“There was no argument about it. It was just done.” So says the pheasant hatchery owner who has just lost 60,000 birds. With bird flu creeping across the UK and game farms wiped out by government culls, what is the future for the gameshooting season this year. We talk to Graham Holden at Hy-Fly Game Hatcheries in Lancashire, as well as shoot operator Paul Childerley about prospects for the season. Plus we go to a bespoke knifemaker to see how they make Damascus blades and give them mammoth ivory handles. We are at the Emberleaf knife factory. And along with the News stump and Hunting YouTube, Paul is back to top off the show with a demonstration of ‘speed gralloching’. Can you do it faster? Just don’t lose any fingers as a result of this week’s #FieldsportsBritain
Here are the links:
▶ Bird Flu
Hy-Fly Game Hatcheries is back in business – visit www.hy-fly.co.uk
Book gameshooting with www.childerleysporting.co.uk
▶ Emberleaf Knives
For more from Emberleaf, go to emberleaf.com
▶ Speed Gralloch
For more films with Paul Childerley, look at www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/paul-childerley/
▶ News is sponsored by Percussion www.percussion-europe.com. Here are the links:
Angry anti www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vJh_j_7u0
Theunis Botha www.youtube.com/user/tbbiggamehounds
Malta turtle doves www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170521/local/hunters-release-400-turtledoves-in-buskett.648623
Danish kindergarten hunting trip www.facebook.com/TV2OJ/videos/1499778596733115/
News is sponsored by Percussion www.percussion-europe.com
For a full news round-up, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/fieldsportsnews
Here are the films in Hunting YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3KxM9c3T7K_5z3jszzAcvX-iCMx5Dg4_
