Pheasants vs adders – Fieldsports News, 22 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9gRjkxpq0 Here are the links: BBC blames pheasants for adder decline – Countryside Alliance BASC attacks RSPB over muirburn – BASC Scottish islanders reject deer cull – Oban Times Pilot project to feed more venison to homeless – Guardian Former DERRA advisor says sheep should go – Daily Mail Wildlife charity wants grey squirrel cull […]
WIN a place on the Aimpoint Academy 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh-BGuhOkw Fancy shooting abroad on some of the best ground in the world? And for free? You could win a spot at the AImpoint Academy 2023. One lucky Fieldsports Channel viewer will go through. Apply here: bit.ly/aimpointacademy Sign up for our weekly email newsletter FieldsportsChannel.tv/registerTo watch all of #FieldsportsBritain, episode 703, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain703Visit the Fieldsports […]
Majestic capercaillie hunt on skis at -30°C
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAzdPYn7zM It’s one of the most dramatic landscapes we have hunted. Paul Childerley is after Capercaillie in winter, with snow deep on the ground and the birds hidden in the majesty of the Arctic tundra. He and David are on skis for four days, learning a new style of hunting and in awe of the […]
Fieldsports Britain – wonderland hunting
youtu.be/8IvCP4g6EHc Paul and David are bowled over – literally – by the Arctic landscape they are hunting this week. Paul is after capercaillie and he travels with David to Swedish Lapland to see what the place has to offer. Sit back and enjoy the results. That’s not all. In Cornwall, Ollie Williams is after either […]
Icy wastes – Fieldsports Extra, episode 264
Paul and David are in Lapland, you can still win a day’s shooting for one gun on 3 November 2023 at Gwysaney Sporting in North Wales. Plus, more on the trophy import ban, this time from Sir Bill Wiggin MP, and the guys from Browning go out after red stags at the end of last […]
Soggy squirrel shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDCCOxLxhc Geoff Garrod has his work cut out finding squirrels to shoot on the land he gamekeepers. He knows they are there but, sensibly, they are staying out of the rain, leaving Geoff wet and squirrel-less – well, nearly. For Browning, visit Browning.eu For Eley Hawk, go to Bit.ly/eleyhawk For Browning Maxus 2 semi-autos for […]
Shoot sabs: what to do when they hit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xav62AFmZHsWhen sabs hit your shoot, what do you do? That’s what happened when we were out filming a shoot day. Former Metropolitan Police detective Ian Jensen and BASC spokesman Gareth Dockerty give their advice. Download the shoot sabs card here Click here for more information on your legal rights, what to do if confronted by […]
Fieldsports Britain – thugs on a pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfLRVu8yvXU Two sabs armed with whips and chemical sprays stopped a shoot where we were filming. They had been looking for a hunt to disrupt, but they heard shooting so followed the sound. It only takes two to stop the 20-50 people out shooting from having their day. So what do you do about it […]
British shooting success – Fieldsports News, 15 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8tgImcwd0 Here are the links: Shooters on target for medals – British Shooting African countries warn that British trophy ban will backfire – The Times + Instagram Scientists criticise Nature.Scot’s £2 billion private finance deal – Herald Scotland + Nature.scot Welsh springer wins Crufts gamekeeper classes – BASC Ancient Scottish hunt closes – Facebook Confusion […]
Win a peg on a shoot priced at £1,100 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 263
You can win a day’s shooting for one gun on 3 November 2023 at Gwysaney Sporting in North Wales – and we will film you for Fieldsports Channel. Plus, Charlie has updates on the trophy import ban, the move to ban shooting in Wales and the antis’ attempt to put shotguns on section 1 of […]
How to square veganism with hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 70
youtu.be/5TvPZ2vx3Ss Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own meat. For more from Katie, visit KatieHargreavesArt.com Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Epic African carp fishing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRtNccwrjQ Charlie is fishing for carp on the fly in South Africa. He is on the Vanderkloof Dam, one of the biggest bodies of water in southern Africa, where the carp herd to the edge of the lake to feast on caterpillars. For fishing at Vanderkloof, visit Selous.co.za More fishing here:
Shooting foxes off a carp pond
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPKCqaf2jo0 Foxes eat all manner of wildlife and rubbish. This is the first time that Paul Childerley has found them devouring koi carp from a carp pond. Armed with his Sako S20, he is out to discourage them. For more about Sako, go to Sako.fi Find Paul on Instagram and Facebook More from Paul:
Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s fish-munching fox problem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5FGITTqFA Paul faces an unusual fox problem. The animals are stealing koi carp from a pond and the owner wants Paul to shoot them. He sets out with a thermal scope on his Sako rifle to do just that. Charlie is in South Africa, chasing after carp with his fly rod. And Deborah uncovers a […]
Urbanisation forces hunt to close – Fieldsports News, 8 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd913-UdG7M Here are the links: Ancient hunt to disband – BBC Bluefin tuna CHART programme to continue – Angling Trust Appeal for shooters to lobby Welsh Government – GWCT National Trust bans grouse shooting on Peak District estate – The Star Fears of anti-shooting bias in Attenborough wildlife series – Twitter Anglers celebrate National Trust […]
Win a £195 tweed gilet – Fieldsports Extra, episode 262
You can win a tweed reviersible gilet from Pin Piuma priced at £195. Plus, Cathy Mayne talks about hunting trophies and Charlie is in hot water in South Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Shooterking Pin PiumaWest Highland Hunting Packham case on Fieldsports NewsSelous Flyfishing Camp Skiing cockerels How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon […]
Scottish vs Swedish salmon fishing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMfkCemLIeo The River Kalix is one of Swedish Lapland’s premier salmon rivers – and that’s where Niall Rowantree goes to try for a fish. Unlike Scotland, there are plenty of fish in this river. To book a fishing trip or a holiday, check out Jockfall.com For more info about Swedish Lapland, go to HeartofLapland.com […]
Roy’s Portuguese boar hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnZIPJacas When it comes to fast-action shooting on driven big game hunts, Roy Lupton is one of the UK’s top shots. He goes to a Portuguese montería to try his hand at speedy wild boar, and finds out what it takes to put on a huge and complex hunt. For Tikka rifles, go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – driven wild *porco* 🐗
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdhe6U48Do We’re hunting and fishing in northern and southern Europe this week. Roy Lupton has a multi-day montería in Portugal to enjoy, with wild boar a-go-go. Meanwhile, Niall Rowantree is in Lapland fishing for salmon, loving it, and explaining how he has given up on salmon in Scotland. Also in Scotland, the Assynt Crofters are […]
New gun law threat – Fieldsports News, 1 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtC-lES94pk Here are the links: Fieldsports groups lobby ministers to protect gun laws – Countryside Alliance Poachers banned from owning dogs – FarmingUK MPs debate shortening woodcock season – Hansard No UK release plans for wolves and lynx – Guardian Sabs criticise police over trailhunter PC – BBC Holy Island fish victory – Daily Mail […]
Win £160 of Shooterking clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 261
You can win a Moorland jacket and Moorland trousers from Shooterking priced at £160. Plus, Charlie is in the USA at the Safari Club International convention, Roy is in Portugal and Niall Rowantree is in Lapland, Birmingham and Tennessee. My, that man gets around.This week’s prizes and other links:Best Fox Call IcoTec Rascal websiteShooterking Serious Country […]
PoIitician or PH: who’s the conservation hero?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her herd of sable antelope alive. In the Palace of Westminster, 8,000 miles away, a politician in the British government, Rebecca Pow, is trying to stop her. Ben-Mari and her family […]
How not to roost-shoot pigeons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVAYffKgO4 It could have been superb – but Dan Thor is having a bad day. The pigeons are flocking into the wood where they roost in Essex. However, there’s no wind. They are coming in too high. Here’s how he copes with a pigeon roost-shoot day going wrong. For Browning and Miroku guns go […]
Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Fieldsports News, 22 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPt5csr7YxU Here are the links: Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Guardian Police investigate after sab hit by horse – BBC Court rules that being an anti is ‘religion’ – Guardian Kent anglers defend a moat – petition Wildcats to be released in Devon & Cornwall – BBC Gamekeepers welcome muirburn – research […]
How to film a big game hunt
Charlie Jacoby is with a professional hunter from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Edwin Corney is turning his hand to filming and Charlie is training him to film for Fieldsports Channel. Here’s how he gets on during a sable antelope hunt.Click here for more from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School Here’s the film […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dan Thor’s pigeon predicament
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuurozMuw8 It was all looking so good. The pigeons are pouring into the wood, the guns are spread out, but Dan Thor is about to have one of the worst roost-shooting outings of his shooting career. Find out what goes wrong in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Plus, Charlie is in South Africa asking why London politicians […]
Win a fox caller priced at £99 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 260
You can win an IcoTec Rascal foxcaller from Best Fox Call priced at £99. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, how the British Shooting went, with a police firearms enquiry officer explaining himself, and Charlie is training a new cameraman in Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear […]
British government’s back-door ban on shooters who have lived abroad
youtu.be/UCAqHqCM5yw The government’s new policy of granting gun certificates on production of medical records is penalising people who have lived abroad and don’t have medical records. Charlie Jacoby meets two people like that at the 2023 British Shooting Show. David Taylor is a British citizen who has lived his life in South Africa, where doctors […]
British Shooting Show 2023 – for gun collectors
Did you think the 2023 British Shooting Show is only all about shiny, new kit? There’s plenty there for the gun collector, too. Charlie Jacoby chats to Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk about what he found.
Scouts learn about wild game and shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC57YSGhcK8 Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a simple mission: to introduce Scout groups to wild game. It’s a way of reconnecting kids with nature and he is touring the South-East of England’s Scout groups to do it. Find your local Scout group at scouts.org.uk
Ollie Williams hosts a shoot day after falling off a balcony ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHqFnpzTtA It might be the end of the driven shooting season but it’s Ollie Williams’ first day back after a serious injury. He is hosting a shoot day with the help of two walking sticks, following an accident before Christmas where he fell off a balcony in Germany. He explains all that and has time […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ollie’s shooting pain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfJQf_Agzw Ollie Williams is disabled – it’s short-term, and it’s not stopping him from hosting a shoot day at home in Cornwall. We join him and friends to see how he copes on sticks. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a mission to introduce Scout groups to wild game. He explains how he takes […]
Spitting sab convicted of assault – Fieldsports News, 8 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCdhr_qK9uk Here are the links: Spitting sab convicted of assault – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11705067/Saboteur-Boxing-Day-hunt-SPITS-woman-vowing-p-graves-riders.html Bird flu spreads to other mammals – www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64474594 Exmoor red deer TB link to cattle – link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01638-y Autumnwatch cancelled after Packham steps back – fieldsportschannel.tv/packhamcase Study looks at reintroducing black grouse to Sussex – www.birdguides.com/news/plans-to-reintroduce-black-grouse-to-sussex/ Welsh snares ban will harm threatened species – […]
Win a Spartan bipod priced at £289 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 258
You can win a Spartan bipod priced at £289, kindly donated by Baileys Shooting & Countrywear. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, we go to the Hunting Kind one-day conference, member Dave Hayes is on a mission to teach Scouts about British game, and there’s good news for crow and […]
British Shooting Show 2023 preview – #BSS2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8Vc2tXZ48 We preview the Great British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 February 2023. Click here for British Shooting Show tickets Crackshot offer More from the British Shooting Show here:
Fabulous end-of-season pheasants at the Brent Pelham shoot, with Dan Thor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHlDKBG7F4 What a way to end the pheasant-shooting season. Dan Thor is out with friends from the beaters’ line shooting driven birds at the Brent Pelham shoot in Hertfordshire – all the usual suspects plus more. The birds are flying well, the weather is bright and it all makes you look forward to next season. […]
Fieldsports Britain – beaters’ big day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9XvkqH9kY It’s Dan Thor’s beaters’ day – the big day for all the people who have put hard work into the pheasant season producing wonderful birds for guns, when they get to shoot the birds themselves. Find out how he gets on at Brent Pelham in Hertfordshire. We also preview the British Shooting Show, and […]
DEFRA works out that pheasants breed but once a year… duh – Fieldsports News, 1 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4h9uBaKbd0 Here are the links: EU and UK agree new bird flu trade regs – AimtoSustain Scottish Government licenses hunting – Scottish Gamekeepers Association + Countryside Alliance Edinburgh plans to ‘go vegan’ – Farmers’ Weekly UK trophy ban bill next stage – Westminster Parliament Hunt confronts antis over spraying citronella – YouTube Record number of […]
Win £145 of Elevenses Distillery gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 257
You can win four bottles of Elevenses Distillery gin priced at £145. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, Gareth Wyn Jones talks about the perils of ignoring traditional landowners, we have a story about a dragon and I hand over a box of booze to wildfowler Andy Peake. This week’s […]
Packham sues YouTube channel over Facebook post
In January 2023, Chris Packham’s lawyer Leigh Day contacted us to say he plans to sue Fieldsports Channel Ltd over a Facebook post and an article on FieldsportsChannel.tv from June 2022. Chris has willingly appeared on Fieldsports Britain since 2017, so we were surprised he reached for lawyers instead of a telephone in this case, […]
Fieldsports Extra ‘Extra’ – Packham wants to sue
Here are Packham’s demands:i. Substantial damages in a sum to be agreed, with the amount to be fixed according to the extent of your cooperation with the balance of the demands in this letter;ii. The removal by you of the publications complained of from the URLs identified above;iii. An apology and retraction in terms to […]
Hunting British wild boar
Cai Ap Bryn takes part in a boar cull in Gloucestershire that has him waiting out in freezing temperatures but with high reward. It’s all part of a war on wildlife that the Westminster government won’t admit. Here’s how shooters and hunters are solving the problem of British wild boar. For more about Cai’s Bergara […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s big UK pig
Action and suspense in the woods for Cai Ap Bryn as he heads to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire as part of a team shooting British wild boar for the table. The guys at Deerbox.co.uk are struggling to keep up with demand for boar. It’s a tough outing for Cai in freezing temperatures but […]
Dog training: how to work open ground
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGMk6ujodI Expert trainer and gundog breeder Dave Templar from Countryways Gundogs shows a field-trial-winning flush and retrieve by a cocker, and how he trains the dog to do it. For more about Dave, go to his website More from Dave the Dog
Police firearms failings put public in danger – Fieldsports News, 25 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftO_d-mXyQw Here are the links: BASC says firearms licensing is in crisis – BASC Horrific scene as poachers kill stag Petition prompts woodcock parliamentary debate – Wild Justice petition Gamekeepers shining spotlight on hare numbers – Fieldsports News Deer larder plans scrapped after anti backlash – Daily Telegraph Research recommends muir burning as management tool […]
Win tickets to the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 256
You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 Februatry 2023. Plus Ben Heath from Deerbox looks back on a successful first couple of years and Victor Clements, who advises the Assynt Crofters Trust, says what the John Muir Trust is doing wrong.This week’s […]
How to hit high partridges, with instructor Steph Davey at Ashcombe Adventure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQuAUrOZNM Fieldsports Nation member Philip Young wants to hit high partridges this season, so he has a lesson with instructor Steph Davey. It’s also an opportunity to take a look at the newly-refurbished Ashcombe Adventure clay ground in Devon, now managed by local gunshop Sportsman Gun Centre. Find Steph Davey on her website and on […]
Duck with a red-dot sight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_A3P_9HJ4It’s a classic driven pheasant and duck shoot for Roy Lupton, except it’s in Sweden and all the shooters are using Aimpoint red dot sights. He masters his Aimpoint S1 and puts it through its paces on snow-covered ground among some of the stateliest scenery southern Sweden has to offer. The guns are also shooting […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s stately Swedish pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1dm9krFGEA It’s all about the bird shooting in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Roy Lupton is on a driven pheasant and duck day in Sweden, laid on by Aimpoint. He gets to use the Aimpoint S1 sight on his shotgun, plus he uses steel shot and discovers its limitations on driven birds. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Philip […]
Dead goshawk mystery – Fieldsports News, 18 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrv2FTjQ70 Here are the links: Five young, fledged goshawks found dead – Fieldsports News Antis give police ‘heavily edited footage’ – North Wales Police or Word doc CPSA wants to drop ‘pigeon’ for ‘target’ – CPSA survey Scottish gamekeepers rage at out-of-season cull – The National + Nature.Scot Snares in political spotlight at Westminster – […]
