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 – 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 – Lamping with hawks + Olympic shooting + cooking squirrels
There’s so much to see in this week’s Fieldsports Britain, episode 16. We’ show amazing footage of lamping rabbits with a hawk, we’re at the launch of a new scheme that will deliver gold medals for British shooters at the next Olympics, we’re learning to shoot straighter with three national shots, including our own Ab […]
Fieldsports Britain Crufts 2010 preview
Crufts 2010 – it is the greatest dogshow on earth and Sunday 14th March 2010 is gundog day. All over the country, gundog owners are preparing to take their best friends to the NEC at Birmingham. All of them are aiming to end the day in the big hall on the lefthand side – the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Triplet girls who hunt with the Quorn
Amy, Harriet and Laura Simes are the kind of gang you’d expect to find at St Trinians. They are noisy 13-year-old identical triplets who love hunting and shooting – and on the half-hour Fieldsports Britain show available to watch from tonight you will see how we tried to keep up with them. That’s not all. […]
Shooting Politics, episode 13, 17th February 2010
The British Association for Shooting & Conservation is past its 100th birthday and has come a long way since it was a loose association of wildfowlers headed by Stanley Duncan. Now Graham Downing has written “A Sporting Century”, a book telling the history of the UK’s biggest shooting organisation and its forerunner, the Wildfowlers’ Association […]
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 […]
Fieldsports Britain – Gundogs Special
In his time Chris Burns has been the gundog training expert for Shooting Times and Sporting Shooter. He runs Breezeleaf Kennels in the south of England and he has invited Sporting Shooter editor James Marchington to one of his regular shoots at Penshurst Place in Kent to show him just what topnotch gundogs can do […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting British wild boar, woodcock bonanza, wildfowling and Quex Museum
With the bulk of the shooting season coming to a close, we’re after so much in this half-hour Fieldsports Britain show. How do you shoot British wild boar? What do you do when there is a huge fall of woodcock? What’s it like wildfowling on the Humber estuary? And, as if that’s not enough, we’re […]
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
Abbey Burton masterclass: how to mount the gun
Part of the battle to get your shooting right is to get yourself prepared to shoot. London 2012 Olympic Trap hopeful Abbey Burton explains how to stand so you have the best possible chance of bringing down the screaming pheasant. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 10. To watch the whole show go […]
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 […]
Help for Heroes – how shooters started it
The story so far… *Help For Heroes* is the brainchild of shooting cartoonist-turned-campaigner Bryn Parry. We interview Bryn about how he, his co-founder and his team have raised £38 million in just two-and-a-half years to help rehabilitate injured soldiers. We hear the stories of bravery on the frontline – and we even learn what makes […]
Fieldsports Britain – Sport in the snow, shooting lesson plus eagles on hares
It’s that Fieldsports Britain time of the week again and we are culling roe does, avoiding crashing our cars into deer (not very successfully) and floundering through the snow to go pheasant shooting. As if that weren’t enough, we’re training golden eagles to hunt hares and learning to shoot better with London 2012 Olympic Trap […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
