Fieldsports Channel News
Earlier this year
- ‘I shot a deer in a police station’Deer manager Paul Symons gets an unusual request: there’s a deer in distress at a Plymouth police station, and please can he come and deal with it? Devon & Co...
- Shooting tax to hit Scottish landownersThe Scottish Government has tried all sorts of cunning plans to kill off recreational hunting and shooting of game. This time there are real fears they might ha...
- How Labour plans to kill off dogs’ homeswww.youtube.com/watch?v=_XFi5–ObSw Keir Starmer’s animal welfare strategy could shut down dog rescues – we hear from the Cheshire Sighthound Rescue Charit...
- Tax blow could finish Scottish sporting estates – Fieldsports News, 21 January 2026Here are the links: Scotland plans to hammer sporting estates – BASC Mass poaching bust on the Fens – YouTube RSPB ‘bird crime’ reports rubbished – C4...
- Trump government weighs in on UK hunting trophy importsThe US government has written to the UK’s environment department DEFRA to ask it not to ban trophy imports. A letter from Doug Burgum, US secretary of the int...
- Rothbury rewilding scandal?The Wildlife Trusts plan to buy the 9,500-acre Rothbury estate in Northumberland so they can turn it into a haven for wildlife. Writer and scourge of the conser...
- Fishing and foxing in CumbriaWe are back out with Owen Runackles from the Cumbria Country Sports YouTube channel. This time we are after night-time foxes with a .243 fitted with the Pard Ni...
- Fieldsports Britain – Magical Irish woodcockWe are shooting and eating woodcock in Co Kerry with an outfit called The Hunter & The Chef. Owen from Cumbria Country Sports tries for his tenth salmon of the ...
- Woodcock capital of EuropeCo Kerry in Ireland is the world’s ultimate woodcock destination. Some stop off and over-winter elsewhere on the way. A lot make it – and Joe O’Dwyer and ...
- Wild pigs ate my deerIf Scotland doesn’t have a pig problem already, it’s not far off. Until recently Niall Rowantree had never seen a feral pig in the Highlands. Now he has sho...
- Government petition response shambles – Fieldsports News, 7 January 2026Here are the links: Sabs’ plans for trailhunting – TheNewHuntingBan.com/ Government stuffs up petition response – Petition.Parliament.uk/petitions/750236 ...
- Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Highland hogswww.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpO464Z3fEHighland boar numbers are booming: Niall Rowantree looks at whether we can solve what could become rewilding’s latest horro...
- Explosive ferreting (at the gas works)Jaf Jefferson and the South Somerset Ferreters have two days out after rabbits – the first in West Somerset by invitation, and the second on their own ground ...
Last year
- Fastest airgun to reload: break-barrel, sidelever or underlever?It’s the Crackshot springer race: three of the top airgunners from online and Devon airgun shop Crackshot race each other with break-barrel, sidelever and und...
- Where did all the deer go?Helen Tinner is cooking dinner, and she needs a deer for her freezer. She is out near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, with stalking guide Andrew Johnson. Andrew kno...