Owl boxes with an expert – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 59

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 FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast90 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham 

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 podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham 

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 FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast87   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   

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, Birmingham  Sign up for our weekly email newsletter    Take part in nature. Join the Fieldsports Nation   

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, Birmingham   

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 the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham   

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 to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast81 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham