General licences 2020: DEFRA is asleep at the wheel
The current, shambolic general licences expire on 29 February 2020. Tied in legal knots by the anti-shooting Wild Justice group, UK environment department DEFRA is currently not in a position…
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Recent short films
Deer reaction to being shot
Some fall over. Some run – even though they may both have been shot in the same place. Roy Lupton is out stalking fallow for the freezer. He looks at…
Operation Squirrel
They destroy trees, they eat eggs and chicks in the nest, and they carry a virus that kills our native red squirrels. What kind of monsters are they? They are…
Crow’s big Essex driven day
The partridges are flying – and so is Andy Crow. He changes over his Blaser F16 12-bore for a 20-bore and keeps up with the best of them at…
Quick-draw Paul culls three deer in seconds
Paul Childerley is looking after his ground in Gloucestershire. He was there the other day to shoot roe and ran into muntjac. This time he is back for roe…
The dangers of mixing shotgun shells
Accidentally put a 20-bore cartridge down a 12-bore barrel and the result could be tragic. Andy Crow explains the risks.
Pheasant shooting with a world champion
World champion Amy Easeman is pheasant shooting. We join her for a day on her dad’s shooting Buckinghamshire. Find out how she gets on – and what the other guns…
Great Irish pheasant shooting in Co Offaly
How do birds fly in Ireland? Jason Doyle has a day with the Castle Fieldsports Syndicate in Co Offaly. See how he gets on. For more from Castle Fieldsports, email…
Fieldsports Channel blooper reel 2019
You’ve seen the ups. Here are the downs. These are all the outtakes from a year of making films on Fieldsports Channel. No animals were harmed…
High-speed driven deer hunt with shotguns
How good is the Aimpoint Micro H-2? Let’s find out on a driven hunt, using shotguns on close-range deer and rifles on boar. Aimpoint takes Andy Crow and Roy Lupton…
Muntjac hunting secret weapon
Paul Childerley has a special call he has not revealed on Fieldsports Channel before. All of his deerstalking friends have their secret techniques, but Paul’s closely-guarded muntjac call is the…
How to butcher a small deer – quickly, cleanly and easily
How do you get the most from a small deer in the shortest possible time? Paul Childerley shows how to butcher a Chinese water deer, one of the world’s smaller…
Aimpoint gun sights: how they build them
Roy Lupton and Andy Crow go behind the scenes at the Aimpoint factory in Sweden to see how those ingenious Swedes build their gun sights, and how those gun sights…
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Fieldsports Podcasts
My dog Tawny, by Simon Whitehead – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 21
Top ferreter Simon Whitehead talks about his lurcher Tawny and friends, including ferrets and some hawk action. ‘She is a honest stamp of a dog and that is all can…