Man kills eight-legged pig
An hog hunter in the USA shot a pregnant feral pig and found one of the piglet fetuses had one head, two torsos and eight legs. His Facebook video of the piglet has gone viral, racking up 3 million views and almost 2,000 shares. Jesse Garcia of Garrison, Texas, says he has received offers of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Death threats for the man who smacks gundogs
It’s the scandal that’s rocking the gundog world. If you are training a working dog, how far should you go when it misbehaves? Some gundog trainers say rewards and treats are all a gundog needs. Others say ‘corrective’ training or smacking is the only method that works. The argument has led to an online campaign […]
New hunting kit at IWA 2017
RWS 10.3×68 rifle cartridge Hunters in the mountainous Swiss canton of Graubünden have relied on the effectiveness of 10.3mm calibres for the past 150 years. Rimfire Peabodys developed during America’s civil war as well as Vetterli and Martini stalking carbines developed after 1867 were the predecessors of the 10.3x60R – and remain to this day […]
Should you punish your dog? #Crufts controversy
Do you smack, correct or punish a gundog when you are training it? Do you train only with rewards and treats? Is a working dog like a gundog a different proposition to a pet dog? Instructors do ‘not use or promote any adversive training methods or techniques’ The Kennel Club Opinion is divided – and […]
Yet another #EagleCam
Everyone’s getting in on the eaglecam act. Following our video made with a camera on the back of an eagle, GoPro itself has released one. The Burkitshi people of Mongolia are a dwindling community of eagle hunters. They fly them on foxes. GoPro strapped one of its camera to an eagle and let it loose […]
Hyena hunter hounded
A journalist from Jordan is under fire for vermin control. A video of Hayam Awad killing endangered striped hyena cubs has gone viral. It shows her crawling out of a hyena den in central Jordan dragging two cubs with her. Sitting in front of the den, she says that she is in an area called […]
Fox bounty resumes in Australian state
The Fox and Wild Dog Bounty is underway in Victoria, Australia. Collections commenced on 6 March 2017. The collection period for the fox and wild dog bounty will run from March until the end of October, consistent with previous years. Eligible participants can submit entire fox scalps for a AUS$10 reward and entire wild dog […]
Tanzania jails ivory’s ‘The Devil’
Elephant poacher Boniface Matthew Maliango had evaded arrest many times. Now, Tanzania’s top elephant poacher, made notorious in the film The Ivory Game and nicknamed ‘The Devil’, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Fox caught with the hens
A fox caught in a hen coop in Russia stays perfectly still. The owner gently encourages the hens to leave while he eyeballs the animal. Find out if they all make it! (OK – they do)
Shortlived mouse
A Norwegian man who caught a mouse thought he was doing it a favour by letting it go. The mouse makes it only part of the way across the road in the town of Hov.
Gator on the golf course
Now that’s a fish – and that’s an angler. Florida resident Norma Respess caught this video of an alligator walking across a golf course with its catch.
Scottish gamekeepers and mountaineers unite over tree plan
Gamekeepers and mountaineers in Scotland are uniting to oppose plans that would see thousands of acres of trees planted. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) and the Mountaineering Scotland groups usually have differing views but have a found a common goal in trying to stop the Draft Climate Change Plan. The plan has been introduced by […]
How to cape deer
Paul Childerley shows how to skin a deer in preparation for a full head mount by a taxidermist. For Sako rifles, go to GMK.co.uk For Shooterking clothing, go to Shooterking.co.uk Email Paul at paul@childerleysporting.co.uk Click here for more of our films with Paul This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 379. To watch […]
Fieldsports Britain – Montería Action
Olé. Roy Lupton is off to Portugal to try a montería – one of the speciality driven hunts. He is putting Leica optics to the test, plus he visits Leica’s factory to see how this classy glass is manufactured. Meanwhile, Zeiss aficionado Paul Childerley has a Chinese water deer on the ground and he wants […]
What went on at BASC last year?
2016 was an annus horribilis for BASC’s headquarters operation at Marford Mill in Wrexham – but there has been no satisfactory explanation of what went on. Now a picture is emerging thanks to an employment tribunal and a formal report, which reads like the treatment for a BBC drama. In a single day in May […]
Hunting deer – at the factory and in the field
Roy Lupton is at the Leica factory, looking at how a top optics company manufactures its goods. Plus he is in the field trying out those optics, on a driven hunt in Portugal. For more about Leica’s range of scopes and binos, search #leicahunting For more of our films with Roy, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/roy-lupton/ This […]
Fireman face legal fight over squirrel hunt
A New York City lawyer is out to get a local fire brigade over squirrel hunting. The Holley Fire Department in Louisiana faces a court case because it sponsors the Squirrel Slam, a local squirrel hunting. The lawsuit, brought by Lauren Sheive of Williamson, claims the mass killing of the squirrels can lead to an […]
50-cal vs bulletproof glass
What happens when you fire a 50-cal rifle at bulletproof glass? YouTuber Edwin Sarkissian finds out in this film, which has gone viral. For those who can’t wait for the end… the bullet goes straight through.
Fieldsports Africa – African Night Vision Hunt
We are out with Matt Dubber hunting porcupine, hares and small antelope. Using night vision, Matt and Rich Leonard are in the Eastern Cape on a hunt to provide meat for the braai. plus we talk to one of the world’s top big game hunters, Dr Kevin Robertson of Southern African Wildlife College. And Beth […]
Fallen off out hunting? You could win champagne!
There are just a few days left to enter the Countryside Alliance and Champagne Pol Roger’s photo competition. For the third consecutive year, the national Hunt Tumblers’ Club competition invites photos of falls taken during the past hunting season. It is open to entries until 1st March 2017. The competition aims to celebrate the daring […]
Scottish shooters’ bad double whammy
Scottish shooters are reeling – but not to music. They have been slapped with two pieces of bad news in the last week. In one, the Scottish Government has brought forward plans to tax shoots. In the other, the Scottish government plans to licence shooters. Shooters in the UK already face the most draconian gun […]
Feral cat cull leads to death threats
An image of a dead feral cat in a trap has led to death threats for one pest controller. Sam Wood from Wisconsin, USA, says that since putting the photo on social media, he has become the target of cyberbullying and death threats. The stock photo he posted, which showed a cat caught in a […]
Orkney stoat project: £500,000 spent, two caught
The Orkney stoat eradication project has reported its results: two stoats caught. It reveals the Scottish Natural Heritage programme to be among the most dismal wastes of taxpayers’ money the Scottish government has yet attempted on wildlife. Some 52 volunteers were trained and issued with Magnum bodygrip traps with wooden or metal mesh tunnels. No […]
Wildlife Trusts (reluctantly) call for grey squirrels to be shot
As our video shows, if you want red squirrels in the UK, you have to get rid of greys. The grey squirrel, imported from the US in the 19th century, carries the parapox virus which is deadly for reds. As a result, it has devastated the native British red squirrel. Now the wildlife trusts across […]
Is this the biggest wasps’ nest in London?
Pest controller Bruce Lindsay Smith has removed one of the biggest wasp nests of his career. It was one of two he had to deal with. this one was on top of a water tank in the attic of a house. According to Guinness World Records, the largest wasp nest ever recorded was found on […]
Game Fair Theatre – Under New Management
How to deal with writhing pythons? what’s the best call to bring in a lusty buck? Should we repeal the Wildlife & Countryside Act? Find out at the Game Fair Theatre, which is raising its game in 2017. An exciting line-up of hunting/shooting/fishing/countryside personalities will pound the stage at the Game Fair Theatre at Hatfield […]
Dog run over in botched burglary
A dog has died after dog thieves ran over her. On Monday evening (20 February 2017) at 11.30pm, a dog-thief or thieves broke into the yard of a home in Alton, Hampshire. Owner Jess Edwards reports they were driving a black Subaru, possibly with the exhaust missing. The vehicle ran over this nine-year-old dog, Becky. […]
Bolt-Action Rifles: the Last 100 Years
Charlie Jacoby is off with his son and two cousins – all of them descendants of World War I sniper Major Hesketh-Prichard – to find out about the rifles used in the trenches. WMS Firearms gives them a ‘historic firearms’ day that tracks the story of the bolt-action rifle from before the First World War […]
Fieldsports Britain – Man Shot in Pigeon Hide Accident
Alfie Oldring started his day looking forward to a day’s pigeon shooting. He ended it in hospital, fighting for his life. His pigeon-shooting buddy accidentally shot him in the stomach. But Alfie’s problems were only just starting. His injuries were barely covered by his shooting association insurance. Fieldsports Channel reporter Alex Howell looks at this […]
Shooting accidents – when insurers don’t pay out
When Alfie Oldring was shot in the stomach in an accident in a pigeon hide, he thought his shooting association insurance would pay out for temporary injury or loss of earnings. He was wrong. Here is what five shooting organisations cover: BASC: Permanent injury, not temporary injury The insurance package that comes with BASC membership […]
Fieldsports Britain News
The News Stump from Fieldsports Britain, episode 377, with links: Indian villagers capture man-eater Poachers kill white lion Squirrel cyber attacks A Saudi prince flies falcons by jumbo Buck runs and sheds its antlers News is sponsored by Baleno
Sabs go ‘militia’ at Kent hunt
Hunt sabs in balaclavas frightened women and children at the Ashford Valley Tickham Hunt in Kent. Police were called to Hole Park, Rolvenden, after masked hunt saboteurs approached two female riders, one an 11-year-old girl riding her pony, and a 22-year-old. The saboteurs, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, shouted at the riders in what […]
How to stop firearms licensing fees hike
The Home Office is proposing a massive and unjustified hike in firearms licensing fees for approved shooting clubs, museums and those dealing in prohibited weapons in a consultation which ends on 9 March. BASC is calling on all shooters in England, Wales and Scotland to email to firearmsconsultations@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk objecting to the proposals before 9 March. […]
Farmers call for Packham probe
BBC TV presenter Chris Packham’s impartiality is in question again after he called for a weedkiller ban. The NFU wants clarification from the BBC about his role after Packham called for a ban on glyphosate. The Springwatch host used Twitter to promote a link that has a petition to ban the weedkiller and critics the […]
Coursers’ car stuck in the mud
Suspected illegal hare coursers have abandoned an estate car in a Yorkshire field. North Yorkshire Police tweeted: We’ve recovered this in Gateforth, Selby, after being abandoned. Who can guess what they were up to? ?? The driver caused significant damage to a farmer’s land by churning up the field before leaving the scene in the […]
Thieves gouge out dog microchip
Thieves in a travellers’ camp in Kent shaved a dog and gouged out it’s microchip to disguise it from its owner’s. Tina and Graham Denning from Kent feared they’d never see their cocker spaniel Isla again. Police found her at a travellers’ camp barely recognisable. The Dennings only knew it was Isla from her ‘funny […]
New tenner upsets vegans
Hard cash just got harder for vegans. The new £5 notes contain a kind of animal fat called tallow. Some vegans refuse to handle them. Now the Government announces that the new £10 notes, released in September 2017, will be the same. Rachael Phoenix (pictured), the owner of a vegan restaurant that refuses to accept […]
Poachers shoot exotics in Dodge City
Bowhunting poachers broke into an exotic animals ranch in Kansas and shot several animals, including some kept as pets. The owner of of Dodge City Exotic Hunt and Safari near Dodge City, Ryan Engelking, is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the poachers. He estimates the killings will cost him […]
Gun rights activists march in California
Gun rights advocates have marched on the California state capital building in Sacramento. They say that the state’s gun control measures infringe their rights as American citizens. California is making it illegal to own certain types of rifles. In July 2016, state lawmakers passed legislation outlawing rifles equipped with “bullet buttons” that allow for fast […]
Wales launches review into firearms on public land
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has launched a review into the land it manages. The organisation says it wants to looks into animal welfare and safety concerns. The review will also look into how others use NRW managed land. The report is backed by animal rights group Animal Aid, which says pheasant shoots pose a risk to […]
Dog attack leaves three deer dead
A walker was “horrified” when she saw dogs running off of a lead attacking a herd of deer, leaving three of them dead. Debbie Ticehurst witnessed the incident near Newick, Sussex. She saw a whippet type dog and a terrier with an owner who could not control them. She told The Argus newspaper: “One deer […]
Behold: the Trumpigator
An orange alligator has taken social media by storm. The Trumpigator’s orange skin makes it look like the US President.
Catching hares goes viral
Fieldsports Channel’s Eaglecam film is breaking records for views. Footage taken from a camera mounted on an eagle gives the viewer the feeling they are riding on its back as it stoops on and catches mountain hares in Scotland. Roy Lupton came up with the camera mount and put it on his eagle. It is […]
#Eaglecam 1
Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers – and to try out the #eaglecam he has designed. It goes on the back of the eagle allowing the viewer literally to ride on the back of an eagle when it makes a kill. The mountain hare […]
Fieldsports Britain – Riding on the Back of an Eagle
Eagles catch hares: Roy takes his golden eagles out after mountain hares in Scotland. With #eaglecam, a camera mounted on the back of one of his eagles, it is some of the most incredible hunting footage you will have seen. Meanwhile, Charlie is in Wales trying to shoot the Welsh pigeon. There is News Stump […]
Pigeon shoot (just the one)
Ryan Dawson of Cymru Hunters and Nick Richards of British Shooting Services ask Charlie Jacoby up for a day’s pigeon shooting in South Wales. Unfortunately, that’s what it turns out to be…. one pigeon! To go shooting with Nick Richards, visit www.BritishShootingServices.com Cymru Hunters is at www.youtube.com/channel/UCoJKiSijOrB2139No97sITA Nick’s buys his cartridges from Merlin Field & […]
#Eaglecam 1 – Hunting Blue Hares in Scotland
Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers – and to try out the #eaglecam he has designed. It goes on the back of the eagle allowing the viewer literally to ride on the back of an eagle when it makes a kill. The mountain hare […]
Birds of prey flying in style
This photo was posted on the forum website Reddit.com. Caption reads: “My captain friend sent me this. Saudi price bought ticket for his 80 hawks”. Among airlines that carry falcons, UAE-based Etihad says in a statement: “We accept the carriage of falcons in the main aircraft cabin provided that all the necessary documents have been […]
Man-eating tiger caught
Indian villagers have captured a man-eating tiger after it mauled six people. The tiger became a maneater after escaping from the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh. After it killed a night watchman, locals formed a search party. They flattened sugarcane crops to make way for forest rangers riding elephants, who shot it with a […]
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