Keepers in the front line against hare poaching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TdqOuKcTA Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and farm equipment, it is up to gamekeepers to defend the land. Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on coursing was meant to have stopped this. Jim meets gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and Ed […]
Bangs and banter with Dan Thor on beaters’ day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPSn1UTJAo It’s beaters’ day on a pheasant shoot in Hertfordshire, and there are still plenty of birds to reward everyone who worked so hard on the shoot all season. Dan Thor joins his friends there, including a youngster who gets a great partridge. Dan is shooting a Browning 525 Exquisite, which comes with multi chokes. […]
Thermal rabbiting with a rimfire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDi1lTEvHk Paul Childerley is after more than one for the pot. He is protecting crops and preparing the rabbits he shoots for the game dealer. He also offers a masterclass in presentation and skinning rabbits. For more about the HIKMicro range of thermal, go to EliteOptical.co.uk Find Paul on Facebook and Instagram More from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul puts the heat on rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90BoQTMiis Paul Childerley has new thermal to try out, and a rabbit problem to try it out on. He goes after the Bedfordshire bunnies with HIKMicro and a Tikka .22 rimfire, and shows how to present and skin them. Meanwhile, Dan Thor is on his local beaters’ day in Hertfordshire. He and the other guns […]
Telehandler hero – Fieldsports News, episode 637
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwbpXAnxRY Here are the links: Telehandler farmer cleared of damaging Corsa – BBC Brewer’s tree planting scheme attacked over cull – Telegraph National Crime Agency shuts down illegal gunmaker – BBC Police arrest six men accused of hare poaching in Wiltshire – Wiltshire Police Legal challenge over rules for shooting wild birds – Guardian Petition […]
Government in ‘civil war’ over rivers
youtu.be/Hn9zRl04u_U Countryside campaigners are angry that a farmer who cleared a river bank to prevent erosion and flooding to local homes has been jailed. With some DEFRA agencies including Natural England and the Environment Agency condemning tree work on river banks and others such as the Rural Payments Agency footing the bill for it, John […]
