How to shoot ‘lucky’ clay targets – rats and rabbits – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
It’s the stand that reduces champions to also-rans. However, the rat-in-a-pipe is not a ‘lucky’ target, says Ben Husthwaite. In the latest of his clay pigeon shooting masterclass series, champion shot Ben talks a shooter, Dave, through the process of shooting rats as they emerge. ▶ This item is sponsored by Gamebore ▶ For more […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rat in a Hole
Ben Husthwaite shows how to shoot one of the trickiest targets in shooting: a rat in a hole. The clay emerges from the pipe and dribbles along the ground, making it hard to hit. But, says Ben, it doesn’t have to be hard. Meanwhile, #FieldsportsBritain would not be complete without News, Hunting YouTube – and […]
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British Deer Society AGM 2018
The British Deer Society AGM covered the big issues facing wild deer in the UK, including chronic wasting disease, ticks, hybrids, government policy and the nation’s love for our largest wild animals. Scottish Trustee Director and Area Chair John Bruce ran the two-day conference, which started at the Budongo Lecture Theatre at Edinburgh Zoo. Day two […]
How to shoot quartering birds – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
In the latest of his clay pigeon shooting masterclass series, champion shot Ben Husthwaite talks a shooter, Dave, through the process of shooting quartering clay targets. Shoot them where you are comfortable, says Ben. This item is sponsored by Gamebore For more from the clayground, visit SportingTargets.co.uk Ben’s website is BenHusthwaite.com For all of Ben’s films […]
Venison steak on an open fire – Hunt and Cook Recipes
Cai Ap Bryn shows how to cook a fallow haunch steak on an open fire. Make sure the fire is burning hot. Just add butter, thyme and garlic, and cook until the outside is brown (and the inside is still pink). ▶ This item is sponsored by Sauer Rifles and Blaser Active Outfits. Visit Blaser-Sporting.com […]
Fallow for the pot – Hunt & Cook
Cai has to set up an ambush if he is to shoot a fallow buck for the pot. He knows where they are – but they seem to know where’s safe. Find out how he gets on. For Cai’s fallow steak recipe video, visit ▶ This item is sponsored by Sauer Rifles and Blaser Active […]
Ben Husthwaite on what’s wrong with clayshooting
Ben Husthwaite speaks out: how come anyone can be a shooting instructor? what can the CPSA do better? what’s the point of pattern plates? (don’t expect modesty!). This item is sponsored by Gamebore For more from the clayground, visit SportingTargets.co.uk Ben’s website is BenHusthwaite.com For all of Ben’s films on Fieldsports Channel, click here This item […]
Fieldsports Britain – Deer Ambush
We’re out after a fallow buck for the pot with Cai Ap Bryn in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. The game chef plans a steak supper – plus he gives his recipe on how to cook the perfect venison steak. We are also talking to the bad boy of British shooting, Ben Husthwaite, about how to shoot […]
Cub scouts learn about keepering
Cub scouts from the Hawes Cubs pack learned about grousekeepering on a visit to the Bolton Castle estate. The cubs visited the shoot in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Keepers show the 14 boys aged between eight and ten and their leaders different aspects of moorland management. In a post on Instagram, the estate reports: […]
Rare white roebuck pops up on Czech hunting ground
A rare white roebuck is living quietly in the Czech Republic. The albino buck is on the hunting ground of Fieldsports Channel viewer Folkert van Hoogevest. He runs hunting agency ArtemisBohemia – but he says he will not allow this animal to be shot. “Although we already got offers from hunters around EU, having seen the film […]
Crowhow: Pigeon Shoot Reconnaissance
Andy Crow shows how planning and reconnaissance can make a pigeon day work. He sets up his hide under a tree in the middle of freshly drilled crops. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke Andy Crow shells, it is Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse is at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Delicious Deer
It’s the last episode in our series A Year In the Life of Fallow Deer. We are out with Phis Phizacklea looking not just at deerstalking but how to get the best out of the venison afterwards. He picks up tips from a speciality pig farmer. Meanwhile, Crow snatches a reasonable pigeon day from the […]
Crow Buck
What a combination: Andy Crow and Jason Doyle head out roestalking on a lovely warm day in the south of England. Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse UKShootWarehouse.co.uk ▶ Jack Pyke JackPyke.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 441. To watch the whole show go to […]
Rest, Relaxation & Roe Therapy
Deer manager Paul Childerley is in Gloucestershire to stalk and cull roebucks. On a glorious English summer’s evening, what better way is there to shake off the cares of the world? The buck season is well underway and he wants to bring down numbers before the crops grow and they become hard to spot. He […]
Fieldsports Britain – Spring Roebuck
Everyone’s hunting British bucks. Paul Childerley is out on his ground in Gloucestershire, looking for cull roebucks. On the other side of England, Jason Doyle and Andy Crow team up to find bucks in Kent. And out how they get on. Plus we have a bumper News Stump this week, leading on the BBC’s recruitment […]
Packham’s fake news over Fred
Did animal rights activists stage the death of Fred? On 15th February 2018, BBC presenter Chris Packham released a film on YouTube suggesting that a golden eagle he calls Fred, hatched last year, was killed by a gamekeeper. Its satellite tag, maybe still attached to the eagle carcase, was apparently dumped in the North Sea. […]
BBC glamourises masked hunt sabs
A new BBC documentary legitimises and glamourises hunt saboteurs. BBC Three joins a group of masked thugs and tries to make them look good. The ‘balance’ comes several minutes in to the half-hour film, when pro hunters are given a chance to make the point that people dressed as terrorists, scaring horses and leading hounds […]
Northumberland roestalking
It is the heat of mid April 2018 and Al Gabriel is out managing bucks on two pieces of ground: a lowland estate and upland forestry. On the low ground, crops grow so fast that buck stalking will be difficult within weeks. Al has just taken over the stalking on the upland woods and shows […]
Crowhow: how to decoy crows
Crows are hitting the newly-drilled barley. So, Andy Crow is out to hit the Crows. He shows how he decoys these wily birds and how he shoots. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke Andy Crow shells, it is Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse is at UKShootWarehouse.co.uk […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow on Crows
We’re managing crows and roebuck in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. In the south of England, Andy Crow is thinning the crow numbers, which are coming in to dine off his newly planted barley. In the north of England, deerstalker Al Gabriel has two different roebuck problems to solve. Find out how they get on – plus […]
Spring Foxshooting
Roy Lupton is hunting the foxes that are feeding off lambs in his part of Kent. The farms he looks after are under extra pressure this year, because foxes have not got the usual number of rabbits to eat. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 439. To watch the whole show go […]
Destruction Test: Shooterking Venatu Jacket
Paul Childerley does all his own stunts… he tries to kill the Shooterking Venatu jacket using gamekeeping resources. See how he gets on. ▶ For more from Shooterking, go to www.shooterking.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 439. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain439
Fieldsports Britain – Foxshooting Rampage
Where rabbits are on the down, lamb kills are on the up. Roy Lupton is out to shoot the starving foxes that want to feed off lambs. He sorts out the predator pressure in this part of the South of England. Meanwhile, Paul Childerley turns stuntman to try out hunting clothing from Shooterking. There is […]
Raven cull underway in Scotland
Scottish Natural Heritage is at last to sanction a raven cull. Raven numbers have exploded in recent years and they are damaging populations of waders, grouse and starving ravens are attacking sheep (as above). SNH is allowing a cull of just 60 ravens (pictured) in Perthshire. The RSPB attacks SNH for the move. It admits […]
Doctors to profit from UK gun licences
The Home Office may be about to attempt to force gun owners to pay their GPs for filling out an ‘initial medical records check’ and adding a marker to medical records. This is likely to be accompanied by a change in guidance to the police making it a requirement that an applicant’s GP responds before […]
Howls from antis as four year-old learns to shoot
American gunsmith Buck Holly posted a video of his four-year-old daughter learning to shoot on the range. Little Noah can be seen shooting dad’s new 2017 PRS Tac Rifle with 77 gr .223 ammo in a film uploaded in 2016. The video has since had more than 100,000 views and and become a lightning rod […]
Airheads – Rats and Doves, with Airguns
It’s our airgun show AirHeads: Richard Leonard is dealing with a rock dove pest problem on the farm in the Eastern Cape. A West Country farmer’s cows are knee-deep in rats – so plenty of shooting there. Roger Last reviews the FX Crown. And we hear about the big launches from BSA, Crosman, Air Arms […]
Malta Spring Hunt: how baby birds beat back Packham
Shooting quail and doves in Malta is not as simple as walking out with a dog and a gun. The spring hunt is a political battleground, as antis try to close down hunting in an EU member state. Charlie Jacoby meets the people out to stop the animal rights activists, and enjoy their season’s shooting. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Spring Pigeonshooting
Andy Crow is out on the pigeons in the new Crowhow. He is decoying them in over the animal feed crop lucerne, he looks at what makes a good decoy and checks out where they’ve been feeding with crop forensics. Meanwhile, Charlie Jacoby is off to Malta to look at the sport and politics of […]
Crowhow: Decoying Pigeons over Lucerne
It’s an animal feed crop and pigeons love it. That’s why April sees Andy Crow out protecting lucerne fields from the birds. He explains decoying and looks at what the pigeons are eating at this time of year. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke […]
Oil works for woodcock
Oil is good for woodcock. Birds returning to Europe and Asia from the UK encountered strong easterly winds last week. This picture posted on the North Sea Bird Club Facebook page shows them breaking their journey on the Tartan oil platform which lies midway between Aberdeen and the coast of Norway.
Rat shoot
We’re hunting rats on a farm in the West Country. We have a BSA R10 and night vision from Nitesite, and together we bring numbers down to size. ▶ For more on the BSA R10, go to BSAGuns.co.uk ▶ For Nitesite, visit Nitesite.co.uk Watch the whole show. Go to Bit.ly/airheads69 Sign up for the AirHeads […]
Rock Dove Hunt
Like feral doves in the UK, South African rock doves thrive on farms, spread disease and cause damage. So it is up to Richard Leonard to control them. He is out with his Air Arms S510 to do the job. ▶ Richard is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to Air-Arms.co.uk Watch the whole […]
On Test: FX Crown
Roger Lait tries out the new FX Crown, the PCP launch that follows the FX Impact. ▶ For FX’s UK distributor, visit A-S-I.co.uk or go to FXAirguns.com This film was first shown in Airheads episode 69. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads69
Fieldsports Britain – Beautiful Hunt in the Mountains
Tim Pilbeam is in the Alps after chamois with the new Franchi Horizon rifle. He and Karl Waktare find mountain stalking hard work – and the animals can be tricky, long-range shots. Back in the UK, Roy Lupton is up to his armpits in falcons, which he is helping to breed… literally. He parades his […]
On Test: Franchi Horizon rifle
Tim Pilbeam and Karl Waktare are trying out the new Franchi Horizon rifle on chamois in the Alps. There’s no problem with the rifle – it’s the mountains they have trouble mastering. Find out if this is the sport for you… This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 437. To watch the whole […]
Roy’s Rubber Hat Collection
Roy keeps lots of rubber hats. Why? Because he uses them to collect sperm from his tiercels. Well, you wanted to know. He talks us through what the well-dress sperm collector is wearing. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 437. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain437
Crow’s lamping rabbits
How are rabbits doing? Last year Kent farm manager Andy Crow reports a major slump in the population as rabbit haemorrhagic disease took hold. This year it looks like they are back – as he finds out during an evening lamping with a rifle. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 437. To […]
India, Australia and UK home nations top Commonwealth Games shooting medals
The home nations picked up a remarkable collection of medals in rifle shooting events at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 – but Commonwealth domination goes to India, followed by host nation Australia. In the Queen’s Prize Pairs, England’s Parag Patel and David Luckman take gold, Chris Watson and Gareth Morris of Wales silver and […]
Houbara Bustard Hunting with Falcons
Roy Lupton breeds high-speed falcons in the UK for houbara bustard hunting in the Middle East and the ‘Stans. He travels to Azerbaijan to see his birds in action. Like with wildlife all over the world, hunters are not hunting the houbara bustard to extinction – they are bringing them back from extinction. Like with […]
Hunting Hinds under the Turbines
Tim Pilbeam takes his .30-06 to Scotland to shoot red hinds on a wind farm. The aim of the deer management is to discourage birdlife. Yes, really. Deer manager Robbie Rowantree of West Highland Hunting encourages stags on this ground and discourages hinds, because stags make it harder for the ground nesting birds. Watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wind Farm Deerstalking Challenge
We’re hunting under the windmills, this week. In the last in this season of Rucksack & Rifle, Tim Pilbeam is hindstalking in and around a Scottish wind farm. He also finds out how gamekeepers manage ground under the wind farms by encouraging red stags and discouraging hinds. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton has been off to see […]
Kenya may bring back big game hunting
Kenya has taken the first steps towards bringing back hunting. Following a conference in the European Parliament held by Africa’s hunting nations – which have the bulk of Africa’s wildlife – Africa’s non-hunting nations are considering big game hunting as a method for reintroducing species that have been wiped out since their bans. Work on […]
Police tell RSPB to back off
British bird charity the RSPB is to back off from wildlife crime cases after the police told RSPB that its actions could jeopardise prosecutions. Newly-released documents seen by The Times newspaper reveal the Police predict the RSPB would “kick and scream” if excluded from investigations into crimes such as the suspected poisoning, trapping and shooting […]
BBC ‘urban bias’ rap in mountain hare story
A BBC report on mountain hare culling in Scotland has angered shooters. Antis showed the BBC a film about hare culling in Scotland, the BBC showed it to Scottish Green Party MSP Alison Johnstone, she challenged Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has now said that large-scale culling of mountain hares on grouse moors is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Park Deer Cull
Thirty deer need to be shot. But there are dogwalkers and other visitors to the park in the South-East of England. Phiz, Hugo and their team are out to fill the deer larder as quickly as possible, without being seen or heard by the deer or the people. Part 3 of A Year in the […]
Fifteen Famous People who Hunt
Here’s who we came up with. Who’s on your list? Famous People who Hunt playlist: Other credits Mandela picture: Jeremy Anderson Music: DeWolfeMusic.com This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 435. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain435
Malta’s spring witch hunt starts early
A Dutch animal rights MEP wants Europe to censure Malta over its spring hunt. Anja Hazekamp, MEP for ‘The Dutch Party for The Animals’, accuses the Maltese Government of “a permanent lack of enforcement” for its spring hunting derogation. The Maltese hit back at the allegation Malta hunting organisation FKNK president Joseph Perici Calascione says: […]
Hunt from the deer’s point of view
We look at the hunt from the other side of the deer. Watch Jason Doyle and Paul Childerley stalk in on a group of Chinese water deer in Bedfordshire. Plus find out about the CWD’s famous fangs – what makes a trophy? and can a doe grow tusks? ▶ For the new Zeiss rangefinder, visit […]
