Browning Owners’ Club day 2011
Members of the Browning Owners Club come together at the Oxford Gun Company for a day of fun shooting and other activities – including who can dismantle and rebuild a Browning Maxus blindfold! This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 78. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter FieldsportsChannel.tv/register
British Deer Society AGM 2018
The British Deer Society AGM covered the big issues facing wild deer in the UK, including chronic wasting disease, ticks, hybrids, government policy and the nation’s love for our largest wild animals. Scottish Trustee Director and Area Chair John Bruce ran the two-day conference, which started at the Budongo Lecture Theatre at Edinburgh Zoo. Day two […]
How to shoot quartering birds – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
In the latest of his clay pigeon shooting masterclass series, champion shot Ben Husthwaite talks a shooter, Dave, through the process of shooting quartering clay targets. Shoot them where you are comfortable, says Ben. This item is sponsored by Gamebore For more from the clayground, visit SportingTargets.co.uk Ben’s website is BenHusthwaite.com For all of Ben’s films […]
Venison steak on an open fire – Hunt and Cook Recipes
Cai Ap Bryn shows how to cook a fallow haunch steak on an open fire. Make sure the fire is burning hot. Just add butter, thyme and garlic, and cook until the outside is brown (and the inside is still pink). ▶ This item is sponsored by Sauer Rifles and Blaser Active Outfits. Visit Blaser-Sporting.com […]
Fallow for the pot – Hunt & Cook
Cai has to set up an ambush if he is to shoot a fallow buck for the pot. He knows where they are – but they seem to know where’s safe. Find out how he gets on. For Cai’s fallow steak recipe video, visit ▶ This item is sponsored by Sauer Rifles and Blaser Active […]
Ben Husthwaite on what’s wrong with clayshooting
Ben Husthwaite speaks out: how come anyone can be a shooting instructor? what can the CPSA do better? what’s the point of pattern plates? (don’t expect modesty!). This item is sponsored by Gamebore For more from the clayground, visit SportingTargets.co.uk Ben’s website is BenHusthwaite.com For all of Ben’s films on Fieldsports Channel, click here This item […]
Fieldsports Britain – Deer Ambush
We’re out after a fallow buck for the pot with Cai Ap Bryn in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. The game chef plans a steak supper – plus he gives his recipe on how to cook the perfect venison steak. We are also talking to the bad boy of British shooting, Ben Husthwaite, about how to shoot […]
Who is the best shot with a Beretta?
There is only one way to find out. We are off to the West Midlands Shooting Ground for the 2015 Beretta World clay shooting event. Find out what happens here… This item first appeared in Claysports, episode 3. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/claysports3 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets […]
Cub scouts learn about keepering
Cub scouts from the Hawes Cubs pack learned about grousekeepering on a visit to the Bolton Castle estate. The cubs visited the shoot in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Keepers show the 14 boys aged between eight and ten and their leaders different aspects of moorland management. In a post on Instagram, the estate reports: […]
Rare white roebuck pops up on Czech hunting ground
A rare white roebuck is living quietly in the Czech Republic. The albino buck is on the hunting ground of Fieldsports Channel viewer Folkert van Hoogevest. He runs hunting agency ArtemisBohemia – but he says he will not allow this animal to be shot. “Although we already got offers from hunters around EU, having seen the film […]
Close range ratting with a springer
We are spring-loaded and after rats at a local aviary. James Marchington doesn’t have to be too stealthy on this occasion as the rats are just intent on eating the readily available bird seed. This film first appeared in episode 3, bit.ly/airheadstv This item first appeared in AirHeads episode 3. To watch the whole show […]
Spring powered air rifle safety – Watch those fingers!
Technical editor of Airgunner and Airgun World magazines, Phill Price, explains how to handle and load a spring powered air rifle. It may be something many of us take for granted but the film shows just how important it is to grip the barrel and not let go whilst always keeping it pointed at the […]
The most expensive rat shot in the world!
Bringing together top-end Infra red illuminators, an FX Verminator air rifle plus Hawke scope with a thermal imaging camera, our technology expert Darren Rogers uses £10,000s worth of expensive optics to hunt down a single rat. Surely, this is the most expensive rat shoot ever?! This item first appeared in AirHeads episode 2. To watch […]
Stalking roebuck with Sporting Rifle editor Peter Carr
Peter Carr has been editor of Sporting Rifle since April 2009. He took over from Fieldsports Channels Charlie Jacoby. Now Charlie is going to visit Peter on his home ground in the Yorkshire Wolds with an invitation to shoot a roebuck. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 2. To watch the whole show […]
Grouse shooting in Perthshire on Atholl Estates
We’re out with a team of guns on the Glorious 12th August itself, thanks to the East Haugh House Hotel at Pitlochry – and they’re doing it in some style. Not only are the birds flying and coming down, the well dressed party are having a silver service picnic on the moor complete with piper. […]
Bisley Shooting Ground Review
At the heart of British shooting lies a lovely, leafy clay ground in old colonial style that provides shooting and instruction from novices to champions, clubs to corporates. We talk to clay ground manager Alex Roupell about what it’s like – and then we check if that’s true by asking the shooters. For more go […]
Crowhow: Pigeon Shoot Reconnaissance
Andy Crow shows how planning and reconnaissance can make a pigeon day work. He sets up his hide under a tree in the middle of freshly drilled crops. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke Andy Crow shells, it is Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse is at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Delicious Deer
It’s the last episode in our series A Year In the Life of Fallow Deer. We are out with Phis Phizacklea looking not just at deerstalking but how to get the best out of the venison afterwards. He picks up tips from a speciality pig farmer. Meanwhile, Crow snatches a reasonable pigeon day from the […]
Grouse prospects 2009
It’s the run-up to the 2009 grouse shooting season. We ask three people closest to this incredible game bird – a scientist, a sporting agent and a Highland gamekeeper – just what’s in store for grouseshooters this year. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain1 […]
English Open Sporting 2015
All the highs and the lows of one of the biggest clay competitions in the UK. Find out how the shooters get on at the English Open, held at High Lodge Shooting Ground in Suffolk. This item first appeared in Claysports episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/claysports1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. […]
Crow Buck
What a combination: Andy Crow and Jason Doyle head out roestalking on a lovely warm day in the south of England. Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse UKShootWarehouse.co.uk ▶ Jack Pyke JackPyke.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 441. To watch the whole show go to […]
Rest, Relaxation & Roe Therapy
Deer manager Paul Childerley is in Gloucestershire to stalk and cull roebucks. On a glorious English summer’s evening, what better way is there to shake off the cares of the world? The buck season is well underway and he wants to bring down numbers before the crops grow and they become hard to spot. He […]
Fieldsports Britain – Spring Roebuck
Everyone’s hunting British bucks. Paul Childerley is out on his ground in Gloucestershire, looking for cull roebucks. On the other side of England, Jason Doyle and Andy Crow team up to find bucks in Kent. And out how they get on. Plus we have a bumper News Stump this week, leading on the BBC’s recruitment […]
Packham’s fake news over Fred
Did animal rights activists stage the death of Fred? On 15th February 2018, BBC presenter Chris Packham released a film on YouTube suggesting that a golden eagle he calls Fred, hatched last year, was killed by a gamekeeper. Its satellite tag, maybe still attached to the eagle carcase, was apparently dumped in the North Sea. […]
BBC glamourises masked hunt sabs
A new BBC documentary legitimises and glamourises hunt saboteurs. BBC Three joins a group of masked thugs and tries to make them look good. The ‘balance’ comes several minutes in to the half-hour film, when pro hunters are given a chance to make the point that people dressed as terrorists, scaring horses and leading hounds […]
Northumberland roestalking
It is the heat of mid April 2018 and Al Gabriel is out managing bucks on two pieces of ground: a lowland estate and upland forestry. On the low ground, crops grow so fast that buck stalking will be difficult within weeks. Al has just taken over the stalking on the upland woods and shows […]
Crowhow: how to decoy crows
Crows are hitting the newly-drilled barley. So, Andy Crow is out to hit the Crows. He shows how he decoys these wily birds and how he shoots. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke Andy Crow shells, it is Gamebore.com ▶ UKShootWarehouse is at UKShootWarehouse.co.uk […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow on Crows
We’re managing crows and roebuck in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. In the south of England, Andy Crow is thinning the crow numbers, which are coming in to dine off his newly planted barley. In the north of England, deerstalker Al Gabriel has two different roebuck problems to solve. Find out how they get on – plus […]
Buck hunting: dogwalker gets angry
As deerstalker Roy Lupton starts to gralloch a lame buck he has culled, a dog walker shouts that he is a ‘cruel b*****d’ for ‘shooting stags’. Roy, frustrated by the ignorance of some people, decides to show the woman exactly why he was committed to finding this animal. This item appears on YouTube in Fieldsports […]
Catch your first trout – it’s so easy…
When Melissa Bowden from Sussex said she had never caught a fish before, it was obvious what we had to do. We sent her to her local trout lakes, Brick Farm Lakes near Herstmonceux, East Sussex to try her luck. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 7. To watch the whole show go […]
Eriswell Lodge clay ground review
It’s the UK’s newest clay shooting ground, it’s green and it’s fully equipped by Laporte. Eriswell is at Lakenheath in Suffolk, and new owners Stuart and Nigel Smith have made it one of the most up-to-date grounds there is. This item is sponsored by Laporte and the Clay Pigeon Company, which kitted Eriswell out with […]
Underwater Filming of Big Carp
Dive beneath the water with Fishing Britain’s ROVTV and spy on some of the inhabitants that lurk in the depths. With some surprising finds, Richard Chapman takes us for a spin in the new toy. This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. […]
Fishing The Severn Bore on a Surfboard
Our very own Charlie ‘Fearless’ Jacoby takes on the Severn bore on a surfboard with a fishing rod! Will he survive? This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here Sign up for […]
Fishing Around – Cornwall
Out with the riverkeepers from the famous Arundell Arms fishing hotel on the border of Devon and Cornwall trying to bring in a sea trout, a salmon, a trout from the river and a sea bass from the sea – all on the fly. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 1. To watch […]
Spring Foxshooting
Roy Lupton is hunting the foxes that are feeding off lambs in his part of Kent. The farms he looks after are under extra pressure this year, because foxes have not got the usual number of rabbits to eat. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 439. To watch the whole show go […]
Destruction Test: Shooterking Venatu Jacket
Paul Childerley does all his own stunts… he tries to kill the Shooterking Venatu jacket using gamekeeping resources. See how he gets on. ▶ For more from Shooterking, go to www.shooterking.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 439. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain439
Fieldsports Britain – Foxshooting Rampage
Where rabbits are on the down, lamb kills are on the up. Roy Lupton is out to shoot the starving foxes that want to feed off lambs. He sorts out the predator pressure in this part of the South of England. Meanwhile, Paul Childerley turns stuntman to try out hunting clothing from Shooterking. There is […]
Raven cull underway in Scotland
Scottish Natural Heritage is at last to sanction a raven cull. Raven numbers have exploded in recent years and they are damaging populations of waders, grouse and starving ravens are attacking sheep (as above). SNH is allowing a cull of just 60 ravens (pictured) in Perthshire. The RSPB attacks SNH for the move. It admits […]
Doctors to profit from UK gun licences
The Home Office may be about to attempt to force gun owners to pay their GPs for filling out an ‘initial medical records check’ and adding a marker to medical records. This is likely to be accompanied by a change in guidance to the police making it a requirement that an applicant’s GP responds before […]
Howls from antis as four year-old learns to shoot
American gunsmith Buck Holly posted a video of his four-year-old daughter learning to shoot on the range. Little Noah can be seen shooting dad’s new 2017 PRS Tac Rifle with 77 gr .223 ammo in a film uploaded in 2016. The video has since had more than 100,000 views and and become a lightning rod […]
Airheads – Rats and Doves, with Airguns
It’s our airgun show AirHeads: Richard Leonard is dealing with a rock dove pest problem on the farm in the Eastern Cape. A West Country farmer’s cows are knee-deep in rats – so plenty of shooting there. Roger Last reviews the FX Crown. And we hear about the big launches from BSA, Crosman, Air Arms […]
Malta Spring Hunt: how baby birds beat back Packham
Shooting quail and doves in Malta is not as simple as walking out with a dog and a gun. The spring hunt is a political battleground, as antis try to close down hunting in an EU member state. Charlie Jacoby meets the people out to stop the animal rights activists, and enjoy their season’s shooting. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Spring Pigeonshooting
Andy Crow is out on the pigeons in the new Crowhow. He is decoying them in over the animal feed crop lucerne, he looks at what makes a good decoy and checks out where they’ve been feeding with crop forensics. Meanwhile, Charlie Jacoby is off to Malta to look at the sport and politics of […]
Crowhow: Decoying Pigeons over Lucerne
It’s an animal feed crop and pigeons love it. That’s why April sees Andy Crow out protecting lucerne fields from the birds. He explains decoying and looks at what the pigeons are eating at this time of year. ▶ For more about Blaser’s F16 shotgun, go to Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For Gamebore’s Clear Pigeon and bespoke […]
Oil works for woodcock
Oil is good for woodcock. Birds returning to Europe and Asia from the UK encountered strong easterly winds last week. This picture posted on the North Sea Bird Club Facebook page shows them breaking their journey on the Tartan oil platform which lies midway between Aberdeen and the coast of Norway.
Rat shoot
We’re hunting rats on a farm in the West Country. We have a BSA R10 and night vision from Nitesite, and together we bring numbers down to size. ▶ For more on the BSA R10, go to BSAGuns.co.uk ▶ For Nitesite, visit Nitesite.co.uk Watch the whole show. Go to Bit.ly/airheads69 Sign up for the AirHeads […]
Rock Dove Hunt
Like feral doves in the UK, South African rock doves thrive on farms, spread disease and cause damage. So it is up to Richard Leonard to control them. He is out with his Air Arms S510 to do the job. ▶ Richard is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to Air-Arms.co.uk Watch the whole […]
On Test: FX Crown
Roger Lait tries out the new FX Crown, the PCP launch that follows the FX Impact. ▶ For FX’s UK distributor, visit A-S-I.co.uk or go to FXAirguns.com This film was first shown in Airheads episode 69. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads69
2014 British Fly Fair International Round Up
Hywel Morgan takes a walk around the BFFI to see all the latest in fly tying technology and materials. We put Barry Ord Clarke and David Edwards head to head in a speed tying competition and we chat to many of the shows exhibitors. This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 6. To watch […]
Fieldsports Britain – Beautiful Hunt in the Mountains
Tim Pilbeam is in the Alps after chamois with the new Franchi Horizon rifle. He and Karl Waktare find mountain stalking hard work – and the animals can be tricky, long-range shots. Back in the UK, Roy Lupton is up to his armpits in falcons, which he is helping to breed… literally. He parades his […]
