Fieldsports News, 23 January 2019
In the news this week: Packham plans to be rude to royal family British Shooting Schools Pistol Championships BritishShooting.org.uk/article/1554 Shooter anger over bird carcase dumping
In the news this week: Packham plans to be rude to royal family British Shooting Schools Pistol Championships BritishShooting.org.uk/article/1554 Shooter anger over bird carcase dumping
Charlie Jacoby looks out for new and spectacular hunting and shooting kit at the 2019 ShotShow, including: ▶ Winchester Extreme Point Copper Impact ammunition ▶
The must-read list of YouTube channels is out. Thanks to the view-counting on YouTube, we now know how many people watch them and where they rank
Shooters are turning on each other over a film showing dumped birds. But Cotesbach Game Farm in Leicestershire, which is the one burying the carcases,
Chris Packham says hunt ban doesn’t work Jeremy Paxman begs Britain to stop buying farmed salmon Gamekeepers clear fly tipping Bereleigh Shoot noise pollution case
A fox went on the rampage in a couple’s home. It left such a mess they thought they had stumbled on a murder scene. Malcom
by Charlie Jacoby You see your animal through your binos, you shoot, it drops out of sight. Now Swarovski has come up with binos that
A 100-year-old rifle and pistol shooting club on England’s south coast is seeking new premises. Fareham Rifle & Pistol Club fought eviction from its base
The Irish government has had to defend a deer cull. More than 30 wild deer from the herd in Dublin’s Phoenix Park were culled in
Using two dogs to hunt foxes is more cruel than using a pack. That’s the advice to the Scottish Government in its own review on
Dallas Safari Club is bumping up its conservation work. During its 2019 convention and expo in Dallas, USA, it brought together a group of top-level
Namibia’s top ecologist has hit back against a letter in the Guardian newspaper against trophy hunting. Dr Chris Brown, chief executive of the Namibian Chamber
There’s a new beer to celebrate one of the best-known hunt masters in the country. The Flying Monk Brewery, which is based in the Beaufort
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The National Trust has cancelled trail hunting for the South Shropshire Hunt at the Long Mynd. It has bowed to pressure from the League Against
BBC TV presenter Chris Packham says that neither the law banning hunting with hounds nor the League Against Cruel Sports’ hunt monitoring scheme is working.
An Amish man has been fined £22,000 and jailed for 60 days for poaching. Junior L Troyer, aged 43, of Ohio, USA, entered pleas of
A Spanish hunter who was filmed while he chased and tortured a fox has been identified. The Civil Guard in the Spanish province of Huesca
A car overturned in the Cotswolds after the driver tried to dodge a pheasant. The driver had attempted to swerve around a pheasant in the
A fox has attacked a baby in Norway. After hearing his 10-month-old son Sander shrieking, Bjørn-Milliam Angell found a mangy fox in the baby’s cot.
The countryside has turned to social media to express its outrage that animal rights activist and BBC TV presenter Chris Packham is to be made
Larysa Switlyk is back in the news. After posting a picture of a goat, she shot on Islay in Scotland, the presenter of American TV
French president Emmanuel Macron says he could reinstate the tradition of presidential hunts at the Château de Chambord (pictured), south of Paris. There is speculation
The reality of the benefits of trophy hunting is hitting home among the readers of the left-wing Guardian newspaper. After the Guardian orchestrated a campaign
It may be months until Boxing day – but already the UK’s Boxing Day hunt meets are under threat from animal rights activists. Antis are
How does a brilliant match air rifle shot achieve those scores? Watch as a British junior air rifle shooter breaks a national record. At a
Rifleman Firearms in Somerset, UK, is close to finishing its new indoor rifle range. The building will open in February 2019, will have five firing
Belgium has charged two government officials for breeding, releasing and then shooting muntjac deer. Two forest rangers, one from the Nature and Forest Agency and
Antis are targeting a local councillor in Wales who is studying deer in New Zealand. They say James Evans, pictured here with prime minister Theresa
The UK government has issued licenses in the last three years to shoot at least 40 problem bird species, including rare and endangered birds. A
You can learn hunting and shooting at school in America. Iowa Department of Natural Resources runs a hunter’s education programme alongside its apprentice and mentor
There may be a new world record whitetail deer. Keith Szablewski of Illinois (below right) shot what could be a record-setting buck during the first
In News this week: Did hunt sabs chase foxhound on to busy road? Green politician admits ban on hunting with hounds doesn’t work Chris Packham’s
Hunt saboteurs may have chased a foxhound on to a busy road where it was hit by a car and killed. The Fitzwilliam Hunt was
A Green member of the Scottish Parliament admits that the ban on hunting with hounds is unworkable. Alison Johnstone MSP plans to tighten laws, but
Chris Packham’s Revive group has struck its first blow against Scottish grouse shooting, and it is leaving legislators puzzled. Revive’s new report ‘Back To Life’
British airgun manufacturer Daystate celebrates its 40th birthday. At a party at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, it drew attention to the company’s illustrious
Saudi Arabia held its first falcon and hunting exhibition in the capital Riyadh last week. More than 250 exhibitors came from the Kingdom and 20
Rangers in the USA are using social media to bust poachers. In West Virginia, until you have reported your deer on WVhunt.com, you could be
An MP has written to the Home Secretary after an airgun shop opened in his constituency. The South London Airgun Centre opened in a pawnbroker
There’s a new Jones out shooting. Hollywood actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones’s grandson Harry joined his father Aaron for a day on the pheasants,
Australian shooters face a duck ban, because Australian scientists are too incompetent to find any duck. The nation’s key waterbird survey, the Eastern Australian Waterbird
Shooters are protecting more wildlife habitat. A Humber wildfowling club has secured a £100,000 loan to create a wetland oasis for waders, including redshanks, grey
Prince William has, once again, lammed into the illegal wildlife trade. A new film, The Last Animals, shows the prince discussing the deaths of rangers
On the centenary of Armistice Day, fieldsports enthusiasts join the Frontline Walk to raise money for ABF The Soldier’s Charity. They walk the 100km from
When someone in Nevada, USA, reports a bear – perhaps an animal going through their trash – the department of wildlife now uses dogs to
A six year-old tigress that killed 13 people in western India has been shot. A forestry department patrol team staked out a track after receiving
Larysa Switlyk posted a picture of herself with a dead feral goat and the world went mad. They had been softened up by the stories
Eamonn Holmes’ description of a hunt as ‘murder’ provoked a mass of death threats against hunters and shooters on social media. The ITV This Morning
Hares are being found dead of disease across the UK. The lead scientist on the outbreak, Dr Diana Bell of the University of East Anglia,
Flying guns is becoming more difficult. Following a mass of restrictions imposed by European airlines in 2018, there are new changes to the transport of
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