Fieldsports Britain – Crow on Point
It’s all about vegans this week. Andy Crow is shooting pigeons over the crops on his farm, so we can keep British vegans fed. Meanwhile, Charlie is off to see the vegans march against hunting in London. And gundog trainer Gilly Nickols is back with her summer gundog boot camp – no animals are harmed. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bird Flu and the Gameshooting Season
“There was no argument about it. It was just done.” So says the pheasant hatchery owner who has just lost 60,000 birds. With bird flu creeping across the UK and game farms wiped out by government culls, what is the future for the gameshooting season this year. We talk to Graham Holden at Hy-Fly Game […]
Deer Gralloch – Speed Challenge
How fast can you gralloch a deer? Paul Childerley puts in an impressive time in our speed challenge – and he gets to keep all his fingers. For more from Emberleaf, go to emberleaf.com To go stalking with Paul Childerley, visit www.childerleysporting.co.uk For more films with Paul, look at www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/paul-childerley/ This film was first shown […]
Emberleaf – a Knife for Life
They are among the most beautiful knives you can buy, with Damascus blades and mammoth ivory handles. We visit Emberleaf to see how to make a top quality knife. For more from Emberleaf, go to Emberleaf.com This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 391. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain391 […]
Bird flu and gameshooting
Bird flu is on the rise. It was found in Norfolk in early June 2017. DEFRA confirms that H5N8 avian flu is in a small flock of chickens and geese at a premises near Diss in south Norfolk. A 3km protection zone and a 10km surveillance zone have been put in place around the infected […]
New German hunting channel on Amazon
There is a new hunting, shooting and fishing TV channel on Amazon in Germany. Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality hunting/shooting/angling documentaries and programmes from Waidwerk. It launches jointly with travel channel Xplore, from the same studio, German production company Highview. Amazon offers the channel free to Amazon Prime member with Xplore available […]
Vinnie Jones – Fieldsports News
In News this week: Vinnie Jones signs for Eley Hawk Ltd www.eleyhawkltd.com/media-events/press-releases/vinnie-jones-joins-eley-hawk-as-a-brand-ambassador Bee stings help Lyme disease sufferers The Game Fair gets the ‘Guntiques Roadshow’. If you have an unusual item from the worlds of hunting, shooting and fishing that you would like discussed and values, please email a picture and description to charlie@fieldsportschannel.tv Shooting […]
Fox Double with the South Somerset Ferreters
It’s a laidback drive-around local farms looking for foxes – and answering the knotty question whether to shoot vixens at this time of year and how do you know it’s a vixen?… you don’t. Visit the South Somerset Ferreters on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/829059187171844/ For more films with them, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/south-somerset-ferreters/ This film was first shown […]
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Retrieving in Water
Keep your gundog interested in water. Gilly Nickols offers her tips for summer gundog training. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our films with Gilly, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/gilly-nickols/ This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 390. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain390
Skinners World Cup Retriever Event 2017
The top gundog teams in the world come to Cawdor Castle in Inverness-shire to compete in Skinners 2017 international working test. Last year’s winner was the Dutch team. In contention this year are the Brits and the Danish. Find out how they get on. For more from Skinner’s, visit www.skinnerspetfoods.co.uk This film was first shown […]
Fieldsports Britain – Top Dogs
What does it take to be one of best gundogs in the world? They gather at Cawdor Castle in Inverness-shire for the Skinners World Cup Retriever Event 2017. International teams battle it out in demanding working tests to pick the best. Meanwhile, at the other end of the country, the South Somerset Ferreters are out […]
Airheads – Starling Airgun Control
Richard Leonard is out with his airgun and specialising in starlings in this week’s AirHeads. Pied and glossy starlings are in his sights, because of the damage they cause on farms in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Meanwhile, Airgunner editor Phill Price looks at Crosman air pistols – and how to turn them into air rifles. […]
Shooting Starlings in South Africa
Richard Leonard is protecting a farm from attack by starlings. He is hunting them with an Air Arms S510. This item is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to www.air-arms.co.uk It appears in AirHeads, episode 66. To watch the show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads66 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Six-Year-Old Foxshooter – Fieldsports Channel News
Six-year-old from Fife goes foxshooting: www.thesun.co.uk/news/3503540/girl-6-dreams-of-shooting-foxes-and-regularly-goes-hunting-with-her-dad-who-keeps-gun-in-family-home/ New Zealand duck season: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFfuLyiZt3U American NRA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxWLZWUW9A News is sponsored by Percussion www.percussion-europe.com
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Teaching Steadiness
Gilly Nickols says start your summer gundog training programming with steadiness. Reinforce that and it will make it easier to drop the rest of your gundogs skills into place. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 389. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain389
HS2: bad news for fieldsports
A coalition of hunting, shooting, fishing and even anti-hunters are lined up against the proposed London-Birmingham rail link HS2. In our film, Martin Salter from the Angling Trust, a shoot owner and a carp fisherman say what effect the HS2 high-speed railway line will have on hunting, shooting and fishing. This film was first shown […]
The Buck Stops Here
Andy Crow is out helping a local pheasant shoot with its roebuck cull. For Crow’s films go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ This item appears on YouTube in Fieldsports Britain, episode 389 bit.ly/fieldsportsbritain389 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Fieldsports Britain – ‘Roehow’
What does it take to shoot a roebuck? If you are Andy Crow, it takes ‘roehow’. He is out helping with a local deer cull. Plus we go all political and look at the effect HS2 will have on hunting, shooting and fishing. And it’s the first in our new series, Gundog Summer Bootcamp – […]
Squirrel shot for ‘dirty look’
Police arrested a man in New York for allegedly killing a squirrel with a crossbow after it gave him a ‘dirty look’. Jonathan Mangia, 27, faces charges of prohibited use of a weapon and reckless endangerment. “Great job PO Kosinski & Pallakis along w @NYSDEC Ofcrs arresting the #SquirrelHunter. Save archery for the range,” the […]
Hunting less effective than fences, says expert
Fencing land is a better way of protecting it from deer than managing local deer populations. That’s the conclusion of a University of Kentucky deer specialist. Out of all of the wildlife complaints University of Kentucky Extension specialist Matt Springer handles complaints from vegetable growers about wildlife. He says that whitetail deer are the top […]
How to Shoot an Elephant
Park rangers, professional hunters, even sport hunters all need to learn how to shoot an elephant safely and cleanly. A good place to do it is Southern African Wildlife College, where we follow hunter Lennart Ljungfelt (also the boss of gun sights company Aimpoint) on the course and learn about the risks you face when […]
The Browning Blast
Browning invites a gang of shooting writers to France to burn through 24,000 rounds of ammunition. Shooting Sports editor Peter Moore, Rifle Shooter editor Dom Holtam, Gun Trade News Editor Colin Fallon and our own Tim Pilbeam get to test new kit including: X-Bolt McMillan stock Winchester SX4 B725 Pro Sport The new Kite optics […]
Fieldsports Britain – how to blow 24,000 rounds
A gang of us head to France where gun company Browning has laid on all its latest products – shotguns and rifles – and a massive 24,000 rounds of ammunition. All we have to do is burn through it, and make sure those shotguns and rifles work. Among the kit on test are the forthcoming […]
Trump backs guns at NRA convention
President Trump speaks to the National Rifle Association in Atlanta: watch the full speech. It’s the first time a sitting US president has spoken at an annual meeting of the NRA since Ronald Reagan addressed the group in 1983. “We have news that you’ve been waiting for a long time,” Trump told the crowd in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Delicious Rabbit
How to shoot and cook rabbit. Cai Ap Bryn sets up a delicious barbecue with the help of a rimfire and a special ginger beer batter for the bunnies. He has pear and apple orchards to protect – and so everyone else gets rabbit to eat. Meanwhile, Tim is on a mountain rifle mission. the […]
Kipplauf rifles: light and pretty
Tim Pilbeam is looking at the Kipplauf, a rifle designed by Continentals for heading up hills – and he has three different models to play with: from Merkel, Blaser and Haenel. Blaser www.blaser-sporting.com Haenel www.cg-haenel.de Merkel www.merkel-die-jagd.de For Tim’s films go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/tim-pilbeam/
Hunt & Cook: Ginger Beer Rabbit
Cai is protecting pear and apple orchards with a .22 rimfire. We shoot rabbits in daylight then cook them over a fire. After eating our rabbit goujons with ginger beer batter we head off for some more rabbiting at night. Cai wears Shooterking www.shooterking.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 387. To […]
Pigeon shooting over spring drillings
Kent farmer Andy Crow has drilled his crops – and now he has to keep the pigens away while they grow. He reveals his tactics for shooting pigeons over spring drillings. For more from Andy, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ Jack Pyke www.jackpyke.co.uk Decoying kit from UKShootWarehouse www.ukshootwarehouse.com Clear Pigeon from www.gamebore.com This film was first shown in […]
Roebuck Everywhere
A morning walk-around with a rifle at the start of the roebuck season in Somerset reveals how many animals there are to cull for farmer Ashley Vellacott. As well as knocking over a ‘freezer filler’, he explains why deer hunting and sheep farming are what produce England’s most beautiful countryside. Ashley uses: Browning X-bolt in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow Goes Ape
Andy Crow is climbing trees to put out his pigeon decoys. It is all part of his strategy shooting pigeons that are coming in to his spring drillings. After going all King Kong, he climbs down and puts in a good few hours shooting to build a bag of 67. Meanwhile, the new roebuck season […]
Chris Packham in court for assault
Malta ! You point out suspected criminals to the police . . . and you end up in court ! Please RT and begin baking cakes ! #stoptheslaughter pic.twitter.com/HDBQ2ec6Qp — Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) April 18, 2017 BBC journalist and bird rights activist Chris Packham is in court in Malta charged with assaulting bird trappers. Packham […]
Shooting gets a touch of glamour
And finally, the Femmes Fatales don’t just shoot. We have filmed the glamorous British all-women group enjoying gameshooting. Here is one of their number, stuntwoman Amanda Foster in a new advert for No 7 makeup. Here is one of our films with the Femmes Fatales: And here is Amanda shooting:
Cheeky Facebook post catches poachers
A Facebook post has led to two convictions for poaching in the USA. David Maxfield Jr and Allen Boal from Oregon, USA, have lost their hunting privileges for the next three years and must pay US$7,600 in fines after posting pictures of animals they poached online.
Hunting film festival voting underway
What’s your favourite hunting film? The Kuiu Film Festival is underway, with voting in six categories until the end of April. The US clothing company will announce the awards on 5th May. If you like American hunting – almost all the entries are from North America – visit filmfest.kuiu.com for a good night’s telly.
Maltese poacher caught and convicted
Maltese hunters voluntarily did not hunt turtle doves this spring, with poachers facing large fines. The island’s hunters won a referendum on hunting two years ago. Since then, it has worked hard to stamp out illegal hunting. This film by local bird rights activist shows a poacher retrieving a stone curlew. He was later fined […]
Sussex Slam: Roebuck, Fallow Buck and Muntjac
Larysa Switlyk of US TV show Larysa Unleashed is after three species of deer in the south of England: a roebuck, a fallow buck and a muntjac makes a ‘Sussex Slam’. Stalker is Darren Phizacklea of Viscount Sporting. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 385. To watch the whole show go to […]
On Test: Aimpoint Micro S1 sight for shotguns
The people who make the famous red dot sight for wild boar have a new product comnig out. Aimpoint is developing a new sight for shotguns. We go to Mamima Jakt in Sweden to test it out. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 385. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain385
Fieldsports Britain – Too Good to Miss
Aimpoint has developed a new sight for a shotgun. Does it make you too good to miss? We are off to a clayground ‘laboratory’ in Sweden to find out. Plus Larysa Switlyk is back and she is stalking the ‘Sussex Slam’: roebuck, fallow buck and muntjac, with the help of Darren Phizacklea of Viscount Sporting. […]
Review: Oakedge Shooting Ground
We go behind the scenes at Staffordshire clayshootiung ground Oakedge. How do they set up the targets? We talk to Oakedge’s Paul Hodson. For more from this ground, go to oakedgeshootingground.co.uk This item appears in Claysports, episode 16. To watch the whole show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/claysports16 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter […]
Essex Masters 2017
It’s the first big clayshooting event of the British clay pigeon calendar. Join the action on a sunsoaked Essex Gun Masters 2017. For future Essex Masters, go to www.essexgun.com This item appears in Claysports, episode 16. To watch the whole show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/claysports16 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Claysports – Clayshooting’s big opener
We are at the big event that starts the British clayshooting season. The Essex Masters 2017 takes place in glorious sunshine. Find out how the shooters get on. Meanwhile, we go to Oakedge Shooting Ground in Staffordshire to find how course setter Paul Hodson mixes it up. There is round-up, and presenter Peter Wilson gives […]
Target Sprint explained
We are off to Yate in Somerset to visit Sedgemoor Target Shooting Club. The reason? It is at the forefront of a new sport that combines athletics and shooting. Target Sprint requires runners who can shoot straight – and it is tipped as a future Olympic sport. Gorgs Geikie talks us through it. This item […]
Distance shooting with air rifles
Paul Hodson wants to see how far he can break a clay with an airgun. 30 yards? 50 yards? 70 yards? more? Find out here. This item is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to www.air-arms.co.uk Thanks to Oakedge Shooting Ground in Staffordshire www.oakedgeshootingground.co.uk/ It appears in AirHeads, episode 65. To watch the show […]
Airheads – New Olympic airgun sport?
It’s tipped as an Olympic sport – combining running and shooting, Target Sprint is picking up pace among athletics and target airgun clubs up and down the UK. We go to a training session with target shooting star Gorgs Geikie to find out what it’s all about. Meanwhile, Paul Hodson wants to find out how […]
Gun control group employs teddy bear
Toys get more regulation than guns. That, says the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, is why guns should be more restricted. It has brought out a film starring a handgun disguised as a teddy bear to make its point.
Airgun vs Rimfire
Tim Pilbeam is a powder hound. He likes guns that use cartridges with propellant. Chris Kemp works for airgun manufacturer Air Arms. So whose rifle is most effective round the farm? Spanish Mouflon Hunting Tim’s rifle is from Browning www.browning.eu Chris’s rifle is from Air Arms www.air-arms.co.uk For more films from Tim, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/tim-pilbeam/ […]
Early Season Roebuck
The roebuck stalking season is open. Charlie Jacoby heads to Cumbria with two US hunting TV stars: Larysa Switlyk and Lindsay Christensen. They are out after bucks on the Greystoke Castle Estate and other ground managed by Steve Pymm of Cumbria Wild Game. For Larysa Unleashed, go to www.larysaunleashed.com or www.youtube.com/user/LSwitlyk For Extreme Huntress, visit www.extremehuntress.com […]
Fieldsports Britain – Americans hunting British bucks
The quiet world of British deerstalking is shattered by the arrival of two noisy American deerhunters this week. Larysa Switlyk from US TV show Larysa Unleashed and Lindsay Christensen, winner of the 2017 Extreme Huntress Competition in the USA, go after roebuck in Cumbria in the opening week of the season. Meanwhile, in Sussex, Tim […]
RSPB’s dead eagle found alive and well
Masked officers from the RSPB have intruded on a Scottish estate looking for an eagle. The estate found it, and filmed it healthy and flying – but still the RSPB issued a release implying the estate had killed it. Laura Sorrentino, director of the North Glenbuchat Estate, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, says: “We have been made aware today of statement […]
