Why push and pull when you can twist? – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Top clay shot Ben Husthwaite does the hokey-cokey to explain how to shoot clay pigeons better. He says shooters (right-handed) are too keen to use their left hand to push and pull the gun barrels on to the target – and that’s a bad habit. ▶ Smokin’ Targets is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ For […]
On Test: seven different carbon-stock rifles
Gun reviewer Tim Pilbeam has more than £50,000-worth of rifles to test. He looks at the latest carbon rifles from manufacturers including Blaser, Mauser, Sauer, Sako, Browning, Christensen Arms and Dane & Co – and a Canyon bike. ▶ Blaser R8 Carbon Success ▶ Browning Bolt Pro Carbon ▶ Christensen Arms Ridgeline ▶ Sauer 404 […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tim’s crackers about carbon rifles
New materials are revolutionising rifles. The same carbon technology that’s creating amazing new bicycles, tennis rackets and fishing rods has come to guns. Tim gathers together seven examples, from Browning, Blaser, Sako, Sauer, Mauser and Dane & Co, gives them all the once-over and looks at increasing his carbon footprint. We are also reporting form […]
How to prepare for shooting – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Top clay shot Ben Husthwaite explains the pre-shot routine: what you need to do to get ready to go shooting. ▶ Smokin’ Targets is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ For more from Ben, visit Facebook.com/benhusthwaite ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here This item appears on […]
Rifle skills with Browning: shooting beyond 1,000 metres
Want to shoot super-accurately at more than half a mile? Browning brings the new X-Bolt Pro and Winchester XPR to WMS Firearms Training in West Wales, where Andrew Venables shows some of the UK’s top gundealers how to do it. ▶ For more about Browning’s and Winchester’s ranges of new rifles, visit Browning.eu ▶ To […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crunch Week for Pigeonshooting
The UK government may or may not restrict pigeonshooting and other pest control this week. It all depends what we, the shooters, tell them. There are three ways to get your message across to the bureaucrats:Email DEFRA direct: glevidence@defra.gov.ukFill our our survey: Fcha.nl/2019surveyFill out BASC’s survey: Research.net/r/BASC-GLsurveyDespite what the British government is trying to do […]
General licences protestors plan London march
Shooters, farmers and other country people are planning a London March on Saturday 29 June 2019. It starts at 11am at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, and heads for Westminster. Here is one of the organisers explaining it: Called The Countryside Rally 2019, its main method of communication to protestors is Facebook. The UK’s countryside is […]
Now Natural England mucks up the new general licences
The first of the new general licences is not fit for purpose, the second ‘appalling’. That’s what shooting organisations are telling Natural England. The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation condemns a new general licence for controlling crows in England as “hurried, botched and completely unfit for purpose.” Meanwhile, BASC chairman Peter Glenser QC says its drafting is […]
First look at the new general licences
Two shooters – the same problem. How do they shoot pest birds legally? Shooter A is a pest controller on a large arable farm in the South of England. He followed the advice on the Natural England website. Last week, Natural England said new general licences were coming out last Monday. They didn’t. An unworkable […]
Not a very ‘Good Morning Britain’ with Chris Packham
As the general licences chaos rumbles on, Packham has been on British television at his manipulating worst. Speaking to Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, he has been manipulating the truth, claming there are no records of pest birds. That’s a lie. The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has been keeping a pest bird census […]
Fieldsports Britain – General Licences Havoc
Crow’s out after jackdaws just before the government withdraws the general licences. He has a good day – but he explains what the havoc caused by Chris Packham means for farmers. Cai Ap Bryn is cooking pigeon and rabbit, and showing how to do it to a group of people who didn’t realise wild meat […]
Crow hits the jackdaws – just before Packham’s ban – Crowhow
Andy Crow has one more chance to shoot the jackdaws and keep them off his bean crop. The jackdaws are digging up and eating the young beans. The problem today is that the UK government – forced by animal rights activist Chris Packham – is about to ban pest bird shooting. The government agency concerned, […]
The appetite for game meat – Hunt & Cook
You’d be amazed how many people don’t know the first thing about meat they can shoot for themselves. That’s what makes Cai Ap Bryn’s outdoor cookery courses so attractive. We join him on a Game &B Flames course in Sussex woodland and find out how to prepare pigeon and rabbit. ▶ This item is […]
Knife buyer’s guide
Knife maker Phil Siddell explains the three things to look for in a new knife: tang, steel and edge geometry. ▶ Find Phil on Instagram Instagram.com/wellington_blade_works ▶ His new website is WellingtonBladeworks.com ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here This item appears on YouTube in […]
Sea Eagles take lambs: Fieldsports News, 1 May 2019
Here is this week’s news stump: ▶ Sea eagles catch lambs ▶ Packham manipulates the media ▶ Piers Morgan’s anti-hunting crusade ▶ Game meat feeds the homeless ▶ Lurcher man gets prison for deer attacks ▶ Beaver shooting banned in Scotland ▶ Scottish salmon die in algal bloom ▶ Knights Order of St John […]
Piers Morgan blathers at elephant hunter
Celebrity anti-hunting campaigner Piers Morgan is floored on his own chat show, by a hunter who calmly explains to him how the maths of elephant hunting works. Morgan loses his temper with big game hunter Ron Thomson on the ITV show Good Morning Britain, who quietly justifies his reasoning for shooting around 5,000 elephants over […]
Skinning and butchering a deer, start to finish, with John Griffin
Here’s a masterclass on how to skin and butcher a deer. Jason Doyle meets game butcher John Griffin and they talk through the process part by part. ▶ Click here to watch Jason and his buddy Daniel stalking and shooting this deer ▶ Click here to watch Jason’s video about gralloching ▶ John’s YouTube channel […]
Hooded up for hoodie shooting
Hooded crows (grey crows in Ireland) are coming into a farmer’s shed and stealing cattle feed – but they are wily. In the latest of his Wild Wing Shooting series, that’s why Jason Doyle is disguised as a ninja, hiding out and waiting for them. Plus he using the new Benelli 828U Sporter. ▶ Gamebore […]
Deer: from Field to Freezer
Jason is guiding a friend, Daniel, on his first sika deer. Sika deer were introduced to Co Wicklow in 1860 and quickly became the county’s most prolific deer. Daniel is after a yeld hind and, once he has it, we go to butcher John Griffin to find out how to cut it up […]
Gralloching a deer, start to finish, with Jason Doyle
Jason Doyle grallochs a deer: a sika hind his friend Daniel has just shot. ▶ here to watch Jason and his buddy Daniel stalking and shooting this deer ▶ Click here for the skinning and butchery This item appears in Fieldsports Ireland, episode 9 Fcha.nl/fieldsportsireland9 Click here for all of our Fieldsports Ireland shows Join […]
Shooting grey crows – Fieldsports Ireland, episode 9
There’s a farm with a hoodie problem – the grey crows are nicking the cattle feed, so Jason Doyle is out to stop them, and he is using a new Benelli. Also for Fieldsports Ireland episode 9, Jason is guiding a friend, Daniel, on a sika deer stalk. Shooting the animal is fairly simple. Then […]
Nuclear power stations pause pest control
There are unconfirmed reports that England’s nuclear power stations have cancelled pest control while Natural England solves the general licences debacle. Under pressure from animal rights activists, Natural England introduced a ban on pest bird shooting on 25 April 2019. Read the full story here. Pest control is essential for the smooth running of nuclear […]
‘Don’t Sack Packham’ hits 100,000 just before ‘Sack Packham’
A petition on the petitions website Change.org, asking the BBC to sack its star presenter Chris Packham, is on course to hit 100,000 signatures in 72 hours. An opposing petition on the environmental activist network 38 Degrees, asking the BBC not to sack Packham, and started three years ago, is slightly ahead on numbers. It […]
Who will get sacked: Gove, Packham or Marian Spain?
Heads will roll. MPs furious about the general licences debacle want sackings. Most likely to lose their jobs are Marian Spain, acting chief executive Natural England – and Chris Packham, who has had 140,000 signatures calling for the BBC to sack him. The reason is that Natural England gave England’s 400,000 shooters just 48 hours […]
Best of British: the shooting suit
Everything you always wanted to know about shooting suits: the tweed, the cut, the options. Charlie Jacoby meets Justin Block of Justin Block Tailoring to find out what the well-dressed English pheasant shooter is wearing. ▶ Justin’s website is JustinBlockTailoring.co.uk ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click […]
Marsupial pest hunt
Wallabies are an agricultural pest on New Zealand. They came from Australia, and now it is up to Kiwis to control them. Scottish deerstalker Niall Rowantree goes after the 3ft ‘rabbits’. This film is supported by: ▶ Magic Safari Lodges MagicSafariLodges.com ▶ Leica Sports Optics Leica-Camera.com/Sport-Optics ▶ Blaser Blaser.de ▶ Spartan JavelinBipod.co.uk ▶ Nomad UK […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wallaby Control
Scottish deerstalker Niall Rowantree is in New Zealand to deal with a local pest problem. Wallabies and possums, imported from Australia and released, are wreaking havoc on the islands. He shows what a problem agricultural pests can be. Plus we find out the latest on the general licences debacle: Natural England has banned the shooting […]
Gamekeepers fight wildlife: Fieldsports Channel News, 24 April 2019
General licences shambles Fcha.nl/generallicences Should gamekeepers be compulsory? ALF kills more pheasants The Times takes on a 27-year-old YouTuber Yorkshire beavers Josh James Kiwi Bushman gets shot at Credit card pistol Russian sells seal sausages Kiwi deerhunter pranks McDonalds Piranhas turn up near Doncaster For a full news round-up, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/fieldsportsnews
The Times can’t crush a shooter called Callum
The Times of London might once have been called the Thunderer and brought down governments – but now it is engaged in a war of words with a 27-year-old YouTuber called Callum. In an article in March 2019 under the headline ‘Shooting group faces losing charitable status’, The Times chief reporter Sean O’Neill demonises the […]
White deer shows itself in Michigan
Magical, mysterious, white deer evoke a reaction wherever they are seen. The classic ‘white hart’ of British myth is an albino red stag or fallow buck. In April 2019, An American captured this photo of an albino deer in Michigan, USA. There are places where leucism in deer happens regularly. In 2009, Dumfries & Galloway […]
Animal Lib Front slaughters more birds
After cutting the wire on a game farm in Wiltshire and driving 5,000 pheasants to roost unprotected on the ground, where they are easy prey for foxes, the Animal Liberation Front has done the same for 9,000 birds in Suffolk. ALF claims it cut the wire at Heath Hatcheries in Suffolk during the Easter […]
Blundering Bradford bureaucrats massacre grouse
Bradford Council’s mismanagement of Ilkley Moor has killed more grouse in a single day than a season of grouse-shooting. That’s the accusation levelled at the council by local shooters and gamekeepers, as wildfire rips across the moor at the height of the bird breeding season. On day one, Easter Saturday, firefighters left two fires burn […]
US politician plans trophy ban
An American politician has introduced a bill to Congress that will see the end of most trophy imports. A democrat congressman from Arizona, Raúl Grijalva, introduced Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act (CECIL Act). Its main aim is to amend the existing Endangered Species Act (ESA) to ban the unpermitted […]
Grousemoors are curlew’s last refuge
Endangered curlews are safest on grousemoors. That’s the claim of one of the world’s top habitat researchers, ahead of World Curlew Day. An international scientist claims the ability of the endangered curlew to cling on in Scotland and beyond could lie in the hands of gamekeepers managing key moorland habitats. Dr Daniel Hoffman, a biogeographer […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hare Hunting in the Heat
Tim Pilbeam is off to sample farm pest control jobs in Argentina – stalking axis deer and lamping hares. When you run a farm in the tropics, there’s a huge weight of wildlife that wants to munch your pasture and your crops – and the heat doesn’t make it any easier. Accompanied by Carlos, Tim […]
Super Shropshire Sim Clay Day – Crowhow
Andy Crow loves his clay shooting and he loves his game shooting, so what better way to spend a spring day than combining the two. He is off to Shropshire for a sim clay day, in the company of friends including Brody Woollard. This kind of shooting is all about technique, as Brody and Crow […]
South American farm pest control – Rucksack & Rifle
South American wildlife – it’s all just a little bit different, requires new skills – and Tim Pilbeam is the man with the Rucksack & Rifle. He is out on a farm in Argentina, with the mission of culling some of the axis deer and hares that are eating their way through the local pasture. […]
‘Heath on Fire OK!’ campaign
Scottish gamekeepers are promoting their ‘Heath on Fire OK!’ campaign. Backed by sporting estates and gamekeepers across the country, the initiative raises awareness of why Scotland’s heather-clad hills are burning, demonstrating how muirburn – the controlled burning of heather – protects habitat and bird species. Muirburn largely takes place in the spring and often raises […]
Vegan posterboy says he wants to go hunting
A YouTube star who gave up veganism after claiming the diet made him sick says he would now hunt animals Tim Shieff, 31, from London told presenters on ITV’s This Morning show that his vegan diet made him ill. The YouTuber, a world champion freerunner and winner of the Ninja Warrior TV show, who was […]
Gamekeepers are good for mountain hares
Bad news for Chris Packham – mountain hares thrive on grousemoors, says new research. Mountain hares are regularly shot on Scottish moorland managed for grouse-shooting. However, concerns that large-scale culls of mountain hares on grouse moors are contributing to population declines are unfounded. The researchers from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust found that hare […]
New record moose
The moose and its close relation, the European elk, range across the tundra and subarctic of the northern hemisphere, with several subspecies. Occasionally, a hunter shoots a record moose and – just declared – a 52-year-old hunter from the US state of Washington has set a world record for Shiras moose. Shiras is one of […]
Rhino poachers get 25 years
Three convicted rhino poachers have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each. The judge in the Makhanda (Grahamstown) High Court in South Africa handed down the sentences to 40-year-old Forget Ndlovu, 38-year-old Jabulani Ndlovu and 37-year-old Skhumbuzo Ndlovu (pictured). They faced more than 50 charges related to the poaching of 13 rhinos across the Eastern […]
Record Florida python – Fieldsports News, 10 April 2019
▶ Death threats for hunting guide ▶ Poacher killed by elephant ▶ Vegans are ‘shameful and un-Australian’ ▶ Hunters kill 17ft python in Florida ▶ Cormorant gobbles big trout ▶ Artifishal: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon Patagonia.com/artifishal ▶ Cornish cat ‘at least the size of an Alsatian’ ▶ Charlie fights for big game hunting […]
Inflatable angry men – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 6
David Wright talks about his time up in the highlands with Niall Rowantree and the ways the Scottish government are trying to reduce the amount of lamb attacks from the sea eagles. Niall is the man behind our successful series A Year in the Life of Red Deer, and he and David are now filming […]
€30k fine and a year in prison for obstructing a French hunt
Obstruction of hunting is now an offence in France. A new measure passed on 11 April 2019 by the French Senate says that hindering or preventing a hunting party now leads to one year in prison and a 30,000 euro fine. Before this law, police issued tickets to offenders. For the past year, French hunts […]
Antis’ fake petition forces pheasant ban
A Freedom of Information request from the Countryside Alliance has discovered the recent petition to ban pheasant shooting on Welsh public land was manipulated by people outside of Wales, resulting in a direct impact on Welsh Government policy decisions. Of 12,706 signatures, only 1,487 had Welsh postcodes, with a staggering 88.3% of the total signatures […]
Stalking Success: Imogen’s first deer
Paul Childerley guides hunters, new, old, experienced and, in this case, practically vegetarian. Imogen has not only not shot a deer before, she doesn’t even eat meat from anything other than fish. But she likes to know where her food comes from, and that’s why she wants to try deerstalking. It gives her lean, healthy […]
Fieldsports Britain – Vegetarian Changes her Mind
Imogen is a pescatarian not a true veggie – but she cares about what she eats, and she has decided that wild game is fat-free, processing-free, drug-free and sustainable. So, she is out with Paul Childerley in Bedfordshire on her first ever deerstalking outing. Find out how she gets on and whether she can cope. […]
Top hunting YouTuber accidentally shoots illegal immigrant
Ilic Igor from Serval Channel accidentally shot an Iraqi through both legs in Croatia. He was out shooting wild boar and jackals at night with night vision or thermal. He shot a jackal at around 2.30am on 2 April 2019 with a .300 Win Mag. The bullet passed through the animal and hit a man […]
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