Win Stalking Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 317

Play Video You can win tickets to the Stalking Show, which takes place on 13-14 April 2024 at Staffordshire Showground. Plus we have Dan Thor getting hot while out decoying pigeons, and Niall Rowantree has an appeal to anyone interested in Scottish deer. This week’s prizes and other links:Tom’s Targets Stalking Show tickets Need legal help with […]

Deerstalker’s peace offering to dogwalker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBN1Vp_xbfM If stalking deer in the busy south east of England weren’t hard enough, sometimes you have to contend with dog walkers, either legitimately on your ground, or those who feel they have a right to roam away from designated footpaths. Often it is a friendly affair but sometimes it requires patience, education and venison […]

Fieldsports Britain – get orf my land

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWjuWB0Wb8 Cai Ap Bryn deals with a dogwalker while out deerstalking. Nicole Moore gets into wildfowling with Holbeach Wildfowlers in the East and Charlie Byrne is after a black-powder 8-bore goose with Devon Wildfowlers in the West. Anglers are revolting: we join 100 locals led by riverkeepers in a demonstration against Southern Water polluting the […]

Formula 1 boss joins Southern Water protestors

Saj Rahman and Andy Ford Southern Water’s pumping station at Fullerton in Hampshire, on the banks of the River Test, dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into the UK’s most famous chalkstream. Locals say they’ve had enough. On 18 March 2024, organised by two local riverkeepers, they were joined in a protest of more […]

Spartan Javelin bipod: preview

www.youtube.com/watch?v=08HyzCGrZBE The Spartan Javelin is a modern take on the bipod for your rifle. Ryan Charlton of distributors Highland Outdoors explains that it’s lightweight, slips in a pocket, adjustable, and with its magnetic attachment system it’s quick and easy to deploy. Find out more at Highland Outdoors

How to get into wildfowling

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4p6S2LUaI Starting out in wildfowling is easy. Clubs all over the UK are keen to meet you, take you out and show you what the sport is all about. In this film, Holbeach Wildfowlers take Nicole Moore as a guest to their ground on the Wash. Meanwhile, Charlie Byrne buys a day with the Devon […]

Grousemoor licensing set to become law in Scotland

Grousemoor licensing and a partial muirban ban have passed their latest stage in the Scottish Parliament. The Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill looks like it will pass later in the week. The reaction from the Countryside Alliance is that it is not what shoots want but they can work with it. MSPs who brought forward […]

Africans protest against UK trophy hunting import ban bill

Protests Botswana against the UK government British authority and influence in southern African countries is ‘as bad as in the Zulu Wars’ says one commentator. The reason? The UK government wants to enact a ban on trophy imports, throwing the whole basis for wildlife conservation in Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique and other […]

Gamekeepers and farmers hit back at United Utilities

Angry farmers and gamekeepers have hit back against their landlords with a damning report. Called ‘United Utilities at Haweswater’, the document examines failures by landowners United Utilities and Lowther Estates, and their consultant the RSPB. It details how the landowners are driving tenant farmers out of business, how their tree planting schemes are failing with […]

Win a £125 chair – Fieldsports Extra, episode 315

Play Video You can win a portable orthopaedic chair, designed for shooting, kindly donated by Just1Seat.com. Plus we have announcements about membership pricing, insurance, a misunderstanding over the Daily Mail, an angry capercaillie and a bear in a trap. This week’s prizes and other links: Jackal Medical Orthopaedic seat for shooters Need legal help with a hunting, shooting […]

Win a £90 medical kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 314

Play Video You can win a Bleeding Control Kit from Jackal Medical, priced at £90. Plus we have ferreting in New Zealand, boar trapping in Florida, homeloading in Leicestershire and a professional hunter hard done by UK newspapers. This week’s prizes and other links:Mega VR Bit.ly/megavrJackal Medical Need legal help with a hunting, shooting or gun […]

British Shooting Show 2024

youtu.be/RZioVNz1Pjs Part one ⬆️ More than 2,000 brands under one roof, tens of thousands of visitors, shooting sports at the heart of the NEC in Birmingham: what more could you want? Join Andy Ford, Terry Doe and Nicole Moore for our highlights packages from the British Shooting Show 2024. Part two ⬇️ youtu.be/UgySTXDIopY

Win a knife at the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 312

Play Video The big news is our new legal helpline. Aimed at the legal problems you might encounter when you apply for a shotgun or firearm certificate, it is a new member benefit. Our lawyer Layla McGuigan talks about what that offers. Plus we have a knife giveaway at the British Shooting Show, Jim Barrington […]

Win knives and a sharpening set – Fieldsports Extra, episode 309

Play Video We are giving away a knife and sharpening set totalling around £100 retail value, kindle donated by Rifleman Firearms in Somerset and online. Plus pro-foxhunting journalist Charlie Pye-Smith says why that doesn’t mean he is anti foxshooting and farmer Gareth Wyn Jones says what gamebirds he likes to eat. Vale Field & Game ValeFieldGame.comRifleman […]

Sedbergh School Shoot

The boys and girls from Sedbergh School run their own pheasant shoot. It’s a project that introduces them to conservation, wildlife and the great outdoors. Enthusiastically backed by staff, parents and locals, they put on several shoot days throughout the season. There’s a waiting list of kids to join the shoot. We join them for […]

Heather burning warning – Fieldsports News, 17 January 2024

Here are the links: Heather burning warning – RuralReaction.uk Bearskins’ ban plea – BBC Atlantic salmon in UK now endangered – AST Grouse and kestrels endangered – Nature.scot Aussie duck ban threat – Guardian Irish game fair postponed – Down News Elephant permits on hold – SCI NRW faces legal challenge – FishLegal BASC launches […]

New launch: Aimpoint Acro S2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVty1XF0Is Aimpoint is launching its new Acro S2 with a day’s duck hunting for its new ambassadors. We join Johannes Kesselstatt, Jules Breant and Wild Srbija for driven duck in southern Sweden.   For more about the Acro S2, visit the Aimpoint website Johannes Kesselstatt on Instagram Jules Breant on Facebook Wild Srbija on YouTube […]

Fieldsports Britain – red dot ducks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkEm-rnR0I We’re all about ducks and pheasants in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. We join the Swedes for a duck day in order to look at the new Aimpoint Acro S2 red dot sight. Johannes Kesselstatt is shooting straight. After the news, we’re off to the English Lake District for a driven pheasant day at the Sedbergh […]

Win a pair of trailcams priced at £269 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 307

Play Video We are giving away £269 pair of trailcams from Baileys Shooting & Country Wear this week. Plus we have news ed Andy Ford on farming, a teenager on how why his school runs a pheasant shoot, and Jaf Jefferson on setting up the ‘Squirrel Feeder of Despair’ (coming soon).This week’s prizes and other […]

Win a venison box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 306

Play Video We are giving away tickets to the British Shooting Show this week, priced at more than £250. Plus we have Paul Childerley hunting red deer in full hazmat, a pair of Westmorland wildfowlers talking about young shots and our 2023 bloopers reel. This week’s prizes and other links:British Shooting Show, NEC Birmingham from Friday […]

Win British Shooting Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 305

Play Video We are giving away tickets to the British Shooting Show this week, priced at more than £250. Plus we have Paul Childerley hunting red deer in full hazmat, a pair of Westmorland wildfowlers talking about young shots and our 2023 bloopers reel. This week’s prizes and other links:Skinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodBritish Shooting Show, NEC […]

Charlie’s dad talks trophies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 304

Play Video It’s a break from the usual this week – Charlie talks to his dad, Martin Jacoby, about trophies and why we put them on our walls. Please add your comments below.This week’s prizes and other links: Skinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodTargets & Tins in Hampshire cing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus […]

Seven down: big Aimpoint deer drive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezNafXAMGw Improve your driven big game shooting the  Aimpoint Academy way. David films Aimpoint Academy winner Johannes Kesselstatt from Germany on a driven deer hunt in Sweden – and he has an amazing last drive.    In spring 2023, Aimpoint announced it was looking for the next Franz-Albrecht, the brightest shooting talent from across the […]

Fieldsports Britain – fallow deer fever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8Pw6Byo-k One lucky man, Johannes, gets the extraordinary pressure of David accompanying him on his first driven big-game hunt as an Aimpoint Academy winner. He rises to the occasion and has a magnificent last drive on the fallow. Meanwhile, Cai Ap Bryn cooks up a venison feast for Christmas and Ian Hodge actually is Father […]

Win Skinner’s dogfood – Fieldsports Extra, episode 303

Play Video We are giving away Skinner’s dogfood this week, priced at more than £100. Plus we have our Aimpoint Academy winner, George Lawrence, talking about the experience and some outtakes from gunshop owner Ian Hodge dressed as Father Christmas.This week’s prizes and other links:Hedgerow Goblet Hunter, the HGH from CattyShack Bit.ly/hghcattySkinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodTargets […]

How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 89

youtu.be/Y0EzFlbIMBc UK prime minister Tony Blair said that his 2004 Hunting Act would benefit foxes. Twenty years later, it turns out he was wrong. In a chat with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023,  Jim Barrington, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, spells out the mistakes that Blair made, […]

Win a £264 TreSpade mincer – Fieldsports Extra, episode 301

Play Video We are giving away a TreSpade mincer priced at £264. It’s the TreSpade TC-8 El Young that minces a kilo of meat a minute. Plus we have Wayne Martin on catapults, Gareth Wyn Jones on politics and Malin Hewins in a tangle with her dog.This week’s prizes and other links:Wrecking Coast DistilleryTreSpade TC-8 […]

Win a Bergara shooting seat – Fieldsports Extra, episode 298

We are giving away a shooting seat from Bergara priced at £99, kindly donated by Artemis Outdoors, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a parade of grand old men: Terry Doe for the airgunners, Robert Bucknell for the foxshooters and a member oif the Blacker family for the gunmakers.This week’s prizes and other […]

Win a £150 shooting lesson – Fieldsports Extra, episode 297

We are giving away a shooting lesson priced at £150, kindly donated by the Oxford Gun Company, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re wrapping up the Packham defamation hearing with member Gary Froggatt and our own David Wright. And a loader called Pete explains why he sprays his gun’s barrels with oil between drives.This […]

Statement in Open Court

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KING’S BENCH DIVISION Media and Communications List Before Mr/s Justice [xxx] Between:- Claim No. KB-2023-000965 CHRIS PACKHAM CBE Claimant -and- FIELDSPORTS CHANNEL LIMITED ANDREW O’ROURKE Defendants STATEMENT IN OPEN COURT   Carol Day, Claimant’s Representative My [Lord], in this action for defamation, I appear on behalf of the Claimant, […]

Win Bollé shooting glasses – Fieldsports Extra, episode 296

Play Video We are giving away Bollé Altus shooting glasses priced at around £100 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re with deerstalkers Martin Curran and Tom Garner, staghunter David Renney, deer (and other mammal) campaigner Jim Barrington, angler Jeremy Wade and, from New Zealand, Katie Hargreaves and Rich Leonard.This week’s prizes and other links:Santoku […]

Yankee squirrels vs Ukrainian airgun

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUbMh8mwSc James Marchington reviews a Ukrainian pre-charged pneumatic bullpup air rifle, the Zbroia Sapsan. Once it’s pumped up and zeroed, it’s off to a local pheasant shoot to deal with some pesky grey squirrels which are helping themselves to grain from the pheasant feeders – but hunting squirrels in early autumn isn’t as easy as […]

BASC uncovers gun certificate police error – Fieldsports News, 25 October 2023

Here are the links: Backdated shotgun certificates: BASC investigates police blunder – BASC Countryside Alliance praises Suffolk council – Countryside Alliance Scottish trailhunting ban ‘may be illegal’ – Nature.Scot Trailcams to monitor people in Jersey countryside – BBC Marmot hunting to continue in France – FranceTVInfo Norway deer collisions up 15% – TV2.no Australia takes […]

Tim tests Swarovski Z8i+ scope

‘Circle, red dot, kill’ – that’s what you want a scope to do for you, says Tim Pilbeam, and the Swarovski Z8i+ does it. He is out on his range in Sussex with local deerstalkers and a gunsmith to put the scope through its paces and see what the advantages are. For more about the […]

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