Gun licensing shambles in England
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR1vxdXE6U by Deborah Hadfield The firearms licensing system in England and Wales is in crisis. Shooters claim the fiasco has made getting a grant, renewal, or variation a postcode lottery. Nottinghamshire Police is the latest force to announce it has stopped processing applications. Livens Gunsmiths is a family business which started in 1850 in Burton […]
How to cover your bitch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZCIMH3RuE Ollie Williams is worried. Dave Templar is wearing rubber gloves. Ollie has come to Countryways Gundogs in Gloucestershire, which Dave runs, to find out how to help a dog cover a bitch. With breeding in gundogs, there is a lot at stake. You can’t just put a dog and a bitch together and let […]
Save a songbird: shoot a squirrel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2IvPddrzmI A Sussex shoot is holding a squirrel day for guns. Jack Feaver asks David along to film the day, which will do two things. Grey squirrels are significant predators of songbirds’ eggs and chicks. They also eat gamefeed which, with increasing prices for wheat, means a bag of 50 squirrels like today can make […]
Fieldsports Britain – big spring squirrel hunt
youtu.be/qoiiK3qQqKQ We’re saving woodland, saving wildlife and saving wonga in this week’s show. A squirrel shoot is a good way to do all three, as invasive grey squirrels damage trees, devour songbird eggs and cost shoots money by munching their way through pheasant feed. David joins Jack Feaver on a shoot in Sussex where the […]
Anger at Welsh government magpie rules – Fieldsports News, 6 April 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcoKDd85CmQ Here are the links: Welsh farmers fear general licences change – Fieldsports News Westminster government advises us to eat venison – Telegraph Shoot price rises may not be as bad as feared – Fieldsports News Peak District hare loss disagreement – Bio One Hunters set up charity to support Ukraine refugees – GoFundMe How […]
Shoot costs go up by half
Game feed is 32% more expensive and poults are up by a half, if they are available at all. That’s the conclusion of one shoot captain. James Marchington runs a small shoot in the South-East of England. Last year, they put down 1500 and shot 450. He says he is struggling to find a game […]
Plymouth shootings: the police gun licensing backlash
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Shooters in Dorset, Devon & Cornwall say the police are punishing them as a kneejerk reaction to a shooting in Plymouth in August 2021. Now the facts support them. The number of gun certificates revoked in the South-West is nine times higher than normal. BASC uncovered the figures following […]
