Fieldsports Britain – High Tech Hunting
Roy Lupton and Darren Rogers are out after foxes with every piece of high-tech kit we can muster: night vision, day vision, thermal, handheld calls, electronic calls, state-of-the-art rifles and cartridges. So how do they get on? Is it a techie triumph or are they all the gear and no idea? That’s not all. We […]
Fieldsports Britain – The 6ft fox
Roy calls a fox in to 6ft – ‘practically close enough to hug it’. He is using a Silva fox call from Australia. Meanwhile, Charlie’s out with a couple of foxshooters who have a dazzling array of calls but no foxes. They do have rabbits and a rimfire, all to the benefit of the championship […]
Schools Challenge TV – Shooters’ Gym Workout
Shooters shoot straighter if they work on their shooting muscles. Sports fitness expert Nigel Patterson shows TSC Academy member Tom Scott where he needs to work in order to survive a gruelling 6-hour shoot. For more info, go to www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – Crow Hits The Pigeons
Crow’s on a mission to bring down pigeon numbers in Kent. He has new kit, a pigeon hide that would win an award at the Chelsea Flower Show and Ruby the dog ready to retrieve. We’re also in Yorkshire where William Powell offers pheasant shooting on a grouse moore – we find out if it’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Deer injured by dogs
When they set specially-bred dogs on deer in the south of England, they leave the countryside littered with hobbling, injured animals. The lurcher boys are not interested in the deer – just the chase. They give coursing a bad name. Paul Childerley takes Ginny Langton stalking after a Chinese water deer on his ground in […]
Schools Challenge TV – How to get a job in shooting
How to you get a job in the gun trade? The fastest way to start is by working for your local gunshop. The Oxford Gun Company has started an apprenticeship scheme. We talk to the first person to take it up – and other young people who have jobs in the shooting industry. What does […]
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s Biggest Cocks
We are in search of Britain’s biggest cock pheasants. Andy Crow reckons he is in with a chance with a four-pounder (1.84kg) he shot on a shoot in Kent. The average fully-grow cock pheasant weighs 3lb. More pheasants in Bedfordshire, where Paul Childerley is holding a walked-up day. One gun reveals that pheasant shooting is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Park Foxes
A town centre deer park is a haven for foxes – especially one that hasn’t seen a foxshooter for more than a year. Roy is out with night vision, thermal and a mission to bring numbers down. We are also calling in duck with MPK Calls on Langstone Wildfowlers’ stretch of coast in the south […]
Schools Challenge TV – Discovery Sport Launch
Schools Challenge TV this week is devoted to cars – in particular one car. The new Land Rover Discovery Sport. If you want to launch the perfect shooting vehicle to shooting people, where do you do it? A shooting ground, of course. Stratstone has come to the Oxford Gun Company with a fleet of dazzling […]
AirHeads – Roy on Rats
A packed AirHeads this week – six items in our airgun magazine show. Roy Lupton is shooting rats with night vision; James Marchington and Charlie Jacoby are hunting squirrels including a trophy (!) squirrel, Andy Crow and Phill Price are trying out oldfashioned feather darts, David Wright has the latest airgun celebrity launches from the […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Deer that Loves Hunting
Meet Owen. He’s a young red stag who thinks he is a beater. Raised by the shoot, he joins the beating line at the Mornacott Shoot in Devon and then pops down to meet the guns for a drink. Apart from a moment during the rut when he decided to mount one of the guns, […]
Pigeons over Rape with Andy Crow
Andy Crow has a pigeon problem on his oilseed rape crop – so much so that local shooters have been calling him up and asking if they can have a go. No they can’t. Andy and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam set out the decoys for what turns into the best day of the year […]
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Fieldsports Britain – British Wild Boar
British Wild boar are under the spotlight. We look at the Boar Essentials: do we hunt/conserve them or wipe them out? With a man dead after swerving to avoid a feral hog crossing the road, and one of the Princess Royal’s prize Gloucester old spots killed by a wild boar, the press is full of […]
Rimfire Football
It’s our group test of rimfire rounds, with a little help from top shot Abbey Burton. Winchester has brought out its new 42 Max, a .22 subsonic with a 42-grain bullet. We put it up against the 40-grain subs from RWS, CCI, and Winchester and a 38-grain wildcard from Remington. Do different bullet types affect […]
Schools Challenge TV – Shoot Straight and Win a Car
Here’s what the Schools Challenge has in store this year. It’s a full programme of shooting events for clay shooters at school, college or university. And in its 10th anniversary year, TSC is giving away a £12000 car among more than £50000-worth of prizes. Visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk Sign up for our weekly email newsletter bit.ly/weeklyemail
Fieldsports Britain – Lighting Up Pigeon Shooting
We’re hunting answers. Roy Lupton and Andy Crow get together to look into an age-old question. Does Mr Crow tell the truth when he says a shot on a pigeon was THIS long? Roy fields his rangefinder and locks on to the flying birds while Crow shoots them. See them settle one of the great […]
Fieldsports Britain – Where we screwed up in 2014
We’ve got deerstalking, birdshooting and a litany of mistakes for you this week. Where everyone else is giving you their ‘best of 2014’, we have put together our ‘worst of’. Which film was most hated? Who is most annoying, James Marchington or Nigel Farage? And what are our top five death threats? Meanwhile, David Carsten […]
Downton Does Grouse – Fieldsports Channel News
The headlines this week: ✩ Alnwick Castle stars in Christmas Downton Abbey special ✩ Tiger trade on the up ✩ Newspapers snipe at Prince William over hunting ✩ Jægernes julehjælp wows Danes ✩ American Kennel Club adds Sicilian rabbit hunting breed ✩ How to make a lighted shotshell wreath Stalking the stories – fishing for […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting a Christmas Goose
Dom Holtam is out to shoot a goose this Christmas – Andy has a problem with Canada geese hitting his crops. We have our Global Hunting Survey – take part and you could win lots of prizes! It’s the Fieldsports Britain 2014 blooper reel, featuring outtakes form a year of our programmes, including Roy’s laugh […]
Schools Challenge TV – 2014 review + bloopers
It’s the Schools Challenge year in review. TSC Academy members step forward and say what they have learned. There is an interview with the man behind the school shooting facilities at Bredon. And it’s the must-watch TSC blooper reel – the finest outtakes and embarrassing moments. Visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – Crow’s On Form
It’s your weekly hunting/shooting video fix, and this week Crow is after winter pigeons, while Tim Pilbeam is preparing for a hindstalking trip. Andy Crow teams up with cousin Gary to see what impression they can make on pigeons flying in to a rape crop. Meanwhile, meticulous preparation in the Pilbeam household means the hind […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tough Old Boar
It’s the big slo mo bow penetration test. Roy has come back from his boar bow hunt (where he had to use a rifle) with a burning desire to find out what arrows work best on big pigs. For this experiment George Digweed shoots and butchers a young Sussex boar for us, and Roy shoots […]
Schools Challenge TV – Kids Win Guns
It’s the final of the Winter Series, the last clay shooting competition of the year, and the Schools Challenge competitors are out to win £3,000-worth of guns and shooting equipment. See how they get on. Plus there is news, and interviews with the Independent Schools Association about its plans for shooting, and Edgar Brothers about […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Big Boar
Hunting wild boar in France – Roy Lupton gets close to a monster pig. Will he get it with bow, with rifle, or will he miss it altogether? Find out here, and enjoy our version of ‘Wild Boar Fever’, filmed in France last week. Charlie is quaffing champagne at the launch of a new Blaser […]
Fieldsports Britain – Birds, Bees & Boar
A truly packed programme of hunting and shooting tonight: ▶ A pheasant shooting estate is reborn – Altcar in Lancashire – and it is all thanks to clay pigeon trap manufacturer Promatic ▶ The Purdey Awards for Conservation show just how green pheasant and partridge shoots are ▶ Roy Lupton is sharpening his bowhunting skills in preparation […]
Schools Challenge TV – How Top Clayshooters Think
Win guns, money, cars and the admiration of your mates. It’s the definitive guide to competitive Sporting clay shooting, as top shot Christ Childerhouse guides you round a 50-bird Sporting layout on a competition day. Also on hand are some of the kids he has taught, as part of the Schools Challenge. We talk to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting 100-yard Pigeons
How to shoot pigeons at distance, how not to shoot two deer with one bullet, plus hunting+shooting news, views, tips and tricks. 23-times world champion shooter George Digweed is shooting pigeons out to 100 yards as he protects farm crops from the pests. He shows how to do it. A deerstalker explains how he came […]
Rude Guns – look at this page at your own risk!
This single-trigger 12-bore sidelock ejector by Francotte went under the hammer at Holt’s Auctioneers. Below are the technical details. AN EXTRAORDINARY GRIFNEE-ENGRAVED 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SIDELOCK EJECTOR BY AUGUSTE FRANCOTTE, serial no. 91410, 28 1/2in. nitro chopperlump barrels with matt game rib, tubes gold-inlaid ‘AUG. FRANCOTTE – LIEGE – BELGIUM CAL 12’, ‘BRUCE HUNT LTD. GA’, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting ‘Me Old China’
We are back out stalking Chinese water deer, we are foxhunting (without foxes) the easiest way imaginable, we have rifleshooting tips, and a Danish bloke explains why lions need to be hunted. It’s another packed Fieldsports Britain – pour yourself a glass, sit back and enjoy it. Here are the links to the items: ▶ Chinese […]
Schools Challenge TV – How to Make a Clay Pigeon Trap
We are learning how Bowman makes clay traps in Schools Challenge TV this week. The family firm is just a couple of years off its 50th birthday and Andrew Davidson is still the hands-on boss he ever was. For more about Bowman Traps, go to www.bowmantraps.co.uk That’s not all. Commonwealth Games Double Trap silver medallist […]
AirHeads
A TV show for airgunners about airguns. It’s got reviews, news, hunting features, competitions and fun stuff – every two weeks, Thursdays at 7pm, go to Bit.ly/airheadstv or get it via any of these links Here are the shows: [Youtube_Channel_Gallery feed=”playlist” user=”PL3KxM9c3T7K-rylR2vb5jUAalZxzSohO0″ videowidth=”640″ ratio=”16×9″ theme=”light” color=”white” autoplay=”0″ rel=”0″ showinfo=”1″ maxitems=”98″ thumbwidth=”185″ thumbratio=”16×9″ thumbcolumns=”3″ title=”0″ description=”0″ […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Count Buckula
See that tooth? That’s a deer’s tooth. We are out after Britain’s weirdest deer this week as the Variety Tour continues. Shooting writers and editors from all over Europe are packed on to Rihanna’s tour bus to test rifles, scopes and bullets in a variety of hunts across the south of England. This week, YouTube […]
Fieldsports Britain – Thermal Rabbits
In a packed show this week: ☆ Andy Crow (and Mrs Crow) are using thermal imaging equipment to shoot enough rabbits for them to splurge in Gatwick Duty Free ☆ Tim Pilbeam shows how to mount a scope on a rifle. ☆ David on the News Stump finds a lad who is getting hatemail for […]
Variety Tour
It’s the Variety Tour, 28 October – 2 November 2014. Ten top hunting writers are landing at Heathrow to try out the best English deerstalking and the best kit available over five days. They are using custom Sauer rifles, ZEISS Victory V8 1.8-14×50 scopes, ZEISS Victory SF binoculars, and Hornady SST ammunition. More? Read the Zeiss […]
Airstreaming – the best airgunning on YouTube
YouTube films featured on Airstreaming this week include Americans benchrest competition and a 150-yard dove, while in the UK the airgunners are reviewing guns and controlling pests at closer range. Here are the links: American Airgunner www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVAp7FW6Wo AirgunsOfArizona www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpQW8cqSh-c Ted’s HoldOver www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJVxNxXHmc LlegaWeapon And DIY www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l9-jEVBcBs HuntersVermin www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRgl_eje8w AirgunGearShow www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXiizBeaS1s VerminHuntersTV www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsRK2LeJCI CountryPursuitsTV www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfynbRuqQo This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Predator-Style Pigeon Shoot
Autumn sport in the Home Counties this week. Andy Crow is using thermal imaging to help him get on top of a pigeon pest problem. It makes him look a bit like Predator. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is keen to get into the fallow rut which should be underway, but has to make do filling the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeon Shoot
Andy Crow is trying out giant decoys on pigeons, They seem to work as the amazing close-ups of pigeons shot show. That’s not all. Roy Lupton is trying to cull deer between the dogwalkers and George Digweed is concerned about cheating in clayshooting. There is plenty of hunting to chew on in this week’s Fieldsports […]
Schools Challenge TV – Pre-Season Blast
Schools Challenge TV – Pre-Season Blast
The Schools Challenge gang are out in force at the Oxford Gun Company open day. The shooting ground ids offering a preseason blast at clays, with airguns and even with throwing axes. TSC Academy members and young hopefuls are there to compete in competitions, plus see what the gun trade has on offer. It’s […]
Tracking Trajectory – .22 vs .177 airgun pellets
Here’s how to compare the trajectories of .177 and .22 pellets. Airgun World and Airgunner magazines technical editor Phill Price sets up the ‘chalk’ test. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads21
Ask Tel – Best Airgun Innovation
What’s the best airgun innovation of the 20th century? Who better to answer than Airgun World and Airgunner magazines editor-in-chief Terry Doe, here to put the Doe into Doyen… otherwise it would be just ‘yn’. This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch it on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads21 Sign up for our weekly […]
AirHeads – Thermal Rat Shoot
The airgun show AirHeads has rat-shooting with thermal imaging equipment, shooting squirrels in the trees, the mysteries of pellet trajectory, sage words from Terry Doe, news and the best of YouTube’s airgun output. If you shoot airguns, here’s the latest from the word of airgunning. Here are the links to the items: Phil with AirTech […]
On Test: Guide IR510 thermal imager
Night vision expert Darren Rogers reviews the Guide IR510 thermal imager. It shows up rats, car engines, even how much corn you have left in the feeder. For more, go to www.thomasjacks.co.uk/guide_infrared/product.asp?ref=2204 This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads21
Rat on a Moving Handrail – HotAir Airgun News
On Test: Crosman 2250 Ratcatcher airgun
James Marchington is testing the Crosman 2250 Ratcatcher on squirrels. His dogs chase them into trees where he can get a shot at them. This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads21
Close-range foxes: the work of the Terrierman
What do terriermen do? Terrierman Martin Clarke from Somerset explains the job from start to finish: how they are the backbone of the hunt, how they help landowners and gamekeepers dispose of problem foxes, and how they are essential to the countryside as a rural pest control service. He also answers the essential question: what’s […]
Hunting YouTube – the red stag rut
Fieldsports Channel News – Man fights bear to the death
Hunting YouTube – the red stag rut
