Fieldsports Britain – cats and rats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsAvZ_eDfZk We have catapults on squirrels and a big outing after rats in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Find out how to fit your catapult to you – and watch (in awe) as Paul Childerley retrieves a wriggling squirrel. Meanwhile, James Marchington is out with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack after their arch enemies. And Deborah […]
Animals Abroad laws hacked back – Fieldsports News, 23 February 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F05iyrkMUE Here are the links: UK government may U-turn on fur and foie gras import ban – BBC + Forbes Storms cause death and destruction across England – Dogs + Horse + Birds of prey Huge support for fundraiser to help family of gamekeeper – GoFundMe Appeal to fund legal bill of telehandler hero – […]
The Great British Shooting Show prize pot – Fieldsports Extra #208
We’re giving away £1,500+ worth of prizes following the Bitish Shooting Show. There are five winners in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, plus a former paratrooper, two ferreters, a former Saracens rugby player, and a technical catapultist. Plus a competition to win a £250 clay cart to be drawn in next week’s show. Here are the […]
Wildlife counting wars: scientists vs gamekeepers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0koIQQvX_M by Deborah Hadfield Is there a shake-up heading towards the world of wildlife counting? Since the 1980s, scientists have taken control of the job of working out bird and animal population levels – and their counts and their estimates are now the basis for government policy. Now a new study carried out by gamekeepers […]
Roe deer loin recipe, over an open fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er-e1W5B23A Reece Hepburn stalks roe deer on 1,000 acres on the banks of the River Tweed. He is a chef, too, and has an excellent recipe for roe loin over an open fire. Find out how to make it in this film, plus Reece is out to shoot a fat roe doe for the freezer. […]
Andy Crow goes foxshooting with Liemke thermal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFQ19LvUMFE Crow has his hands on new kit. German thermal company Liemke has bought out a range of spotters and scopes. Andy Crow takes them foxshooting around his farm in Kent, with the help of grandson Regan and cousin Gary. Find out how they get on. For more from Liemke, visit Liemke.com More from Andy:
GAIM shooting simulator on an English game day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muh_4sHfT-0 Paul Childerley is holding a pheasant shoot with a difference. As well as the driven birds on his Bedfordshire estate, his friends from Aimpoint have brought along a driven shooting simulator and set it up in his shooting lodge. His guests try out the GAIM shooting simulator, while GAIM’s developer at Aimpoint, Erik Gustavsson, […]
Fieldsports Britain – driven wild boar in your front room
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-moAotIHA Fancy shooting wild boar from the comfort of your own home? Aimpoint may have the solution. It has developed the GAIM shooting training aid, which uses virtual reality to recreate a pheasant or wild boar drive. Paul Childerley tries it out after a January driven day on his own shoot, plus he has the […]
Remington in the dock – Fieldsports News, episode 638
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6MA8TOddXQ Here are the links: Gunmaker settles with Sandy Hook families – BBC Police investigate sea eagle deaths – Daily Mail Antis protest at German hunting fair – Radio912 New US study tests for coronavirus in deer – Guardian Flocks of birds die dropping from the sky in Wales and Mexico – MSN + WalesOnline […]
Win £260 Treksta boots – Fieldsports Extra #207
You can win a pair of Treksta boots priced at £259.95, plus there are other prices worth £700+. I get a chat from Andy Crow about zeroing his thermal, a computer games developer with Aimpoint talks about his product (and provides one of the prizes), and supporter Reece Hepburn says why he watched Fieldsports Britain. […]
How to buy a bargain boxlock at auction
Gun expert Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk says that boxlocks are currently the best bargains at sporting gun auctions. He identifies a CH Smith 12 bore side-by-side with Damascus steel barrels in leather case in Hansons of Derby’s 25 February 2022 sale. More on secondhand guns and sporting gun auctions:
Dan Thor shoots the Browning B525 Exquisite
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdYvNLjJ1o The Browning 525 has been around for years; it’s built a great reputation for having a solid, reliable action, and remains popular despite the introduction of more recent Browning models such as the 725 and Cynergy. The proven 525 action remains unchanged, but Browning regularly update the offering with new stock configurations, different grades […]
Keepers in the front line against hare poaching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TdqOuKcTA Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and farm equipment, it is up to gamekeepers to defend the land. Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on coursing was meant to have stopped this. Jim meets gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and Ed […]
Bangs and banter with Dan Thor on beaters’ day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPSn1UTJAo It’s beaters’ day on a pheasant shoot in Hertfordshire, and there are still plenty of birds to reward everyone who worked so hard on the shoot all season. Dan Thor joins his friends there, including a youngster who gets a great partridge. Dan is shooting a Browning 525 Exquisite, which comes with multi chokes. […]
Thermal rabbiting with a rimfire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDi1lTEvHk Paul Childerley is after more than one for the pot. He is protecting crops and preparing the rabbits he shoots for the game dealer. He also offers a masterclass in presentation and skinning rabbits. For more about the HIKMicro range of thermal, go to EliteOptical.co.uk Find Paul on Facebook and Instagram More from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul puts the heat on rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90BoQTMiis Paul Childerley has new thermal to try out, and a rabbit problem to try it out on. He goes after the Bedfordshire bunnies with HIKMicro and a Tikka .22 rimfire, and shows how to present and skin them. Meanwhile, Dan Thor is on his local beaters’ day in Hertfordshire. He and the other guns […]
Telehandler hero – Fieldsports News, episode 637
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwbpXAnxRY Here are the links: Telehandler farmer cleared of damaging Corsa – BBC Brewer’s tree planting scheme attacked over cull – Telegraph National Crime Agency shuts down illegal gunmaker – BBC Police arrest six men accused of hare poaching in Wiltshire – Wiltshire Police Legal challenge over rules for shooting wild birds – Guardian Petition […]
Win Jack Pyke luggage – Fieldsports Extra #206
You can win Jack Pyke clayshooting luggage, including gun slip, sports bag, cartridge bag and cartridge pouch, priced at £90.85. Also, we get a chat from Dan Thor on pheasant shooting, Ed Coles on poaching vehicles and our new news correspondent Deborah Hadfield.This week’s prizes and links:SSP Eyewear kit Jack Pyke Sporting Gun Slip £38Jack Pyke […]
Dave the Dog fixes Ollie’s lab
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAojngcIboQ Dave Templar from Countryways Gundogs helps Ollie Williams with his new labrador. How should Ollie train an 11-month-old gundog? Dave has the answers. For more from Countryways Gundogs, visit CountrywaysGundogs.com To go shooting with Olie, visit CornishSportingAgency.com
Cheshire sabs nicked – Fieldsports News, episode 636
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRq7J6qNBow Here are the links: Cheshire sabs in the dock – Leicestershire Police Gamekeeper kills two buzzards – youtu.be/VCN3ME-W6k0 NatureScot punishes curlews for dead hen harrier – BBC + Fieldsports Channel goes shooting at Lochan Devon & Cornwall gun grab appeal – Fieldsports News + Paul Cox’s fundraiser British Shooting show fills up – Fcha.nl/bss2022/ […]
Labour-saving deerstalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-waHqPGoo When Cai goes stalking, he’s like a walking gunshop. On a fallow stalk in Sussex, he loads up with gear and talks us through it. Here are the links: ▶ Tatonka deer carcase backpack ▶ Treksta boots ▶ Donington Deer Management skinning machine For more from Cai, visit GameAndFlames.com
Pigeon poppers – recipe – from Bradley Smokers
youtu.be/bbLO_zMASbA A delicious pigeon snack, fom Cai Ap Bryn. This recipe is brought to you by Bradley Smokers Bit.ly/bsmoker – and use FIELDSPORTS at checkout for a 20% discount For more from Cai, visit GameAndFlames.com
Fieldsports Britain – stalking kit special
Cai Ap Bryn has a mission in mind and a lot of kit to help him do it. He is after a fallow or two for the larder to feed his hungry clients this summer. To help him out, he has a deer carcase backpack, a deer skinning machine and even a new pair of […]
Zimbabwean ambassador to the USA speaks up for hunting
youtu.be/IdSBQzMpaWE As Lord Zac Goldsmith tries to push through a ban on trophy imports to the UK, which would effectively be a ban on hunting tourism in countries across the world, people from those countries are speaking up against him. One of the more important voices is the Zimbabwean ambassador to the United States, Tadeus […]
Win shooting glasses – Fieldsports Extra #205
You can win shooting glasses priced at £220 ($299) + we talk to gun grab victim Paul Cox, Cai Ap Bryn, the organiser of the British Shooting Show and the Zimbabwean ambassador to the USA.This week’s prizes and links:Creed Outdoors Sling Saddle SSP Eyewear kit Man falls in – Facebook Deer cross road – Facebook Paul Cox GoFundMe […]
British Shooting Show 2022 full for stands – filling up with visitors
youtu.be/lTfYwBQU698 With just days until the British Shooting Show 2022 at the NEC outside Birmingham, organisers are working at full tilt. They have been hard at it since September, when they concluded negotiations with the NEC. “We have come out of a fraught 24 months,” says organiser John Allison. “We got through August and September […]
Big game hunting – how Zac got it wrong
Lord Zac Goldsmith wants to ban trophy imports to the UK because he thinks it will help wildlife. He could not be more wrong, as a walk around the Safari Club Intrnational Convention 2022 shows. Charlie Jacoby reports from the event in Las Vegas, which raised more than US$15 million for conservation projects and lobbying. […]
Helen Tinner pops out for a Chinese
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7kGShoYaYQ How close are you to bringing home a deer for dinner? Helen Tinner does it, stalking a Chinese water deer on the Norfolk Broads and then cutting it up and cooking it. She uses a left-handed Browning X-Bolt in .243 calibre, with 58-grain Norma ammo. For more from Helen, visit HelenTinner.com If you want […]
Fieldsports Britain – Chinese water deer takeaway
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNmVeKulcvs We’re after another Helen Tinner dinner. This time she is on the Norfolk Broads shooting and cutting up a Chinese water deer. Meanwhile, Charlie is in Las Vegas at the Safari Club show trying to get to the bottom of what Lord Zac Goldsmith has planned for big game hunting – and how it […]
Boris drops wildlife bans, says newspaper – Fieldsports News, episode 635
Here are the links: Ban plan bumped down by government – Guardian Sermon on the mounting hunting tourism hysteria – Mirror Packham ‘stuns’ viewers with rat death comment – Express New Kent village plan angers anglers – Kent Online ‘Conservationists’ and council decide against helping Essex lake fish – Facebook County cops’ coronavirus cop-out Penrith […]
Sweden, Scotland and USA – Fieldsports Extra #204
Charlie is at a thinned-out ShotShow 2022 with commercial director James Westbrook. They discuss the state of the gun trade. Plus there’ s Vario hearing protection to win priced at £650.This week’s prizes and links:Creed Outdoors Sling Saddle Jumping deerAnnoying sheep How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon and Facebook simply comment with […]
Frantic foxing with Doug Pocklington
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uaq-gRXoas It’s a frenzied night of foxshooting for Doug Pocklington in Lincolnshire as the animals appear from everywhere. He has to be ready to turn on a sixpence. In the end, he accounts for eleven. Find Doug on Facebook Join the Fieldsports Nation More from Doug:
#ShotShow 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIM98TznHFc Charlie goes to ShotShow 2022 in Las Vegas to find empty stands and missing gun trade companies – the show is a victim of covid – but there are lots of signs of recovery, and the show maintains its reputation for innovation. Here are the people Charlie sees: Brett Snyder, Dark Storm Industries, talks through […]
Beef farm crow shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2xUGUurpo Crows, rooks and jackdaws are piling in to cattle feed on a farm in Sussex. A farmyard is a tricky site for a full-on shotgun decoying day. Tristan Surgey knows how to do it, and ends up with a full bag before the birds work out what’s going on. Find Tris on Instagram […]
Fieldsports Britain – clever corvid tactics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixKhbvKD2lM We are knocking back the farm pests in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. Tristan Surgey is shooting corvids in a farmyard in Sussex, and has some top tips on how to do that effectively. In Lincolnshire, Doug Pocklington has a big night on the foxes, with eleven in the bag. David brings you the news […]
George Monbiot backs trophy hunting – Fieldsports News, episode 634
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmoHfhpWUEo Here are the links: Animal rights extremist switches sides over trophy hunting – Twitter Police fail UK shooters over gun certificates – Fieldsports News Pheasant prices set to rise – GunOnPegs.com Deer meets sad end in wire tangle – Instagram Dave Carrie launches young shots programme – YouTube + email davecarrieshooting@gmail.com or call 07831 303380 […]
ShotShow 2022 – Fieldsports Extra #203
Charlie is at a thinned-out ShotShow 2022 with commercial director James Westbrook. They discuss the state of the gun trade. Plus there’ s Vario hearing protection to win priced at £650.This week’s prizes and links:PBiR Illuminations Moose breaks tabletennis table on Instagram How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon and Facebook simply comment […]
Owl boxes with an expert – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 59
Jodie Case is an owl nut. Representing the Owl Box Initiative, she brings an owl box to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. She explains how to make the ideal owl box, to attract owls to your garden, plus talks about her work researching owls. For more, go to @OwlBoxInit and @JCaseNature […]
How to use a ballistic turret
Josh McKeown from Braces of Bristol explains how a ballistic turret on your scope can help you take quick, accurate shots in the field, whatever the range your quarry appears, and with no need to estimate holdover. Find out about Braces of Bristol at BracesOfBristol.com
Dogs bred to hunt the Arctic tundra
Paul is putting in the miles hunting ptarmigan and capercaillie in glorious Lapland. It’s tough going over wet terrain in a biting wind. That demands a special sort of bird dog. Paul visits the kennels at Pinetree Lodge to meet the dogs, from husky crosses to spaniels and setters. Then it’s out across the tundra […]
Shoots to get Government cash – Fieldsports News, episode 633
youtu.be/5xWzda4TQS4 Here are the links: Government money to help wildlife – Gov.uk Police helicopters nab poachers – Facebook Constabularies halt issuing licences – Telegraph Pheasants keep a cool head when fighting – Telegraph World junior shooting champion dies in tragic accident – Daily Mail Queen’s cocker wins Windsor championship – Facebook Councillor wants big dogs […]
Fieldsports Britain – Arctic hunting dogs
youtu.be/6dqbEWg4_qM Paul is putting in the miles hunting ptarmigan and capercaillie in glorious Lapland. It’s tough going over wet terrain in a biting wind. That demands a special sort of bird dog. Paul visits the kennels at Pinetree Lodge to meet the dogs, from husky crosses to spaniels and setters. Then it’s out across the […]
Stalker reviews the Emberleaf knife
youtu.be/4PNAEAqe3Lw Nathan Whitehead has used many different knives in his work as a stalker and deer manager, but he has no intention of changing now he has an Emberleaf knife. “It was gifted to me by two good friends,” he explains. “This one must have done getting on for 150 deer, and all I’ve ever […]
How to turn farm buildings into holiday lets – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 58
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXzpk5X7y0 A discussion on what makes the perfect holiday letting business with Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre: Andrew Fallows of Carter Jonas advises landowners and farmers on how to diversify – and the rediscovery of UK holidays by locked-down Brits means he has never been business, Meanwhile, Ashley Vellacott turned his […]
Hunting high-speed boar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HVyOLFgIE Tim Pilbeam gets to go on one of the great driven hunts of his life. It’s like Disney has opened the door to the animal park, as deer and boar bound in front of him. He is in Sweden as a guest of gunsight company Aimpoint, and he gets to use their latest kit […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tim’s fabulous driven hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ple90OdivXs Tim Pilbeam has never seen so many shootable animals. He goes on an Aimpoint driven game hunt in Sweden, where herds of fallow and great sounders of boar go crashing past him – and it is his job to shoot them with his rifle mounted with an Aimpoint sight. He has a wonderful time. […]
Win an infra-red torch – Fieldsports Extra #202
You can win a PBiR illuminator to put on your night vision set-up. Plus one of Aimpoint’s experts explains how to take a freehand shot with a rifle, and one of the Devon shooters facing seizure of his guns says what to do if you reckon you are in the right and the police are […]
Trophy imports ban ‘not on government timetable’
The Tory politician pushing through the ban on trophy imports admits it is not in the Government’s timetable. Fears among animal rights extremists that a trophy imports ban bill will not go in front of MPs at Westminster appear to be true if Zac Goldsmith, DEFRA minister and old Etonian friend of prime minister Boris […]
Foxshooter explains why he prefers Norma V-Max ammo
youtu.be/bgJKA9BbggY Foxshooter Doug Pocklington uses Norma V-Max 58 grain factory ammo in his .243 Tikka rifle. He likes it because it’s accurate and effective, and the bullet breaks up instantly when it hits anything. That eliminates any problems with ricochets, even on some of the stony fields where he operates. “The bullet is so fast […]
Why foxshooter Doug shoots a Tikka T3X Lite
youtu.be/WMyNejO_u-c Foxshooter Doug Pocklington loves his .243 Tikka T3X Lite rifle. “They’re a good all-rounder,” he says. “They’re reasonably priced, accurate and reliable.” Doug says he depends on the Tikka’s accuracy for 200-300 rounds, until he decides it could do with a good clean. “It’s scary accurate, but if I ever miss a fox or […]
