Serious clay guns: Browning 725 Pro Sport vs Beretta 694
If you’re serious about clay shooting competition, you need a proper clay gun – it really will make a difference to your scores, says West
If you’re serious about clay shooting competition, you need a proper clay gun – it really will make a difference to your scores, says West
Here are the links: Welsh Minister attacks shooting Hunters threaten to sue MPs Packham 3 in court Farmers’ fury at lynx plans Beware of anti-fieldsports
Richard Faulds set the pace at the 2023 Essex Masters, the big Sporting clay shoot that kicks off the season. He shot a scorching 193
Andrew Venables of WMS Firearms Training has seen too many shooters using sticks badly. He explains where people go wrong, and how you should position
youtu.be/HpkdO7pVX00 The world watched the coronation of the new foxhunting, polo-playing, gameshooting and deerstalking king. The coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla at Westminster
And they’re off! The clay shooting season gets under way with a bang. We bring you thrills and spills from the Essex Masters, where the
youtu.be/GfAMGtM1vBE When animal lovers turn to hate and violence they call it ‘caring’. When Welsh farmer Gareth Wyn Jones posted a film on social media,
Here are the links: Wildfires – www.obantimes.co.uk/2023/04/21/kinloch-moidart-wildfire-under-control/ Botham knocks RSPB for six – www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/23/rspb-contractors-kill-foxes-crows-hide-from-public/ Farmer jailed for river damage – www.fieldsportschannel.tv/river-lugg-battle/ Antis post fake reviews
youtu.be/nbhALjhkYF0 Wild boar are rampaging across northern Scotland, ripping up turf, destroying nests and eggs, even killing lambs. We’re out at night trying to outwit
Charlie is flyfishing for catfish in the Northern Cape of South Africa, where every angler’s new favourite predator can grow up to 50lbs. They’re not
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90gFMlcuX5s Nicole Moore shows how to eat wild and well while looking glamorous in a pigeon hide (apart from those pesky false eyelashes – they
youtu.be/aRMt2xqTmwQ by Deborah Hadfield Elephants are big, beautiful but bad neighbours. In southern Africa, local people know how dangerous they can be. Award-winning author Sue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzElH-49dC0 Here are the links: Song protests against new Highland clearances – YouTube YouTube shuts down hunting channel – subscribe to him on YouTube @VerminControlScotland
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8k8d63 Stuart speaks out about YouTube shutting down his channel YouTube has deleted a popular shooting channel. It took down Vermin & Pest Control Scotland,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sCgeKzVjI8 Will thermal change deerstalking? Deer manager Niall Rowantree gives his views, and why he chooses an add-on instead of a dedicated scope. That’s not
by Deborah Hadfield The John Muir Trust has culled more than £100,000 worth of deer on a single highland estate. That’s the conclusion of a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38BcyABAdGM Here are the links: Welsh farmer spotlights raven lamb attack – Facebook Hunts tidy up countryside – Facebook Sauer 100 barrel cracks in 6.5×55
youtu.be/lX62yA-ZKss Broken, badly funded and not fit for purpose: that’s the verdict on the firearms licensing system in England and Wales. But BASC and politicians
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBBtFuQjYOo Essex farmer Robert Bucknell revolutionises his rat shooting by fitting a thermal sight on to his shotgun in this week’s show. We also delve
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96ajqqFO8s Here are the links: Antis plan to sabotage the Grand National – Mail on Sunday Police discriminate over hunting links – petition Scottish falconers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzoylJjCJ6c Top game chef Cai Ap Bryn takes his rifle out after fallow. He is showing off a fast, simple recipe for venison burgers –
youtu.be/VY7bVP888wE by Deborah Hadfield Fieldsports groups say it’s the thin end of a wedge that could extend to the rest of the UK. Wales plans
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIt_zuzLso Here are the links: World’s largest roebuck shot in England – Harkila Fieldsports groups sound alarm on Scottish grouse moor bill – BASC Charity
Trophy photos action Has a newspaper or other organisation used photographs, without your permission, of you hunting? You might not be able to get them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9gRjkxpq0 Here are the links: BBC blames pheasants for adder decline – Countryside Alliance BASC attacks RSPB over muirburn – BASC Scottish islanders reject deer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh-BGuhOkw Fancy shooting abroad on some of the best ground in the world? And for free? You could win a spot at the AImpoint Academy
youtu.be/8IvCP4g6EHc Paul and David are bowled over – literally – by the Arctic landscape they are hunting this week. Paul is after capercaillie and he
youtu.be/EQdeeMsyHEg by Deborah Hadfield Bill Wiggin MP is leading the opposition to a private members’ bill by MP Henry Smith to ban the import of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xav62AFmZHsWhen sabs hit your shoot, what do you do? That’s what happened when we were out filming a shoot day. Former Metropolitan Police detective Ian
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfLRVu8yvXU Two sabs armed with whips and chemical sprays stopped a shoot where we were filming. They had been looking for a hunt to disrupt,
youtu.be/Q8zEiKRmRQA by Deborah Hadfield Game meat, venison and duck are helping a Cornish restaurant fly high. The magazine Condé Nast Traveller voted the Ugly Butterfly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8tgImcwd0 Here are the links: Shooters on target for medals – British Shooting African countries warn that British trophy ban will backfire – The Times
youtu.be/Wg_zdppx9eg by Deborah Hadfield Would you like a lion in your living room? You won’t be breaking any laws if you do – not even
youtu.be/5TvPZ2vx3Ss Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5FGITTqFA Paul faces an unusual fox problem. The animals are stealing koi carp from a pond and the owner wants Paul to shoot them. He
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd913-UdG7M Here are the links: Ancient hunt to disband – BBC Bluefin tuna CHART programme to continue – Angling Trust Appeal for shooters to lobby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdhe6U48Do We’re hunting and fishing in northern and southern Europe this week. Roy Lupton has a multi-day montería in Portugal to enjoy, with wild boar
youtu.be/FC7htDJhXDw by Deborah Hadfield Crofters in the Scottish Highlands are asking: ‘Is it a cull too far?’ as the John Muir Trust uses out-of-season licences
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtC-lES94pk Here are the links: Fieldsports groups lobby ministers to protect gun laws – Countryside Alliance Poachers banned from owning dogs – FarmingUK MPs debate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters came face to face with firearms licensing officers at the British Shooting Show. Officers from three police forces, Devon & Cornwall,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPt5csr7YxU Here are the links: Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Guardian Police investigate after sab hit by horse – BBC Court rules
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuurozMuw8 It was all looking so good. The pigeons are pouring into the wood, the guns are spread out, but Dan Thor is about to
youtu.be/UCAqHqCM5yw The government’s new policy of granting gun certificates on production of medical records is penalising people who have lived abroad and don’t have medical
Did you think the 2023 British Shooting Show is only all about shiny, new kit? There’s plenty there for the gun collector, too. Charlie Jacoby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5uZchuvGc Here are the links: Avon Vale Hunt incident – BHSA RSPB cash for dog training – Welsh Government BASC fight lead airgun pellet ban
youtu.be/hjpTuxWaD7A Saudi Arabia is mad about falcon racing – so much so they’ve built a huge stadium to host it in the middle of the
youtu.be/yX-IFKZ6_zI On the hunt in Africa: Ed Sargeant is a Brit and new to hunting in Africa. Guided by trainee professional hunters from the Northern
youtu.be/Ez3lp4FzZd4 Paul Childerley needs to cull Chinese water deer in a field so big he can’t stalk close enough. Perhaps Zeiss ambassador and PRS shooter
youtu.be/AKZr3ixPnvY Managing predators is a daily battle for farmers, gamekeepers and landowners. Now the government signals it will recognise this effort and pay shooters for
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