Fieldsports Britain – Pheasant Shoot Coach
Sam Green has gone from kid with an airgun to FTASC world champion. We join him on a shoot day outside Peterborough where he joins an old friend, James, coaching and shooting. See how he does that by keeping the message simple. Plus we’re off to Scotland for another chatty shooter. Eoghan Cameron is BASC […]
British Shooting Show, 14-16 February 2020, at the NEC Birmingham
Buy your tickets online, or call the ticket hotline on 0844 8737 332 Show dates: 14, 15 and 16 February 2020 Show opens 9am-4.30pm on all three days Car parking is free at the NEC for all British Shooting Show visitors All accompanied children ages 15 and under visit free of charge (at organisers’ discretion) […]
Deer reaction to being shot
Some fall over. Some run – even though they may both have been shot in the same place. Roy Lupton is out stalking fallow for the freezer. He looks at why deer react differently to shots. Roy uses this kit Ammunition: .20-06 Sako Gamehead Pro, 117-grain softpoint Scope: Leica 6.5-26×56 Rifle: Sako 85
Deer are dead, long live trees
The Scottish Government is putting public safety at risk, and wasting tens of thousands of taxpayers’ pounds littering the countryside with fencing. It has shown it is incapable of managing Scotland’s deer herds. Now it is doubling down, with tens of millions of pounds-worth of contracts to shoot the deer, and a report from its […]
Fieldsports Britain – Demonising Deer
The Scottish government wants to wipe out half of Scotland’s deer species and most of the animals left after that. Its advisors are calling for state control of wildlife, and Nicola Sturgeon is ready to listen. Niall Rowantree, deer manager on the Ardnamurchan Estate, explains how the government has got it wrong – plus where […]
Wild Justice attacks pheasant shooting – Fieldsports News, 22 January 2020
Here are the links: Wild Justice tries to close down game-shooting – press release Anti claims to be convicted murderer – Twitter Male sab says “I’ve just come out of prison for murder & I’ll go in again” as he touches a female steward’s breast whilst calling her a “Fucking Bastard” You can also […]
British bowhunters abroad
Gary Rawlings takes his sport to South Africa. He is a British bowhunter – which is a banned sport in the UK, so he goes out after kudu and warthog. Find out how he gets on. ▶ To go hunting with Guy Swart, visit WildHorizon.co.za ▶ For the British Bowhunters Association, visit BritishBowhunterAssociation.co.uk
Operation Squirrel
They destroy trees, they eat eggs and chicks in the nest, and they carry a virus that kills our native red squirrels. What kind of monsters are they? They are grey squirrels, and Roy Lupton is on mission to make a dent in their population. If you haven’t already, it’s time to dust off the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s crackdown on greys
Save a red – shoot a grey. Is this Manchester United vs Norwich City? Nope – it’s Roy Lupton’s conservation call to the nation and it’s all about squirrels. The airgunners of Anglesey did it. They successfully shot all the grey squirrels on the island and made it safe for red squirrels, which are doing […]
Antis hunt down Love Island star – Fieldsports News, 15 January 2020
Love Island contestant axed over trophy hunting snaps – The Independent Masked antis arrested – Countryside Alliance Swedish and English join Irish – Limerick Leader Judge cleared of attacking hunt protestors – Daily Mail Muntjac symposium – British Deer Society Forestry Commission takes deer management in-house – job ads here and here Environmentalists threaten […]
Crow’s big Essex driven day
The partridges are flying – and so is Andy Crow. He changes over his Blaser F16 12-bore for a 20-bore and keeps up with the best of them at Badnocks Farm Shoot in Essex. Click here for shooting availability at Badnocks Farm Shoot Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or Blaser.de ▶ Gamebore […]
Quick-draw Paul culls three deer in seconds
Paul Childerley is looking after his ground in Gloucestershire. He was there the other day to shoot roe and ran into muntjac. This time he is back for roe and roe alone. ▶ To go stalking with Paul, contact paul@childerleysporting.co.uk▶ Click here for all our films with Paul Paul is sponsored by▶ Shooterking▶ Sako▶ Zeiss
RSPCA’s dog grabbing fundraiser
By Ben O’Rourke Dog lover Julie Wright has spent the last five years without her healthy, well-kept and loving dogs, Jack and Homer. In 2014, after reviewing her activity on Facebook, RSPCA workers and police raided Mrs Wright’s Berkshire house. The RSPCA told police they suspected Mrs Wright trained the dogs for dogfighting and […]
Fieldsports Britain – super 20-bore partridge shoot
Andy Crow goes the whole partridge. He is in Essex, swapping his trusty 12-bore for a 20-bore and enjoying a driven day of these fast-flying birds. It’s all about speed for Paul Childerley, too. He has to make a culling decision about three roe deer on his ground in Gloucestershire. Find out how he gets […]
The dangers of mixing shotgun shells
Accidentally put a 20-bore cartridge down a 12-bore barrel and the result could be tragic. Andy Crow explains the risks.
Hunting channels Down Under – YouTube rankings
A paradise for sportsmen and women awaits down under – and local YouTubers have been good at taking advanatage of it. From South Island’s mountain hunting for chaois and tahr to the buffalo of Northern Queensland, these are the hunting YouTube channels to watch, ranked in order. Hogs Dogs Quads is putting on weight. Its […]
Pheasant shooting with a world champion
World champion Amy Easeman is pheasant shooting. We join her for a day on her dad’s shooting Buckinghamshire. Find out how she gets on – and what the other guns think of shooting with a top shot. ▶ Click here for more about Amy’s Browning B725 Sporter Black Edition shotgun ▶ Click here for […]
Fieldsports Britain – Andy Crow’s Gun Giveaway
We are giving away Andy Crow’s Blaser F16 shotgun to one lucky winner. Find out who it is in this week’s episode of #FieldsportsBritain. Plus we are out pheasant shooting with world champion Amy Easeman. Find out what makes her tick, what makes her a great shot, and join her on an evening’s deerstalking, […]
European hunting channels YouTube ranking
Europe’s hunting channels were quicker than the Americans to see the potential in YouTube. Perhaps that is because Europe has always found it hard to sustain specialist interest hunting channels on cable and satellite TV. Now there is a distribution platform that provides the audience of TV for a specialist magazine advertising market. The problem […]
Bowhunting business YouTube channel ranking
No change in the ranking for bowhunting businesses. Hoyt and Bear have lost some ground on the Socialblade ranking overall, but stay in first and third place. Mathews has gained ground and stays in second. Muzzy Broadheads has slipped two places up from bottom of the table past Martin and Rexpid. Back to Gun & […]
Hunting apparel business YouTube channel ranking
Realtree remains in top position – but for how much longer? US company KUIU more than doubled its views in 2019. Meanwhile, UK clothing company Barbour is making a fast ascent, from sixth place last year to second this year, despite its low subscriber count. Barbour has been investing in films promoting its collections, including […]
Ammunition manufacturer YouTube channel ranking
Ammunition manufacturers ranking remains mainly unchanged. Hornady is more than double the size of its nearest competitor on YouTube, so hard to catch. Nosler has now overtaken RWS to reach third place, putting US companies in the top three positions. The list hides the investment that several companies have made in other, consumer channels, such […]
Airgun manufacturer/distributor YouTube channel ranking
The retailers dominate the airgun company YouTube channel list. Replica Airguns continues its dominance of the airgun manufacturing/distribution sector. The hybrid editorial/shop channel is a long way ahead of the competition. In second, third and fourth places, Airguns of Arizona, Pyramydair and Airgun Depot continue to vie for places, with the latter moving up a […]
North American hunting channels YouTube ranking
This is the list of top North American hunting channels on YouTube. European hunting channels’ domination of YouTube is over. The Americans are late to the party but are capturing swathes of audience on YouTube. You want to be a popular hunter in the US? Start by being a young, cute boy. Cute girls need […]
Shooting/gun accessories companies YouTube channel ranking
FoxPro takes the top slot, moving up the Socialblade rank from third place, where it is replaced by previous winner Primos Hunting. Televisually, bird and animal calling companies have an advantage over other accessories companies, because their products lend themselves to popular films on YouTube. Foxpro has almost doubled its subscriber count on YouTube in […]
Hunting/shooting retailer YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. Brownells from the US keeps its number one position for the second year running. It takes its TV seriously – as does the Gun Shop, Botley, from the UK, which is moving into second place. The major climber is Cabela’s, recently […]
Optics company YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. There was little change in the rankings of the optics companies on YouTube in 2019. Ultimate Night Vision dominates the scene, with ATN and Aimpoint in second and third. ATN has almost doubled its YouTube subscriber count in a year. Aimpoint […]
YouTube gun channel ranking
This is the list of top gun channels on YouTube. If you take YouTube to be a marker for general cultural popularity, gun channels are holding their own. Guns as TV entertainment saw a huge surge from 2018 to 2019, almost doubling in viewing popularity against other non-gun channels on YouTube. The index slipped back […]
Knifemaker YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top knifemaker channels on YouTube. From knife-sharpening how-to videos to films about using knives in the field, they are vying with each other to be the top YouTube channel out there. YouTube’s knifemakers are holding their own. The major change in 2020 is Victorinox’s disappearance from the top three. Cold […]
Airgun YouTube channel ranking
There was a time when airgun channels had the highest views of all the shooting sports channels on YouTube. Some of the gloss has come off that in recent years but the accessibility of airguns makes this a sport for a wide public. Little movement in the top five airgun channels during 2019: Matt Dubber’s […]
Firearms manufacturers/distributors YouTube channel ranking
Here are the firearms companies’ rankings on YouTube. 2019 was a good year for European gun manufacturers on YouTube – thanks to a little help from across their US subsidiaries and partner companies. Sig Sauer, which won the lucrative US military handgun contract, is now reaping the benefits of its marketing spend, taking the top […]
Survivalist/Prepper/Bushcraft YouTube channel ranking
Bushcrafters, survivalists and preppers are marginally attached to the hunting/shooting industry. They are included here because they tend to have much larger audiences than pure hunting channels, putting them not far behind the gun channels for sheer weight of viewership. They offer a ‘lifestyle’ version of the hunting story, embedded in the countryside. Wranglerstar has […]
Great Irish pheasant shooting in Co Offaly
How do birds fly in Ireland? Jason Doyle has a day with the Castle Fieldsports Syndicate in Co Offaly. See how he gets on. For more from Castle Fieldsports, email Liam Kenehan at castlefieldsports@gmail.com For more about Rizzini, go to A-S-I.co.uk For Jason’s Gamebore cartridges, go to Gamebore.com Jason wears Jack Pyke clothing. Visit JackPyke.co.uk
Jason’s new pheasant gun – Fieldsports Ireland episode 17
Jason Doyle has a day with the Castle Fieldsports syndicate in Co Offaly, where guns, beaters, pickers-up and even the pheasants muck in to make a great driven day. He is trying out his new Rizzini – and the plan comes together. That’s not all. Jason also completes his PRS series by taking a look […]
Antis’ anger at foxhunting popularity
More than a quarter of a million people braved wet weather to support their local hunt up and down the country this Boxing Day. Those against the sport reacted angrily in the media, calling for a strengthening of the ban they brought in with the 2004 Hunting Act. Speaking at the Tiverton Foxhounds’ Boxing Day […]
Bloopers 2019
You’ve seen the ups. Here are the downs. These are all the outtakes from a year of making films on Fieldsports Channel. No animals were harmed…
Fieldsports Britain – Roy and Crow’s Swanky Swedish Hunt
Roy Lupton and Andy Crow are on a driven day, thanks to Aimpoint in Sweden. They are shooting deer and boar – and they are using shotguns on the deer, which they have not done before. The hunt protects farmland and local golf courses. There’s a competition, too, to win an Aimpoint Micro H-2, priced […]
High-speed driven deer hunt with shotguns
How good is the Aimpoint Micro H-2? Let’s find out on a driven hunt, using shotguns on close-range deer and rifles on boar. Aimpoint takes Andy Crow and Roy Lupton into the woods of Sweden to find out. They have seen the factory, now they get to use the kit. Find out how they get […]
Buff and bear – African Hunter, episode 5
A high-octane buffalo hunt, a blue wildebeest, and even a bear. We are hunting across South Africa and Canada. Eugene Etsabeth of Nonya Safaris in the Limpopo Province is guiding Swedish hunter Alexandra Hellstrom after waterbuck. Riaan Hoffman, of Ryan Hunting Safaris is guiding client Bernie Hunter after a Cape buffalo in Limpopo Province. […]
No grouse-shooting ban says Werritty report
The Scottish government is not minded to ban grouse-shooting, says a source, following publication of a government report [PDF] into grouse-shooting by Professor Alan Werritty. It is undecided about licensing grouse-moors. Delayed for publication since the summer, the Werritty report recommends a licensing system for the use of medicated grit, for mountain hare culls and […]
Boris’s big plans for hunting and shooting
It’s a big year for shooting sports in the UK parliament. Newly-elected prime minister Boris Johnson will rule on whether we can go pigeon shooting, deer stalking and shooting overseas – and that’s just the start. It was a good election for hunting and shooting – but will it be a good 2020? We talk […]
Muntjac hunting secret weapon
Paul Childerley has a special call he has not revealed on Fieldsports Channel before. All of his deerstalking friends have their secret techniques, but Paul’s closely-guarded muntjac call is the best of them all, he reckons. He tries it out on a management hunt in Gloucestershire. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Zeiss ▶ Shooterking ▶ […]
Fieldsports Britain – deer manager at work
Nothing glamorous about this: Paul is doing his rounds with his rifle, looking for cull deer. On this ground in Gloucestershire, he might see muntjac, roe deer and fallow deer. In the end, he gets close to a muntjac and unleashes his special call to bring it closer. Meanwhile, the general election puts all shooting […]
UK General Election 2019 – pro-hunt MPs in, antis out
The 12 December 2019 election night was an excellent night for hunting and shooting, as three out of four target antis lost their seats, and five top countrysports supporters kept theirs. The night also saw grouseshooting defender Rishi Sunak hold his Richmond (Yorkshire) seat and Mark Spencer his Sherwood seat. Former Labour MP and ex […]
How to butcher a small deer – quickly, cleanly and easily
How do you get the most from a small deer in the shortest possible time? Paul Childerley shows how to butcher a Chinese water deer, one of the world’s smaller deer. The result: tasty loin, backstrap and haunch. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Zeiss ▶ Shooterking ▶ To go stalking with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk
Aimpoint gun sights: how they build them
Roy Lupton and Andy Crow go behind the scenes at the Aimpoint factory in Sweden to see how those ingenious Swedes build their gun sights, and how those gun sights work. Some of it is secret. Roy and Andy reveal the basics, plus they prepare for an outing shooting driven roe. ▶ For more from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy and Crow go to the Aimpoint factory
How do Aimpoint gun sights work? We send Roy Lupton and Andy Crow to the factory in Sweden to find out. Shooting’s answer to Eric & Ernie tries out the latest kit and learns the basics behind the most revolutionary advance in optics in the last 50 years. That’s not all. Paul Childerley gets a […]
Packham raises the grouse-shooting temperature
Animal rights campaigners are making a big push on the Scottish government ahead of a report into the sport of grouseshooting. BBC TV’s Chris Packham and the RSPB are among those who want a ban. However, sources at Holyrood say that Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is sitting on the ‘Werritty report’ into grouseshooting until […]
Can you discipline your dog?
A seven-year legal battle between two gundog trainers has come to an end. At its heart is the question whether you can physically discipline your dog when training it, or if you should only be allowed to use reward-based training. The final court case, on Friday 6 December 2019, was an appeal at Plymouth Law […]
New launch: Merkel K5 break-barrel rifle
by Charlie Jacoby Generally, I like the sleek, new single-shot break-barrel rifle from Merkel. The company lent it to me for a week of red hind stalking in Argyllshire (my film is at the bottom of this review). It is designed as a ‘mountain’ rifle: lightweight and with the break-barrel rifle’s reputation for greater accuracy […]
