Grouse shooting prospects for 2022 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nDMXdrYxo A panel of experts discuss grouse prospects for the 2022 season, plus the political threats facing grouseshooting. They are Mark Osborne from William Powell Sporting, Andrew Fallows from Carter Jonas and Adrian Blackmore from the Countryside Alliance. They talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the 2022 Game Fair […]
GunsOnPegs’ predictions for the 2022 shooting season – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 63
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24FfmiiHgi4 Chris Horne from GunsOnPegs presents the findings of the GunsOnPegs Game Shooting Census 2022/23. It’s going to be a tough year for gameshooting in the UK, with bird flu hitting bird imports, and hard on the heels of two years of lost bookings because of covid. Chris talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter […]
Bluefin tuna are back 🐟 and anglers are keeping it that way
by Deborah Hadfield Anglers are spotting huge numbers of bluefin tuna off the coast of Britain. The magnificent fish swim thousands of miles to British waters from as far away as America. They migrate vast distances in shoals as they follow the food. In recent years they’ve returned to the seas around the British Isles, […]
The Metropolitan Police’s head of firearms licensing – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 62
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCT4_dvQQ4 There are 30,000 legal gun-owners in London. Chris Downs, head of SCO 19 at the Met, and Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert, which provides medical certificates to shooters who need them for shotgun and firearm certificates, explains to Charlie what’s going on with firearms licensing in the capital. Plus Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert talks about […]
Labour’s Daniel Zeichner on countrysports – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 61
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqR-kNYJk9s Shadow food, farming and fisheries minister and Labour MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner makes the case for a Labour government running the countryside and being a force for good for countrysports. It’s an uphill task. He won’t repeal Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban but he says he and his Labour colleagues are happy to work […]
Nigel Farage on big game fishing and more – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 60
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg73ZsLmMgY Nigel Farage may be passionate about Europe but he is fundamentalist about bluefin tuna fishing. He says that, thanks to Brexit, the UK is able to develop its own bluefin sport fishing business. He explains the thrill of catching Britain’s most significant big game fish, which you can now do in a limited number […]
Geoff Garrod shoots pigeons with an umbrella 🙂☂️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3G68EzPHI Gamekeeper Geoff Garrod has a pigeon problem. It’s the hottest day of the year, but he plans to take an umbrella with him. Find out why. For the Browning Maxus 2, visit Bit.ly/maxus2 For Jack Pyke, go to JackPyke.co.uk For Eley’s cartridges, visit Bit.ly/eleyhawk More from Geoff here:
Police want shooters to report mental health issues
by Deborah Hadfield Feeling depressed? A new campaign in Scotland aims to encourage gun owners to report mental health issues and hand in their guns. The message from the Scottish Association of Country Sports (SACS) and others is that public safety is more important than gun ownership. The Scottish Firearms Licensing Practitioners Group is putting […]
Princess Royal backs Game Fair – Fieldsports News, 3 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7BhUeGatc Here are the links: Princess Royal presents awards at the Game Fair – BASC Game Fair thefts – DogLost + Howes & Wayko on Facebook Conservative leader hopeful in trophy ban media claim – Independent + Express Labour shadow environment minister supports shooting – Fieldsports News Police declare critical incident in Northern Ireland – […]
Hunting wild boar 🐗 on foot at night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJ0Lv5Vbsk Thermal is a game-changer for wild boar hunters. British boar hunter Paul Donegani is out after pigs in Portugal and tries out the latest kit from Infiray. The team are using TH50 thermal scope and TD50L night vision. Find the Infiray Tube TD50L night vision scope on Kitfinder Find the Infiray Tube TH50 thermal […]
Fieldsports Britain – thermal boar hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9AUxIr_aM Wild boar are difficult to hunt at night – until you have the latest thermal and night vision, that is. British boar hunter Paul Donegani heads for Portugal to try out a range of thermal and night vision kit from Infiray. Meanwhile, Geoff Garrod is on the pigeons in the latest in his Gamekeepers’ […]
