Fieldsports Britain – shooting the world’s biggest grouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50j800QOEoM The world’s biggest grouse, capercaillie, were abundant in Scotland within living memory. Since then, a combination of hopeless management by the RSPB and a change in climate has wiped them out. Niall Rowantree goes to Swedish Lapland where they are doing well – so well that the locals hunt and eat them. He finds […]
HM Queen’s sporting gun salute – Fieldsports News, 21 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUCgsLwyT4 Here are the links: HM Queen’s funeral gun salute – Facebook + Twitter Police face criminal investigation over Plymouth shooting – Independent Office for Police Conduct Police whistleblower sacked over gun claims – Employment Tribunals [PDF] Lord Goldsmith sacked as environment minister – Guardian Packham firebombing ‘hit job’ claims – Mirror Countryside Alliance Awards open […]
Useful crow decoy – Fieldsports Extra #238
We look at the Prime Minister’s contribution to corvid shooting, and you can still win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms. Plus Niall Rowantree talks about capercaillie and Cai Ap Bryn and Mat Coombe discuss this year’s Cornish spearfishing festival.This week’s prizes and other links:For Rifleman Firearms, go to Bit.ly/riflemanfirearms Baileys Shooting […]
Rural Devolution Bill
Rural Devolution Bill
Background The highest levels of government started to discuss rural devolution in the 2010s. In 2017, Liz Truss backed English counties’ call for ‘radical’ rural devolution. A report by Oxford Economics called Understanding County Economies, commissioned by the County Councils Network, said that providing counties with full devolution of public spending and tax raising powers […]
Walked-up grouse over German wirehaired pointers and a bracco Italiano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfX3Ka8_5Y Malin Hewins has brought together members of the German Wirehaired Pointer Club, plus friends (including a bracco Italiano), to pick up on a walked-up grouse day designed specifically for them. It’s on moorland above Edale in Derbyshire, beautifully organised by the Edale Estate. We see hundreds of grouse, shoot a few and all the […]
Fieldsports Britain – muntjac surprise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLVU-L4Kk8 A muntjac takes Helen Tinner by surprise. She is out stalking deer on the Le Strange Shoot in North Norfolk with her new Browning X-bolt. Meanwhile, Charlie joins a group of unusual dog owners at Edale in the Peak District for a walked-up grouse day, especially designed for German wirehaired pointers and even a […]
Countryside mourns Queen – Fieldsports News, 14 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmpo0iJa20 Here are the links: Balmoral gamekeepers carry Queen’s coffin – Fieldsports News Anglers consider legal action over pollution – Glos Live Anti-hunting Goldsmith family hangs on in government – DEFRA English farmers allowed to kill beavers – DEFRA Shooter Amber Hill wins gold in Cyprus – British Shooting Eat Game Awards calling for entries […]
Air rifle range opens
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNXD32mgqeU Rifleman Firearms in Somerset, UK, has opened a sparkly new airgun range. Here is how they do it. The building, which opened in February 2019, has five firing lanes and includes 500 metres of rail for the targets to run on. WARNING: This item includes a sweet little girl saying how much she likes […]
Win a £600 scope – Fieldsports Extra #237
Win a £560 Athlon scope, kindly donated by Rifleman Firearms, ideal for varminting and not bad for deer. Plus we have a laughing deerstalker in Helen Tinner, a couple of Northern Irish politicians, and Fieldsports Nation member Lloyd Birch talks walked-up grouse.This week’s prizes and other links:HM The Queen tributeBuy the Odepro KL62 flashlight on
Charity clay shoot raises £135,000 for GWCT
Bushbeaters’ Ball 2022 The annual Charity Clay Shoot at Warter Priory Estate in East Yorkshire has raised an incredible £135,000 for the Game and Wildlife
What will Liz Truss do for the countryside? – Fieldsports News, 7 September 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCHHk5hNgI Here are the links: What the new PM will do for the countryside – Twitter Government consultation on firearms – Home Office NSRA opposes
Ollie Williams hunts Mandela’s favourite: blesbok
If it’s good enough for Nelson Mandela, it’s good enough for Ollie Williams. He is stalking blesbok in Africa with the trainee professional hunters from
Caroline Bedell on the value of shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 67
youtu.be/X93ipWbnihU UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance,
Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236
Win an Odepro scope lamp priced at £107, ideal for foxing and rabbiting after dark. Plus we have flag trouble at the British Open clay championship, a clever idea for holding up trophy heads and Deborah itroduces this week’s news feature: the disaster that is UK firearms licensing.This week’s prizes and other links:Bug-a-Salt film or
Borth Zoo: from lions and lynx to dogs and ducks
by Ben O’Rourke This is the story of the British relationship with pets and livestock. In June 2020, Fieldsports News visited Borth Wild Animal Kingdom
Fallow buck stalking with the new Pulsar Merger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBM_8ZfvONo Tom Davies has his work cut out. There are fallow in plague proportions on his ground. In the three weeks from the start of
Fieldsports Britain – buck meat hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqTOjmHock Are there more deer than ever before? Deerstalker Tom Davies says yes, as he heads out to shoot fallow prickets and sorrels for his
Plan to eradicate deer in England – Fieldsports News, 31 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHNih-sctk Here are the links: BASC attacks England’s deer strategy recommendations – BASC Countryside Alliance Packham sabs complaint – Daily Mail Government crackdown on sewage
Win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun – Fieldsports Extra #235
Trouble with flies? You can win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun and knock them out of the sky in this week’s show. Plus we have Niall Rowantree in the Arctic, a complaining zoo owner and a Tom Davies gets his hands on the latest thermal from Pulsar so he can go fallow buck stalking.This week’s prizes and
African predator hunting platform
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl8kd6b0pE How do they shoot pesky predators in Africa? The distances can be bigger and the terrain wilder than the south of England. The principal
Fieldsports Britain – modern foxshooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9h0C8nPWr4 A lot of foxes fall over in this week’s episode, which asks the question: what’s happened to foxshooting in recent years? Gamekeeper’s Diary legend
Hen harrier success – Fieldsports News, 24 August 2022
Here are the links: Hen harrier brood scheme success – YouTube + Moorland Association Scottish government looks at snaring ban – Fieldsports News Anti media
Win foxhunting history – Fieldsports Extra #234
You can win a print commemorating the 2004 action by the #WestminsterEight, bursting in to the chamber of the House of Commons during the passage of Tony Blair’s bill to ban hunting with hounds. Plus we look at deer RTAs, foxshooting vehicles and how much lead to give a running fox.This week’s prizes and other
The 2022 Ken Hill wildfire and what happens next
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09b6SGDOR4 The flames and smoke from one lowland wildfire in Norfolk in July 2022 could be seen from miles away. The fire damaged 120 acres
The magic of roebuck stalking
It’s the end of the roebuck rut – and it’s a bumper outing. Roy uses the last of the bucks’ mating drive to call them
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s treble
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAAFU2eWhc With his woods overrun with muntjac and roe, Roy has a go at a deerstalking treble. It’s the last knockings of the roebuck rut
RSPB’s new attack on gameshooting – Fieldsports News, 17 August 2022
youtu.be/zichjyqUi-M Here are the links: RSPB ignores evidence on gamebird releasing – BASC Secrets of merlins revealed in NGO film – YouTube Study links broken
Why Roy Lupton will stalk deer until the day he dies – Fieldsports Extra #233
We have Roy on why he goes deerstalking, a wildfowling club that’s dealing with a wildfire on its marsh, and how spearfishing is taking off in Cornwall. Plus you can still win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra.This week’s prizes and other links:BestFoxCall Gen2 IcoTec HellionGull on TikTokWhale on
The Westminster Eight – 18 years on – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 66
youtu.be/jeHHVbF7C94 In September 2004, eight campaigners burst in to the chamber of the House of Commons to protest against Tony Blair’s ban on hunting with
What’s ‘Hunting Kind’? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 65
youtu.be/0jq9OhE9AUM The antis brought in bills to restrict hunting in England, Wales and Scotland – but none of them work. So they want to bring
Helen’s Way raises £6,000 for gamekeepers
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8d0aoy Gamekeepers Welfare Trust chief executive Helen Benson has finished her journey from the north of Scotland to the south coast and back up to
Grouse-shooting 2022 season preview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDtyq0sX14 Antis target the grouse season. They know that disrupting a grouseshooting day will bring them publicity. Their biggest target is opening day, the glorious
Countryfile under fire – Fieldsports News, 10 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJbbr1bywGo Here are the links: BBC fails to represent rural issues – Daily Mail Packham vs Gareth Wyn Jones Tweet spat – Twitter + C4PMC
Roe, rainbows and Paul’s tale of a tick 🪲 on his tackle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAqhfTQCpM Paul’s out stalking with Mark Bellamy in Wiltshire. The pair of them start by showing they are not flyfishers. However, they prove they certainly
Fieldsports Britain – roebuck rut hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyEIeMs1ys The roebuck rut is at its height. Summer evening sport in the dry, dusty days of July and August in the south of England
Win a BestFoxCall fox-caller priced at £195 – Fieldsports Extra #232
You can win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this and next week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Paul Childerley fishing, a shooting clothing ambassador talking about that, a man who found a ferret on a beach, the extraordinary sales of 20-calibre rifles, and Deborah is on a grousemoor.This week’s prizes and other
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Win Vario hearing protection priced at £150 – Fieldsports Extra #231
You can win Vario hearing protection priced at £150 from Ian Hodge Fieldsports in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the Princess Royal, quite a lot of Game Fair, a Portuguese sporting agent in a T-shirt, and Deborah is in Cornwall.This week’s prizes and other links:Spypoint trailcams at Baileys: Bit.ly/spypointforce20Ian Hodge Fieldsports Dominic Wightman fundraising
What to look for in a hunting rangefinder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdxysB83yY What should you look for when buying a rangefinder? Robbie Shedden from gunshop Cluny Country has sold thousands of them. He explains how people
Love Island ❤️🏝️ Ollie hunts kudu in Africa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ukUeLDjG4 It’s one of the best ways to spend a year after you leave school. The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School learn
