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 […]
The Ledbury Hunt
Nicky Sadler follows the Ledbury Hunt, hunting within the law, in its Friday country, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. Hounds are known to have hunted the area around Ledbury on the Hereford and Gloucestershire border for at least 300 years. The Ledbury Hunt as presently constituted can trace it’s origin to 1846 when according to the […]
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 […]
Corinium 100m rifle range, Cirencester – review
We visit the Corinium rifle range – www.coriniumrange.com – in Gloucestershire, run by Swarovski pro stalker Paul Hill. Need to check a zero or test some ammunition? Here is an excellent range run by a superb shooter. Find out more about what Paul offers in this film, which first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. […]
Kristoffer Clausen eats a fox
The Norwegian film maker and survival expert is in the UK to meet game chef Mark Gilchrist who has promised him some new hunting experiences. We chat with Kristoffer in a pigeon hide after a morning of crow shooting – and we find out what fox tastes like. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
South Somerset Ferreters – a great family day out hunting rabbits
Like ferrets and lurchers? You will love the South Somerset Ferreters. Where other people get together in shopping centres or leisure parks, here is a group of families who like nothing better than to meet up in the great British countryside with kids and picnics, and bolt rabbits to longdogs. This item first appeared in […]
CPSA guide to shooting success with George Digweed
Top tips on clayshooting with multiple world champion George Digweed, brought to you by the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 100. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain100
Smashing pumpkins with Sporting Rifle reviewer Tim Pilbeam
Working for Sporting Rifle magazine, Tim Pilbeam is snowed under with guns of all shapes and sizes. He shows us how he puts five very different rifles through their paces. To add some festive spice we ask him to hit some long range baubles and some not so festive pumpkins!! The rifles on test are: […]
Taylor’s Travels: working whippets
The Yorkshire Dales are a paradise for rabbits. In order to save the grass for the sheep, that means a lot of fun ferreting and working longdogs. Countryside Alliance director shooting David Taylor goes out with some of the top dog people in the UK to learn about working whippets. This item first appeared in […]
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 […]
Shooting driven mouflon in Germany
We are hunting mouflon near Berlin – some of the most exciting sport you can hope to enjoy. It is a driven hunt for the benefit of 70 gunshop owners from around the world, organised by Zeiss Sports Optics. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 101. To watch the whole show go to […]
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: […]
Pheasant shooting at the much-loved Valley Shoot in Kent
We are out on lovely autumn pheasant and partridge shoot day in Kent, the Garden of England. As well as some nicely presented birds, we follow the fortunes of a shooter and hear how the shoot came about. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 106. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain106
Fox takes crying “baby” from pram
Here is what happens when people feed foxes. They become tame enough to lose their fear of humans. This time it is not a real baby. It is a dead piglet, dressed in a baby-grow. It was used in Channel4/More4’s Foxes Live programme on 8 May 2012. ‘Dave’ is a pest controller from Bromley in […]
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 […]
Browning B725 Citori UK launch
Browning launches the B725 Citori to gunshops in the UK at top clay ground the Royal Berkshire Shooting School. Watch this film to find out what gun shop owners think of this gun in both Sporter and Hunter models. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 110. To watch the whole show go to […]
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 […]
The biggest fox in Britain 2012
Are foxes getting bigger? Pest controller Roy Lupton thinks they are. He shot an enormous 35.5lb dog fox on new years eve. It dwarfs other “normal” specimens measuring 130cm from nose to end of tail. As reported in The Sun newspaper, 2 January 2012.
Ratting with smoke, shotguns, airguns and terriers
There’s more than one way to catch a rat. And if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We start with smoking ’em out with a chainsaw and shotgun, and then let the terriers have a sniff. The last resort is to sacrifice some left-over Chinese takeaway to see if they fancy a late […]
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 […]
Goose shooting in Kent
Farmer Andy Crow always has problems with pigeons but now he’s having to contend with Canada and greylag geese. Every morning they’re landing on a pond on the farm he manages in Kent, and then venturing into the young crops for easy pickings. Time to call some friends and wait for them to arrive. This […]
Big game hunter buys a new Chapuis Armes double rifle
Roy Lupton wants a new double rifle. He travels from his home in the UK to France to buy a lovely new gun – and he takes time to tour the factory. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 106. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain106
Review: the Quex Museum – the Powell-Cotton collection
We take a look behind the scenes at the world famous Quex museum in Kent. Major Percy Horace Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) made 27 trips to Africa in an attempt to bring back and catalogue every species of African game. The museum even has his ripped safari suit on display… and the lion that got just a […]
The Blencathra Foxhounds
We join the Blencathra for a snowy day at Caldbeck, the home of the famous huntsman John Peel, known from the song “D’ye ken John Peel”. We look at the state of modern fellhunting, the legend of John Peel and why repeal of the foxhunting ban is more important than ever. This item first appeared […]
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 […]
Shooting rats with the help of a digger
It is the final straw. Roy Lupton has tried to get rid of his rats by smoking them out, using terriers and air-rifles. Now he has had to bring in heavy plant machinery… This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 96. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain96
Taylor’s Travels: wildfowling in Cumbria
Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor goes to the Walney Island Wildfowling Club near Barrow-in-Furness to see how it manages its land and steers a path through the different political pressures of wildlife conservation groups, the submarine building industry and locals who drive across the sands. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. […]
David Florent teaches shooting
Shotgun instructor David Florent of the Oxford Gun Company teaches people who are new to shooting the basics of the sport, including gun mount and foot position. It’s easy to try out at home – even without a gun.
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 […]
Schools Challenge, Bredon School, 2011
Join the UK’s premier clayshooting initiative for young shots. It is the first of two clay competitions for school and college kids, held in the spring at the Oxford Gun Company. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 76. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain76
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 […]
Schools Challenge, Oxford, 2011
Join the UK’s premier clayshooting initiative for young shots. It is the first of two clay competitions for school and college kids, held in the spring at the Oxford Gun Company. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 69. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain69
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 […]
Rhino hunting: do you or don’t you?
Torben Espensen saved up and made the trip of a lifetime: to hunt and shoot a southern white rhino in South Africa. It cost him ‘half a farm’ and it was, he says, the greatest experience of his life. But was he right to do it? This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
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 […]
Taylor’s Travels: the red rut
Every autumn, Scottish stags clatter into each other and roar out their desire for their hinds. Countryside Alliance director of shooting David Taylor meets Highland keeper Jimmie Irvine on an estate in the Monadhliath Hills to watch this great natural drama play out – and learn a little about the politics of deer management in […]
The white fox of Kent
Game chef Mark Gilchrist describes how he and a friend shot two rare white foxes on farmland in Kent. The sighting has been described as a “once in two lifetimes” event. The farmer, however, doesn’t care what colour the foxes are – he needs them off his land to protect his livestock. Mark is quids […]
Zander and barbel fishing on the River Trent
Barbel and zander offer exciting and challenging coarse fishing. We are on the banks of one of the best spots in the country, Collingham Weir. Fishermen even queue up to fish here. We are after both fish species with Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam and his old pals from school who have some luck […]
Taylor’s Travels: the grey geese
Greylag and pinkfoot geese brave a 1,000-mile journey across wild seas to come to the UK every year in their hundreds of thousands. Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor goes to Easter Ross in the Highlands of Scotland to witness this spectacle, and to find out how shooters help conserve these birds. This item first […]
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 […]
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 […]
Airgun shooting, safety and ownership guide by Terry Doe
Want to shoot airguns? Here are a few tips from Airgun World editor and king of the airgunners Terry Doe. It’s a useful guide for anyone whether new to the sport or a national champion! Produced by AMTA, this film shows basic air rifle safety and awareness. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
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. […]
How to track down a man-eating lion
Faced with a man-eating lion, professional hunter Don Heath, tells us how he dealt with the disease-ridden cat. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 74.To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain74
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 […]
How to tell if a buffalo is about to charge
Professional hunter Don Heath needs to be able to read the body language of dangerous game. In this film he talks us through incidents involving buffalo. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 73. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain73
How to tell if an elephant is about to charge
Professional hunter and ballistics expert Don Heath talks us through the body language of African game. His job is to make sure his clients don’t get killed and to teach other professional hunters how to stay cool when faced with elephant, lion and buffalo. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 77. To watch […]
