Fieldsports Channel News
Before 2024
- Natural England in muirburn muddle – Fieldsports News, 3 February 2021Here are the links: Government thinks heather burning damages peat bogs – Government press release GWCT muirburn reaction – GWCT Mars Bar vs Muirburn film â...
- One side’s for people, the other for hunting – guess which?youtu.be/mz6zv7YTsFY If you want to see the difference between hunting areas and non-hunting areas in Tanzania, biologist Karen Seginak took these photos from h...
- Government plans airgun rule change for teenagersthe Home Office is proposing to ban 14-to-17-year-olds from using airguns unsupervised. The plan is in the Home Office’s firearms safety consultation. T...
- The future for the sporting rifle – Fieldtester, episode 5In this month’s Fieldtester show, Tim Pilbeam leads a group of 13 stalkers who shoot 100s of deer a year, to find out how good or bad copper bullets are. The ...
- Will a cheap riflescope work?youtu.be/3H9ZYG1fxbY Just because a riflescope is expensive, does it work better? Dan Pool from Braces of Bristol says he can’t see a difference in optics ove...
- Airgun pellet gel testyoutu.be/yF7oJwvzfac How good are these pellets at killing?– H&N Baracuda Green– Webley Velocipell– Webley Mosquito Express– Webley VMX PellAirgun e...
- How rifles are changing to fit night visionyoutu.be/L_9NccKzs4g Where do you mount your night vision scope on your rifle? Marcus Simpson of Simpson Brothers shows how to do it, and the change in rifle de...
- Copper bullet accuracy testyoutu.be/OM0o97qkwiE We test six copper rounds for accuracy. This is part of a project run by Tim Pilbeam where 13 deerstalkers keep diaries of how copper bulle...
- Catching rabbits at a turf farmThe lovely turf at Wembley and Wimbledon comes from turf farms, and turf farms are magnets for rabbits. The South Somerset Ferreters answer the call to ferret t...
- Winter pigeon and rook shoot – big dayRooks and pigeons are hitting a maize crop. With the cost of feed, Paul Childerley is especially keen to shoot a few of them, so he has built a socially-distanc...
- Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s uncanny wildlife callsDid you know he could make the noise of a frightened Chinese water deer, a chattering greylag goose and even a randy woodpigeon? And all of them using only his ...
- Sab thugs attack hunts again – Fieldsports News, 27 January 2021Here are the links: Trespassing sabs incite ‘common assault’ – Facebook Time-wasting new system added to individual licence applications – Fieldsports N...
- Gun auctions reviewStroud Auctions‘ 4 March 2021 sale has guns in it. Gun expert Gun Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk chooses his favourite lot from the sale. It’s a...
- Game exports resume as vet untangles EU red tapeGamedealers throughout the UK breathe a sigh of relief as a Wiltshire vet and a Hampshire gamedealer have successfully fought their way through the EU export pa...
- General licences 2021: what you can and can’t shootUpdated 25 November 2020 This page shows advice by country: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland The current, shambolic general licences across the UK exp...