Countryside Alliance on proposed gun laws
As the Government digests the Home Affairs Committee’s report into firearms licensing, nearly 800,000 certificate holders wait patiently for the official reaction. A history of knee jerk reactions to high profile incidents has victimised legitimate firearms holders, whilst doing nothing to combat the increasing amount of crime committed with illegal weapons. Following the tragic events […]
The colossal 26lb fox
Is this Britain’s biggest fox? It is certainly a contender. Fieldsports Channel started 2011 with our search for the UK’s most Fantastic Mr Fox and already we have a possible winner. Keith Talbot visited his parents in Maidstone, Kent, for Christmas in 2010. Imagine their horror when they discovered a fox had killed the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse over pointers + high pheasants + giant carp funeral
Grouseshooting is not about squandering squillions. We’re in Cumbria shooting grouse over pointers in this week’s programme — it’s a kind of extreme dog walking. That’s not all. We go to the funeral of Britain’s greatest carp, Two Tone at Conningbrook Lake in Kent. We’re protecting piglets from foxes with foxshooter Roy Lupton in Norfolk. […]
British Helice grand prix 2010
West Kent Shooting School hosted the British Helice grand prix this year. It saw a strong showing from Michael Wenlsey (pictured), the mend’s senior winner Colin Hales, his son Nathan Hales who won the juniors, and the ladies and overall winner Dionne Rogers. Watch our review of the competition and learn a little about Helice […]
Gamekeeper and his JCB WorkMax
It’s July – a busy time of year for keepers – and we’re out with Gary Freegard, gamekeeper on a 4,000-acre shooting estate on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, to find out what he’s up to and to tour the estate in his JCB WorkMax. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 37. To watch […]
Fieldsports Britain – All the fun of the CLA Game Fair 2010
We covered the CLA Game Fair from top to bottom and 144,000 of you were there. And what a show we have for you: * What’s new at this year’s CLA Game Fair: shoot VAT, sound moderators, our big screen, JCB quad bikes… * What’s best at the show, with the soaraway Simes triplets from […]
How to bring up goshawk chicks
Falconry expert Roy Lupton takes us round his aviaries and shows off his daily routine with goshawk chicks, including diet, care and the latest technological kit. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 2. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 2. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain2
How to be a Pigeon Shooting Expert with James Marchington
It’s the preview film for our fabulous new DVD “Pigeons, the Experts’ Way”. Sporting Shooter editor James Marchington learns the art of decoying pigeons from gamekeeper and expert shot Andy Pye. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 15. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain15
How to train an eagle to hunt foxes
Falconry expert Roy Lupton shows some of his falconry buddies how to train their eagles to take a fox lure. So it’s out with a John Deere Gator, into the field with a fox skin on a rope – and release the eagles! This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
How to call in foxes
With lambs about to arrive in the fields of Sussex, we go foxshooting with Roy Lupton and friends. They show how to bring foxes running to the rifle at night with a variety of squeaks. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Fieldsports Britain – Northern Irish sportsmen and sportswomen go to Stormont
British foxhunters went to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster with their grievances and got beaten up. Presented by Irish Countrysports & Country Life editor Paul Pringle, we join Irish sportsmen and sportswomen at Parliament Buildings, Stormont – the seat of power in Northern Ireland – where fieldsports supporters are welcomed with open arms by […]
How to call foxes in daylight
We’re out calling in foxes at night and lamping them – but that’s easy. We’re also out with an expert calling and shooting them by day, and for that you need the wheel from an old Hornby train. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 22. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain22 […]
Sporting Shooter pigeon DVD preview
It’s the best bits form our forthcoming DVD with Sporting Shooter – ‘Pigeons the Experts’ Way’ – and we’re out with top shot Andy Pye and Shooter editor James Marchington to shoot pigeons in Berkshire. Learn his decoying and shooting techniques.
Hunting British wild boar
There are thousands of feral and wild boar roaming the British countryside’s darker woods, and shooting them has become an established sport. We review the state of British wild boar in Britain today – in Kent’s Ashdown Forest and in the Galloway Forest in Scotland, where one boar gets a bit too close for comfort! […]
How to shoot pigeons over rape
Pest controller Rob Collins has put up his hide and set up his decoys in order to shoot pigeons on land south of Bristol. But Robs not just interested in looking after his farmers. He has a wider aim. His mission is to bring young people into shooting via his Woodspring Pigeon Shooting & Wildfowling […]
Monster rabbiting truck
Rabbit shooting with Tim Pilbeam, a man with a dark side. On the surface he is a successful businessman, farmer and family man with a Range Rover. However, Dr Frankenstein has a guilty pleasure. Hes created a freak, an animal, an ugly brute of a machine with a throbbing V8. Theres some quite awful cosmetic […]
Fieldsports Britain – BBC’s Fergus Beeley talks falconry
We meet Fergus Beeley. Fergus is the next David Attenborough – and, unusually for a media luvvie, he’s a keen falconer. He has made every kind of wildlife film, from the incredible goshawk sequences in the BBC’s Life of Birds series to impassioned pleas for the future of the grey partridge. You may have seen […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing for Heroes, Crufts-winning gundog and goshawks
It’s the best countryside show on telly. Half an hour a week, and this week Fieldsports Britain has for you: The winner of Crufts working gundogs, Melvyn Hobbs and his world-beating English springer spaniel Moley and, of course, how they won A nasty dose of shell shock: Here’s how a group of flyfishers have set […]
Fieldsports Britain – New shooting kit at the IWA gun trade show 2010
Want to know the latest and greatest kit from gunshops this year? It’s the European hunting show IWA, held each March in Germany, and we’re there to see what the Brits are buying and selling. You will see the last word in sporting rifles, shotguns, camo gear – and a lot of stuff that would […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbitting vehicle you can drive from the roof
Just because the pheasant season is over, don’t be glum. We’re out rabbiting on a Land Rover you can drive from the roof, we’re providing rehabilitation for troublesome kids by shooting pigeons with Woodspring Pigeon Shooting & Wildfowling Club, we’re flying golden eagles after hares in Berkshire and we’re reviewing the Brook Bank shooting ground […]
How to make jesses in falconry
Falconers and austringers like to make the thin leather straps used to tether their birds and Roy Lupton is no exception. Here he shows how to do it. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 9. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain9
Shooting 10 species in a day
Were with eight guns in the Borders of Scotland on or about Britain’s shortest day and after Britain’s biggest bag: snipe, woodcock, pheasant, grouse, mallard, teal, rabbit, hare, pigeon and partridge. Find out whether we make it. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 9. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain9
Bow hunting – warthogs and water melons
British bowhunter Roy Lupton has been going to Africa to bow hunt for 10 years now. He tends to shoot small game such as impala and warthog. He feels that the work he has to put into getting close enough to take a safe shot makes him a better all-round hunter. This film first appeared […]
How to shoot walked-up birds
It’s all very well going roughshooting but the birds never quite do what you expect, bursting from your feet and going away at any angle they choose. West London Shooting School expert Alan Rose explains how even the odds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 9. To watch the whole show go to […]
Shooting Politics, episode 11, 6 January 2010
In 1995, Jim Barrington was director of the League Against Cruel Sports. Today he works for the Countryside Alliance. Where did it all go right? In this week’s half-hour Shooting Politics (episode 11) on Fieldsports Channel www.fieldsportschannel.tv, Jim explains how he changed and also how the arguments changed. Now heavily involved in the political process […]
George Digweed wins Mitsubishi L200
Christmas came early for George as he signed on the dotted line to get his hands on his festive looking L200 Trojan. George won the Mitsubishi Motors World Series this year after seven attempts. The great thing about this competition is that it encourages new talent as well as world champions. Last year the title […]
Shooting Politics, episode 9, 9th December 2009
Just what has Boris Johnson and Sebastian Coe got against shooting sports? 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 we’re devoting this programme to shooting sports at London 2012. Why […]
Pheasant shooting in Kent
The proof of the pudding is in the eating or, in this case, the shooting. Canal Game Farm’s birds are on shoots all over the country. We’re at one of those shoots in Kent to see how they fly. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 8. To watch the whole show go to […]
Wildfowling in Cumbria
We’re in the North-West of England on the big, bleak sands of Morecambe Bay (where the Chinese cocklers died) to go wildfowling with Tom Fell of Grange Wildfowlers and to walk up the marshed for snipe. You can shoot more than 10 miles of coastline here for just £10 a day. This film first appeared […]
Pike angling in the Lake District: we’re after the big ones…
We visit William Wordsworth’s favourite pike fishing lake, Rydal Water with BASC’s Jeffrey Olstead and top Cumbrian angler David Stocker to learn the latest in lure-fishing techniques. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 8. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain8
Fieldsports Britain – British bowhunting, world record catfish and Christmas present ideas
Let’s get festive. This half-hour Fieldsports Britain programme has got: * Stuck for a gift for the shooter in your life? We have dozens of Christmas prezzie ideas. * How did a 16-year-old girl from Kent catch a world record catfish. We ask her. * Looking for sport in South-West Scotland? We’re on the hill […]
Snipe shooting on a wild wet Welsh bog
The Vaughan family owns most of the great Bog of Tregaron near Aberystwyth. John Vaughan hosts a party of guns out to shoot snipe there – and it’s a lot harder than they thought it was going to be. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole show go to […]
How to recycle shotgun cartridges
In an age when we are all implementing environmental best practice to ensure that you comply with the ever increasing environmental legislation and, ultimately, to protect our planet, it even makes financial sense to recycle old cartridges. We find out why from specialist cartridge recycling company Agri.cycle. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain […]
Foxhunting opening meet 2009
It is the opening meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield & Cowdray hounds – the Chid & Lec – at Petworth House in Sussex, home of Lord and Lady Egremont. So what makes this day so special? This film first appeared on YouTube in Fieldsports Britain episode 7. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain7 […]
Stalking red stags at Balmoral
This is a unique film about stalking stags on Prince Charles’s favourite beat at Balmoral, Glen Clova. Invented by the royal family, Balmoral is the ueber-Scottish estate. It inspired the Scottish sporting week, one of the mainstays of Highland tourism. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole show go […]
Teaching goshawks to drive
Falconer Roy Lupton’s goshawks are growing up. he needs to get them used to being driven around in a car, so that’s this week’s lesson. But will the naughty birds co-operate? This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain5 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter […]
How to call in geese
Greylags and pinkfeet arrive at one of Scotland’s goosiest locations, Loch Leven. The goose guide with the best shooting on the shores is Des Cochrane. He’s there to watch them come in and offers a great masterclass in how to call them in. This first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole […]
Fieldsports Britain – 1940’s film stars and the extraordinary Tunny Club
Which was bigger – the 851lb Bluefin Tuna caught off Scarborough in 1933 or the 852lb Bluefin caught in 1949? According to the Tunny Club it was the 851lb’er. Our half-hour Fieldsports Britain programme explains how that works, plus we tell the story of how the mighties of the day – David Niven, Errol Flynn […]
Fellhunting with the Coniston Foxhounds
Could you ask for better sport? The Lakeland fells covered in brick red bracken with a bright blue sky atop, its time to go fellhunting with the Coniston Foxhounds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 8. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain8
Pheasant shooting at Plumpton College in Sussex
We join gamekeeping students at Plumpton College in Sussex on their shoot day. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 6. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain6 Sign up to our weekly email newsletter FieldsportsChannel.tv/register
How to shoot woodcock
Our shooting masterclass at the famous West London Shooting School continues with top instructor Alan Rose explaining how to deal with birds when they’re flying at their best. Just how does he shoot woodcock? This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 6. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain6
How to clip pheasants
It’s August at Canal Game and the gang has to fulfil an order for 1,500 pheasants for a Hampshire shoot – but this time the customer wants the birds clipped. Here’s how they do it… This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
How to go rabbiting with ferrets and a lurcher
Shooting Times ferreting expert Simon Whitehead of Pakefield Ferrets shows how he deals with first a pig farm, then a promising looking bank, both of them stuffed with rabbits. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 6. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain6 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter FieldsportsChannel.tv/register
How to catch partridges with goshawks
Roy Lupton takes his birds into the field to find other birds. He is using goshawks. Originally a yeoman or poor gentleman’s hawk, the goshawk provides great sport on these little birds as well as a bury of rabbits. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 4. To watch the whole show go to […]
Roebuck stalking in the Lake District
Visit the Greystoke Castle estate with us. Once the biggest estate in England to be surrounded by a deer wall, it is now a venue for some glorious roe with stalker Steve Pymm. We go out to get a buck. And Tarzan is nowhere in sight. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
West Somerset Hunt
Philip Ghazala is a new joint master of the West Somerset Hunt and he has to cope with all the pressures that role brings. This afternoon he’s out autumn hunting within the law and the field is enjoying itself as only foxhunters can, taking part in the barely controlled stampede that is a hunt in […]
How to shoot bouncing rabbits
Here’s Alan Rose, one of the top clay instructors in the UK, showing how to hit rabbits at the world famous West London Shooting School. Many shooters were brought up on rabbits – but that doesn’t stop them being one of the most difficult animal to shoot as it bolts to or from its bury. […]
Foxshooting with Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds
The foxhunting ban may be increasingly toothless but it has had one marked effect. Foxshooting has become incredibly popular. One of its champions is an Olympic champion. Clayshooting gold medallist Richard Faulds takes us out lamping in Sussex, protecting local lambs. Richard won gold for Trap Shooting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He may […]
Chinese water deer stalking in Bedfordshire
With a few weeks to go before the end of the Chinese water deer season, Sporting Rifle editor Pete Carr has his work cut out making up cull numbers on one Bedfordshire farm
Foxing in Devon
With the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and Sporting Rifle expert Mike Powell is no exception. He’s protecting his poults from a family of local foxes. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 4. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain4 Sign up to our weekly email […]
