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- 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...
- Natural England delays pest licensing with new ‘screening’ systemyoutu.be/_r8aqoPWLCc Surprise, surprise, Natural England has made getting licences for the control of birds not covered by the general licences a little bit har...
- Conservationism vs animal rights: the difference explainedSwedish hunter Jens Ulrik Høgh explains why animal rights campaigners – often celebrities – are on the wrong track when it comes to conservation. Read more...
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- What do pigeons cost farmers?How much does a pigeon eat? And what are you saving a farmer when you shoot a pigeon? While in his pigeon hide, shooting in Kent, Andy Crow finds out – and tu...
- General licences in England: the smallprintyoutu.be/bsB_894uMmU by Ben O’Rourke “This week my phone has not stopped ringing,” says falconer and pest controller Gary Baxter as he makes notes in penc...
- Wild Justice whipped in Wales – Fieldsports News, 20 January 2021Here are the links: Wild Justice loses Wales pest control lawsuit – Fieldsports News Scottish cops deny freedom of information request over ‘deer-in-water-g...
- Lockdown walked-up recreational exercise shootingUnder lockdown rules, Ollie Williams can take his daily recreational exercise with dogs and a shotgun. He walks around the family farm on the lookout for pheasa...