C19 hits shooting sports – Fieldsports News, 25 March 2020
Here are the links: Coronavirus hits shooting – read our story Packham’s pandemic prediction backfires – Facebook Shooterking offers 500 protective suits for free
Here are the links: Coronavirus hits shooting – read our story Packham’s pandemic prediction backfires – Facebook Shooterking offers 500 protective suits for free
Need meat? Shooters can provide. With butchers and supermarkets across the country seeing panic buying, deerstalkers and pigeonshooters are offering free meat to the needy.
As coronavirus sweeps the UK, what’s happening to the gun trade? We’ve all seen the scenes in the US of people queueing up outside gun
Here are the links: Legal battle over game-bird release – BASC website West of England Game Fair scrapped – Facebook Pandemic ends hunting early –
Here are the links: Parliament to ponder driven grouse ban – again – Wild Justice press release BASC says no game bird deal with
When newspapers reported the death of a peregrine, they copied and pasted the press release from animal rights activists. It had been shot, they said.
Cartridge maker Lyalvale Express has joined Gamebore in reinforcing their statement a week ago they were told nothing about a planned lead phase-out out declared
Mixed reviews of our video exposing the poaching gangs terrorising farms in the Midlands. Some are revelling in the coverage, while others are complaining about
Roy Lupton really doesn’t like lead. He’s a falconer whose birds have suffered from lead particles in gralloch and even lead shot in rabbits. He
IWA has not been answering emails about refunds, according to some standholders. After postponing the March event to September, organisers have now decided to scrap
Here are the links Lead shot debacle continues Fcha.nl/leadban Government adviser says UK doesn’t need farms Daily Mail Labour’s wacky idea for farms FarmingUK.com Safari
A few weeks ago we told you about Barry Swain’s difficulty in doing his pest control job due to persistent harassment from antis. Complaining to
By Ben O’Rourke It looks like your typical English countryside with fields, hedges and woods stretching far in all directions. But this seemingly sleepy East
If you are giving up lead, the three contenders for your shotshells are steel, tungsten and bismuth. All these materials have their advantages and disadvantages.
Here are the links: Royal gun dog trainer tragedy – Daily Mail Daily Star attacks top deerstalker – Daily Star Top deerstalker hits back –
If you are giving up lead, the three contenders for your shotshells are steel, tungsten and bismuth. All these materials have their advantages and disadvantages.
Here are the links: General licences reissued on temporary basis Fcha.nl/generallicences Boris Johnson renews promise for ban on hunting trophy imports – Mirror Defra holds
Here are the links: Countryfile backs countrysports – BBC RSPCA supports unsustainable salmon farming – The Times and YouTube Charity Commission slams National Rifle Association
Barry Swain is a pest controller from Yorkshire who has paying clients who help him shoot. He had a job for a farmer to clear
Here are the links: General licences trouble Fcha.nl/generallicences Scottish deer massacre Fcha.nl/deer-are-dead-long-live-trees ‘Unsafe’ shooting range allegation – Evening Standard Huntsmen found not guilty – press
Every gameshooting season in the UK, around 30 million pheasants are shot. Many go to supermarkets and the catering trade, and some go home with
Bild magazine in Germany says it has uncovered the dark side of canned hunting. A Bild magazine journalist wrote this story after visiting the Jagd
Here are the links: DEFRA general licences and trophy hunting chaos – trophy hunting consultation Kids try for schools pistol championships Issy Bailey’s Instagram British
The Scottish Government is putting public safety at risk, and wasting tens of thousands of taxpayers’ pounds littering the countryside with fencing. It has shown
Here are the links: Wild Justice tries to close down game-shooting – press release Anti claims to be convicted murderer – Twitter Male sab
Love Island contestant axed over trophy hunting snaps – The Independent Masked antis arrested – Countryside Alliance Swedish and English join Irish – Limerick
Here are the links: Veganism protected by law – Daily Telegraph Has Veganuary gone too far? – Manchester Evening News Capgen#2: Veggie hunters show off
By Ben O’Rourke Dog lover Julie Wright has spent the last five years without her healthy, well-kept and loving dogs, Jack and Homer. In
Here are the links: Boxing Day hunt bashing – Metro newspaper Lottie Lion backs hunting – Sun newspaper East Essex Foxhounds Boxing Day meet
More than a quarter of a million people braved wet weather to support their local hunt up and down the country this Boxing Day. Those
David rounds up the top stories from around the fieldsports world 🌎 Watch the show in full here Boxing Day meet: Blackmore Vale – petition
The Scottish government is not minded to ban grouse-shooting, says a source, following publication of a government report [PDF] into grouse-shooting by Professor Alan Werritty.
Anti Packham protest – News & Star Carrie Symonds in badger court case – The Times Scottish government dodges general licences bullet – anti-shooting
It’s a big year for shooting sports in the UK parliament. Newly-elected prime minister Boris Johnson will rule on whether we can go pigeon shooting,
The 12 December 2019 election night was an excellent night for hunting and shooting, as three out of four target antis lost their seats, and
Fieldsports News Fcha.nl/news Grouseshooting in the balance – Fieldsports News Dog discipline legal battle – Fieldsports News Woodcock geo-locator reveals 6,000 air miles – Facebook
Animal rights campaigners are making a big push on the Scottish government ahead of a report into the sport of grouseshooting. BBC TV’s Chris Packham
A seven-year legal battle between two gundog trainers has come to an end. At its heart is the question whether you can physically discipline your
by Charlie Jacoby Generally, I like the sleek, new single-shot break-barrel rifle from Merkel. The company lent it to me for a week of red
▶ Fieldsports News Fcha.nl/news Tractor driver sprays sabs with slurry – Facebook Government promises increased trespass laws against sabs – Fieldsports News Bank closes gunshop account – Fieldsports News DEFRA
🤓 David rounds up the top stories from around the fieldsports world: ➡️Animal rights protesters bully the The British Shooting Show and disrupt Taste of
Update: the Government briefed the Daily Telegraph that its new anti-trespass law will crack down on antis like the ones shown in this film. The
The Scottish Government’s desire to ‘rewild’ the Highlands could lead to the biggest deer cull in UK history. Documents seen by Fieldsports Channel viewers suggest
The UK government has widened out its ‘trophy hunting’ consultation to include UK deer. It looks like Boris Johnson now plans to stop overseas stalkers
Here are the links UK general election and MPs’ lies – Facebook DEFRA hunting tourism consultation – press release – consultation – call for
YouTubers from hunting and shooting channels are lending their support to top YouTubers’ efforts to plant 20 million trees. A group of 600 YouTubers including
The RSPB wants to get a job as the nation’s gamekeeper. It looks like it wants to get rid of all the other gamekeepers,
Anti-hunters are good at whingeing about hunting tourism, which provides most of the money for wildlife conservation in the developing world. But will they put
One of the companies connected with the organisers of the Midland Game Fair may be saved by its lenders or investors in a ‘pre-pack administration’.
We are not helpless when antis attack our shoots, our hunts or our birds and animals. A former police intelligence officer offers his armoury of
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