contact-page/ Wild Justice wins
The police went into his home when they knew he was out and opened his gun safes like tin cans. In the week we launch
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8wv8sk Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk talks to Charlie Jacoby about Mitchell’s three-day Country Sporting Sale on 17-19 April 2024 in Cockermouth, Cumbria. They discuss the
Here are the links: Partners to rule on their loved-ones’ guns BBC.co.uk Green minister orders ‘slaughter of innocents’ DailyMail.co.uk + Facebook Hen harrier numbers on the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3RmdQujt3Q We’re trying out the new Browning 525 Composite at Ollie Williams’ first simulated game day on his family estate in Cornwall. Robert Bucknell makes
Jaf Jefferson builds an industrial-sized feeder so he can make a dent in the squirrel population. Gunmaker Steve Horton has a new lead alternative –
Here are the links: Shooting organisations committed to lead-free future AimToSustain.org.uk Gun trade honours top gunmakers Gunmakers.org.uk Hampshire dead hares arrest Facebook Trail hunting cop
The Worshipful Company of Gunmakers has issued new certificates honouring the work of the UK’s top gunmakers. In the first ceremony of its kind, held
youtu.be/6BH94ggFTM4 Dan Thor has huge flocks of pigeons around his home in Hertfordshire, but decoying them is going to be tricky with so much food
youtu.be/QsipGADjYFw Here are the links: Scotland licenses grouse moors ScottishLandAndEstates.co.uk Can grouse shooting survive? Countryside-Alliance.org and Gov.Scot Scottish deer management consultation Bit.ly/deer2024 African countries slam trophy
Fieldsports Britain – get orf my land www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWjuWB0Wb8 Cai Ap Bryn deals with a dogwalker while out deerstalking. Nicole Moore gets into wildfowling with Holbeach
Saj Rahman and Andy Ford Southern Water’s pumping station at Fullerton in Hampshire, on the banks of the River Test, dumps millions of gallons of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LCP1DVIcE It’s the job that many of us put off, sometimes for weeks, a few for months, a handful for several seasons. John Spary and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUB8gYHYVy8 Here are the links: Dead hares horror – Daily Mail Bans head back to parliaments – Fieldsports News Botswana economy faces ‘crisis’ – New
Grousemoor licensing and a partial muirban ban have passed their latest stage in the Scottish Parliament. The Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill looks like it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvmotJcJFGQ Here are the links: Nations join forces against trophy hunt bill Fieldsports News Packham backs ‘terrorist’ sab groups HuntSabs.org.uk and TheGuardian.com Keepers and farmers hit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=je88MkoNmBQIt's a thermal special this week. First up, Terry Doe has a thermal air rifle combo so accurate he can shoot mice as well as
Protests Botswana against the UK government British authority and influence in southern African countries is ‘as bad as in the Zulu Wars’ says one commentator.
Angry farmers and gamekeepers have hit back against their landlords with a damning report. Called ‘United Utilities at Haweswater’, the document examines failures by landowners
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8tyy4sA new documentary claims Scotland’s rural communities are ‘at war’ with each other – with conservation at the centre ground and threats of violence against
Here are the links: New film highlights acid attack threat to keepers’ kids YouTube and ShepherdsOfWildlife.org/keeper Plus watch our interview with Tom Opre here Irish deer
youtu.be/a98eb5csitU Night shooting deer: it’s a thing. Whether you like it or not, DEFRA is giving out licences to night-shoot deer and some deer managers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e9S3N6GYEA Here are the links: British Shooting Show 2024 Fieldsportschannel.tv/british-shooting-show-2024 Licensing backlog crisis BASC Moderators to go off-ticket BASC; Respond to the consultation here Home
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