Fieldsports Britain – Our 100th birthday blooper reel
It’s our 100th Fieldsports Britain programme! And in it we have George Digweed explaining how to shoot straight, sika stags rutting in Dorset, foxshooting with a £330 new lamp and the blooper reel from our first 100 programmes. George recently shot the world’s longest clay pigeon at 130 yards, so he is in great shape […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fallow buck in a tangle + Hampshire foxes + calling muntjac
What happens when a deer gets tangled in rope and fencewire? How do you call in a muntjac? Are Hampshire’s foxes really bigger? And how much fun can a Scottish estate be? You will find the answers to these vital questions and more in this week’s Fieldsport Britain, brought to you faithfully every Wednesday evening. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Australian-rules fox shooting + YouTubers who hunt
A pair of keen Australian foxshooters sent us one of their fox calls – and we are trying it out in Pomshire. It’s the Thunder from Down Under but it brings in the foxes. We are also deerstalking in South Ayrshire with Chris Dalton of Ayrstalk.co.uk, we are training a peregrine to stoop on a […]
Fieldsports Britain – World record long-distance clay + stalking Harry Potter’s stag
A world record long-distance shot at a clay pigeon, a dramatic stalk for a red stag across a Scottish estate made famous in the Harry Potter films and a happy afternoon firing shotguns at shooting glasses to see how safe they really are. It’s another quiet week on your favourite hunting TV show Fieldsports Britain. […]
How to call in roebuck in the rut
It’s a textbook demonstration of how effective a call can be during the roe deer rut. We are on a estate in Hampshire which hasn’t been touched for a few seasons in the hope of bringing in a big buck. The does are particularly receptive and they come back time and time again to play […]
Head shot? Bucks in tricky positions
We talk through shooting situations that present themselves during the roebuck season in the south of England. Is there a safe backstop, or is a head shot appropriate? These are some of the questions we should be asking, but what do you think? This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 85. To watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Zander, barbel, rats (with a digger), trout and game cookery
Zander fishing, rat shooting (you liked it so much last week we’re back with more) and why Cornwall is the must-shoot must-fish county in the UK. Dom Holtam takes us out after zander and barbel, two of coarsefishing’s best-kept secrets. Roy Lupton has put away the airguns and is moving on the rat-holes with diggers […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Warrener + driven rats + driven partridge
The Warrener, driven partridges, driven rats, and our competition to find Britain’s biggest rat. Roy Lupton uses everything from chainsaw smoke to Chinese takeaways to bring rats to his shotguns, airguns, terriers and blokes with spades. Meanwhile, a viewer from Hartlepool has sent in a picture of a rat that measures 18in from head to […]
Happy Birthday To You
For a shooter or hunter on your birthday, Browning offers this unusual version of ‘Happy Birthday To You’: bang-de-bang-bang, bang-bang! This first appeared as an item on Fieldsports Britain, episode 96. Music thanks to Al Mobbs at MobbsMusic. Venue thanks to the Oxford Gun Company.
Maritime Media’s big screens for shows and events
Maritime Media was formed in 2009 and is an independent digital outdoor media owner, specialising in the supply, installation and management of large-format digital screens, monetised by advertising. With more and more ad spend being pumped in to digital, the sector is growing at an unprecedented rate and it isn’t hard to see why — […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeonshooting, gundog pups and how to be a better person
Pigeons, gundogs, and how to get qualified as a hunter and a shooter this week. – Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is shooting pigeons with a Winchester SX3. – The Fieldsports Channel cocker spaniel is having puppies (here’s a blow-by-blow account of how to do it AND how not to do it). You can be better through […]
Fieldsports Britain – Birr Castle Game Fair + hawking rabbits
To Co Offaly in Ireland for the Birr Castle Game Fair, to Kent in the UK to take a variety of birds hawking after rabbits, and to Oxford where they are giving away prizes galore for shooting. Come with us to Ireland to see hawking, horses, shooting, and all the fieldsports at which Irish excel. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits, fallow deer and a fairytale Scottish castle
Rabbits, fallow deer, a fairytale Scottish castle, pigeons, clays, and social responsibility for rioters: what a mixture. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after fallow bucks in Kent. He’s not had much luck with Fieldsports Channel in the highseat recently. Will it go right this time? Meanwhile, Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is on the same […]
Fieldsports Britain – First grouse of 2011, 30lb salmon, 21 foxes
First grouse of the season, a 30lb salmon, 21 foxes in a night, antis behaving badly and Countryside Alliance Foundation bringing game cookery to urban England – it is again the best of British sport in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. With the help of a speedy Subaru Outback, we’re putting grouse, venison and salmon on […]
Anti-hunting ‘investigators’ caught on hidden camera
This is the moment two employees of the League Against Cruel Sports, a charity which campaigns against hunting, shooting and other activities, were caught trespassing in a wood in the South of England while trying to spy on someone. The bungling pair were caught on their own covert surveillance equipment that had been discovered and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects and roebuck calling, episode 89
Just two days away from the grouse season, we have the prospects for shooting in Scotland and England. We talk to Lindsay Waddell and Ed Bromet. It’s also the height of the roebuck rut. We’re out calling them in Somerset with Dirk Waltmann of German hunting magazine Pirsch and stalker Leo Naylor. Meanwhile, the legend […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cricketer Rob Key and George Digweed on the pigeons
Kent county cricket captain Rob Key goes pigeon shooting with world champion shooter George Digweed. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is riding shotgun (literally) with Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow on a combine harvester looking out for rabbits. And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is having a hard time finding a fallow buck amid a sea of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mantrap, cannon and who is stealing peregrines?
In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, we have a mantrap, a cannon, an England rugby star, a German with a riflescope, a look behind the scenes of the guntrade, the illegal trade in birds of prey and Bernard Cribbins (not the illegal trade in Bernard Cribbins – that’s quite different). It can only be our review […]
Fieldsports Britain – Exploding Coke cans, foxes, airguns and big cats
So much stuff for you this week on Fieldsports Britain: foxes, airguns, big cats and blowing up Coke cans with an extraordinary new clay pigeon trap. * Planning to replace your old airgun? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam shows off a great new airrifle, the Air Arms S410F, to try out on rats and rabbits. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons over wheat and a nice double rifle
To shoot or not to shoot – that is the question. If you are Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow, made famous by Sporting Shooter magazine, and birds are devastating your mate’s wheatfields, it’s an easy one to answer. And he has a number of tips and tricks up his camouflaged sleeves to deceive those pesky pigeons. If […]
Fieldsports Britain – Animal charity releases foxes next to chicken run
They are dumping foxes in the countryside near you. In this week’s programme, we uncover how one British animal welfare charity feeds foxes on dogfood and lets them go near a free-range chicken run. Duh! Meanwhile, back in the more enlightened world of shooting sports, we’re at the Beretta World shooting competition in Hampshire. We’re […]
Fieldsports Britain – Irish lurchers and Sutherland trout
Sport in Northern Ireland and Scotland this week – looking for the fastest longdogs and gundogs on land and water (lurchers competing for the Master McGrath), picking up tips about shooting straight from Mike Yardley and knocking down Finn McCool-sized bags of crows with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist. That’s all at the Shane’s Castle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with schools, foxing and pheasants
We have fishing, foxing, pheasants, the Clay Classic and an IPC award-winning clay ground in this week’s programme. We are with fishing expert Charles Jardine looking at his special love, the Fishing With Schools initiative, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. We are at the Marlston Shoot on the Berkshire Downs admiring their superb […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with Miss Switzerland
It’s international jetset week on Fieldsports Britain. Swiss supermodel Xenia Tchoumitcheva takes us trout fishing on Alpine streams, we are taking a tricky shot on a roebuck in Hampshire with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting at the Newick Park Hotel & Country Estate which offers a friendly driven shoot over 250 acres of glorious […]
Fishing for Schools
Top flyfisher Charles Jardine explains the UK’s Fishing For Schools project, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Ear defenders + pigeons over peas + partridges
What’s this ‘ear? Here is how to protect your hearing with our Big Friendly Test of ear defenders for shooters. And for those of you who didn’t wear hearing protection when you were younger I said WE’RE TESTING EAR DEFENDERS!! That’s not all. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain programme, we’re out on a traditional pheasant […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hypnotise a bird and avoid a charging lion
How to hypnotise a bird, how to tell when a charging lion is going to kill you (or just scare you), how to set up your quad bike for rabbiting – all these vital ‘life skills’ and more are revealed in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. The much-admired Roy Lupton dizzies doves in order to train […]
Ian Coley Shooting School
We review Ian Coley Shooting School, one of the finest instruction, guns and game shooting resources in the West of England. Located just outside Cheltenham it has a shooting ground, gunshop and sporting agency all on one site with easy access and parking. It is the only shooting business in Cheltenham to offer a full […]
Fieldsports Britain – Project Healing Waters for Iraq war veterans
Watch Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans catch trout, talk about what they went through and explain how flyfishing helps them get over post traumatic stress disorder. Watch Browning owners get together and celebrate owning Brownings. Watch Benelli owners do the same with Benellis. And see all shooters enjoy coming together for a day at the […]
Abbey Burton hunts rabbits with night vision
Abbey Burton and Ed Ling try out rabbit shooting with the new N550 Pulsar digi-sight and an Ideback chair. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
Fieldsports Britain – Elephants and clayshooting
It’s clays, clays, stalking, elephants, muzzleloaders and more clays this week in Fieldsports Britain. We are in Kent working out what makes the best shooting sticks. We are in Zimbabwe, courtesy of Norma Ammunition, to find out when a charging elephant really means it and when they are just mucking about. We are at the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge, thermal imaging and culling roebuck
We’ve got roe deer stalking, young shots in the Schools Challenge, fox hunts growing flowers and the last word in thermal imaging to help you spot your wildlife in the programme this week. Roy Lupton is out at Kingsclere in Hampshire culling roebuck and maintaining the health of the deer herd there. Meanwhile, the staff […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ballywalter game fair
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Chief Constable Matt Baggott both show their support for hunting, shooting and fishing at the Ballywalter Game & Country Living Fair in Northern Ireland. We are there to film it for Fieldsports Britain this week. We also use the fair to take a walk through the history of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Phil Spencer goes shooting
Maneaters, rabbit burgers and a TV celebrity: Phil Spencer of Channel 4’s ‘Location Location Location’ is on the programme this week in Kent to shoot pigeons, stalk fallow deer and talk about the work of the Countryside Alliance. Norma Precision ammunition expert Don Heath tells the tragic story of his hunting student who was killed […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to tell when a buffalo is about to charge
How to avoid a charging buffalo, how Realtree camo gets you girlfriends (or boyfriends) and how to cook an Easter bunny – you get the most essential knowledge from Fieldsports Channel every week. We are with Zimbabwean professional hunter Don Heath as he explains when buffalo hunts go wrong, we are at the Kelmarsh Game […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits at night + Blenheim Palace fishing
It’s love and war this week. Sporting Shooter magazine chef Mark Gilchrist is at war with rabbits in Kent. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton’s ferrets and falcons are in the mood for love, and he has to oblige! And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam continues his love affair with fallow and roebuck stalking. Then there’s romance. What […]
Fieldsports Britain – WMS Steel Challenge
In the programme this week, we’re picking up tips from a team of long-distant rifle shooters who are at the WMS Steel Challenge range in Wales to compete for Swarovski glass, we have an entertaining way of exercising hunters with the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt in Sussex, and we are asking the question: […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dodgy antis with guns + George Digweed uses night vision
In our Fieldsport Britain programme this week we’ve gone topsy-turvy. We’ve got antis chasing deerstalkers, rabbits chasing rabbitshooters, and crow shooters sitting very, very still or the crows won’t come near them. There’s a new film out called Blooded about antis chasing naked deerstalkers across Mull. Its trailer was so shocking YouTube banned it. It […]
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge and Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow shoots pigeons
This week we’ve got pigeon shooting with the ‘crow man’ Andy Crow, deerstalking with Sporting Shooter editor Dominic Holtam, the Schools Challenge competition for the best young shooters in Britain, and our own super competition for one lucky viewer to win a TransK9 dog box for your car worth £450. Out with Andy in Kent, […]
Fieldsports Britain – IWA gun trade show 2011 and Chinese water deer
Donner und blitzen! We’re in Germany (again) – this time at the European hunting innovation show IWA, in Nuremberg, where all the best shooting products for the next year or two get their first outings. We’re looking at thermal imaging, anti-smell devices and we’re even finding time to nip off back to Bedfordshire to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Clarissa Dickson-Wright on what she would like to do to a badger
It’s the cooks and books episode! We’ve got Clarissa Dickson-Wright (that’s not a real picture in case you wondered) talking about her book Potty, wich has 100 of Clarissa’s favourite recipes that can all be cooked in one dish in the oven or on the hob. Clarissa also talks about her forthcoming book, a history […]
Fieldsports Britain – From rabbits to Cape buffalo
We’re in Sussex, Somerset and Africa looking for game big and small. Top shot Mike Yardley is after buffalo in the Limpopo region of South Africa with Oribi Outfitters. Meanwhile Commonwealth Games Olympic Trap silver medallist Abbey Burton is swapping her shotgun for rifle and is after rabbits, using Pulsar N550 Digisight night vision and […]
Fieldsports Britain – On test: Kawasaki Mule, JCB WorkMax, John Deere Gator and Kubota RTV
Fancy a new gamekeeping vehicle? We’re testing the Kawasaki Mule, the Kubota RTV, the John Deere Gator and the JCB Workmax against each other. Let’s see which one is the winner! That’s not all. We’re at a young shots event near Bristol trying out ferreting and falconry. And we’re talking to the new chief executive […]
Fieldsports Britain – Drumlanrig Castle dogs and the search for pigeons, rabbits and deer
It´s dogs and guns this week. We´re off to the fabulous kennels of the Duke of Buccleuch in South-West Scotland in search of canine comfort, and we visit the makers of the TransK9 dog transport system. Then it´s back to the south of England where Sporting Shooter magazine chef Mark Gilchrist has got a new […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven partridge with a tank, wildfowling and lamping
For the programme this week, our arsenal includes a Spartan armoured car, a double rifle converted to goose gun and two Harris hawks. And what a bag: two foxes, four rabbits, a selection of Norfolk partridges and the reachiest pinkfoot goose you may ever have seen. We’re shooting driven birds with the Light Dragoons next […]
Fieldsports Britain – German driven boar
Achtung boar! We’re in Germany on a driven boar hunt with top sports optics company Zeiss and we ask the question: who are the top boarshooters? Germans, Italians, Scandinavians or Brits? Find out here. That’s not all. We are also following up injured animals with a Hanoverian hound. And we are in London with Rob […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hares with golden eagles and a muntjac cull
For fast-action sport, we’re after hares with golden eagles in the Berkshire countryside thanks to Roy Lupton. We’re also joining top Oxfordshire stalker Owen Beardsmore of Cervus UK to look at a lovely estate he manages in the Chilterns, and joining in with the muntjac and fallow deer cull. And we’re training a Bavarian mountain […]
Fieldsports Britain – British big cats and a stolen gundog reunited with its owner
It’s vintage Fieldsports Channel. We have the hunt for big cats in Wales (are those cat’s eyes by the sheep carcass?). We have the preview of the Handicap Classic, one of the best prizes in shooting. We have George Digweed on the best clay cartridges. And we have Selena Masson, ex Shooting Times, reunited with […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit hounds, pheasant cartridges and a Hampshire shoot
We’re chasing rabbits with a trencher pack of terriers and other curs in Somerset’s lovely Quantock Hills this week. We’re also at the Steventon Shoot in Hampshire (Jane Austen used to live there) where the keeper has returned after 20 years to bring about change. And we’re with top shot George Digweed to discuss the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s biggest fox
Our massive 26lb Maidstone fox has been one of the biggest stories in the British press so far this year – but now we have found a bigger fox. Dennis Rowsell of Somerset shot a 34lb fox in 2009. We interview him in this programme about it. That’s not all. We’re also learning about […]
