Fieldsports Britain – Mark Gilchrist on camouflage + George Digweed on long shots
Are you mad about Mossy Oak? Do you rave about Realtree? Does Jack Pyke make you joyful? Well, this is the programme for you. It’s Camo Man, as you have never seen him before: manly Mark Gilchrist is trying new ways of blending in as he shoots pigeons. If you are a pigeon, be afraid. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Training goshawks to catch partridges + shooting pigeons, episode 158
Our top falconer Roy Lupton has his goshawks and eagle out on a training exercise. He has a 45mph lure he is trying out on them, to get them ‘match fit’ for partridges and pheasants. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is decorating a tree (it’s that time of year) with pigeon decoys in order to bring the […]
Biggest hunting/shooting/fishing YouTube channels
Fieldsports Channel has hit 10 million views, joining a club of (we reckon) 15 YouTube channels in hunting, shooting and fishing to have done the same. So it inspires us to produce the ‘Fieldsports Fahsand Club’. Here is the list of the biggest channels on YouTube in our world by views.
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit shooting pellets and how to forage for food
Round pellets, flat pellets and pointed pellets – which is better when you are after rabbits? Roy Lupton conducts an almost scientific test to show which of them do the most damage to a rabbit. It’s a test that will lead to higher standards in shooting. That’s not all. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is after […]
Fieldsports Britain – Vinnie Jones’s Russian Macnab + ferreting + deerstalking
Vinnie Jones is after fox, salmon and raccoondog – the South Somerset Ferreters are after rabbits – Roy Lupton is looking for roe deer – and we’ve even got some scientists whingeing about the perils of lead shot. It’s a dangerous week to be wildlife on Fieldsports Britain. We lead on the news that Vinnie […]
Fieldsports Britain News – 21st November 2012
The headlines this week – an ex-footballers shoots and scores in Russia – Holy Halibut it’s another record catch – Deadlock in a double deer disaster – and pigeon shooting postponed because Piper plummets into pattern. Stalking the stories – fishing for facts. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 156 www.youtube.com/show/fieldsportsbritain
Wildlife Diseases and Conservation – a one day symposium
We are in London for a one day symposium on Wildlife Diseases and Conservation, run by the Veterinary Association for Wildlife Management and held at The Royal Society of Medicine in London. This film is brought to you by the Countryside Alliance Film Unit. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL420A6E1F70009222 Timetable – and links to individual speakers Session 1, chairman […]
Fieldsports Britain – Partridges in Paris and calling foxes in Scandinavia
We are going continental this week. We are on a shooting estate near Paris enjoying a day’s driven partridges with the research & development team from Browning shotguns. We take a look at the latest foxcalling techniques to come from Sweden. Back at home in the UK, we are out with the Countryside Alliance, taking […]
Advertise on Fieldsports Channel TV part 2 – Talk To James
Advertising on Fieldsports Channel part two — being the further adventures of James. For part one, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrc87ETB50 Brave Sir James is dashing round, seeking advertisers, From gunmakers, to engineers, to game fair organisers. He’s galloping forth globally, and nobly persuading The gun trade and the tackle trade that Fieldsports is worth aiding. James puts […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Ferrari Macnab
‘The Macnab’: grouse, stag and salmon, all in a day. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam presents the ‘Ferrari Macnab’: a stag in Cornwall, a grouse in Yorkshire and a salmon in the North of Scotland, all thanks to the new 208mph Ferrari FF. But does he make it? Find out in this film, which is […]
Driven grouse – all you need to know
There is winged game and then there is winged game. And then there is driven grouse – it is expensive – it is exclusive but with good reason.
Grouseshooting + great grouse recipe
Game chef Lee Maycock is on his first ever day on the moor in search of red grouse. He wants to find out why this bird isn’t used more often in British cooking. He joins the Hancock family in Yorkshire where they’re hosting a walked up grouse shooting day. And he finds out about the […]
Shooting badgers illegally
Guilty party? – Meles meles, the common badger Fieldsports Channel has been sent a disc and a statement. It says we should all be shooting badgers – and it shows a badger being shot.
Fieldsports Britain – How to call in great big bucks
Roy Lupton has an appointment with some fallow bucks in Sussex, and he has the right instruments to call them to him. You can learn some tips on how to call male fallow yourself. Meanwhile, a viewer called Keith from Middlesex near London has devised a new trap for catching urban foxes in order to […]
Feral pigeons in the crosshairs
Feral pigeon in the crosshairs You don’t have to be a game chef like Mark Gilchrist to appreciate that no-one wants pigeon poo in their sandwiches. But when the skies start to darken thanks to bird numbers around wheat storage barns it’s time to send some of them to the big grain store in the […]
Pellet power & performance – hunting feral pigeons in the farmyard
Using high speed video we illustrate how the pellet flies through the air and the compensation you need to make a clean kill. We are after feral pigeons sitting on rooftops at all ranges. The pigeons are making a real mess of a grain store so we need to act quickly and efficiently with an […]
Perthshire in the spring
Charles Helderwerdt – Solognac marketing & communication director – with his buck Forget the traditional ‘week’ in August and September. Charlie Jacoby argues that May is the best time of year for Scottish shooting
Fieldsports Britain – Violent poachers, Tackle & Gun Show, rifle/scope combos
Farm manager Andy Crow went to talk to some lads on his farm who looked like they were shooting pheasants out of the trees with a .22, and they turned the rifle on him and started firing. Andy tells the story – and the poor response by local police. Meanwhile, Sporting Rifle’s Tim Pilbeam has […]
Hunting YouTube – deer hunting, fishing and wingshooting
Hunting YouTube is a weekly item which aims to show the best hunting, shooting and fishing videos that YouTube has to offer. This week, we are in England’s New Forest on a red stag hunt, we are in Ireland, shooting birds, and fishing from British chalkstreams to Kazakh catfish. We are ferreting, wildfowling in Germany […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting badgers and wheelchair guns
As animal rights activists bring fear to farms in the South-West of England, Fieldsports Britain widens the debate. We have been sent a film of what looks like illegal badger-shooting in the East of England, and with it a statement that doesn’t mention bovine tuberculosis. Instead, it talks about the damage that badgers do to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Close encounters with deer and mapping rabbits
We are sneaking up on deer when a group of roe sneak up on us; we are looking at a new hunting app you may find useful; and we are on the coast of Cornwall, ferreting rabbits. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after a fallow buck but he is taken by surprise when […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting foxes, rabbits and how Italians run estates
Roy Lupton is calling foxes, Andy Crow is lamping rabbits and Charlie Jacoby is swanning off to Italy. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, Andy is catching up on his rabbiting with a .17HMR, accompanied by his son and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam. Meanwhile, Roy is out fallow stalking and has a go at the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven grouse, Birr Castle game fair and foxing
We’re off to Yorkshire, to Ireland and to the South-East of England this week. Yorkshire is home of Bransdale Moor, where William Powell Sporting is showing excellent driven grouse with guns including Mark Osborne and Simon Ward. We’re at Birr Castle, Co Offaly, where the Great Game Fairs of Ireland are doing what they do […]
Louisiana hog hunting
Here is the Alabama kid with his 1,051lb pig. Click here for the story Americans enjoy hunting both of their hog varieties. There are the wild boar, known as the ridgeback, and the wild pigs, domesticated breeds, gone feral. The wild boar grow to around 300lb and have a reputation for being aggressive. The feral […]
Go large! USA gun shops – watch and weep
Hunting and fishing is on a different scale in the States and so is the shopping experience. Before visiting the Shot Show in Vegas we enjoy some retail therapy. We check out a BassPro and an independent gun store that dwarfs anything in the UK. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 113. To […]
How to shoot zombies with real bullets
America has a new and dangerous quarry species that’s emerged this year: the zombie. Of course, they don’t exist… or do they? It all starts in the swamps of Louisiana. Last year, a local hunter claimed he found his trailcam smashed. He retrieved the card from it and found this picture. Fake or not, […]
Pigeons The Experts’ Way
It’s our new pigeon DVD – the perfect Christmas present for the keen pigeon shooter. Pigeons The Experts’ Way, with Andy Pye & Mark Gilchrist, makes great viewing and is packed with tips for successful decoying. Whether you’re an experienced shot or a complete novice, we can all learn by watching an expert pigeon shooter […]
A Year of Deer, volume 1
Since starting Fieldsports Channel, we’ve been lucky enough to go out with some exceptional stalkers across Britain and filmed some incredible deerstalking. We’ve chosen the best of the bunch to release our first stalking DVD: A Year of Deer, twelve months, six species. It is stuffed with great advice and great stories. There’s the fallow […]
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Roy Lupton
A true broadcasting gem, Roy Lupton can turn his hand to a huge variety of fieldsports, from falconry to foxshooting. Following his appearances on Fieldsports Channel, he now writes the foxshooting column for Sporting Shooter magazine. He carries out deer and pest control on ground across the Home Counties and is a constant and reliable […]
Mark Gilchrist
One of the most popular faces in fieldsports, Mark started both shooting and cooking when he was just seven years old and this passion has spawned Game For Everything. Mark’s unique knowledge of the whole process of preparing game: shooting, skinning, butchering and cooking, has led to an international demand for his services and much […]
George Digweed
The trouble with having George Digweed on your website is that you keep having to change his write up as he wins yet another world championship. It is 26 at the time of writing. He has dominated the world of Sporting and FITASC shooting across four decades. He is also a keen pheasant, pigeon and […]
Dom Holtam
The editor of Sporting Shooter magazine has been incredibly generous with his time helping to make films for Fieldsports Channel. He used to be editor of Performance Car and provides both sporting vehicle and shooting kit reviews. He always has the latest equipment to show us – and an engaging way of putting the information […]
‘The antidote to Countryfile’
David Wright filming automatic rifles somewhere in the Nevada desert Fieldsports Channel started broadcasting on the Glorious 12th August 2009. Our first programme, Fieldsports Britain, is still going, years later. Hosted by Charlie Jacoby, it is a weekly 20-40 minute show about the best hunting, shooting and fishing. It goes out on YouTube at 7pm […]
Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow
A farm manager from Kent, Andy Crow is a dedicated pigeon shooter and deerstalker – indeed he is after any kind of cropmuncher. With a following from his articles in Sporting Shooter magazine, Andy is one of the stars of Fieldsports Channel, too. Always ready with banter, he is the ideal foil for Mark Gilchrist!
Fieldsports Britain – Teaching ducks to fly + fox and pigeon shooting
We’re out with George Digweed putting ducks in the air; we’re using a new torch to find foxes (to protect those ducks); and Realtree Pro Staff are saving a farm from attack by pigeons. We’re stuffed with September sporting activities and new ideas on how to shoot pests and vermin in the air and on […]
Fieldsports Britain – Airguns vs shotguns on pigeons + big-bore air rifle
What’s best for pigeons – airguns or shotguns? Roy Lupton is armed with an Air Arms airgun and Mark Gilchrist has his trusty Browning Maxus as they try to rid a farmyard of ferals. The farmer has got a feral pigeon crisis. Meanwhile, our tame gun geek Tim Pilbeam has his hands on the new […]
Abbey Burton
One of the faces chosen by both Puretone and Idleback Chairs for their campaigns, Abbey Burton is ranked fourth in the world for women’s Olympic trap shooting. From her base in Somerset, she offers professional coaching in clay shooting, game shooting and archery to individuals of all abilities, whether you’re an experienced shot looking to […]
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Slo mo shotgun impact – Pigeons
Understanding the concept of “lead” when shooting a shotgun can be difficult to grasp. In this film we slow the action down. It allows the viewer to see the shot being thrown out in front of a fast moving wood pigeon…the bird then flies through the cloud of pellets. Often the shot can fall behind […]
Shooting pigeons in city centres
We’re in central London where the feral pigeons are a real menace. The birds have found all sorts of places to roost around a busy shopping centre. They’re next to the shops, in the car park and on the roof. Roy Lupton is going in with his Air Arms sub 12ft lb air rifle to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouseshooting, rabbits with Roy Lupton and pigeons
We are off to Yorkshire with Lee Maycock walking up grouse, we are defending a garden centre from pesky rabbits with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting pigeons with Realtree UK Pro Staffer Simon Barr. Game chef and champion of the Countryside Alliance’s Game-to-Eat campaign Lee is shooting grouse at the invitation of the Moorland […]
National Shooting Week
Pupils from the Durand Academy, a large primary school in south london, are on a trip to the country to try some clay shooting. The day has been arranged by the Countryside Alliance to promote National Shooting week (25 May to 2 June 2013). Under the watchful eye of the West Kent Shooting School instructors […]
Peter Wilson, Olympic Double Trap Gold Medallist, London 2012 – interview
How did Pete Wilson get into shooting? What was his training regime like? Why doesn’t he shoot other disciplines? And which is his favourite gun? We’ll tell you that one now – it’s a Perazzi. Find out the answers to the rest in this full and frank interview with the star of TeamGB’s shooters. This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Big night foxshooting with George Digweed
Shooting champions George Digweed and Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson star in this week’s show. George is using a rifle to protect his pheasant poults from foxes. Pete is telling how he got started in shooting. And we are in Africa shooting gamebirds – francolin or spurfowl. Then there are our regulars: News Stump, Calendar, […]
Irish Game Fair 2012, Shane’s Castle
Review of the Irish Game Fair & Country Lifestyle Festival 2012, Shane’s Castle, Co Antrim. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 137.
African animal quiz
Do you know your African animals? You get a few seconds of film of an African animal – and you have to to name it. Then its name pops up on the screen (you need to have YouTube Annotations switched on, bottom right of the screen). Planning an African safari? Play this with your friends […]
Kit Special – Pulsar Digisight N750 Night Vision Riflescope from Scott Country
The brand new Pulsar Digisight N750 Night Vision Riflescope is designed for long range nightvision observation and hunting at night out to extended ranges of up to 600metres, giving performance that exceeds comparable Gen 2+ Nightvision devices. Resistant to bright light exposure, the N750 Digisight can be zeroed during the day, and even used for […]
African bird quiz
Do you know your African bird species? You get a few seconds of film of an African bird – and you have to to name it. Then its name pops up on the screen (you need to have YouTube Annotations switched on, bottom right of the screen). Planning an African safari? Play this with your […]
