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- High flying crow shoot on ExmoorIt’s Exmoor high-bird shooting but without the expense. Matt Turley and Nigel White are decoying corvids and pigeons on the edge off one of the country...
- New anglers flock to UK fishing festivalsFishing events in the UK report great turnouts as the sport welcomes 100,000 new anglers (government figures). Organisers of two fishing events in September say...
- Fieldsports Britain – long, tall pest controlEnjoy spectacular crow and pigeon shooting on Exmoor on the same ground that the world’s greatest guns come to shoot pheasants. Matt Turley and Nigel W...
- Charlie’s dad – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 38Charlie Jacoby talks to his father, Martin Jacoby about Martin’s life as a natural historian, his views on how natural history and species work, the hi...
- Hen harriers having ‘fantastic year’, with record-breaking fledglingsIn the north of England, 60 hen harrier chicks fledged this year – the most since 2002. Natural England say the chicks came from 19 nests in Northumberland, t...
- ‘Flyakara’ – kayak tenkara on an English tarnCharlie Jacoby If kayak flyfishers are calling their sport flyaking – which is a hideous word IMHO that will be the first against the wall when ...
- Best rimfires and rimfire ammunition 2020Here are Fieldsports Channel viewers’ top five favourite rifles CZ 455 CZ 452 Ruger 10-22 Sako Quad Browning T-Bolt When it comes to manufacturers, the...
- How the RSPB persecutes gamekeepersBen O’Rourke A few years ago, two gamekeepers, a policeman and a man from a wildlife charity went to a vet’s surgery for a bird’s post mortem. The ...
- Shooting rats on the ratbergRat after rat appears for Roy Lupton to shoot. He calls his trash heap ‘the ratberg’ and it produces the rats tonight. He is having a post-lockdown crackdow...
- Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s ratberg, dead aheadIt’s a rat hunting challenge. Roy attempts to take down the ratberg that is his rat-infested lockdown dump/bonfire/trash-heap. Usually he uses thermal ...
- The evolution of the St James’s Place Foxhunters ChaseThe connection between National Hunt racing, which originated as steeplechasing, and foxhunting stemmed from the early 16th century when changes in the agricult...
- Switzerland tightens hunting tourism for ibexThe only canton where foreigners can stalk ibex has bowed to pressure from animal rights activists. The Valais, a canton in South-West Switzerland, is to make i...
- Sabs step up harassment of couple linked to badger cullsThe pavement outside the home of a couple linked to the government’s badger culls has been vandalised by animal rights extremists. South Coast Hunt Sabs poste...
- Bird ringing: bad for birds?Bird ringer Wilf Norman and ornithologist John Cavana present their cases for differing conservation techniques. Does ringing have a future or is it time...
- Pigeonshooting: how BASC shouts about our sportCurtis Mossop’s job is to get people into shooting. We join him pigeon shooting in Cheshire as BASC’s head of pathways to shooting explains how he does it, ...