Fieldsports Britain – Gundog thefts, stalking, Boxing Day meets and blooper reel
My we’ve had a busy week. It’s the episode with the hindstalking in Galloway, the Boxing Day meet with the Surrey & Old Burstow, another Abbey Burton shooting masterclass, and the scandal of the people who are stealing dogs, some of them for ransom, including Shooting Times news editor Selena Masson’s cocker spaniel and our […]
Shooting Politics, episode 10, 23rd December 2009
Take two famous shooters – Robert Bucknall, author of Foxing with Lamp & Rifle, and Michael Yardley, author of any number of books about shooting, take them out shooting, and you will get views on the subject aplenty. We give them a day in Suffolk if they will come up with a manifesto for gameshooting […]
Shooting Politics, episode 8, 25th November 2009
We’re at the Sportsman Gun Centre in Exeter with London 2012 Olympic Skeet hopeful and team GB member Rory Warlow, BASC South-West director Jamie Stewart and David Stapley of Browning International and, among subjects we’re covering are: Health & Safety Britain – are we going too far with shoot risk assessments? What’s wrong with teaching […]
Fieldsports Britain – Lake District hunting, shooting, fishing special
Could you ask for better sport? The Lakeland fells covered in brick red bracken with a bright blue sky atop, it’s time to go fellhunting with the Coniston Foxhounds. Incredibly, this was just a week before the Cumbria floods. And while we’re there, we go out after snipe and duck on the Morecambe sands with […]
Charlie goes on RSCPA day release – Shooting Politics, episode 7
Badger bumped by a car? Knock it on the head. Oiled seabird? Give it a lethal injection. That may become official policy from the UK animal welfare charity RSPCA if research it is conducting finds that releasing some species of wildlife does not lead to high survival rates in the wild. If it finds that […]
Death of a Golden Eagle
Here’s how the RSCPA killed a healthy eagle. It’s a shocking story of falconer Roy Lupton’s attempt to save an injured wild golden eagle. Despite having permission to do so, his actions led to police raiding his house and, ultimately, the death of the eagle, something Roy and one of the top avian vets in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hounds, first trout, and recycling cartridges
Just when everything is going so well, a dogwalker comes and spooks your deer, your pigeons, pheasants, even your salmon. Isn’t it always the case? Well, on this occasion the dogwalker started shouting abuse at the stalker – and Fieldsports Channel has the camera on them when they did. That’s not all. We’re also enjoying: […]
Shooting Politics, episode 6, 28th October 2009
How Otis Ferry’s penknife made him a terrorist. We’re back at Harper Adams for a second week of our half-hour countrysports debate show Shooting Politics. The panel discusses: • Fantastic Mr Fox, now on release at cinemas: will it make monsters of foxshooters? Foxhunting freedom fighter Otis Ferry says: “We could do with a few […]
Shooting Politics, episode 5, 14th October 2009
What’s it like to break into the Chamber of the House of Commons and be tackled by grown men wearing tights? Foxhunting freedom fighter Otis Ferry says what he felt when he did just that during Tony Blairs hunting ban debate and how he surprised he was at public reaction. Thats not all. Author and […]
Game Fair gadgets
We were at the CLA Game Fair 2009 at Belvoir Castle, looking for truly innovative kit. The CLA held awards for innovations. Among the contenders are a dogbed that dries your dog, a new trailer for carrying both deer and quadbikes, a dummy launcher for training your dog and a new portable game larder
White pheasants
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or (b) a pain in the neck that can earn you a fine of £50+ if you shoot it, depending on whether you are (1) a gamekeeper or (2) a hapless […]
English grey partridge conservation
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season – but these ones are not for shooting. They have been bought as part of farmer Tim Piper’s conservation effort. He has planted habitat suitable for them. Shocked that there were no native grey partridges to live in his […]
Game farm – chicks arrive
Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of April. Staff are there to make sure they settle in and start the long slow process that will see them delivered to shoots as full-grown birds in just a few months time. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Game farm – hut building
It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took them down at the end of last season and now, at the beginning of April, they are reassembling them. Watch all the preparations they make for the arrival of the baby birds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Shooting Politics, episode 4, 30th September 2009
Robin Page is an angry old git… …Thats by his own admission too. Robin is the subject of tonights half-hour Shooting Politics show on Fieldsports Channel. Hear the former BBC presenter rail against Labour, the Conservatives, farming and, of course, the BBC. When it comes to slinging insults at all those who want to concrete […]
Shooting Politics, episode 3, 16th September 2009
The British countrysports debate programme. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, on the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent Savills. Questions they are answering are: […]
Shooting Politics, episode 2, 2nd September 2009
It’s our countrysports debate programme Shooting Politics and it is out now. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, Chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson, and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent […]
Shooting Politics, episode 1, 19th August 2009
Panellists on the new countrysports webTV debate programme Shooting Politics lay into the RSPB for its attacks on gamekeepers, its attempt to ‘monster’ countryside managers and its failure to offer an alternative that will provide Britain’s wild spaces with the conservation work that gamekeepers provide as part of their jobs. This episode was filmed at […]
Crufts 2009 gundogs
Do you want to know what the perfect gundog looks like? You won’t see it on the BBC, which dramatically pulled out of covering Crufts 2009. Instead, watch it on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Gundogs at Crufts 2009 is the subject of a 45-minute TV documentary that’s free to download and watch on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Presenter Charlie Jacoby brings […]
Advanced Pike Attractants
Ant Glascoe Jr. Takes on winter piking with some not so common sense. Will pike be attracted to unusual smells? This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here Sign up for our weekly […]
