Airgun Range Gets Grant – HotAir News
The headlines this week: ☆ Northampton range gets grant ☆ Americans back underlever ☆ How to ‘print’ an airgun ☆ Asian champs preview ☆ Squirrel invades pitch Aiming for accuracy – targeting the truth! This item appears in AirHeads, episode 41. To watch the show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads41 Sign up for our weekly […]
How to build a long range shooting system
Long range shooters Ulf Lindroth and Thomas Haugland travel to the Arctic Circle to perform a serious field test combining the new Blaser R8 in 338 Lapua Magnum and the new Zeiss Victory V8 4,8-35×60. Focusing less on technical details and more on practical limits, they shoot the system in the fjords and mountains of […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to Shoot a Duck at Half a Mile
Plenty of hunting & shooting air miles this week. We are off to the Arctic Circle to shoot a duck at more than half a mile. Tricky shot. We need expert help and we get it from long-range specialists Ulf Lindroth and Thomas Haugland. Meanwhile, Cai Ap Bryn is off to Hungary to learn how […]
How to Shoot Driven Wild Boar
How do you shoot a charging wild boar? Cai Ap Bryn is in Hungary to find out. In this item, he tries out his skills on the range. For more about Wonderhart outfitters, go to www.wonderhart.co.uk/ This series is sponsored by: Sauer & Sohn – Cai is using the Sauer 101 www.sauer.de and Hunting clothing […]
How to make fresh espresso while carp fishing
Luxury on the bank while you are carp fishing is high on the priority list for Terry Doe who shows us how easy it can be to take some of the home comforts out with you when space and weight is a premium. This film appears in Fishing Britain episode 31. To watch the whole […]
Michaelka baits hyenas
Czech model and hunter Michaela Fialova is in South Africa to bait hyenas. It is exactly how Cecil the lion was lured to his death. She shows local baiting techniques, including dragging the entrails of a rotten impala. Yuck! This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 297. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain297
Fieldsports Britain – How They Shot Cecil
It’s Cecil week on Fieldsports Britain. We are on a quest to find out how they baited the lion. Michaelka shows off her baiting techniques in South Africa, bringing in hyenas and a leopard with a radio collar (she doesn’t shoot it!). Learn new baiting tricks and – if you are an anti – stop […]
CLA Game Fair 2015 – the full story
Were you at the CLA Game Fair 2015 at Harewood House? The Fieldsports Channel team were. See how we get on, featuring Andy Crow, David Wright, Jamie Chandler, the top stalking student at Sparsholt College, Charlie Jacoby, plus the BBC’s Jim Naughtie. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 297. To watch the […]
Airgun Pressure Dilemma – the ABC OF HFT
How much do you fill your PCP airgun? What happens on a hot day? Are you actually breaking the law? Find out more in Roger Lait’s ABC of HFT. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 40. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads40
AirHeads – Airgun Rabbit Hunt
Our stars are after rabbits in this episode of AirHeads: Darren Rogers is out with Simon Whitehead. HotAir News has rabbits, and there are loads of them in Airstreaming. Meanwhile, Roger Lait has the best advice for pressure in your PCP. Here are the links to the items: HotAir ABC of HFT Airstreaming Here are […]
Top shots Andy Crow & Mark Winser versus the Pigeons
What’s the perfect bird for a top clayshooter to shoot? Why, pigeons of course. Mark Winser (he who won the Range Rover at Royal Berkshire Shooting School earlier in the year) accepts an invitation from Andy Crow to shoot pigeons in Kent. Joined by Dave Woollard (father of ace young shot Brody Woollard), they have […]
Gamekeepers’ rifle day
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation gets its Midlands members on to a hillside in Derbyshire to try out Browning’s latest crop of rifles: the X-Bolt, T-Bolt and AB3. The day takes place at Calton Moor Range, where owner Mike Dickinson is helping to build a beautiful £70,000 double rifle, perfect for lion hunting.! Get your first […]
Airgun Kit at the CLA Game Fair 2015 – HotAir news
The headlines this week: ☆ CLA Game Fair kit ☆ Colchester disabled shooting day ☆ Daystate Pulsar airgun tests ☆ Summer of HFT ☆ Corvid hunting group is having a get together. It’s described as being a relaxed affair with loads of targets a competition and barbeque. It all takes place at GTS adventure near […]
Fieldsports Britain – Top Clay Shot’s Biggest Pigeon Day
The pigeons are flocking on to Kent farmland and it is time for Mark Winser (he won the Range Rover at Royal Berks this year) and Andy Crow to get together to deal with them. They get more than 200 between them. That’s not all. Gamekeepers are trying out shiny new rifles on a Derbyshire […]
Tidying up around the Shoot
George Digweed is a busy man. He has just won his 25th world title in a domination of shooting sports that began in the 1980’s. He also runs pheasant shoots in Kent and Sussex, near where he lives and, at this time of year, there is plenty of foxshooting to be done before they start […]
Mouflon Hunt, Croatia
It’s part two of Rucksack & Rifle, and this time Tim Pilbeam is after mouflon on the craggy Croatian coast. With the Mediterranean as a backdrop, he stalks in to this wild European sheep… This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 295. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain295 For more about Sauer go […]
Are the Roe Rutting?
Has the roe rut started yet? Deerstalkers in the UK are getting excited about the annual roe rut at the end of July, when the best bucks in the country show themselves during their efforts to find a mate. Roy Lupton goes out to see whether the rut has started near him. This film was […]
Greatest Prize in Rifleshooting
It’s the Queen’s Prize at Bisley, the culmination of the Imperial Meeting 2015 and the greatest prize any targetshooter can hope to win. Full report here. For more information, visit www.nra.org.uk This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 295. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain295
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting on your Mediterranean Holiday
You know those hills you can see from the coast? They are full of game. We answer the burning questions of the moment: ☆ How do you sneak away from your Mediterranean beach holiday to go shooting? ☆ Are the roebuck rutting yet? ☆ Who won the biggest prize in rifleshooting? ☆ Which Master of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Where’s Our Hunt Ban Repeal?
Nicola Sturgeon and David Cameron are kicking the foxhunters around like two kids with a ball. Are we happy about that? Charlie gauges feeling from hunters and coursers at the Great Yorkshire Show. Plus we are at the premier schools rifleshooting event, Ashburton Day at Bisley, plus deerstalker Roy Lupton has adopted a fallow deer […]
More Pellet Power & Performance: Roy on Rabbits
Roy Lupton is out after rabbits with an FAC airgun. There’s a huge warren close to his house and it is the perfect place to try out an FX Royale with March scope. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 39. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads39
AirHeads – Rabbiting with Airguns
It’s a tough week for rabbits on your airgunning TV show AirHeads. Roy Lupton is out with night vision and his new FAC-rated FX Airgun. Cai Ap Bryn has a lamp to protect local vegetable box supplier Jack’s Veg. News leads on the crazy Scottish airgun licensing system and Airstreaming showcases the best airgun videos […]
Shooting the Ashburton Shield, Bisley
More than 600 teenagers armed with rifles came to a field in Surrey to shoot for the Ahsburton Shield, as they have done for more than 150 years. It is Ahsburton Day at Bisley. See what it’s all about, which schools have the best shots, and how you can get involved in school shooting. For […]
Fieldsports Britain – Summer Foxing
Two of the world’s most popular foxshooters – George Digweed and Michaelka – are doing their thing this in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. George is making sure his pheasant shoot in the South-East of England is ready, and not over-run with foxes. Michaelka is out on farmland near her home in the Czech Republic. Plus […]
Michaelka: Foxshooter
Foxshooting is as popular in Eastern Europe as it is in the UK. The fabulous Michaela Fialová – Michaelka to her buddies – is out after foxes on a warm summer evening in the beautiful Czech countryside. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 293. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain293
Crow shoots the clay pigeon high tower
Andy Crow is shooting the high tower at Sporting Targets’ clayground in Bedfordshire. He is there with the guys from Jack Pyke (on the day of the Jack Pyke Open Sporting), plus Brody Woollard, James Westbrook and Brody’s dad. Find out how Crowman gets on. This item appears in Claysports, episode 3. To watch the […]
More fun than golf, cheaper than tennis, let’s go shooting
Jamie Chandler, the shooter with no hands, has a day out at EJ Churchill shooting ground, where we come across Sir Jackie Stewart, F1 racing driver Valtteri Bottas, top shooter Amber Hill, Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam and, from Italy, Franco Beretta. They make the case for taking up shooting – but the real star […]
Roebuck hunting in Croatia
Tim Pilbeam is off on his first outing in our new series Rucksack & Rifle. He is stalking roebuck in Croatia. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 292. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain292 For more about Sauer go to www.sauer.de For Harkila go to www.harkila.com Tim went hunting in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rucksack & Rifle
This week’s show is full of eastern promise. Tim Pilbeam is off to Croatia after roebuck, the fabulous Czech model Michaelka is doing the same in her home country, and even the falling plate competition at Pirbright, near Bisley, has a middle eastern side to it. There is news and there is Hunting YouTube. It […]
Run and shoot: Falling Plate targets
It’s the competition for only the fittest target shooters. They have to run 100 yards in the fastest time, then shoot a target as quickly as they can. Pirbright hosted one of the top international competitions, where Canada slugged it out with Oman. But it is target shooting anyone can do. Meet the students who […]
Michaelka: Czech Roebuck
She’s the Czech Republic’s best know shooting star. Michaela Fialová, known as Michaelka, specialises in annoying anti hunters with her exploits all over the world. Here she is out with TopJagd after a roebuck in the forests of her home country. For more about Michaelka, go to www.MichaelkasHunting.com – and to go hunting in this […]
Protecting Jack’s Veg with Airguns
You get the veggie boxes you order thanks to pest controllers. Cai Ap Bryn is protecting the radishes at Jack’s Veg from the local Peter Rabbit population. For more about Air Arms’ range of airguns, go to www.air-arms.co.uk/ For more about Jack’s Veg, go to www.jacksveg.co.uk This item appears in AirHeads, episode 39. To watch […]
How to Protect Buffalo from Rabbits
You might think a big animal like a buffalo would not have much problem with a rabbit. Well, if you think that, Jamie Chandler says you are wrong. But as he goes out after rabbits on a buffalo farm, the reason he goes rabbit shooting is so the pub can cook them afterwards. This item […]
AirHeads – Peculiar Airgun Permissions
We have Jamie Chandler out after rabbits on a buffalo farm, Cai Ap Bryn is trying to shoot ferals nesting under solar panels (without smashing the panels), Roger Lait shows the benefit of weighing pellets before you shoot, and there is HotAir News and the best airgunning on YouTube in Airstreaming. It’s all in AirHeads, […]
Summer Shooting: foxes, deer (not ponies)
We’re out with the dancing fox-shooter Anthony Champ, looking for foxes deeding on worms. And Charlie comes up with a brainy idea for catching them at their worming – using fishing tackle. Charlie is using a Browning AB3 and Winchester Varmint X ammunition www.browning.eu Charlie’s lanyard kindly provided by PG Lanyards www.ebay.co.uk/sch/paulbasc/m.html This film was […]
First Look: Sauer 404
We go up to a long-distance range in West Wales to look at the new Sauer 404. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam and Chris Chapman from Swillington Shooting Supplies give it the once over. For more about Sauer go to Sauer.de Thanks to Minox, Garlands, and WMS Firearms Training for the day. This item appears […]
Fieldsports Britain – Worming for Foxes
If you can catch fish with worms, and foxes eat worms, why can’t you use fishing techniques to shoot foxes? Charlie Jacoby sets out to do just that – with the help of a dancing foxshooter and kid who has it in for squirrels – and comes up with a world-class invention: the poor man’s […]
Schools Challenge TV – How a Browning Shooter Shoots the Browning Open
Meet Sam Green, a Browning sponsored shooter. It is the Browning Open, a 100-bird sporting open to any Browning, Winchester or Miroku shooter. And surely it is his bounden duty to win it? Find out how he gets on at the Open, which took place at the Oxford Gun Company. For more about the Schools […]
William Powell – Beautiful Guns
William Powell makes some of the loveliest guns in England. We go behind the scenes to find out more. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain episode 290. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain190
Hot flush: how to shoot a flurry
Andy Crow breaks down tactics and strategy for that all important flush – the centrepiece of any charity clay shoot. This item appears in Claysports, episode 2. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/claysports2
Buck Fever
Thomas Lindy Nissen is out with a hunter in Denmark. They are after a roebuck… and buck fever sets in when he takes the shot. Find out what happens in Thomas’s film. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 289. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain289
Hunting in Israel
Do they hunt in Israel? Charlie Jacoby goes to Tel Aviv to find out… According to the Palestinians, Israelis in the West Bank release pigs with the aim of forcing Palestinian residents to leave their homes! You couldn’t make it up: www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/israeli-palestinian-conflict-intensifies-wild-boars-enter-fray-889982 If you know about hunting in Israel, if you want to advertise your […]
Pigeons over Lupins
Andy Crow has an unusual pest problem. The pigeons are landing on a field of lupins. He breaks out the Gamebore steel cartridges to deter them – and provide useful pigeon meat for Roy. Gamebore’s website is www.gamebore.com/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 289. To watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Flower Power Pigeon Hunt
What attracts woodpigeons to pretty lupins? Andy Crow doesn’t know – but he knows they are flying in and damaging this crop, so he is out to shoot them. Here’s how to decoy a flower field. That’s not all. Fieldsports Britain goes all international this week. Thomas Lindy Nissen looks at hunters who get buck […]
AirHeads – Airgun Rook Hunt
It’s a busy week for our airgun crew. Pellet Power & Performance is back with Roy Lupton using big-bore airguns. Roger Lait is looking at airgun zero in the ABC of HFT. There is HotAir news, Airstreaming featuring the best of airgunning on YouTube, and Darren Rogers takes a gang out after brancher rooks. Here […]
More Pellet Power and Performance #1 – Top Kit
Pellet Power & Performance is back. Roy Lupton is using bigger, better and dare we say it badder airguns then ever before, taking them to the limits, testing them to the extremes… all right, loving it. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 37. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads37
Rooks with Rifles
Darren Rogers is shooting ‘brancher’ rooks with airguns. He and a couple of friends are out after the rooks in May, when the young birds are at their most delicious. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 37. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads37
Shooting pigeons with steel
Andy Crow tests Gamebore steel cartridges on pest pigeons. Roy Lupton’s goshawk and peregrine eyasses need meat with no lead in it. So, Andy puts away his usual lead cartridges and goes for the non-lead alternative. It’s a great day on the pigeons, and Andy rules on whether steel works or not. Gamebore’s website is […]
What about the fox cubs?
Sporting Rifle foxshooting expert Mike Powell answers one of the big questions of foxshooting: what about the cubs? He has got a litter of cubs he is watching plus a poultry-munching fox he needs to shoot. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 287. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain287
How to butcher a boar with George Digweed
World Champion shot George Digweed knows his way around a butchers block. He learned the trade as a young man in the family shop in Hastings. In this film he shows us how to cut up and present the best bits of a Sussex wild boar.
