Corvid Control
Jackdaws are damaging the crops and farm manager Andy Crow is going to do something about them. He packs his pigeon-shooting kit – with a few jackdaw tweaks – and does battle with the birds for an afternoon. Blaser F16 from http:/www.blasersporting.com Jack Pyke www.jackpyke.co.uk Decoying kit from UKShootWarehouse www.ukshootwarehouse.com Cartridges from www.gamebore.com For more […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow vs Jackdaw
Andy Crow has a jackdaw problem he can only solve with a gun. Jackdaws may be the least offensive corvid to some but to a farm manager like Andy they do double the damage of their bigger cousins the rooks. He is out to decoy in and control numbers of the birds on the farm […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shoot Straighter
‘Anyone who shoots with an eye closed is guessing’. That’s the conclusion of top shotgun coach Nick Penn. Eye dominance is rubbish, he says, as he presents his five steps to shooting heaven. That’s not all. Olympic shooting gold medallist Peter Wilson appeals to his shooting federation not to destroy his sport of double trap, […]
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Sit and Deliver
Top gundog trainer Gilly Nickols wants a certain kind of delivery from her dogs. They have to sit and present birds to her. Here’s how she trains them. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our films with Gilly, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/gilly-nickols/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 394. To watch […]
Don’t shoot one eye closed, says top shot
Shotgun coach Nick Penn offers his tips for straight shooting. Learn his secrets here. For more from Nick, go to www.pennsport.co.uk/ This film is sponsored by Beretta. For Beretta shotguns, visit www.gmk.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 394. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain394
FITASC Lulworth 2017
Lulworth Castle hosts the FITASC European Shooting Championships 2017. We cover all the action, we talk to top shooters including George Digweed MBE and Mark Winser, and we meet the organisers, Jean-François Palinkas and Graham Brown. This film was first shown in Claysports episode 17. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/claysports17
Charity Shoots
George Digweed MBE is on a charity day for the Prince’s Countryside Fund, organised by EJ Churchill. Here’s how a well-run charity clay shoot should look. Plus Rob Fenwick from EJ Churchill on what the Worlds will look like in 2018. This film was first shown in Claysports episode 17. To watch the whole show […]
Claysports – FITASC at Fifty
The FITASC roadshow comes to Dorset in June 2017 for the European Shooting Championships. Meet the stars of the event, find out how they organise it, and lots more. In this episode of Claysports, George Digweed and Rob Fenwick from EJ Churchill explain how to run a good-quality charity clay day. And presenter and Olympic […]
Airheads – Night Hare Hunt
It’s our airgun show AirHeads: Richard Leonard puts the Nitesite kit through its paces after hares in South Africa, bumping into other African wildlife along the way. David has a full round up of air rifle news in HotAir and Charlie rounds up the best airgunning videos on YouTube in AirStreaming. Richard is supported by […]
Binos destruction test – a lifetime of hurt in a day
Just how much abuse can a pair of Zeiss binoculars take? In this film we drop them, drag them, crush them, drown and finally we shoot them. They are (they were) a mint pair of Victory HT binoculars. The guys at German optics company Zeiss wanted to replicate what a good quality set of optics […]
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Training a Team
Top gundog trainer Gilly Nickols gives her tips for training a team of gundogs and keeping them up to the mark during the close season. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our films with Gilly, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/gilly-nickols/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 393. To watch the whole show […]
Choosing a Knife Shape
What’s the best shape of knife for what you want out of a knife? plus – once you have chosen it – grinding, stropping and an incredible whetstone: Dean Boyd from bespoke British knifemaker Emberleaf reveal their regime for creating the sharpest knives. For more, visit emberleaf.com/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain […]
Crow on Rabbits
Andy Crow has a rabbit problem on the farm he manages in Kent. After years of low rabbit numbers, this year they are back. He is out with lamp and rifle to bring them back under control. For more from Andy, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 393. To watch […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bunnies are Back
Andy Crow is on rabbit patrol. After years of low rabbit numbers, they are back on his farm in Kent – and we are hearing reports of booming rabbit numbers in many locations across the UK. He is out with Gary to bring the numbers down and protect his crops. Meanwhile, Gilly Nickols has tips […]
Fieldsports Africa – Hunting Kudu
Here’s hunting in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. Johan von Staden of Cruiser Safaris takes a client out after ‘the grey ghost of Africa’, the Kudu. Find out how Johan and Thomas Ochsenbein get on. We are also talking to Dr Kevin Robertson, author of The Perfect Shot – Shot Placement for African Big Game, who […]
The Perfect Shot, with Dr Kevin Robertson – author interview
The Perfect Shot is one of the best known hunting books ever written. Kevin ‘Doctari’ Robertson tells the story of how the book came about and how it helped save him and his family after he was forcibly removed from his farm in Zimbabwe. This item appears in Fieldsports Africa, episode 8. Watch it here: […]
Hunt Sabs March on London
Foxhunters are delighted. A small group of antis held the biggest anti-hunting march London has seen. Around 5,000 people marched through the West End and a few hundred of them made it to Downing Street. Foxhunters are delighted because, a few years ago, they put 400,000+ protestors on the streets of London, campaigning for hunting. […]
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Dummy Point & Pick
It’s a shooting season vice. How to stop your dogs working for themselves – and not for you. The best way to bring your dog back on track is to point them to a dummy and get them to pick it For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our films with Gilly, visit […]
Pigeon Shooting: Flock Focus
When pigeons are feeding around a huge area, how do you bring them back to the point where you want to shoot them? Andy Crow address the problem with ‘flock focus’. Sponsored by: Blaser F16 from http:/www.blasersporting.com Jack Pyke www.jackpyke.co.uk Decoying kit from UKShootWarehouse www.ukshootwarehouse.com Cartridges from www.gamebore.com For more from Andy, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow on Point
It’s all about vegans this week. Andy Crow is shooting pigeons over the crops on his farm, so we can keep British vegans fed. Meanwhile, Charlie is off to see the vegans march against hunting in London. And gundog trainer Gilly Nickols is back with her summer gundog boot camp – no animals are harmed. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bird Flu and the Gameshooting Season
“There was no argument about it. It was just done.” So says the pheasant hatchery owner who has just lost 60,000 birds. With bird flu creeping across the UK and game farms wiped out by government culls, what is the future for the gameshooting season this year. We talk to Graham Holden at Hy-Fly Game […]
Deer Gralloch – Speed Challenge
How fast can you gralloch a deer? Paul Childerley puts in an impressive time in our speed challenge – and he gets to keep all his fingers. For more from Emberleaf, go to emberleaf.com To go stalking with Paul Childerley, visit www.childerleysporting.co.uk For more films with Paul, look at www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/paul-childerley/ This film was first shown […]
Emberleaf – a Knife for Life
They are among the most beautiful knives you can buy, with Damascus blades and mammoth ivory handles. We visit Emberleaf to see how to make a top quality knife. For more from Emberleaf, go to Emberleaf.com This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 391. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain391 […]
Bird flu and gameshooting
Bird flu is on the rise. It was found in Norfolk in early June 2017. DEFRA confirms that H5N8 avian flu is in a small flock of chickens and geese at a premises near Diss in south Norfolk. A 3km protection zone and a 10km surveillance zone have been put in place around the infected […]
New German hunting channel on Amazon
There is a new hunting, shooting and fishing TV channel on Amazon in Germany. Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality hunting/shooting/angling documentaries and programmes from Waidwerk. It launches jointly with travel channel Xplore, from the same studio, German production company Highview. Amazon offers the channel free to Amazon Prime member with Xplore available […]
Australia mulls shark cull
Australia is considering a shark cull after the death of a teenage surfer. Laeticia Brouwer was on a family holiday at Kelp Beds in the south coast of Western Australia, when she was attacked by a shark. Her father was surfing with her and brought her to the shore after the attack but she had […]
Bear scares bicyclists
Bikers and bears don’t mix. Dušan Vinžík was biking with his buddy in Slovakia when a Eurasian brown bear dashes out at them. It looks like the animal wants to give them a scare – and it works. Dušan’s video on YouTube has been watched millions of times.
KUIU ‘hunting film’ award winners
US clothing company Kuiu has announced the six winners of its hunting film competition. Winner of the top prize is Jay Park of 5IY who made a film about five people hunting Aoudad rams in West Texas. For more on the winners, go to FilmFest.Kuiu.com More and more Americans are videoing their hunts – Research […]
The first Guntiques Roadshow
Forget the Antiques Roadshow – it’s the Guntiques Roadshow and it is taking place at this year’s Game Fair, at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire on 28-30 July 2017. Top gun experts Bill Harriman of BASC, who also works for the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, Nick Holt and Gavyn Gardner will be on hand to value items […]
30 bee stings a week help Lyme disease symptoms
A Lyme disease sufferer gets her husband to sting her with bees 30 times a week as she believes it helps with her symptoms. Ingrid Watt, 36, buys bees online and then asks her partner Darren to hold the bees against her back with a tweezer until they sting her. She leaves the stings in […]
Seagulls run over ‘on purpose’
It looks like Eastbourne residents are taking the law into their own hands. A local wildlife rescue outfit reports that person or persons baited a road with bread, attracted seagulls and then ran over them with a car. A rescue volunteer says they killed three gulls. We made a film showing how gull attacks are becoming […]
Have you ever been chased by an otter?
This video shows exactly what it is like to be chased by an otter. Passer-by Rory MacPherson from Lockerbie stopped to take a photo – but the otter was not pleased about having its picture taken, and saw the person off back to their car. Ever been chased by an otter? Rory MacPherson, from Lockerbie […]
Drivers terror as deer smashes through windscreen
A driver has told of her terror as a deer smashed through her windscreen and landed on her 10-year-old daughter’s lap. The incident happened in Humberston, Lincolnshire. A car travelling in the opposite direction hit the deer and sent it flying into the air. It landed on the other side of the road smashing through […]
Vinnie Jones – Fieldsports News
In News this week: Vinnie Jones signs for Eley Hawk Ltd www.eleyhawkltd.com/media-events/press-releases/vinnie-jones-joins-eley-hawk-as-a-brand-ambassador Bee stings help Lyme disease sufferers The Game Fair gets the ‘Guntiques Roadshow’. If you have an unusual item from the worlds of hunting, shooting and fishing that you would like discussed and values, please email a picture and description to charlie@fieldsportschannel.tv Shooting […]
Fox Double with the South Somerset Ferreters
It’s a laidback drive-around local farms looking for foxes – and answering the knotty question whether to shoot vixens at this time of year and how do you know it’s a vixen?… you don’t. Visit the South Somerset Ferreters on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/829059187171844/ For more films with them, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/south-somerset-ferreters/ This film was first shown […]
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Retrieving in Water
Keep your gundog interested in water. Gilly Nickols offers her tips for summer gundog training. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk For our films with Gilly, visit www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/gilly-nickols/ This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 390. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain390
Skinners World Cup Retriever Event 2017
The top gundog teams in the world come to Cawdor Castle in Inverness-shire to compete in Skinners 2017 international working test. Last year’s winner was the Dutch team. In contention this year are the Brits and the Danish. Find out how they get on. For more from Skinner’s, visit www.skinnerspetfoods.co.uk This film was first shown […]
Fieldsports Britain – Top Dogs
What does it take to be one of best gundogs in the world? They gather at Cawdor Castle in Inverness-shire for the Skinners World Cup Retriever Event 2017. International teams battle it out in demanding working tests to pick the best. Meanwhile, at the other end of the country, the South Somerset Ferreters are out […]
Airheads – Starling Airgun Control
Richard Leonard is out with his airgun and specialising in starlings in this week’s AirHeads. Pied and glossy starlings are in his sights, because of the damage they cause on farms in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Meanwhile, Airgunner editor Phill Price looks at Crosman air pistols – and how to turn them into air rifles. […]
Shooting Starlings in South Africa
Richard Leonard is protecting a farm from attack by starlings. He is hunting them with an Air Arms S510. This item is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to www.air-arms.co.uk It appears in AirHeads, episode 66. To watch the show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads66 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Six-Year-Old Foxshooter – Fieldsports Channel News
Six-year-old from Fife goes foxshooting: www.thesun.co.uk/news/3503540/girl-6-dreams-of-shooting-foxes-and-regularly-goes-hunting-with-her-dad-who-keeps-gun-in-family-home/ New Zealand duck season: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFfuLyiZt3U American NRA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxWLZWUW9A News is sponsored by Percussion www.percussion-europe.com
Gundog Summer Boot Camp: Teaching Steadiness
Gilly Nickols says start your summer gundog training programming with steadiness. Reinforce that and it will make it easier to drop the rest of your gundogs skills into place. For more about Gilly’s training, go to www.bedgebrookgundogs.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 389. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain389
HS2: bad news for fieldsports
A coalition of hunting, shooting, fishing and even anti-hunters are lined up against the proposed London-Birmingham rail link HS2. In our film, Martin Salter from the Angling Trust, a shoot owner and a carp fisherman say what effect the HS2 high-speed railway line will have on hunting, shooting and fishing. This film was first shown […]
The Buck Stops Here
Andy Crow is out helping a local pheasant shoot with its roebuck cull. For Crow’s films go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ This item appears on YouTube in Fieldsports Britain, episode 389 bit.ly/fieldsportsbritain389 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Fieldsports Britain – ‘Roehow’
What does it take to shoot a roebuck? If you are Andy Crow, it takes ‘roehow’. He is out helping with a local deer cull. Plus we go all political and look at the effect HS2 will have on hunting, shooting and fishing. And it’s the first in our new series, Gundog Summer Bootcamp – […]
Squirrel shot for ‘dirty look’
Police arrested a man in New York for allegedly killing a squirrel with a crossbow after it gave him a ‘dirty look’. Jonathan Mangia, 27, faces charges of prohibited use of a weapon and reckless endangerment. “Great job PO Kosinski & Pallakis along w @NYSDEC Ofcrs arresting the #SquirrelHunter. Save archery for the range,” the […]
Hunting less effective than fences, says expert
Fencing land is a better way of protecting it from deer than managing local deer populations. That’s the conclusion of a University of Kentucky deer specialist. Out of all of the wildlife complaints University of Kentucky Extension specialist Matt Springer handles complaints from vegetable growers about wildlife. He says that whitetail deer are the top […]
How to Shoot an Elephant
Park rangers, professional hunters, even sport hunters all need to learn how to shoot an elephant safely and cleanly. A good place to do it is Southern African Wildlife College, where we follow hunter Lennart Ljungfelt (also the boss of gun sights company Aimpoint) on the course and learn about the risks you face when […]
The Browning Blast
Browning invites a gang of shooting writers to France to burn through 24,000 rounds of ammunition. Shooting Sports editor Peter Moore, Rifle Shooter editor Dom Holtam, Gun Trade News Editor Colin Fallon and our own Tim Pilbeam get to test new kit including: X-Bolt McMillan stock Winchester SX4 B725 Pro Sport The new Kite optics […]
