Hunters are going through the same thing in the USA – in fact they’re some way further down the road than us. Check out this very thoughtful blog post from the excellent NorCal Cazadora, a hunter who has vowed to stop using lead. Notice how the state of California made a complete mess of the [...]

People who profess to be ‘green’ are dreadful ones for banning stuff. They see a conservation problem and they instantly want to regulate this and ban that. I suppose they mean well but, look around you, does it work? There is another way. The World Pheasant Association is a fine example of how to get [...]

I met a chap in the woods today. He was a TV producer’s stereotype of a gamekeeper, or a poacher, or a bit of both. He wore tattered green trousers, a threadbare woolen jumper, a worn-out old wax coat and boots with holes. I swear he had baler twine for a belt. Worzel Gummidge hair [...]

Just a week after the first meeting of the Lead Ammunition Group, I see the group’s RSPB representative Mark Avery is already ramping up his campaign against lead shot and bullets, with a ‘concerned’ post on his blog. Rather like the scientific papers he refers to, his post is full of ‘suggests’ this, ‘maybe’ that [...]

Keen fieldsportsmen Jay, Mick and Will take a break from their duties to browse through copies of Sporting Shooter which we sent out a couple of weeks ago. The camera-shy trio are ex-Army, and now working for one of the private security companies out there. Special thanks to Rob Collins of Woodspring Pigeon Shooting & [...]

You know you want it! I’m selling my wife’s Toyota Hilux Surf 4×4. J-reg, 84,500 miles on the clock, MoT’d and taxed – check it out on eBay here. Share and Enjoy:

The RSPB’s Mark Avery, who sits on the Defra Lead Ammunition Group, makes some interesting comments in response to my blogging on lead shot. The RSPB has been trialling non-lead (actually copper) bullets for deer control on its reserves for a couple of years, with promising results. There’s a scientific paper on the subject here [...]

I shall be receiving a dose of attitude adjustment, courtesy of a charming PC from the Thames Valley force, who couldn’t believe his luck when he set off for his shift only to find me waiting to enter the car park – with my mobile phone pressed to my ear. The fact that my car [...]

Of course we knew it already, but it’s good to have it confirmed by 40 of Britain’s leading scientists in a book so important it’s being called "the Domesday book of British wildlife". Silent Summer provides a complete picture of Britain’s wild animals and plants, charting the decline of many of our farmland birds, hares, [...]

The first meeting of the new Lead Ammunition Group was held today, and BASC has issued the following statement: John Swift chair of Lead Ammunition Group said “Our Group held its first meeting today. There was a constructive exchange of views on working practices that will be needed to carry out the tasks set out [...]