Three foxes down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=quKhlKs8Guc Local shooter Doug Pocklington goes out after foxes with night vision and thermal. He talks through his kit, his technique – and how, sometimes, the foxes get the better of him. Find Doug on Facebook
Fieldsports Britain – foxshooting ups and downs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZFtw-4DmLI Foxshooting: when it goes right and when it goes wrong. We’re out in Lincolnshire with Doug Pocklington and in Kent with Roy Lupton. Meanwhile, Dave the Dog Templar is back with more advice for Ollie Williams – this time on which dog to buy. Is to be it a cocker, a springer or a […]
Win a teal print – Fieldsports Extra #201
Win a teal print – Fieldsports Extra #201 You can win an £85 print of teal in this week’s show. Plus we talk to an MFH about the UK’s new hunting-with-hounds governing body, we talk to the sporting artist who painted the teal picture, and David and Charlie have a think about what Fieldsports Channel
Fieldsports Channel in 2022
youtu.be/VIhWOkPV4ec What should @Fieldsports Channel do and show in 2022? Charlie and David put their heads together, to talk about where the worlds of hunting
Stormy Dartmoor pheasant shoot
If you hear an autumn storm is coming, that’s a good moment to go pheasant shooting. The birds will fly like firecrackers. And that’s what
Bloopers 2021
It’s another year of manic mishaps, corny cock-ups and disasters-aplenty from the Fieldsports Channel film crew and presenters. Here’s our worst… More bloopers from previous
How to set up a venison business – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 56
Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services used the covid lockdowns to get his deerstalking and venison supply businesses underway. He is now supplying local shops,
Hunt your own muntjac – success on a plate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0lRyMgdks More and more people are heading into the countryside with professional guides in order to shoot themselves a deer for dinner. We follow photographer
Fieldsports Britain – Helen Tinner shoots her dinner
Fancy some venison? Why not shoot it yourself? Photographer Helen Tinner does just that, going out with deerstalking guide Nathan Whitehead in Suffolk to shoot
Police firearms licensing blames covid – Fieldsports News, episode 630
Here are the links: Police maintain crackdown on gun owners – Fieldsports News Botham zaps RSPB over electric fences – Daily Telegraph Bird deaths lead
General licences 2022: what you can and can’t shoot
Updated 23 March 2022 This page shows advice by country: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland After two years of shambles, general licences across the UK
Happy Christmas – Fieldsports Extra #200
You can still win a £335 custom knife by Danum Blades in this week’s show. Plus we talk to the Yildiz winner, a Vario earplugs winner, Tom Davies on steep-valley shooting and James Marchington on knocking over a muntjac for dinner.This week’s prizes and links:For Danum Blades, go to DanumBlades.co.ukMarcus Pettifor’s clay club in Yorkshire
The story behind John Macnab – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 55
John Macnab, the 1925 novel by John Buchan, has inspired an entire subculture of imitators, including the taking of a salmon, grouse (or brace) and
Welsh Government turns its back on countryside
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xukFvf5z0Y The Welsh government says it no longer supports shooting sports, which casts doubt on the future of huge swathes of the Welsh countryside. Shooting
Pheasant cook-off: top chef Tim Maddams vs the Country Food Trust’s Tim Woodward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHWMPdW8uU8 It’s a pheasant cookery competition. Two cooks get a basket of ingredients, including pheasant breasts. Top chef Tim Maddams and outgoing boss of the
Vegan hunts Christmas lunch
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
Fieldsports Britain – What Katie did next
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmak7fCaAGg Wildlife artist Katie Hargreaves was vegan. Then she took up deerstalking. Now she is an ‘ethical eater’ – only eating the meat she shoots
Bungling police in gun grab muddle – Fieldsports News, episode 629
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Lj56VS4I Here are the links: Devon & Cornwall Police sends out wrong revocations – Fieldsports News Countryfile attacks game meat marketing – BBC + Daily
Win a beautiful Danum Blades knife – Fieldsports Extra #199
You can win a £335 custom knife by Danum Blades in this week’s show. Plus Cai Ap Bryn is out with David, Tim Weston from the National Gamekeepers Organisation says government attacks on hunting and shooting sports is incompetence not conspiracy, and how did the first Fieldsports Live go? Find out here…This week’s prizes and
George Eustice shares platform with animal rights extremists over trophy hunting
DEFRA secretary George Eustice has put out a joint press release with animal rights extremists. Marking a lurch to the animal rights agenda in government,
Gamekeepers brave Packham’s anti-grouse conference – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 54
Two Scottish gamekeepers and a gamekeeper’s wife talk to Charlie about the Revive conference in Perth in November 2021. They bravely went along and listened
Plymouth shootings: the police gun licensing backlash
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Shooters in Dorset, Devon & Cornwall say the police are punishing them as a kneejerk reaction to a shooting
Gamekeepers clear up after Storm Arwen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY0D0RdGxRA When Storm Awen blew through in November 2021, it took trees and powerlines with it. On the front line, with firecrews and the Army,
Rifle fit and trigger pull – how to shoot comfortably
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoH1kTn__g In the third of our series of expert rifleshooting tips, Josh McKeown from Braces of Bristol shows the fundamentals of technique that will make
What the Swarovski dS Gen II riflescope can do with deer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-uVRqHsME Tim Pilbeam has a new toy – and he tries it out on fallow deer. Swarovski has brought out a new super-scope. The dS
Fieldsports Britain – Tim targets tech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvq_EsekRw Imagine a hunt where it’s only about the hunting. You find your deer, you crawl into position, and then instead of fiddling with maths
Police double down on revoking gun licences – Fieldsports News, episode 628
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b6vlsWGEEM Here are the links: British police step up gun confiscations – Fieldsports News Irish foxhunters win parliamentary vote – Fieldsports News + TheVirtualGameFair.com Gamekeepers
Win ISOTunes hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra #198
You can win £109.99-worth of newly-launched ISOTunes Defy Slim hearing protection in this week’s show. Plus Tim Pilbeam talks through his deer cart (while he is supposed to be concentrating on his Swarovski), and Niall Rowantree reacts to the Welsh government’s new policy of getting rid of shooting sports.This week’s prizes and links:For the ISOTunes
The Russian hunting deer in Sussex
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prMknUK5H5s It’s a Sussex deerstalking and foxshooting outing with a difference. Most Russian hunting YouTubers produce films about hunting in Russia. Not Alex Vankov. He
Royal shooting neighbour for sale – Fieldsports News, episode 627
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9kkXFSNvY Here are the links: £23 million Scottish sporting estate under offer – Abergeldie Estate + YouTube Countryside Alliance urges Northern Irish to campaign against
Gwysaney Shoot – glorious driven game in Flintshire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5l99gb6wwI James Davies-Cooke runs the beautiful Gwysaney Estate in North Wales. Today, he asks guests including Johnny Carter from TGS Outdoors and Garry Doolan from
Fieldsports Britain – shooter under pressure
youtu.be/cpcf1KTKV1Q Going pheasant shooting on a fabulous shoot in North Wales – sounds lovely but what’s it like when it all goes wrong? We look
Hunting apps: the future – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 53
Tristan Breijer takes the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre back in July 2021. He is one of the team behind the MyFieldsports
Win a Roesafe – Fieldsports Extra #197
You can win £79.99-worth of pop-up Roesafe in this week’s show. Plus we have a deerstalking business launcher, a complaint about firearms licencing and more on our first live theatre show Fieldsports Live.This week’s prizes and links:For more about the Roesafe, go to Bit.ly/roesafe or watch Geoff’s review OneLeaf Commander NV100 night vision: 12mm or 16mm
Horsley 8-bore fowling piece
Gavin Gardiner is auctioning a rare 8-bore patent bar-in-wood hammer gun. Gun expert Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk talks through the fowling piece, which has 34-inch
Leupold RX-1600i laser rangefinder & BX-5 Santiam HD binoculars, reviewed by Jason Doyle
youtu.be/ZISduVBPS94 These days Jason Doyle uses a European brand of binoculars with a built-in rangefinder, so it felt like going back to basics when he
Leupold VX-5HD 3-15×56 riflescope reviewed by Jason Doyle
Jason Doyle has been using this Leupold VX-5 scope for two years, so he’s had plenty of time to give it a really thorough test
Ruger American Hunter rifle with Magpul stock, reviewed by Jason Doyle
youtu.be/QZXy8MyC8XA Jason Doyle was keen to try the Ruger American Hunter rifle with its Magpul stock. “I had a lightweight Ruger American in .308 a
Vegans at the Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 52
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnY9YrzRqE We bring together two vegans and two hunters to debate the issues. They meet on stage at the 2021 Game Fair at Ragley Hall.
How to choose a working cocker spaniel puppy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0rXKutHybc How do you choose a working cocker puppy? Ollie Williams wants to buy one for his girlfriend, Laura. Top gundog trainer ‘Dave the Dog’
Fieldsports Britain – Jason’s deerstalking de-stress
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_bny8uXCU New husband-and-dad Jason Doyle is delighted to get out of the house – and even more delighted to go fallow stalking. He and David
Unlucky buck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cu1xJIFkA Jason Doyle is out after a fallow buck in Yorkshire. He explains his stalking technique, and when and why he puts a shot under
Antis lose the plot over trophy hunting – Fieldsports News, episode 626
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3Ma14-N5Y Here are the links: Seven years in prison for hanging a head on your wall – Mirror + Twitter RSPB shocked into action by electric
Win night vision – Fieldsports Extra #196
You can win £200-worth of night vision in this week’s show. Plus we have our first live theatre show Fieldsports Live, plus Katie Hargreaves has put her print in our shop, and a deerstalker in Scotland is offering a bargain doe cull three days to any Fieldsports Nation supporter who can bring a non-shooting friend
The accidental partridge shoot
youtu.be/tUPre482uJM Shoots never go quite the way you expect. Fieldsports Nation supporter Henry Darling didn’t mean to set up a shoot. Not so soon, anyway.
Ducks in England head for the banned list? – Fieldsports News, episode 625
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUkrPHypjo Here are the links: Natural England wants to put mallards on the banned list – publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6534172534636544 Packham faces court and media battles – basc.org.uk/rspb-loses-hen-harrier-judicial-review-2/
Fieldsports Britain – Sussex Ratnado
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q-8aMXu14s David finds himself in a flailing maelstrom of terriers, vermin and men, women and children with sticks as he joins the Kent & Sussex
Wild meat goes mainstream – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 51
After years of telling them that wild meat is good for, it’s traceable and comes with low food miles, the mainstream is picking up on
How releasing pheasants helps wildlife – report
Releasing pheasants is good for wildlife. That’s the headline of new research [PDF] by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – as long as shoots
Police target stolen quadbikes and lurcher boys
Some shocking footage has emerged of illegal hare-coursing in Bedfordshire this week pic.twitter.com/MCFkQPMdAw — Johann Tasker (@johanntasker) November 12, 2021 Police in Bedforshire have their
