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- 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 ...
- Welsh shoots face ‘firebreak’ ban – Fieldsports News, 21 October 2020Here are the links: Lockdown loses Welsh shoots £1 million+ – Cambrian Birds Coronavirus lockdown year ‘worst ever’ for dog thefts – BBC Boxing ...
- How to build a pigeon hide in a trailerBuckinghamshire pigeonshooters Jamie Leggett and Chris Mingo like to do things in style. Over several months, they built a pigeon hide on an old trailer....
- Crow shines on the Jack Pyke pheasant dayAndy Crow joins the line of guns on the annual Jack Pyke shoot day in Bedfordshire on Paul Childerley’s shoot. Also there are Jason and Carly Doyle, Da...