It’s the job that many of us put off, sometimes for weeks, a few for months, a handful for several seasons. John Spary and Joe Hocking are gunsmiths: the ones who get to clean, check, repair and occasionally pick up the pieces of our guns. They explain what goes into a gun service, plus how to treat your gun throughout the year in order to reduce your service bill.    John and Joe run Duchy Gunsmith in Cornwall. Visit DuchyGunsmith.co.uk For more ways to listen to this, visit...

UK prime minister Tony Blair said that his 2004 Hunting Act would benefit foxes. Twenty years later, it turns out he was wrong. In a chat with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023,  Jim Barrington, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, spells out the mistakes that Blair made, and how he damaged both animal welfare and rural communities.    Click here to buy the book For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast89 This...

Gareth Wyn Jones says join the revolution - the food and farming revolution. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023.     Find Gareth on YouTube    For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast88   This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham  ▶ Sign up for our weekly email newsletter ▶ Take part in nature. Join the Fieldsports Nation   

Nick Doherty and Laura Saunsbury are the authors of the definitive book on British gun laws. The Firearms Law Handbook provides useful info for shooters, police firearms licensing officers, shops and gun ranges. The couple works in the UK during the week and live near Toulouse. Charlie Jacoby goes to meet them at their home in France to record a short, sharp podcast (before the rain starts).   The Firearms Law Handbook on Amazon   For more ways to listen to this, visit...

Charlie Jacoby is back in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre talking to Ian Coghill, who demolishes the RSPB’s People’s Plan for Nature, he explains the point of Aim to Sustain, which he chairs, and he spells out what the world of shooting should do to see off threats from the conservation industry. Click here for Moorland Matters, £25 For more ways to listen to this, click here  This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC,...

Jeremy Wade from TV’s River Monsters makes two visits to the 2023 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. He talks to Charlie about his early life fishing, his favourite kinds of fishing and his definition of ‘sporting’ fishing.  For more clips from the series, visit the River Monsters YouTube channel For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast85 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC,...

Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states.   For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast84   This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham   

Ross Brawn, managing director of one of today’s biggest spectator sports, Formula One, and a keen shooter, chatted with Charlie Jacoby in the Game Fair Theatre in July. They talked about how to re-establish clayshooting to international greatness. Click here for more ways to listen to this This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK's largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham  

Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. For Simon’s new book, visit Simon-Whitehead.com/pugs-and-drummers-book For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast82 This podcast is brought to you by...

In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vets saved some of its sight. They named the animal ‘Hope’. Wicus Diederichs from Rockwood reports on Hope’s progress and how the other rhinos in the nursery are treating her. He also talks about the realities of rhino conservation and the challenges he faces.     Rockwood Conservation’s website is RockwoodConservation.com For more ways to listen...

The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2023 discuss the animal's future in the  UK. They are deer experts Niall Rowantree and Martin Edwards, Mark Russell from Carter Jonas, whose clients deal with deer management, top venison chef José Souto and Bedfordshire-based deer manager and sporting agent Paul Childerley. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit...

Pigeon shooter, game shot and deerstalker Nicole Moore comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023 to talk to Charlie Jacoby about her love of the countryside and shooting sports. She talks about what she gets judged for. Do you think it’s being black, being a woman or how she shoots? Find out in this podcast chat. Find Nicole on Instagram  For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast80

Three firearms licensing officers came to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023 to make the case to Charlie Jacoby for how well they are doing. You may agree or you may disagree with them. They are Chris Downs from the Metropolitan Police, Adrian Davis from Warwickshire Constabulary and Paul Quinton from Essex police.    For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast78

DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty, Ian Bell and Dr Marnie Lovejoy on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. Between them, they explain what GL43 is, how the system of general licences has lost trust with its client base, the people who live in the countryside, and how DEFRA is doubling down on getting it so badly wrong.

James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers.   For River Action, go to https://riveractionuk.com/  

It’s Shooting Times editor Patrick Galbraith versus sporting agent Mark Osborne in this one-hour debate at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. The GWCT’s Roger Draycott provides the voice of reason and host Charlie Jacoby tries to stop them from fighting about the topic on stage.  

Daniel Zeichner MP is shadow environment minister. He came to the Game Fair in 2021, 2022 and in 2023 he took to the stage at the Game Fair Theatre to explain Labour’s policies on shooting (no current need for regulation), trailhunting (he will do his best for it) and trophy imports and exports (nothing he can do).     For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast74  

Greg Smith MP is horrified at the way DEFRA has handled crises such as rescinding GL43. He is at the 2023 Game Fair and lams into Natural England and sneaky civil servants with an anti-shooting agenda.    For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast73  

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP is our unofficial minister for shooting. At the 2023 Game Fair, he tells Charlie Jacoby how DEFRA is getting it wrong.   For more ways to listen to this, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast72  

With children dying every week from an epidemic of human-wildlife conflict, the government of India knows it has to tackle the problem. It has to transition form preservation to conservation. But how? Four experts put forward their views: Dr MK Ranjitsinh, Dr HS Pabla, Rajeev Mathew and Latika Nath.   For more on this story, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/tiger

Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own meat. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast65 For more from Katie, visit KatieHargreavesArt.com  

It's Ian Coghill, ex chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, vs Duncan Orr-Ewing of RSPB, slugging it out on the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre stage about whether the RSPB is failing birds, and whether grousemoors are good for them. Charlie Jacoby is moderator.

Gareth Wyn Jones is the outspoken Welsh hill farmer who starred in the BBC’s The Family Farm. He believes that the disconnection between town and country is driving a wedge between the two communities – and, in this talk, he spells out why.   Find Gareth on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook    For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast68

UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation, the Moorland Association and the Gun Trade Association are among those involved in the survey. They are calling on shooters to take part. The independent research specialists, Cognisense, will obtain facts and figures which will reflect the importance of shooting in the UK. The...