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- The Headkeeper, part 1David Whitby manages a shoot in Sussex, looking after pheasants, partridges, deer – and he brings his work home with him. Living with him is a badger, ...
- Fieldsports Britain – the gamekeeper’s badgerMeet the badger, the raven, the fallow doe and the man who keeps them in his house: the headkeeper. David Whitby kicks off our new series, called ‘The ...
- Rules for shooters and deerstalkers during November lockdownBad news for shoots: driven game shooting should cease on Thursday 5 November and is expected to resume on Wednesday 2 December. England will return to a local ...
- Will Boris shut shooting in England?It’s hard to imagine being more socially-distanced than one gunshot away from the next shooter, riding your horse across the English shires, or setting up for...
- Irish government lockdown coursing ban attemptIreland’s minister for heritage, Darragh O’Brien, has called on coursing clubs to release hares caught up for the forthcoming season. Coursing now starts on...
- Government caves in to Packham over pheasantsThe English government is to ban pheasant release on around 10% of the countryside unless under licence. The announcement by environment minister George Eustice...
- Irish greens use lockdown to ban shooting sportsThe Irish government has banned game shooting due to ‘level 5 lockdown’ in the Republic of Ireland. The ban will come in just ahead of the Irish pheasant sh...
- RSPB’s £74,000 cirl buntings[embedythttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enW1yd2kmnk[/embedyt] What’s the going rate for saving a songbird? The RSPB successfully persuaded one local co...
- Fieldsports Britain – deer double in the rutRoy goes for dramatic stalking success in the New Forest, hunting a massive sika stag, and using his Aimpoint Acro on a muntjac, too. Find out how he get...
- Best hunting rifles 2020What do you shoot? Among Fieldsports Channel viewers, deerstalking is the big one with 38% of you out after deer, followed by 31% of you foxshooters, 15%...
- Boris buddy backs sab trespass – Fieldsports News, 28 October 2020Here are the links: Goldsmith urges government not to criminalise trespass – Daily Telegraph Owners devastated by rising dog thefts – Fieldsports News Crack...
- How to find a bouncing bunny ‘hold point’, with Sam GreenIt’s the shot at the sporting clay shot that’s bound to let you down – but it doesn’t have to, says Browning-sponsored world champion Sam Green. He says...
- Gundog stolen from car at Exmoor shoot Thieves took a black labrador from a car parked at an Exmoor shoot. Marg was snatched from a Toyota Hilux on 17 October 2020. The glossy black labrad...
- Antis fake Attenborough Facebook page to push propagandaVeteran BBC nature programme host Sir David Attenborough appears to have lashed out at hunting tourists, calling them ‘psychopaths’ who want to show-off how...
- Moorland burning – the true storyChannel 4 News made a one-sided and bitter attack on moorland conservation in a news piece, fronted by its reporter Jane Dodge. Ben O’Rourke tells the ...