Fieldsports Britain – Shooting pigeons in Essex, and the fallow buck season starts
Mark Gilchrist is after a big bag of birds in Essex, Dom Holtam wants his first fallow buck of the season, we are filming Andy Crow with a new camera effect called Crow-Mo, and we are in Africa hunting blue wildebeest. Our mission this week is to do the farmers a favour. With the harvest […]
Olympics shooting news from London 2012
Get the inside track on the London2012 Olympic shooting events with world Cup gold medallist Abbey Burton. As the USA and China share the medals halfway through the games, we review performances by Kim Rhode, Vincent Hancock, Yi Siling, Yu Dan, Guo Wenjun and TeamGB shooters James Huckle, Rory Warlow, Richard Brickell and Elena Allen. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roebuck stalking and hunting special
It’s the roebuck rut and this is our roebuck special with no less than four outings after Britain’s best-looking deer. Roy Lupton is off to the roebuck heartland of Hampshire, where he hopes that muggy weather will be enough to get the bucks into the open. Simon Barr from Realtree is not far away with […]
Fieldsports Britain’s Calendar – 25th July 2012
To ensure you don’t miss that important Game Fair, Clay Shoot, Open Day, DSC1 course, hunting, shooting or fishing season, check out our new series “Calendar UK”. And if you’re arranging an event that you want to go with a bang, Talk to James – james@fieldsportschannel.tv This week’s events Saturday 4th August. Stead Hall Firearms […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shopping centre pigeons + bucket-and-spade prawning
We’re shooting pigeons in a London shopping centre and we are prawning – the summer sport of choice for anyone on a bucket-and-spade holiday. We’re also at the Oxford Gun company’s ‘alternative’ game fair on what would have been the CLA Game Fair weekend. And we bring you regulars including News Stump, Calendar and Hunting […]
Oxford Gun Company – Novice Schools Challenge August 2012
Two school girls visit the Oxford Gun Company for some expert tuition from GB shot Stevan Walton. The sixteen year olds are interested in being part of the Novice Schools Challenge, which is for under-21s who have not shot before — or not shot much. They get a day’s tuition at the Oxford Gun Company’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Game Fair alternatives, wild boar and George Digweed
Wild boar under the moon in Croatia, how to set a clayshooting Grand Prix course with world champion George Digweed, all the latest shooting kit from Scandinavia: we have lots of new stuff for you this week. We’re also comparing shooting to tennis and bicycling as a sport for anyone to take up with the […]
CLA Game Fair 2012 – report from site
We speak to the man who made the decision to cancel this year’s Game Fair. We’re also counting the cost, speaking to the traders such as York Guns. There’s comment from shooting champion George Digweed and Sporting Rifle editor Peter Carr. Plus lots of shots of the very very wet site. Do you think it […]
CLA Game Fair 2012 – Cancelled
Constant rain forces ‘heartbreak’ cancellation of CLA Game Fair
Fieldsports Britain – Martin McGuinness on fishing in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland deputy first minister Martin McGuinness has been an angler all his life. Right in the middle of the peace negotiations of 1998, he took up flyfishing and, on his second cast, he caught a salmon. As he opens the Irish Game Fair 2012 at Shane’s Castle, Co Antrim, he tells his story. That’s […]
Pellet power & performance – A hunter’s guide to shooting air rifles
This film clearly explains the fundamentals of setting up your air rifle for the type of hunting you want to do. We compare drop-off between pellet sizes, look at holdover, and show how important it is to zero your rifle at the right distance to improve accuracy. High speed video is used to help us […]
Fieldsports Britain, Pigeons, roebuck and airgunning tips
We’re protecting mustard from pigeons in Kent with the redoutable Andy Crow. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is after a roebuck and having some trouble finding one. And Nigel Allen from Airgun TV is talking about a breakthrough in modern airguns: the Daystate Air Wolf. Plus we have News Stump, Hunting YouTube and even an amusing cartoon […]
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Fieldsports Britain – How to fit your gun + crow shooting
How to fit your gun to your shoulder – and improve your shooting. We find out with the experts from gunmaker William Powell www.williampowell.com at a simulated game drive on the Hexton Estate. We are also out with Simon Barr from Realtree as he helps clear corvids on a farm. We are learning the best […]
Fieldsports Britain – Airgun safari round a British garden + hunting red hartebeest
Hunting rooks, rabbits or big antelope, we want to find out where the bullet goes and what it does. Airgunners, big game hunters and anyone who owns a shotgun will find plenty to watch in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. Roy Lupton shows how to choose the best zero for your airgun – and then he […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bambi-catching, chalkstream trout and pesky dassies
We are grabbing baby red deer (calves) to tag them, we are searching out the new super-chalkstreams for trout, we are discussing bullet drop while hunting rock hyrax in Africa and we are showing how to strip down a semi-auto shotgun… while blindfold. Plus there’s news on the Olympics, woodcock, and Hunting YouTube #FieldsportsBritain Shares […]
The Schools Challenge clayshooting competition, Bredon School, 2012
School kids from across England get together at Bredon School in Gloucestershire for a schools clay competition that’s part of the Schools Challenge series of events, an initiative by the Oxford Gun Company aimed at introducing children to shooting. Which school wins? Watch the item to find out. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
Fieldsports Britain – The day of the jackal, Irish crows and young people try shooting
African jackals over a rotting giraffe, Mark Gilchrist after Irish rooks, crows and magpies, and the Countryside Alliance bringing young urban kids into our sport. It’s another summer sport special on Fieldsports Britain. Learn how similar shooting jackals is to our own sport of foxshooting, see how they get to grips with crows across the […]
How to track African game
We are in Africa, and we’re talking crap. From fewmets to faeces, from stools to stinky stuff, what animals leave behind them can tell you what they are, what they are doing and where they are going. The experts talk us through it. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 130. To watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – YouTube gamers shooting, wild boar and how to track animals
We’re showing YouTube gamers how to shoot shotguns and rifles, we’re tracking African animals with our very own poo safari, we’re at the Browning Owners Club day and Team Wild is after wild boar on the Continent. It’s a packed programme this week as the XBox generation gets off its collective backside to do some […]
KSI goes hunting – blam
LadiesLoveJaM, FearCrads, MrsBlackOps,OakelFish, and KSIolajidebt we salute you. You shoot proper guns beautifully – and this film shows how. We are out with the top YouTube gamers to try out shooting sports with real firearms. See how the guys get on. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 131. To watch the whole show […]
Angry leopard release
There’s a leopard caught in a trap! Blaser Safari’s Marc Hillerman is called out by his farm manager after discovering a dead antelope in his laundry room. He assumes it’s been killed by a predator. He sets a trap and discovers the culprit is actually a young leopard. We come along to see how we […]
Test Splat Special – Shooting a football and an onion with a shotgun
Ever wondered what happens when you shoot a football and a onion with a shotgun? No us neither – but just for fun and under under strict conditions we shoot a small redundant children’s football and an even smaller vegetable, and recorded the dramatic events with a high speed camera… nothing proved nothing gained. This […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed, airgunning pigeons and rabbits and the Schools Challenge
We are interviewing a shooting legend, we are shooting pests with airguns and we are at the second leg of the Schools Challenge clayshooting competition in this week’s show. Shooting world champion George Digweed is our star on a reasonably-priced trout lake. He takes us fishing in order to talk about his life and how […]
Fieldsports Britain – German boar, Scottish gundogs and Himalayan pheasants
We are shooting wild boar, learning top gundog training tips, and watching the work of the World Pheasant Association on this week’s show. Team Wild’s Ian Harford and Simon Barr are in the forests of Germany with the guys from clothing company Outfox and they are after roe deer and boar. Charlie Thorburn of Mordor […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish deer, pigeons and English foxshooting
Want to stalk roebuck? Want to shoot pigeons? It has to be Scotland in May. We are in Perthshire downing pigeons in high winds, and we are in Dumfriesshire after Britain’s prettiest deer with Zeiss professional hunter Colin Lockerbie. And as a bonus feature, Colin is showing us how to net salmon the ancient Viking […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids
We are mostly shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids, and finding out how to choose a puppy this week. We have got a new camera, as you will see… it means we can get up close and personal when we shoot eggs with an airgun, and even when we shoot rabbits at long distance. Roy […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tropical trout and a gold medal goat
Sport in Kenya this week, including trout on Mount Kenya, mudfish in the Masai Mara and learning how to throw a stick at an antelope. We search for fish high in the Aberdare National Park and we are in the hot savannah learning spear skills with the Maasai. Finally, we’re in Wales shooting big feral […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wreck fishing and rabbitting with a cowboy
We’re out after a record-breaking cod over wrecks in the English Channel. Back on land, the guys from Team Wild are attacking pigeons from two different angles – with shotguns and air rifles. Roy Lupton’s ferrets are busy bolting bunnies to the shotgun and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is shooting cowboy style! It’s all in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Trout fishing and the first roebuck of the season
Roy Lupton has been promised a gold medal roe buck in exchange for a sperm donation (from his eagle) but gets given the run around on a Hampshire estate swimming in deer. Talking of swimming, we’re re-stocking a reservoir with blue and rainbow trout then trying to remember where we put them. Andy “Crowman” Crow […]
Fieldsports Britain – White wild boar and university clay championships
It’s a wild boar special this week on Fieldsports Britain. They are blonde, they are French and they are on the rampage in Sussex. For the first time on British television, you a can follow a British wild boar hunt including the moment shooter Simon Barr pulls the trigger. Meanwhile Roy Lupton and Tim Pilbeam […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wicked Mr Squirrel + kids go shooting + pigeons
Evil Mr Squirrel is out to get the baby songbird eggs. Never fear! Roy Lupton is going to shoot him. Meanwhile, we are putting guns in the hands of children at the first Schools Challenge event of 2012. And the legend that is Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow is defending not just his crops but his […]
How we got into shooting: George Digweed, Peter Wilson, Abbey Burton and Stevan Walton
Some of the top stars in the world of clayshooting explain how they started in a series of inspiring stories for anyone – and we mean anyone – who wants to take up clayshooting. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 115. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain115
CPSA guide to shooting success with Abbey Burton
Clayshooting coaching tips from Commonwealth Games Olympic Trap silver medallist Abbey Burton. Learn to shoot straighter with Abbey. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain107
Fieldsports Britain – Seven wild boar in a row
Wild boar hunting – it’s a European obsession! We’re at IWA, the biggest gun trade show outside the USA, to see what’s going to be hitting the gunshops near you this year. There is kit for deerstalking (we go out after Chinese water deer with Zeiss’s new Victory HT scope), for foxshooting (we are out […]
Countryside Alliance Awards – the ‘Rural Oscars’
The Countryside Alliance handed out its prestigious ‘Rural Oscars’ at a Parliamentary reception on Wednesday 7th March. British and Irish titles go to businesses from Suffolk, Dorset, Shropshire and the Republic of Ireland and the Rural Hero of 2011 title goes to a Co Antrim Angler who founded a Trust to combat river pollution. The […]
Barney White-Spunner, executive chairman, Countryside Alliance
Foxhunting? It’s got a future. Shooting? nobody’s going to ban it. Barney White-Spunner is the new executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance and he has an agenda that’s going to put running the countryside back into the hands of people who live in the countryside.
Fieldsports Britain – Angry anti, pigshooting with airguns and a record muntjac
How to practice shooting driven wild boar in Kent, plus pigeons in Essex, a record muntjac in Hampshire and an angy anti from Leeds – what a lot of programme this week in Fieldsports Britain! We’re off to Roy Lupton’s place in Kent. Roy has got a fabulous new way to practice his double rifle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Whippets in Yorkshire and Cirencester pheasants
Rabbits, pigeons, pheasants and clays are all in trouble in Fieldsports Britain. It’s Ee Oop and By George this week as we go ferreting to whippets on the Yorkshire Dales and flushing pheasants to landowners with the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. That’s not all! Top shots Peter Wilson, George Digweed and Abbey Burton explain […]
Fieldsports Britain – fun in an Argocat
Fallow deer, urban foxes, and airgunning pigeons on this week’s show. It’s a red letter day for Roy Lupton and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam as they call in foxes in daylight and cull fallow, all with the help of Roy’s Argocat. Meanwhile, the urban fox experiment we are running is getting plenty of comments: […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shot Show 2012 kit and sport in the Louisiana swamps
Las Vegas! home of the Shot Show 2012, the biggest gun trade show on the planet. We are there to see the latest kit from the top manufacturers, coming to a gunshop near you. We have the latest in foxcalling technology, a way of converting your semi-auto rifle to full automatic (dodgy), why American wildfowlers […]
Fieldsports Britain – Giant rat hunting in Louisiana from an airboat + ShotShow kit
Latest kit from the biggest gun show on earth, fast-action ratting from an airboat, Cajun whitetail, muntjac stalking: Fieldsports Britain is reporting from America where everything is bigger and faster. But is it better? We are in the swamps of Louisiana after one of the world’s trickiest deer. We are shooting rats the size of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Night vision, quick duck and the Browning B725
Rabbits in darkness, duck in high winds, pheasants in the teeth of London politics and a new shotgun is launched on this week’s programme. We are using Nite Site night vision to look for rabbits with Andy Crow and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam. We are enjoying fastflying duck and geese below sea level with […]
Fieldsports Britain – Children’s driven gameshooting day at Kirtlington Park
Give children guns and look what they do: a brilliant day out and lots of pheasants for them to remember forever. It’s the final day of the series of events that make up the Schools Challenge 2011 – the game day for 30 children held at Kirtlington Park in Oxfordshire. And to start the programme […]
Fieldsports Britain – Blencathra foxhounds and blowing up Christmas baubles
It’s a bad day to be a Christmas bauble. We’re shooting a load of guns and calibres from .223 to .470 at them, then we are fellhunting with the fabulous Blencathra Foxhounds and we are pheasant-shooting in Dorset on the beautiful Crichel Shoot. Every day is like Christmas for Sporting Rifle tester Tim Pilbeam as […]
How to find lost or stolen dogs with DogLost
When Archie, a much-loved cocker spaniel, disappeared in 2009, his owners Simon Barr and Selena Masson thought they would never see him again. We meet Simon and Selena just after Archie was taken, and we talk to Jayne Hayes, the woman behind DogLost.co.uk, the service that reunites dogs with their owners. This item first appeared […]
Fieldsports Britain – Kristoffer Clausen eats fox + chasing rabbits with lurchers
We are catching rabbits with lurchers, we are decoying crows and pigeons, and we even have a bloke eating a fox. On this week’s Fieldsports Britain, ace hunter Kristoffer Clausen talks about living in the wilds of Norway for a whole year. He is over in the UK to enjoy some crow shooting with Mark […]
Fieldsports Britain – Norma Ammunition
How does the world’s best ammunition manufacturer make bullets? We visit the Norma factory in Sweden to find out. We blow up all kinds of gunpowder and propellant, we look at the difference between plastic-tipped bullets and soft-points, and Charlie gets to shoot a Sterling SMG and a .505 Gibbs hunting rifle. With unprecedented access […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish stag rut and airgun safety
To Scotland to watch the red stag rut in the Monadhliath Hills with David Taylor of the Countryside Alliance and stalker Jimmy Irvine, star of the Highland Keeper DVDs. Then to the south of England to learn how to play a range of fox calls with Roy Lupton and to watch the definitive airgun safety […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven mouflon and how to call in geese
Blow those hunting horns! This week we are mouflon shooting and calling geese. We are on a 25,000-acre hunting estate outside Berlin as the guests of sports optics manufacturer Zeiss enjoying driven mouflon, wild boar and deer, with all the pomp and ceremony that a top German hunting trip affords. We are also in Easter […]
