How to get into wildfowling

Starting out in wildfowling is easy. Clubs all over the UK are keen to meet you, take you out and show you what the sport is all about. In this film, Spalding Wildfowlers take Nicole Moore as a guest to their ground on the Wash. Meanwhile, Charlie Byrne buys a day with the Devon Wildfowling & Conservation Association at a charity auction. It’s a morning on geese on the Exe estuary with a black-powder 8-bore.
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Why shoot wildfowl?
Wildfowling is a trade that goes back centuries. In the last 100 years, the wildfowling clubs and shooting organisations of the UK have turned it from a business that depleted duck and geese populations into a conservation effort that ensures healthy populations of waterfowl. Almost anywhere you find duck and geese, especially around the UK’s coastline, you will find wildfowling clubs, with conservation plans and habitat management strategies. Without them, the UK wouldn’t have the waterfowl populations it does.
Catherine Collop, a PhD student at Bournemouth University, conducted a study on Poole harbour in Dorset, which found that walking causes 100 times more disturbance than wildfowling. Furthermore, that wildfowling accounted for just 0.04% of the disturbance activities on Poole Harbour and that the impact was deemed so low that research predicted that there would be no impact on the survival of birds even if it was increased by 25 times. Catherine’s full PhD can be found here: eprints.bournem...
Catherine’s research shows just how low an impact wildfowling can have, and also, importantly provides some general information on assessing the likely impact of wildfowling. We are now building on this success and have sponsored a follow-up study looking at how the findings from Poole Harbour can be generalised to any site.
Geese can be a major agricultural pest. The UK government recently added Canada geese to the pest list, for example, and giant culls of greylag geese, carried out by both sport shooters and government agencies, take place all over the UK.
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[@davidbilbrough3726]

No wonder most fowler do not get anything if they go about it this way, after watching how not to do it. As a VERY successful fowler of some 50 years-the secret? Face mask gloves and get HIDDEN. Not stuck up like light houses!

[@waikarimoana]

Awesome footage and video of duck shooting, our season starts the 4th of May, hope it goes well for all, thanks for a great show and greetings from NZ,, Tony.

[@fieldsportstv]

Thank you, Tony 🇳🇿

[@334outdoors8]

Step one be the equivalent of a millionaire in fake England money

[@TMFShooting]

Great Stuff 💯💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@pedrojsanchezalvarado5569]

Muy chebres sus lances de cazerias amigos saludos

[@oxfordfowler2980]

Spalding Wildfowlers. Come on FSC get it right

[@fieldsportstv]

Thanks for clarifying, I have changed the description /James

[@pedrojsanchezalvarado5569]

🇪🇨🇪🇨👍

[@crazyferret9409]

I miss this so much...

[@harrywright5705]

Any one know anywhere in the east midlands ?

[@fieldsportstv]

Try Leicestershire Wildfowlers

[@NielsPoulsen]

No decoys?

[@richardbrooks1488]

“Ull only get it if you get it” 👌👌👌 nothing better than a days out shooting with ya dog