Royals snip ribbon on new Purdey shop in Berkshire
youtu.be/MhC-ilEN3Sc The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have officially opened Purdey’s new gun shop in Berkshire. The Royal couple went to the Royal Berkshire Shooting School to open the shop, which has been seven years in the planning. Purdey took over the shop in 2018. TRH the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at Purdey
Niall Rowantree: what is ‘trophy hunting’ in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132
While Keir Starmer’s government is keen to ban trophy hunting in other peoples countries, it has no views about the roughly 20,000 stag heads handed to grateful hunting tourists by paid stalkers in Scotland each year. Deer manager Niall Rowantree discusses the issues around ‘trophy hunting’ and how Starmer has got it wrong. Watch Niall […]
Reform UK pledges to reverse Labour’s planned ban on trail hunting
youtu.be/2qZZKBwCJAI Speaking at the Biodiversity, Wildlife Management & Cultural Heritage Conference in London, David Jones, chair of the Reform UK campaign for the 2026 Welsh Senedd elections, announced that, “if this Labour Government bans trail hunting – an activity in which no animal is pursued – the next Reform Government will reverse that ban.” Labour’s […]
Win a Purdey paperweight – Fieldsports Extra, episode 401
You can win a Purdey paperweight priced at £265 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Purdey. Plus we have Niall Rowantree talking about hummels, Dr Nick Fox explains how to protect hunting sports using UNESCO and Alastair Phillips from Purdey celebrates the opening of the gunmaker’s new shop in Berkshire. This week’s prizes […]
Win a £350 knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 400
You can win a knife priced at £350 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by ADG Custom Knives. Plus we have grouse moor owner Lord Bolton on what grousehooting pays for, Scottish stalker oGraeme Sinclair on his best anti-midgie gear, and Charlie’s dad Martin Jacoby gives Darwin’s reason for why the antis are wrong… […]
Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 131
youtu.be/ecJCcooVTn0 Here is the story behind the PDS1. David Wright talks to the man who came up with it, Peter Jones – and asks the question: is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? You can find the PDS1 in our shop, priced at £395 Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Can-Am launches an updated Traxter gamekeeping workhorse for 2026
Gamekeepers’ favourite, the Can-Am Traxter, will see the launch of a new model in 2026. The HD11 represents a ground-up overhaul of the V-twin HD9 and HD10 models, both launched in 2022. Prices for Can-Am’s new HD11 model in both four wheels and six wheels, start at under £25,000, nearly £10,000 more than the old […]
Win Jack Pyke clothing and boots – Fieldsports Extra, episode 399
You can win a Jack Pyke hoodie, trousers and a pair of boots priced at £150 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the perils of stalking in Florida form James Scheider, what Darren Sherwood from Exmoor Game School offers, and a tour of the Safari Club International Hunter’s Embassy in Washington DC from […]
Hart Topek 40 backpack review
by Guy Singleton Firstly, a huge thank you to Fieldsports Britain and S&H for the backpack. Out of 256 entrants, I was the lucky winner of this competition. And what a prize. The backpack is well made, with quality materials and stitching. It is a nice tactile material, which, despite being soft, looks quite durable. There […]
Win more gun oil – Fieldsports Extra, episode 398
You can win more gun oil from Tygris in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus David complains about the weather, Pete Hyde shows how to grow the perfect Christmas tree and Paul Austin is launching a new shooting magazine. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
BASC on the lead shot ban – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 130
youtu.be/opxam757Z7E Ian Bell and Terry Behan from BASC join Nick Levett-Scrivener from non-lead cartridge importer Shooting Star to discuss the Westminster government’s plan to restrict lead cartridges. They join Charlie on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025. Click here for the latest from BASC on non-lead ammo. For Shooting Star, go to ShootingStarCC.co.uk Other […]
Win a £134 Hart backpack – Fieldsports Extra, episode 397
You can win a a combined backpack and rifle slip from Hart in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we go behind the scenes on Mull where David is filming Tim Pilbeam and others, we have a close encounter with a stag from William Paquay of Browning, and Charlie celebrates the life of Mo. This week’s […]
Win Tygris gun oil – Fieldsports Extra, episode 396
You can win a set of three gun oils from lubricant specialist Tygris in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re out deerstalking with the Cigar Smoking Hunter in Yorkshire, we look at a stalker-and-client relationship in Scotland, and Dean Smallwood livens up Fieldsports Live by having a stroke. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership […]
Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 129
youtu.be/mC2bsWSa7xg Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025, two months before he takes up his job, to talk to Charlie about his latest book, Uncommon Ground. For Patrick’s book, Uncommon Ground, visit Amzn.to/42OF6tU For more from Patrick, visit Telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pa-pe/patrick-galbraith/ Other ways to listen to our […]
Win a gun cleaning kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 394
You can win a gun cleaning kit from Gamekeeper’s Cottage Gifts in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Scott Shuckford talks about why you should fight gun seizures by the police, huntsman Matthew Vator says why we shoud celebrate trailhinting and Tony Aldworth discusses boots. . This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance […]
Women in Westminster – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 128
youtu.be/XEdCS25nh_E Iona Campbell, who set up Women Who Work in Fieldsports, and BASC vice chair Claire Sadler, who runs Women in Shooting, come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 to explain their work to Charlie Jacoby. For more from Iona, visit WomenWhoWorkinFieldsports.co.uk For Claire, go to BASC.org.uk/women-in-shooting Other ways to listen to our […]
Win shooting goodies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 393
You can win shooting goodies including a £50 voucher to spend at the West Midlands Shooting Ground in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus James Marchington crashes a drone, Charlie breaks a chair, Ryan Charlton talks precision rifle and a Canadian eats a raw prawn. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go […]
Science and trophy hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 127
youtu.be/X-4hT5SXtzk Professor Adam Hart talks to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 about the threats facing hunting tourism and the scientific evidence that it is good for conservation. For more from Adam, visit X.com/adamhartscience Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win a Pro Ferrum gun cleaning kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 390
You can win a Pro Ferrum gun cleaning kit priced at £76.99 plus a runner-up prize of more Pro Ferrum oil in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. That’s not all. Tuna boat captain Pete Hyde says why his is the coming sport, and Roy Lupton is on hand to give us fashion tips. This week’s prizes […]
Win a £75 dog training vest – Fieldsports Extra, episode 389
You can win a dog training vest priced at £75 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to Geoff Garrod about pigeon shooting kit, US big game hunter Brian Pitell about how antis behave, a farmer, a land agent and an accountant about the family farm tax, and Ollie Williams about What’s Wrong With […]
Rewilder works with gamekeeper – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 126
Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread’s Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, which combines a mix of grey partridge shooting and arable. Benedict and Southill gamekeeper Paul Dunn explain how ‘restoring’ nature and shooting can work together, including restoring wetlands and reintroducing beavers. They […]
Win a £200 offroad ATV driving course – Fieldsports Extra, episode 388
You can win an offroad driving course for quadbikes priced at £200, kindly donated by Explore Off Road in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to Niall Rowantree about wild boar and Charlie’s dad about English common law. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership […]
Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 125
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of the three-day Game Fair at Ragley Hall, farmer and former MP Neil Parish comments on what we have learned from DEFRA, and what’s coming up on the rural agenda. Click here for Neil’s own podcast. Other ways to listen to […]
DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 123
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government’s record on the countryside, including the family farm tax, lead ammo ban, trophy imports, Countryside Stewardship schemes and whether he is in favour of nationalising farming. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
The future of the GWCT – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 124
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity. For more from the GWCT, go to GWCT.org.uk Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Greg Smith MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 122
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Greg Smith MP says how he spoke up for grouseshooting, even though his constituency is in Buckinghamshire. Plus he examines other threats to shooting sports. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Robbie Moore MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 121
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Robbie Moore MP talks about how he and others disposed of the attempt by BBC TV’s Chris Packham to force a ban on grouseshooting. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 120
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP explains the threats to shooting sports from the Labour government. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win a £269 riflescope – Fieldsports Extra, episode 387
You can win a riflescope priced at £269, kindly donated by Swamp Deer Optics in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to a shooting watchmaker, new members at the Game Fair, and David soaks up the adulation. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Win Game Fair Theatre books – Fieldsports Extra, episode 386
You can win books from guests at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, Browning’s sponsorship manager says how to become a Brownig sponsored shot and it’s Chris Potter’s annual ferret show. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Win Moochwear – Fieldsports Extra, episode 385
You can win a teeshirt and knife, kindly donated by Cattyshack’s new Moochwear line, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus a farmer and former MP talks about the family farm tax, a distiller discusses his ancestors and a gamekeeper says why he has no regrets. This week’s prizes and other links: For membership now with […]
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre programme 2025
Here is a complete guide to what’s on in the Game Fair Theatre at Ragley Hall, 25-27 July 2025, which is sponsored by Carter Jonas.
Anti-gun groups welcome lead ammo ban
Anti-shooting groups have welcomed the news that the government is to ban lead shot and lead bullets in Britain. The ban is a three-year phaseout from 2026 to 2029, with exemptions for airgun pellets, small-calibre rifle ammunition such as .22LR, ammunition used by elite athletes, the military, police and in ‘outdoor target shooting ranges’ with […]
Win a gunpod – Fieldsports Extra, episode 384
You can win a tripod shooting stick in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re in Spain to find out about the Bergara foundation, and Chris Bryde is back out fishing – this time for dogfish. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at £80 per person hereFieldsports […]
Shooters win grouse shooting debate at Westminster, 2025
youtu.be/_eKYY0mrdJQ For the third time, Wild Justice ran its petition to ban grouse shooting in England. Maybe Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay thought that a Labour government would produce a different result to the last two times they did this. No. For the third time, there was a non-binding debate in Westminster Hall, a grand […]
Win cufflinks and keyrings – Fieldsports Extra, episode 383
You can win cufflinks and keyrings in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus it’s the grouseshooting debate in the Westminster Parliament. There’s a full report. And competition theory: how will hunt-sabbing play out? Charlie’s dad Martin Jacoby has his answer… This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership […]
James Martin, part 2, with Merlin Griffiths – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 119
youtu.be/p2TY2x6jfTI TV chef James Martin and his friend, celebrity barman or ‘mixologist’ Merlin Griffiths, came to the Game Fair in 2024 – James to run the restaurant and Merlin to pour the drinks. They came and sat down with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where they talked about food, booze and […]
Win hunting fashion – Fieldsports Extra, episode 382
You can win a hoodie and t-shirt in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Flint Clothing. Plus Wayne Martin talks gun safety, Fieldsports member Darren Easton says why he couldn’t apply for a firearm cerficiate, and Chris and Laura Bryde take me fishing on the River Thames.. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership […]
Win a venison barbecue box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 381
You can win a venison barbecue box in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Dartmoor Deer Services. Plus Tim Bonner from the Countryside Alliance identifies the politicial challenges facing fieldsports, Tom Davies is waiting for a fox, and Asley Vellacott goes to the French Game Fair. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now […]
French Game Fair 2025
Regular UK game fair visitor Ashley Vellacott visits the French Game Fair, to see what it’s like. For more about the show, visit GameFair.fr Browning is at Browning.eu French Game Fair in numbers:
James Martin, part 1 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 118
youtu.be/RnpCMEF5hWc TV chef James Martin came to the Game Fair in 2024 to run the restaurant. He took time out to visit Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where he talks about his life in cooking and the challenges facing game meat marketing. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win Game Fair tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 380
You can win tickets to the Game Fair at the end of July at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Charlie talks gunstocks with Browning’s Lionel Neuville, asks Andy Crow what colour goes best with his eyes, and discusses coursing with Ed Swales, Mohammed Nasir and Tariq Ramzan, and appears on LadBible. […]
Cricket St Thomas estate story
The Taylor family bought the Cricket St Thomas estate in the 1960s. They are among the original diversifiers, finding ways to make 1,000 acres in Somerset pay, from traditional dairy businesses to wildlife park to shoot to Mr Blobby theme park. Charlie Jacoby spends a day on the estate with John Taylor, and meets the […]
Win £90 of Tidepool duck and geese calls – Fieldsports Extra, episode 379
You can win BG duck and geese calls on a specially-designed lanyard from Tidepool priced at £90, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus David and Charlie are on a road trip to Belgium, Somerset gamekeeper James Mouland says how he raises money for charity and Nicole Moore compares deerstalking to childbirth. This week’s prizes and […]
Win a £129.95 sika sack – Fieldsports Extra, episode 378
You can win a sika sack from Ogden’s Shooting Supplies priced at £129.95, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus David talks about making Fieldsports Extra better, Andy Ford discusses shrimps at Rutland Water, Charlie visits a lawyer and opens a box of hunting trophies, and Terry Doe reviews fish and chips. This week’s prizes and […]
Win a £99.95 pro butchery knife set – Fieldsports Extra, episode 377
You can win a Landig knife set from GameLarder.com priced at £99.95, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus top shot John Bidwell talks sea angling and Jacob Herman explains the difference between American deer hunting and British deerstalking. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Ogden’s Shooting Supplies roe and sika sacks
youtu.be/b9Wqh4ijrsw Phil Ogden talks through his popular sika sack, which costs £129.95 – a bag designed to help you take an entire sika deer carcase off the hill. Click here for more about roe and sika sacks from Ogden’s Shooting Supplies.
Win a £379 Wagstaff watch – Fieldsports Extra, episode 376
You can win a watch priced at £379, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus it’s our National Shooting Show diary with the help of these people:For the Wagstaff ‘Gloucestershire’ watch priced at £379, go to Bitl.ly/WagstaffWatchJames Crowther on YouTube Ian ‘Skipman’ Jones and Jumbo Willis catapult ccmpetitions Nick Levett-Scrivener, Shooting Star Bill BlackerJim Brown, Lincolnshire Bell Target League […]
Wagstaff Watches for shooters and hunters
Peter Foster who runs Wagstaff Watches, which specialises in watches for country people, explains where his company came from and what makes a great rural timepiece. Click here for the Wagstaff ‘Gloucestershire’ watch priced at £379.
Win a place in the British Open .410 championship – Fieldsports Extra, episode 375
You can win a place at the British open .410 championships, priced at £65 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Wayne Martin and Cai Ap Bryn discuss rabbit and venison recipes, and member Ian Jensen comes up with a good idea… This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can […]
