Ask Tel – Best Airgun Innovation

Ask Tel – Best Airgun Innovation

What’s the best airgun innovation of the 20th century? Who better to answer than Airgun World and Airgunner magazines editor-in-chief Terry Doe, here to put the Doe into Doyen… otherwise it would be just ‘yn’. This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch it on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads21 Sign up for our weekly […]

AirHeads – Thermal Rat Shoot

AirHeads – Thermal Rat Shoot

The airgun show AirHeads has rat-shooting with thermal imaging equipment, shooting squirrels in the trees, the mysteries of pellet trajectory, sage words from Terry Doe, news and the best of YouTube’s airgun output. If you shoot airguns, here’s the latest from the word of airgunning. Here are the links to the items: Phil with AirTech […]

On Test: Guide IR510 thermal imager

On Test: Guide IR510 thermal imager

Night vision expert Darren Rogers reviews the Guide IR510 thermal imager. It shows up rats, car engines, even how much corn you have left in the feeder. For more, go to www.thomasjacks.co.uk/guide_infrared/product.asp?ref=2204 This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads21

On Test: Crosman 2250 Ratcatcher airgun

On Test: Crosman 2250 Ratcatcher airgun

James Marchington is testing the Crosman 2250 Ratcatcher on squirrels. His dogs chase them into trees where he can get a shot at them. This item is in AirHeads, episode 21. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads21  

Close-range foxes: the work of the Terrierman

Close-range foxes: the work of the Terrierman

What do terriermen do? Terrierman Martin Clarke from Somerset explains the job from start to finish: how they are the backbone of the hunt, how they help landowners and gamekeepers dispose of problem foxes, and how they are essential to the countryside as a rural pest control service. He also answers the essential question: what’s […]

How to scare grouse stiff

How to scare grouse stiff

How do you scare a grouse with a kite? What happens on The Glorious 12th? How do you go about stalking a real life Monarch of the Glen? What is a Macnab? Meet the man who can explain all this. Alastair Robertson has written Robertson’s Guide to Field Sports in Scotland. He tells the story […]

Deerhunting skills in the trenches: Sniping in France, 1915-1918

Deerhunting skills in the trenches: Sniping in France, 1915-1918

All sides brought their big-game hunting skills to the trenches of the First World War. The Germans dominated sniping for the first months of the war. On the British side, Major Hesketh Prichard set up the First Army’s sniping school at Linghem, training troops from all over the world in sniping skills. In this film, […]

Fieldsports Britain – Sniping, Grouse & Terriers

Fieldsports Britain – Sniping, Grouse & Terriers

A wide range of hunting and shooting for you in the show this week: ☆ We go back in time 100 years to look at sniping in the First World War and how the shooting community made it happen ☆ We look at the job of the modern-day terrierman. is it all about charging around […]

Crow on Ducks

Crow on Ducks

It’s the new series of CrowHow. Andy Crow has been feeding ducks into a pond and this evening he is going to have his first duck harvest of the season. Mallards come in nicely all evening, as do mandarin ducks – which we are not allowed to shoot in the UK, even though they are […]

Club Digweed, episode 1

Club Digweed, episode 1

For a technical talk-through shooting technique from probably the best shooter the world has ever seen, it’s the first episode of the Club Digweed monthly TV shows. Future episodes will be members only, via www.georgedigweed.com Club Digweed member benefits include: ✩ Discounted entry and Club Digweed special offers to shooting grounds. ✩ Annual subscription to […]

Martial Eagle – Grace and Power

Martial Eagle – Grace and Power

Want to see gorgeous films of eagles in flight? We are out with a martial eagle, a golden eagle and, at the other end of the size scale, a peregrine/merlin hybrid – a ‘perlin’. Falconer Roy Lupton is getting them trained for a British Falconers Club meet. The eagles chase hare lures and the perlin […]

How to check your rifle barrel

How to check your rifle barrel

The Holland & Holland stalking course teaches all you need to know about safe rifle shooting. Here’s Holland & Holland chief instructor Chris Bird on making sure that your rifle barrel is clear – free of obstructions – and won’t explode when you fire. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 253. To watch the […]

Fieldsports Britain – Bird Speed Merchants

Fieldsports Britain – Bird Speed Merchants

How to train an eagle to go faster – and how to shoot fast-flying ducks. That’s what you will learn from this week’s Fieldsports Britain. Roy Lupton is getting a martial eagle, a golden eagle and a ‘perlin’ ready for a British Falconers Club meet. He is training them to hit lures hard. Sporting Shooter […]

Fishing Britain – Weapons of Mass-tication

Weapons of Mass-tication – Fishing Britain, episode 38

This episode of Fishing Britain has lots of teeth in it. First we are off up the River Avon with predator fishing expert Gary Palmer. We count the teeth in pike and zander to see what fearsome predators they are. In Gear Guide, we take a look in the pro angler’s tackle box as world […]

How Many Teeth Have Pike Got?

How Many Teeth Have Pike Got?

What’s the difference between the hundreds of teeth on the roof of a pike’s mouth and the vampire-like fangs of a zander? Pro Predator Guide Gary Palmer takes us out for a morning session on the river Avon where we are looking at the mouths of predators and the lethal weapons they have inside. This […]

What does a Pro Angler take to a match? – Gear Guide

What does a Pro Angler take to a match? – Gear Guide

World class fly-fishing champion Hywel Morgan takes us through his kit setup for fishing a major competition on a large reservoir. He shows us fishing rod choice, the importance of comfort, and his extensive fly line armoury. Then all he has to do is pack it all up in his car and go and win! […]

Spectacular Shooting – clay pigeons with airguns

Spectacular Shooting – clay pigeons with airguns

World champion clay pigeon shooter George Digweed and friend shoot flying clay pigeons with airguns. Oustanding shooting! For more about Club Digweed, go to www.georgedigweed.com For Sam, go to www.greenfieldsshooting.co.uk This item appeared in AirHeads, episode 20. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads20

80-yard Rabbits with an Air Rifle

80-yard Rabbits with an Air Rifle

James Marchington is hunting rabbits on the Isle of Skye at long distance with only a sub-12-ft/lb airgun. he explains how he can kill a rabbit at more than 80 yards with a an ordinary .177 PCP. This item appeared in AirHeads, episode 20. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads20  

Sika deer stalking with Chris de Margary

Sika deer stalking with Chris de Margary

The beautiful Glenmore Estate in Donegal, owned by Chris de Margary and Mick Hucknall from Simply Red, offers deerstalking on both sides of the border. Chris is off to Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, a few miles away, to see if he can shoot a sika stag. It’s all thanks to a good bottle of […]

Check your rifle fit

Check your rifle fit

The stalking course at Holland & Holland is the ideal way to brush up on your deerhunting skills. This week, chief instructor Chris Bird is teaching rifle fit. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 252. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain252

Driven Grouse Shoot in Cumbria

Driven Grouse Shoot in Cumbria

It’s probably the most exciting birdshooting there is. We are driven grouse shooting on a Cumbrian moor. The day is organised by students from a gamekeeping college. Newton Rigg, part of Askham Bryan College, has taken a lease on the moor. It’s the perfect way for students at the Northern School of Game and Wildlife […]

Fieldsports Britain – University of Grouse

Fieldsports Britain – University of Grouse

Would you like to go to the University of Grouse? We go on a driven grouse shooting day in Cumbria put on by gamekeeping students from Newton Rigg College. The birds are flying fast, it’s a beautiful day and some of the top names in grouse shooting are trying them out. That’s not all. We […]

AirHeads – George Digweed shoots airguns

George Digweed shoots airguns – AirHeads, episode 20

This week’s AirHeads is packed with airgun action: ✩ Champion clayshooter George Digweed picks up an airgun and tries to shoot a clay pigeon with it. ✩ James Marchington shoots rabbits with a sub-12-ft/lb PCP out to 82 yards. ✩ HotAir rounds up the new airgun launches from Air Arms, Daystate and BSA. ✩ Airstreaming […]

Secret Salmon Fishing

Secret Salmon Fishing

Hidden away on the north coast of Donegal, Ireland, is a beautiful lough, just a mile from the sea, that’s stuffed with salmon, sea trout, brown trout and char. Accompanied by Gavin Duffy from Letterkenny Anglers and Chris de Margary from the pop group Simply Red is Charlie Jacoby and his short but perfectly formed […]

Carp Angling Experts

Carp Angling Experts

Park lakes and urban fishing are all the rage in social carp circles at the moment. Who else to get us out on the bank other than top carp boys Tony Smeets and Darryll Slater? With the biggest bait boat you have ever seen, joggers, dog walkers and even crowds of onlookers they get to […]

Fishing Britain – Public Carp Park

Public Carp Park – Fishing Britain, episode 37

Fishing in urban lakes and wild, secret, Irish loughs this week’s Fishing Britain. Top carp anglers Tony Smeets and Darryll Slater are fishing a very public park lake with the biggest bait boat you have ever seen, joggers, dogwalkers and even crowds of onlookers. Competitive speed reeling and thieving boilie snatchers are all a part […]

George Digweed on Fox Patrol

George Digweed on Fox Patrol

Champion shot George is hunting down foxes on his shoot and has to take some long shots on them, and all of them by lamplight. He has had poachers on his shoot and the foxes are skulking more than usual. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 251. To watch the whole show […]

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