How the RSPB’s hunt for stoats on Orkney is now a wild goose chase
youtu.be/r0TBHg2X84g by Ben O’Rourke In 2010, stoats mysteriously turned up on Orkney, perhaps as stowaways on lorries carrying hay for farmers to feed their cattle
youtu.be/r0TBHg2X84g by Ben O’Rourke In 2010, stoats mysteriously turned up on Orkney, perhaps as stowaways on lorries carrying hay for farmers to feed their cattle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_5yy1i3mA September means wildfowling. Charlie heads to one of the homes of the sport, the River Kent Estuary in Cumbria, managed for wildfowl by the
James Marchington Mark Winser has won the coveted Essex Masters trophy for the fourth time. He shot a tremendous score of 195 ex-200 on Monday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMZOzIjkL1E This week, how to take a bunny from hopping outside its hole to becoming a delicious bruschetta, cooked over an open fire. Johnny Muston
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ce7yCnA9jE Here are the links:Guntrader leak goes graphic – Fieldsports NewsScottish government authorises deer massacre – The TimesBotham hits DEFRA plan with prawn jibe –
World champion shot Sam Green explains how to approach a clay target on a stand, how to work out how to shoot it, what to do with your feet, your body and your gun. It’s the complete package.For more about coaching with Sam Green, go to Facebook.com/samgreenshooting – and, if you are a member of […]
youtu.be/-s_FJP3iE04 The English government says it plans a gun licensing review in the wake of the August 2021 Plymouth shootings. Ben O’Rourke asks Christopher Graffius
Tim is surveying a new block of ground for deerstalking. He counted 250 fallow on the land – and he wonders how the British deerstalking
It’s got better since 1 February 2020 when Brexit threw it into doubt. Research by the SCI’s UK chapter reveals that most European countries only
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxns1fmq4U Here are the links:Travelling with guns gets easier – Fieldsports News + film courtesy of EurotunnelScotland unveils plans to dismantle grouseshooting – Scottish Government
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8tNhHPkzA Is YouTube still on the prowl for airgun channels or does it hav an over-active algorithm? In July 2021, it deleted Replica Airguns, a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6bKdfx7rA We have seen non-lead ammunition work in a range of fullbore rifles, but does it work in rimfires? Tim Pilbeam tries out lead-free bullets
youtu.be/BIZPLf4S2ZI How damaging is steel to a new shotgun barrel? We put 10,000 steel shells (Eley-Hawk Eco Wad) through a Yildiz Steel Sporter 12-bore at
Here are the links: Plymouth shootings shock nation – BASC Do satellite trackers kill birds? FedEx stops firearms distribution worldwide – SIFA Trophy ban consultation
youtu.be/NWHNlQRPm00 Paul Childerley is suffering from stalker stress. He is not sure he has hit his roebuck cleanly, so he sets out to track it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVu2SOMsaA Roy gets the best reaction to a roe call in all of his 30 years’ deerstalking. It’s the roe deer rut and the bucks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRtSwFKxeU Antis have been trying it on in the run up to the Glorious Twelfth 2021. They claim that nearly half the Cairngorms is made
youtu.be/27S0DGoar34 Here are the links:Solicitors swoop on Guntrader victims in bid to cash in on leak – Fieldsports News + Fieldsports News follow-upUniversity releases landmark
youtu.be/rb-EfO3D9G0 Lord Botham talks to Charlie Jacoby about grouseshooting, cricket and the meaning of life at the 2021 Game Fair. The interview takes place in
The Browning Maxus semi-auto has become a firmly established favourite, particularly with pigeon shooters, wildfowlers and gamekeepers. It handles well, shoots smoothly, and cycles reliably
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2yX8n1X3Hc Roy sets out to stalk a roebuck – and the day is a lot more successful than he hopes. Find out what happens. Meanwhile,
Breaking news: The Northern Ireland Assembly has rejected John Blair MLA’s private member’s bill which sought to ban hunting wild animals with dogs in Northern
youtu.be/cjNOO0VVtbg Here are the links:Grouse count down but money for merlins – GWCTDAERA cancels general licences consultation – FacebookShooting team wins single medal – Fieldsports
GB’s team of Matt Coward-Holley and Kirsty Hegarty shot a great score of 143 in the qualification rounds for the Trap Mixed Teams event at
Great Britain’s Seonaid McIntosh finished the 50m Rifle 3P Women in 14th place with a score of 1167-55x in Tokyo today.British Shooting commented “We’re so
youtu.be/ZXUVjkMjTig Peter Wilson and Matt French are two of the most decorated athletes who have shot for Team GB. Recorded with interviewer Charlie Jacoby at
Photo: British Shooting GB’s Matt Coward-Holley has won bronze in the Men’s Trap at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Matt, 26, from Chelmsford, shot brilliantly
youtu.be/UvMGyI-nWAE As our top shooting athletes compete in Tokyo, the next generation of potential shooting Olympians are training at the British Shooting Summer Camp at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPzsool6v9E “It’s a bit weird, but personally I’d love this country to have a sustainable wolf population,” Ian Coghill tells me after spending several minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdQLSKvuqA New tech means it’s harder than ever for deer to get away. Tim Pilbeam has his hands on the latest gadget from Swarovski –
youtu.be/kyd6uiznwZo Here are the links:Shooting and country organisations form super group – AimtoSustain.org.ukGun control nutters target kids – CW Herald + The StarWoodland group sues
Team GB’s Olympic Trap shooters have completed day 1 of qualification in Tokyo, with strong performances from Kirsty Hegarty in Women’s Trap, and Matt Coward-Holley
Ollie Keates, a 15-year-old shooter from Wiltshire, won the CPSA Colts Challenge at the Game Fair on Sunday 25 July. His success came just a
youtu.be/1NAudRnbRSA Billy Baughan from Buckinghamshire won the Game Fair Champion of Champions clay competition on Saturday 24 July, collecting the impressive trophy and an Isuzu
Team GB’s Seonaid McIntosh missed out on a place in the final of the women’s 10 metre air rifle event on Saturday 24 July. She
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcc67nZfqk It’s pigeon decoying like we might be in 50 years time. Andy Crow has a 200+ bird day and has time to try out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQUVoXDXPA Here are the links:GB shooting team Olympic medal hopes – Fieldsports NewsLabour’s rural England policy consultation nears end – Labour PartyBASC shows how hysteria
Here’s how you can quickly establish which of your accounts and passwords may have been compromised by the Guntrader hack (if you want details of
A hacker has stolen information from the market-leading gun sales site Guntrader.uk. The data consists of names and addresses of registered users of the site,
The Tokyo Olympic Games are here – and Great Britain is sending a small but elite squad of shooters to fight for medals. Here’s our
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFPxJyT3IM Never mind the football. The real drama on Sunday night was at EJ Churchill in West Wycombe.Mark Winser took the World English Sporting Championship
youtu.be/0EZZvKZYlhk A gangster in an expensive coat and a Lincoln Model L stops on a bridge on the Canadian border. He is there to meet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PVdscZq_w Watatunga is the new home of sensible exotic wildlife management in the UK. You can’t see lions and tigers – but you can see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWKBCVxLlQ Imagine a wildlife park where you can eat the antelope. There is one – and it’s in Norfolk. Watatunga Wildlife Reserve outside King’s Lynn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Fo5FSjI8E Here are the links:Schoolkids learn about grouseshooting and uplands – BASC + Facebook‘Animal sentience’ bill hits the buffers – ParliamentKenya denies knowledge of Kent
youtu.be/uX6WGwTfvdk While British antis put on black balaclavas and carry martial arts weapons, in France they put on clown masks and carry chainsaws. It’s a
Digital Marketing and the Future of Optics youtu.be/8S_Y9t9fQEc In this month’s industry insights interview for Fieldsports Channel for Business, Meredyth Grant catches up with Mark
Gerber Gear partners with Fieldsports Channel to secure a slice of the UK hunting audience Gerber, an industry-leading manufacturer of knives and multi-tools, is the
youtu.be/8GzbjFqkHZE How does a youngster get into shooting? Tom Sadler and Arthur Warner are twelve-year-olds at the start of their shooting careers. They head to
youtu.be/0zJaRyF2aDg Paul has a problem muntjac to deal with on his Bedfordshire shoot. This is a job of work. It has got into a pheasant
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