Counting deer with a thermal drone
This military spec thermal drone is helping to answer the tricky question of how many deer live in the UK. Estimates vary wildly – deer
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This military spec thermal drone is helping to answer the tricky question of how many deer live in the UK. Estimates vary wildly – deer
We’re shooting massive Welsh partridges on the Mighty Garth with Paul Childerley, Fieldsports Nation member Gary Froggatt, and shoot owner James Davies Cooke’s old mates
Paul Childerley is in the Wicklow hills battling the Irish weather to get onto a sika stag in the rut. He’s keen to experience the
Swedish Lapland still has wild places, and that’s where Paul Childerley is headed with his guide Robert Magnstrom. We first met Robert when he took
Keeping their birds alive and well is every gamekeeper’s priority – and the biggest threat to their pheasants, ducks and partridges is foxes. Thermal technology
youtu.be/6CFe3U7d4Zw It’s Battle of the Gamekeepers at the 2023 .410 British Open Championship. Geoff Garrod from Essex goes up against his squad mate Paul Childerley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzcGoTOXGM What does a roebuck reaction to the call look like from the sky? Incredibly, we filmed one of four bucks we shoot on this
Paul Childerley has a date with a deer which can’t be missed. He booked in to join top game chef and senior lecturer at Westminster
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf5eCvlQiAI Paul Childerley loves a .410 shotgun. Whether it is on a game day or clay shoot, he enjoys the challenge of the smaller calibre,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WVe0d3yb6s Just as the ibex season is about to close, Paul Childerley heads to southern Spain to hunt the smallest of the Spanish ibex subspecies,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmT9zleGbUY Paul Childerley thinks he has been invited across to Sako’s HQ in Finland to hunt moose and whitetail, but there’s a surprise in store.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAzdPYn7zM It’s one of the most dramatic landscapes we have hunted. Paul Childerley is after Capercaillie in winter, with snow deep on the ground and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPKCqaf2jo0 Foxes eat all manner of wildlife and rubbish. This is the first time that Paul Childerley has found them devouring koi carp from a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxx_1iPK940 HIKMicro donates one of its thermal units to an anti-poaching patrol in Mozambique. Paul Chdilerley is there to make the handover, plus he learns
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjBJ-_9xmlI When Wayne Martin has a catapult in his hands, no small pest or game is safe. He joins Paul Childerley for a mooch around
Explosive action as British big game hunter Paul Childerley hunts buffalo in the Mozambique bush. He finds out about poaching, poisoning and just how dangerous
youtu.be/1RDybiYIi9g Fresh from hunting with the new Sako 100 in .375H&H in Mozambique, professional deer manager Paul Childerley learns how to removed and swap the
youtu.be/AbKZu8PCNOM It’s the Sako 100’s first outing in Africa. Paul Childerley takes the new rifle in .375H&H calibre to Mozambique. In this first film, he
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr5U51Q1as8 Paul Childerley has the stag stalking outing of his life – a dream come true. He is going up the hill in the Highlands
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAqhfTQCpM Paul’s out stalking with Mark Bellamy in Wiltshire. The pair of them start by showing they are not flyfishers. However, they prove they certainly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwbx5CBOidk Paul Childerley is out to protect his ducks tonight. It’s been a big year for foxes and he has the latest thermal kit from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfV_B_Jy34Q Young pro stalker Ruby Lewis takes old hand Paul Childerley out after a roebuck. It lands Paul with a dilemma. For more from
youtu.be/twiXg9H6Xuk by Deborah Hadfield There are rumours that poult prices have bust through the £10 barrier and gone as high as £17 per poult. If
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxUpelY0Ruc Paul Childerley is on a three-day pest control job in Portugal, shooting wild boar or ‘javali’. It’s a driven hunt to bring down pressure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM49JivegNs Gamekeeper Paul Childerley is used to shooting problem foxes out in the countryside. Now a local poultry owner wants him to take out a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydhLV1A87w Rabbits are munching their way through the crops on ground Paul manages in Bedfordshire. Paul Childerley has tried many ways of reducing their numbers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefvqX0fOA8 Ever seen a man stick his hand down a hole to retrieve a squirrel? This is the film for you, as Paul Childerley tries
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
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.
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qakHmR1sk88 Katie Hargeaves used to stick to a plant-based diet. Then she discovered venison – wild, sustainable, low food miles, and she is entirely in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciTZos778MA Some of the most high-profile shots in the country come together for a Jack Pyke shoot day at the Upperwood Estate in the Peak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhdqtftYoI UK deer manager Paul Childerley is hunting moose in Swedish Lapland. He came close to seeing one in Finland a few years ago. This
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gITICgdFho It’s one of the finest sporting outings a shooter can enjoy. Paul goes walked-up ptarmigan shooting over setters in Swedish Lapland. The birds are
youtu.be/27hgLobyf2s Paul takes a snap shot on a roebuck – then goes into full CSI mode to track it down. For the Sako S20, go
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PVdscZq_w Watatunga is the new home of sensible exotic wildlife management in the UK. You can’t see lions and tigers – but you can see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLrY39UdTM When a muntjac breaks into Paul’s pheasant pen, he knows he has to track it down and shoot it – however fast it is
The Jack Pyke Open at Sporting Targets in Bedfordshire is one of the highlights of the sporting clay shooting season, attracting nearly 1,000 entries over
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bTnJww9ou4 Scottish deerstalker Sergio Couto specialises in shooting with iron sights. Paul Childerley enters into the spirit of it by using an Aimpoint sight on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LoRg5gL304 Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is trying out his .22-250 on roebuck, rabbits and crows. He is in Scotland with Sergio Couto, where
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cuDAomm3yo Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is on his first roestalking trip north of the Border. He is in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZEl0Yi43s Ed Solomons has a problem with his latest clayshooting pupil. Paul Childerley is a fast-action gameshooter, great on birds travelling near to him and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNu4Zp-vbwg Do you fancy a culinary outing after Chinese water deer? They are said to be one of the best venisons available. Chef Pascal thinks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUjIc-LqtuY Paul Childerley and Johnny Muston are on a squirrel-shooting mission – and they knock down a couple of dozen. The invasive grey squirrels are
Rooks and pigeons are hitting a maize crop. With the cost of feed, Paul Childerley is especially keen to shoot a few of them, so
youtu.be/-T_A5WyO1gk Shooting deer is hard work. Paul Childerley has his work cut out thinning the various deer species on his ground in Bedfordshire. Paul is
Out with a gun and a dog, gamekeeper Paul Childerley is keeping an eye on his ground while enjoying his shooting. It’s all the
Thermal imaging has become an essential tool for gamekeepers, pest controllers and deer managers. From almost none a couple of years ago, there are now
Katie Hargreaves goes deerstalking with Paul Childerley. What’s unusual is that Katie is a vegan. She sees sustainable hunting as part of her veganism.
Gamekeeper Paul Childerley goes duck shooting. There’s a pond on his shoot in Bedfordshire that’s away from the main duck ponds, and it is
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