Antis lose the plot over trophy hunting – Fieldsports News, episode 626
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3Ma14-N5Y Here are the links: Seven years in prison for hanging a head on your wall – Mirror + Twitter RSPB shocked into action by electric fence charge – Daily Telegraph GWCT report gives thumbs-up for pheasant release – Fieldsports News Police force stops issuing gun licences – Fieldsports News Welsh government bans trailhunting on its […]
Win night vision – Fieldsports Extra #196
You can win £200-worth of night vision in this week’s show. Plus we have our first live theatre show Fieldsports Live, plus Katie Hargreaves has put her print in our shop, and a deerstalker in Scotland is offering a bargain doe cull three days to any Fieldsports Nation supporter who can bring a non-shooting friend […]
The accidental partridge shoot
youtu.be/tUPre482uJM Shoots never go quite the way you expect. Fieldsports Nation supporter Henry Darling didn’t mean to set up a shoot. Not so soon, anyway. His family took over Place Farm, outside Norwich, a year ago. Henry got his rearing operation underway – and hoped that one day he might be shooting partridges on his […]
Ducks in England head for the banned list? – Fieldsports News, episode 625
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUkrPHypjo Here are the links: Natural England wants to put mallards on the banned list – publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6534172534636544 Packham faces court and media battles – basc.org.uk/rspb-loses-hen-harrier-judicial-review-2/ + countrysquire.co.uk/2021/11/15/packhams-wildheart-charity-lied-about-rescuing-tigers/ Zookeeper’s wife picks up £150,000 for decorating – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10202001/Charity-employing-Carrie-Johnson-paid-bosss-wife-150-000-design-services-accounts-show.html Police target stolen quadbikes and lurcher boys – Fcha.nl/police-target-stolen-quadbikes-and-lurcher-boys/ PETA pushed fake fur on guardsmen’s bearskins – Fcha.nl/bearskins Bird […]
Fieldsports Britain – Sussex Ratnado
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q-8aMXu14s David finds himself in a flailing maelstrom of terriers, vermin and men, women and children with sticks as he joins the Kent & Sussex Ratters for a farmyard foray. There are rats everywhere, and it’s their job to tease them out and into the smiling jaws of the terriers. On a more civilised level, […]
Wild meat goes mainstream – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 51
After years of telling them that wild meat is good for, it’s traceable and comes with low food miles, the mainstream is picking up on the importance of shooting your own supper. At the Scottish Game Fair 2021, Fife chef Chris Trotter brought together Mark Bush from local food marketing group Great Perthshire, who also […]
How releasing pheasants helps wildlife – report
Releasing pheasants is good for wildlife. That’s the headline of new research [PDF] by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – as long as shoots stick to its releasing guidelines. The in-depth resarch shows that the picture is complicated. The GWCT authors summarise it as, ‘negative effects are caused by the birds themselves while positive […]
Police target stolen quadbikes and lurcher boys
Some shocking footage has emerged of illegal hare-coursing in Bedfordshire this week pic.twitter.com/MCFkQPMdAw — Johann Tasker (@johanntasker) November 12, 2021 Police in Bedforshire have their hands full with illegal dog work. A shocking video on Twitter shows officers trying to catch suspected up to 100 lurcher boys. The Bedford Independent news website reports that dozens […]
Thermal / night vision event: Pulsar Digex C50 + Leica Calonox
youtu.be/zr3IxByMZuI Leica and Pulsar head to Braces of Bristol’s rifle range to talk about their new night vision and thermal scopes and spotters. Mark Karn from Leica shows off his new Calonox spotter and scope attachment, and Tom Gosbell from Thomas Jacks talks through the new Digex C50 scope. Click here for more on the […]
Win Gun Dog Gin – Fieldsports Extra #195
You can win £60-worth of Gundog Gin in this week’s show. Plus we look at quadbike theft, nightvision and thermal, and YouTube’s policy on them.This week’s prizes and links:Jack Pyke goodies For Gun Dog Gin, go to GunDogGin.co.uk + @gundogginClick here For the Zeiss competition,And click here to see that mink attack in fullThe Braces evening: […]
Famous Grouse artist – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 50
The man who gave us the grouse on the Famous Grouse bottle, Rodger McPhail is one of the top sporting artists in the UK. Charlie Jacoby talks to him at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at Ragley Hall, July 2021, about what it takes to be an artist, and whom he rates among other […]
How to choose a labrador puppy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NZdj0Jw5c David Templar of Countryways Gundogs is one of the top labrador experts in the UK. He explains to Ollie Williams how to choose a labrador puppy, what to look for in breeding, conformation and temperament, and what hip scoring means. Click here for more from David Templar Click here to go shooting with Ollie […]
Top gun line-up shoots high pheasants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTZos778MA Some of the most high-profile shots in the country come together for a Jack Pyke shoot day at the Upperwood Estate in the Peak District, including Andy Crow, Dan Thor, Jason Doyle, Paul Childerley, Wayne Martin and Brody Woollard. They are there to try high birds in a tricky breeze… and the banter and […]
Fieldsports Britain – driven shoot dream team
It’s the Marvel Guardians of the DC Beano comic galaxy shooters’ day at the Upperwood Estate in the Peak District. Everyone in the line-up of guns has their own superpower, including Andy Crow, Paul Childerley, Wayne Martin, Brody Woollard, Jason Doyle and Dan Thor. All of them are facing testing birds in a stiff wind, […]
Big-budget anti-hunting video – Fieldsports News, episode 624
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwfBupetgfo Here are the links: Hunters are scum – the movie – LinkedIn Northern Ireland anti hunting law published – Fieldsports News Sabs snap photos of children Animal rights activists plan Christmas pub massacre – YouTube Danish royals celebrate the hunting season – Daily Mail Livestock deaths enrage French farmers – La Depeche Norwegians fine […]
Jack Pyke goodie box – Fieldsports Extra #194
Jason Doyle delivers this week’s prize: a Jack Pyke goodie box fresh from the catalogue photo shoot at the Upperwood Estate in Yorkshire, where Crow, Jason, Paul Childerley, Brodie Woollard and Dan Thor enjoy fabulous pheasants. Plus we go upmarket: Ollie Williams explains why he looks like a 1930s film star and artist Katie Hargreaves […]
The Mightiest Mahseer – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 49
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODVprQAt8I There’s something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world – and especially the UK. Now, Norfolk angler Stephen Harper has produced The Mightiest Mahseer. Angling Trust ambassador Martin Salter is also a mahseer angler. He interviews Stephen about the fish, records, angling books, […]
Animal rights extremists tell fibs to MPs on parliament’s EFRA committee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcruzbbhQAo In early November 2021, antis had their day in front of MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. The Government in England proposes to ban the import of hunting trophies. EFRA is holding its own inquiry scrutinising the government’s planned Animals Abroad Bill. The antis who turned up included Dr Mark Jones, […]
National Trust votes to stop trailhunting – and nobody cares
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEZdY5IvCg By Ben O’Rourke A handful of League Against Cruel Sports supporters waved banners and shouted slogans as members of the National Trust made their way into the organisations annual general meeting at Harrogate convention centre on Saturday. LACS was hoping they would vote for a ban on trail hunting on Trust land, which they […]
How to fit your rifle to you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQRy44zo6BQ How do you get a comfortable fit with your rifle that improves accuracy? Josh McKeown from Braces of Bristol explains.We filmed this at the Braces of Bristol range. Braces offers a wide range of shooting products Go to BracesofBristol.com
Dramatic moose hunt with dogs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhdqtftYoI UK deer manager Paul Childerley is hunting moose in Swedish Lapland. He came close to seeing one in Finland a few years ago. This time we’ve travelled inside the Arctic Circle during the rut so he has a greater chance of a close encounter, especially as top guide, Peter Johansson, is looking after him. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul hunts Lapland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5NhNkWWWW4 Paul is in Swedish Lapland after his first moose. It’s the middle of the rut so if the impressive moose hounds can’t find the animals Paul could call them in… but with some practice. To add to the drama he’s borrowing a Sako 75 as customs confiscated his S20 at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. He […]
Magpies face shooting ban in Wales – Fieldsports News, episode 623
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LTzIYKCWg Here are the links: Welsh plan to restrict magpie shooting – consultation Hunt opening meets take place as National Trust plans ban – Facebook Scottish Government plans foxhunting clampdown – consultation + YouTube Animal rights extremists lie to Parliament – Fieldsports News Are police randomly revoking certificates? – BASC RFD gets suspended sentence for […]
Big fish – Fieldsports Extra #193
Win a £85 gunslip from Braces of Bristol, plus we talk tangled bucks, trailhunting, trophies and mahseer.This week’s prizes:Vortex Impact 1000 laser rangefinder priced at £221 from Baileys Shooting & Country WearShotgun slips from Braces of Bristol:How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon and Facebook simply comment with your answer in […]
Bill Harriman on the history of the bayonet – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 48
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nZGjspFeg Bill Harriman – whom you may recognise as an arms expert from BBC TV’s Antiques Roadshow – has written the definitive book on the bayonet. He discusses it with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the Game Fair, Ragley Hall, July 2021. Buy the book from Amazon Other ways to […]
Sewage in rivers forces government u-bend u-turn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMgNUYbE5M The River Windrush is a tourist attraction. But so many tourists are now coming to the river and staying in pretty Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds that they are polluting the very river they have come to see with their sewage. That would not be a problem, if only the water companies did something about […]
Ockbrook Gun Club – how to run a popular Sunday clayshoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nwq_e4Kxuc The Ockbrook Gun Club outside Derby celebrates its 50th birthday in 2021. So what is the secret of its longevity? Charlie Jacoby visits it to find out. Find OGC on the web or on Facebook
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s ropey buck endgame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JNdbT0XtOY The fallow buck with the rope tangled around its head is gnawing away at Roy Lupton – at least, the idea of it is. It’s so easy for a buck like that to get stuck on a tree and die a slow and horrible death. He knows he has to get out there to […]
Gun licensing shake-up – Fieldsports News, episode 622
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HzkK162H1k Here are the links: Medical gun checks in England now compulsory – FirearmsMedicalReports.co.uk + NGO + BASC + Daily Mail Wild Justice coughs up £10,000 for failed court case – BASC + Countryside Alliance + Wild Justice accounts Animal rights extremists climb DEFRA building – Daily Mail Mystery tyre slasher strikes in Gloucestershire – […]
Win a rangefinder – Fieldsports Extra #192
Win a £200 rangefinder from Baileys Shooting & Country Wear, plus deerstalking with Roy Lupton, staghunting on Exmoor and a visit to a gun club near Derby..This week’s prizes:Vortex Impact 1000 laser rangefinder priced at £221 from Baileys Shooting & Country WearJack Pyke Softshell Jacket Digicam £59.95Jack Pyke Softshell Trousers Digicam £51.95Jack Pyke Armour Top […]
Ian Coghill and why the UK’s Moorland Matters – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 47
youtu.be/13AJ1D54uYw Ian Coghill has written the book that the RSPB, the National Trust, Natural England and Wild Justice ought to read. But they won’t. He explains why moorland is so important to the UK, how gamekeepers have got it right when it comes to moorland management, and how the ‘conservation industry’ (the organisations just mentioned) […]
How to bore-sight your rifle
youtu.be/RMXUegkZlCA Introducing a new series of expert tips with Josh McKeown from Braces of Bristol. In this first of the series, Josh explains how to boresight your rifle to get the scope zeroed in as few as three shots. This was filmed at the Braces of Bristol range. Braces offers a wide range of shooting […]
Hunting the buck with rope around its antlers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQkgK7uGk0 It’s the fallow rut and Roy is out twice with his rifle. It’s a good time to see and maybe to take the big animals that spend the rest of the year invisible in woodland. It’s also a good time to shoot the sick, the injured and the unlucky, such as the buck that […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s fallow rut rescue
youtu.be/46MWAqsyOZc Roy Lupton has fallow trouble. The rut is underway but he keeps bumping into problem animals, and it his duty to deal with those. He is out with his rifle in Sussex. Meanwhile, Josh McKeown kicks of a new series for us about rifle skills, filmed at Braces of Bristol’s range. This week, he […]
Firearms licensing emerges from lockdown
Andrew – featured in the film above – had his certifivcate renewed on 12 August 2021. The police evn asked if her would like extra variations, and granted them. At the end of August, two armed officers turned up at his house and asked him, without explanation, to surrender his guns and his certificate. They […]
Antis terrify the wildlife – Fieldsports News, episode 621
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdB6CBacpzc Here are the links: Antis scare birds off bay – Facebook BASC rejects Packham attack – Fieldsports News Six shots to destroy stag – Cornwall live Master of hounds fined £1,000 – ITV National Trust bosses want a trailhunting ban. How to stop them: Countryside Alliance Police parade broken flintlock – Twitter Guntrader’s new […]
Scotland’s angriest grouse – Fieldsports Extra #191
This week’s show features a duck with rice breast, Scotland’s angriest grouse, and David crawls through the litter on the forest floor and wonders what he is doing with his life. Plus we give away a Jack Pyke shooting outfit priced at £150. This week’s prizes:Jack Pyke Softshell Jacket Digicam £59.95Jack Pyke Softshell Trousers Digicam £51.95Jack […]
BASC rejects Packham attack on shooting
Shooting organisation BASC has hit back at BBC TV presenter Chris Packham’s attack on shooters and gamekeepers. BASC spokesman Garry Doolan says it is ‘ludicrous’ to suggest BASC encourages online abuse. He says: “We call out Chris Packham for his comments in The Times newspaper, where he admits that he is inciting and inflaming people […]
Busting rifle barrels – Fieldtester, episode 11
youtu.be/uMGxpOal-IYHow much damage can you do to a rifle before it blows up? We take a .243, .270 and a .308, and we do terrible things to them. First up, we shorten the barrel with an angle grinder (no crowning) and see what that does to accuracy. Then we try firing a rifle with a […]
How are your foxes doing, Tony Blair? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 46
youtu.be/NLhWeh0Rk7A In 2004, Tony Blair restricted hunting with hounds because, he said, it was good for the welfare of the fox. Since then, some estimates put UK fox numbers down 40%. Former head of the League Against Cruel Sports Jim Barrington and journalist Richard Negus want to know if Blair was right or wrong. Plus […]
Hunts feel the heat – Fieldsports News, episode 620
Here are the links: Sabs step up attacks on hunts – ITV Is Packham ‘burning car’ for real? – Twitter Antis declare open season on UK country people RSPB lashes out at muirburn – RSPB [PDF] Goose lands on shooter – Facebook Camp Beagle costs £200,000 – Hunts Post Gamedealer faces planning battle – Horsham […]
Gorgeous walked-up ptarmigan over setters in Swedish Lapland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gITICgdFho It’s one of the finest sporting outings a shooter can enjoy. Paul goes walked-up ptarmigan shooting over setters in Swedish Lapland. The birds are beautiful, the other wildlife amazing, the scenery is wild and the nearest beer is two days’ walk, which is why you need a helicopter to get in and out of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s Arctic ptarmigan hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgLnmfln5w We have wild sport for you this week. Paul is on the high ground of Swedish Lapland, walking up ptarmigan over setters. It is some of the most magnificent country he has had the pleasure to shoot. Meanwhile, stalking guide John Dodd calls in sika stags for his guest He Li in the spruce […]
Swarovski launches 2-in-1 thermal spotter and scope add-on
Swarovski has moved into the thermal market. Its new TM35 is an add-on that mounts on the front of your scope, and doubles up as a standalone spotter. Swarovski calls it a two-in-one device, offering both observation and shooting. The TM35 will be available from spring 2022 at a retail price of €4,800. That’s one-and-a-half […]
Packattack – Fieldsports Extra #190
Two major attacks on our way of life in the last week: the Beaufort hounds and the Chris Packham burning vehicle. How do we fight back in the media? I have a few ideas. Plus you can win Vario hearing protection priced at £650, and David goes to Sweden with Paul to look for ptarmigan. LinksBeaufort […]
Daniel Zeichner MP, shadow environment secretary – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 45
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS2J_pw09NI You can’t win an election without winning rural seats. That’s Sir Keir Starmer’s credo. The man he has appointed to shadow the countryside is Daniel Zeichner MP, and he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre tent. It’s all part of Labour’s Rural England Policy Review. Take part in Labour’s Rural England Policy […]
Close-quarters sika stags
How do you whistle in a sika stag? It’s the sika rut in North-West Scotland. Deer manager John Dodd takes two guests out to stalk them. The guests have packed their rifles. Both of them are using Blaser R8. If you are planning a similar trip and you pack two other vital accessories for woodland […]
Beautiful Scottish stag stalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1CDEPg2fRg Towering hills, roaring stags, wily hinds: Mark Karn won’t be defeated. Leica’s UK sports optics boss is after a stag during the rut on ground near the north coast of Sutherland. For more about Leica, search #LeicaHunting More from #LeicaHunting here:
Fieldsports Britain – rutting stags special
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1Bq2V0YVY Autumn is a tough time for stags. Both red stags and sika stags are trying to hold hinds. In Scotland, the reds are roaring on the hillsides and the sikas whistling in the woods. We are out after both. Plus we show how to use a hatchet, and you could win a .410 shotgun. […]
Sabs carry rocks to hit hunters – Fieldsports News, episode 619
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oho8J69_q-k Here are the links: Sabs buzz bricks at hunters – Facebook Police ask for opinions about gun licensing – APCCS Wild Justice’s pheasant season war dance – Wild Justice Packham promotes beer to Twitter followers – Twitter RSPB cash call fails – Facebook Richard Prior dies – YouTube Sea eagles nab lambs – Farmers […]
