Adam Troman: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
youtu.be/NRY47rdRvgc by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Adam Troman was lying in bed on a Sunday morning when armed police arrived, unannounced, to take away his guns. He is another victim of Devon & Cornwall Police Firearms Team’s desperate attempt to keep their jobs in the wake of the August 2021 Plymouth shootings tragedy. Their […]
Chris Hart: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpQrSfjNn4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Stories are piling up of legal shooters in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, with decades of blameless firearms ownership behind them, getting a knock on the door in darkness from armed police who have come to revoke their certificates and seize their guns. Most shooters agree to surrender their […]
Nigel Doney: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Nigel Doney from Cornwall has been shooting for 40 years. He had an unexpected police visit after he sold one of his guns. Nigel says that officers took his remaining gun because he couldn’t produce his certificate. It was away being processed by the police. He is the latest […]
Andrew Alger: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEqxkWtEo by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Devon & Cornwall Constabulary started revoking shooters’ certificates in August 2021. Back then, the situation was confused. A story in the Sunday Express reported that Devon & Cornwall was leading a charge to revoke ‘thousands’ of certificates across the UK following the Plymouth shootings. However, a later story […]
Gary Ivey: Devon & Cornwall gun grab case study
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Gary Ivey was returning home from a day’s shooting in October 2021 to his home in Plymouth when one of his daughters rang him to say there were armed police officers at his door. They were there to remove his guns. He didn’t know why – and he still […]
Roe doe for the freezer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPApwnNtHkU Helen Tinner continues her mission to eat her way through the UK’s deer species. This time, she is after a roe doe for the freezer, and she is barbecuing Chinese water deer. To go stalking with Nathan Whitehead, email nathan.whitehead82@gmail.com Stalker’s Mate For Helen Tinner’s photography, go to HelenTinner.com For more about Browning’s rifles, […]
Fast-action rabbit-shooting from a quadbike
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydhLV1A87w Rabbits are munching their way through the crops on ground Paul manages in Bedfordshire. Paul Childerley has tried many ways of reducing their numbers and it’s getting desperate. Now he and Carlos Carubis ar going to mount the quadbke, armed with a semi-auto and shoot them under the lamp. Find Paul on Facebook and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bronco bunny hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpkl278kAqo Paul Childerley has tried everything on the rabbits on his ground. Last resort is to attack them with a semi-auto and a quadbike under cover of darkness. That’s the mission, and Carlos Carubia joins him on his ground in Bedfordshire for an evening bunnybashing. Meanwhile, over in Suffolk, Helen Tinner is out with Nathan […]
Next season’s shoots fear this season’s bird flu – Fieldsports News, 30 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1udSdtJTU Here are the links: Bird flu may hit partridge imports – NGO UK trophy import ban still twitching – The Guardian + AfricaHunting.com UK government fights Packham in court – BASC Poor management leads to wildfires again – Facebook + Facebook + Facebook DEFRA minister backs British Game Assurance scheme – BGA New lobbying […]
HuntingKind.com: new lobbying group for UK hunting sports
There’s a new group to help hunting. HuntingKind.com is lobbying the UK parliaments in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont to help stop bans on hunting with hounds. It is run by security consultant and former soldier Ed Swales, who has looked carefully at the hunting debates that rage in government and in the media, and […]
Flying fibs: RSPB skews tourism figures in favour of birdwatching
The RSPB is trying to ramp up the importance of white-tailed eagles to tourism. In a new report, the birdwatching organisation says that white-tailed or sea eagles create up to £5 million of tourist spend on the Scottish island of Mull every year. It claims that visitors on Mull looking for sea eagles support 110 […]
Win tickets to The Stalking Show – Fieldsports Extra #213
We have five pairs of tickets (£12 per ticket) to The Stalking Show at the Staffordshire Showground in April to give away. Plus Paul Childerley explains what to look for in a rabbiting quadbike, Ed Swales discusses his new hunting lobbying organisation HuntingKind.com, a former gunshop owner in Devon speaks out against Devon & Cornwall […]
British .410 Championships confirmed for 2022
Action from the 2021 championships. Photo: Jonathan McGee. Most of us find it hard enough shooting clays with a 12-bore, but a .410 is a whole new level of challenge. If you feel you’re up to it – or just fancy giving it a go – the date has just been confirmed for the British […]
The gunshop YouTuber who hunts Russians
youtu.be/BjlFn8H3zBg by Deborah Hadfield The hunting season in Ukraine runs from September until February. Ukrainians and overseas hunters stalk wild boar, deer and mouflon. Bear hunting is restricted. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, hunters in Ukraine have seen their season extended, with just one quarry in their sights: Russians. Taras Oliynik […]
Epic goose shooting
It is one of the most exciting goose hunts in the world. Sweden has a massive goose pest problem, and Wayne Martin from the UK, plus Hunter Brothers Paul and Gerold Reilmann from Germany are here to shoot the birds. They have the help of Aimpoint, which has fitted their semi-autos with S1 red dot […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wayne goes goose
youtu.be/nY-YbXTdBos Geese are coming in low and fast. Wayne Martin is disguised as a giant swan, lying in a field in Sweden, at dawn. He has a semi-auto mounted with an Aimpoint S1 red dot sight. It’s going to be a great day’s goose shooting. Find out how he and the Hunter Brothers get on. […]
Wales mulls magpie shooting ban – Fieldsports News, 23 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zArS1ApwfME Here are the links: Wales mulls magpie shooting ban – Fieldsports News BASC welcomes new firearms licensing database – BASC Poachers convicted of killing deer with dogs – Humberside Police Raptors die after eating wildlife killed with lead bullets – Science Daily Packham Three raise funds for libel defence – CrowdJustice Confirmed: Boris Johnson […]
The RSPB – never mind the birds, give us the money
The RSPB stands accused of ‘forgetting the birds’ – chasing money and political power instead of ‘saving’ birds as its members and donors fondly imagine. With an annual income of more than £140,000,000, should the RSPB be held accountable for its use of taxpayers’ money and donations from well-meaning bird lovers? And if it fails […]
Win a Cattyshack slingshot – Fieldsports Extra #212
There’s a Cattyshack catapult kit up for grabs in this week’s prize draw. Plus its maker, Wayne Martin is shooting geese (with a shotgun) in Sweden. A Ukrainian explains how hunters/shooters in his country are helping in the war against Russia, and David catches up with an old friend, Max Hunt, who is driving a […]
Hunters and anglers mount huge Ukraine aid effort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkGmRB1bxY by Deborah Hadfield Around the world, people are watching the relentless and ruthless assault on Ukraine. Many are not just horror-struck. They are moved to action. The Russian attack is leaving millions of people homeless. The refugees’ suffering is a call to action for shooters and hunters all over Europe. The Kimblewick Hunt in […]
Cattyshack Wayne’s giant ferrets bolt rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXiSgnUS-g Wayne Martin brings his ferrets for a day out with the South Somerset Ferreters. Where Jaf and the gang in Somerset favour small ferrets, Wayne’s animals are household pets and – says Jaf – the size of small labradors. It’s Wayne’s ferrets’ first outing on rabbits. See how they get on, from Ferretfinder collar […]
Killing deer at night – how Scotland is failing its wildlife – part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nujNMWZog You want a healthy herd of deer, in numbers that don’t cause environmental damage, and visible enough to admire in Scotland’s beautiful Highlands? Apparently, the Scottish government doesn’t want that. It wants deer slaughtered at night. Scottish deer manager Niall Rowantree, with deer scientist Dr Cathy Mayne, explains how the Scottish Government is failing […]
Fieldsports Britain – nightshooting red deer
youtu.be/pbWYkTY-YCg Shooting deer at night may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Niall Rowantree is enacting Scottish government policy through gritted teeth, and pointing out the problems the politicians and civil servants from Edinburgh and Glasgow are heaping on the Highlands. On a lighter note, Wayne Martin brings his ferrets to Somerset for a day […]
Spain’s failing hunting ban
by Deborah Hadfield A conservation group claims that the Spanish government plans to slaughter 5,000 red deer in a national park. Robbie Kroger of Blood Origins says a ban on hunting in Spain’s national parks, introduced in December 2020, has led to chaos. He says: “The Spanish government, through various means – through various advocacy […]
How mankind first came up with weapons
by Martin JacobyIncreasing aridity in East Africa 7 to 5 million years ago caused a reduction in forest cover and the spread of savannah. This loss of habitat obliged some populations of arboreal ape-like mammals to spend more time on the ground and to evolve adaptations to that way of life.They no longer had access […]
Amber Hill wins World Cup gold in Cyprus
Photo: British Shooting. GB’s Amber Hill won Skeet gold at the ISSF World Cup in Cyprus, in a tough battle fought in difficult weather conditions. She qualified in third spot with a score of 116 ex 125, and held her nerve in the strong wind to finish on top of the podium with a final […]
Win £150 Muller chokes + how we invented guns – Fieldsports Extra #211
Win £150 Muller chokes + how we invented guns – Fieldsports Extra #211 You can win £150-worth of Muller chokes from Derbyshire gunshop Premier Guns, this week. Plus Niall worries about the cost of kit for the modern deer contractor, Deborah is out with a trailhunter collecting clothes for Ukraine, and Charlie’s Dad explains the
Duchy College pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS3u8-ooxE Meet the young gamekeepers on the gamekeeping course at Duchy College in Cornwall as they put on a shoot day. They have picked one
Europe’s hunters send Ukraine relief – Fieldsports News, 9 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipoEJkVjDY Here are the links: Shooters across Europe support Ukraine – Fieldsports News Fundraising for family of dead gamekeeper in Northamptonshire – GoFundMe Vinnie backs
Driven vs stalking deer – which is more effective?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ58dYRzS6A Roy Lupton is out on a ‘deer move day’ in the South of England. He is also out on an ordinary stalking day. So,
Shooters across Europe support Ukraine
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters from across Europe are supporting refugees. The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation is mobilising its members and partners to
Fieldsports Britain – fast-moving muntjac hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9pGYoszfE Roy is after muntjac and fallow, one of them on the move and one of them stalked. He is using skill and Aimpoint sights
Zac Goldsmith’s back-door ban on hunting trophies
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters say Boris Johnson and Lord Zac Goldsmith are being sneaky about trying to introduce a ban on the import and export
Cheap Holland & Hollands – are they worth it?
Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk looks at the cheapest Holland & Hollands on the secondhand market. Are they worth buying? Are they true Holland & Hollands?
Win £190 rifleslip and cushion – Fieldsports Extra #210
You can win £190-worth of rifle slip and shooting cushion from Staffordshire gunshop Shooting Sports UK, this week. Plus Roy explains shooting muntjac with an Aimpoint, Deborah previews her piece on trophy imports and a gamekeeping student gives some good advice. Here are the links:ISOTunes Caliber RRP £169.99Blaser Shooting Pillow £14.99 Blaser rifleslip £175For 10% off
Batch testing ammo – how it works
youtu.be/5JSzxN3FpBY How do ammunition companies make sure their cartridges pass the quality control test? James Marchington joins RUAG ammo at Bisley for a day of
Make your rifle perfect – Fieldtester, episode 12
youtu.be/4JlI__l-i0g We’re all about shooting sticks for shooting deer, extraction kit for hauling the carcase home, and a beginner’s guide to mounts. David hosts, Tim
Quail hunt mind scramble
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUnPyn9SyaI It’s explosive sport. Quail burst from almost under your feet and streak off in all directions. You have to pick your birds carefully, and
Driven pheasant shooting from a wheelchair
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapuQF-oyyA JP Gaudin is an inspiration. He shoots from a wheelchair, following a motorbike accident. He is a wonderful advertisement for driven gameshooting. Today, James
Fieldsports Britain – the Seated Gun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7JtKAO-sc How do you shoot sitting down? Ask ‘The Seated Gun’. Jean-Paul Gaudin is the man behind the popular YouTube channel and he takes us
Pulled wild boar sandwich – recipe – from Bradley Smokers
youtu.be/-EPS0YD-EzU A delicious wild boar sandwich snack, fom Cai Ap Bryn. This recipe is brought to you by Bradley Smokers Bit.ly/bsmoker – and use FIELDSPORTS
Hunting trophies: more fashionable than Zac Goldsmith would like
youtu.be/CtvSfaxuAxA by Deborah Hadfield A rare auction of taxidermy items including endangered animals spotlights the issue of hunting tourism. It begs the question: are trophies
Where are we on lead shot?
by Deborah Hadfield Where are we on lead shot? A study by Cambridge University, reported in the Guardian, finds that 99.5% of 215 pheasants killed
Police seize guns from two shooting friends
youtu.be/nxttOfnvc6Y by Charlie Jacoby Among the many stories of good, ordinary shooters losing their guns to Devon & Cornwall Police’s gun grab, the story of
New victims of police gun grab – Fieldsports News, 2 March 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNoEtl21130 Here are the links: Cornish police grab more guns – Fieldsports News Ukraine war spills over into shooting sports – JaegerforBundet.dk + ISSF Farmers
Anti-gun Westminster MP puts up anti-gun bill
A Plymouth MP is reacting to the tragic Keyham shootings in August 2021 by introducing a bill to ban pump-action guns. Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Scotland’s hunting with dogs disaster
by Deborah Hadfield The League Against Cruel Sports has introduced a Hunting with Dogs bill for Scotland to replace the law it wrote in 2002.
Win £170 hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra #209
You can win £170-worth of hearing protection fom ISOTunes, this week. Plus there’s a squirrel shooter with a problem, a story about trophies you can help with, and another shooter from the South-West who has had his guns taken and certificate revoked for no reason the police will give him. Here are the linksClay Cart
Ratting mayhem with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XreG3VVNgk0 Rat and dogs everywhere – the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack are out in force to clear the rodents, and James Marchington is there
Paul’s super slingshot squirrel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefvqX0fOA8 Ever seen a man stick his hand down a hole to retrieve a squirrel? This is the film for you, as Paul Childerley tries
