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Before 2024
- Irish U-turn on pigeonshooting banIreland has reversed changes to the longstanding derogation on Pigeon shooting. This gives back permission to tillage farmers and cereal growers to protect thei...
- Vegans vandalise Nottingham butchers, one week after targeting angling clubAngry vegan vandals are at it again. Last week an angling club in Derbyshire was daubed with paint telling the fishermen to stick hooks in their in own mouths, ...
- What coronavirus means for British shooting sportsYou can go shooting again in England. Deputy Chief Constable Dave Orford, the national lead on firearms licensing, has provided clarity on shooting under the cu...
- Airgunning rooks to bake in a piePaul Childerley and Jonny Muston pack an Air Arms S410 and an S510 to go rook shooting. It’s the time of year when young rooks are easy to shoot…
- When an environmentalist discovers that hunting helps wildlifeTrophy hunting has saved the urial wild sheep. That’s the conclusion of environmentalist Billy Offland, who visited a game reserve in Pakistan to see h...
- The Falcon Thief – rip-roaring but overblownFalconers are not impressed. Joshua Hammer wrote The Falcon Thief about Jeffrey Lendrum, who smuggled falcon eggs to middle-eastern clients. Lendrum was ...
- Hunting with hounds after lockdownHound packs all over the UK are preparing to go ahead as normal in the coming season, with some extra social-distancing rules (such as no sharing of hipflasks)....
- Will Ireland climb down over pigeon-shooting? – Fieldsports News, 20 May 2020Here are the links: Irish government likely to u-turn on pigeon-shooting ban Fcha.nl Antis persecute Peak District gamekeeper Fcha.nl RSPB tries to mount...
- Antis persecute Peak District gamekeeperAntis are wrongly accusing a gamekeeper of wildlife crimes, when he was carrying out his normal duties. Online persecution of Darcy Smith, who works on the Mosc...
- Antis attack democracy: Lithuania bows to pressure, scraps bowhunting law after it’s in effectAntis have interfered in the Lithuanian legal system by forcing the reversal of a law allowing bowhunting. Authorities ditched legalisation allowing bowhunting ...
- Ireland imposes pigeon seasonIreland has banned pigeonshooting from 31 May to 1 September. Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan has ordered the end of summ...
- Deerhunter Moor Padded Jacket with Knit TimberIt’s been a long day shooting clay or game, you probably want to slip into something more comfortable than your all-weather gear. In our survey, Ryan from the...
- Le Chameau Vierzonord bootsWhen analysing reams of spreadsheet data for trends, it’s always easier when one name appears nearly twice as often as any other. That was the case with our w...
- Hunting, shooting and fishing come out of lockdown – Fieldsports News, 13 May 2020Here are the links: Clayshooters ignored in loosening of lockdown restriction – Fcha.nl/new-lockdown-advice-ignores-shooting-sports Bradford man shoots...
- Aporkalypse now: how feral hogs are over-running Hong KongA surreal situation has emerged in Hong Kong. Wild boars are plaguing the city. They run through the streets, scaring locals and eating rubbish, often in exclus...