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 Helen Tinner as she swaps camera for rifle and goes out after a muntjac. Contact Nathan via email For more from Helen, visit HelenTinner.com See more of Helen’s stalking outings:
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 a muntjac. Over in Devon, Tom Davies has more of a challenge on his hands. He is trying to get a pheasant shoot off the ground, and his birds are […]
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 to RSPB fundraising call – Twitter Northern Ireland bans seagull shooting – Fieldsports News Foxhunting loses three great characters – Facebook Bank disapproves of camo goods shop – TheOutdoorsman.uk Cairngorms […]
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 are settling down to being only several times more restrictive and complicated before they were in 2019. That was the year that Wild Justice launched its legal attack on the […]
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 stag on one day on an estate. John Buchan’s granddaughter Ursula Buchan comes to the Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie Jacoby the novel’s back story, and a little of […]
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 organisations including the National Gamekeepers Organisation are seeking urgent meetings with Welsh ministers in order to find out if this is ignorance or simply political posturing. The NGO’s Tim Weston […]
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 Country Food Trust and keen amateur cook Tim Woodward are engaged in a cook-off. Who can produce the best pheasant dish for a panel of judges? For more about 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 charge of her meat’s welfare in its last few minutes of life. She is out with pro deerstalker Paul Childerley, looking for a cull Chinese water deer with Paul’s Sako […]
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 herself. Paul Childerley takes her out after a Chinese water deer. She is shooting her Christmas lunch. Plus they get to play with Hikmicro’s latest kit. Talking of lunch, we […]
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 Express + The Sun Balmoral offers game meat to Storm Arwen victims – Fieldsports News DEFRA aligns with animal rights extremists – Fieldsports News Politicians vote against animal bill – […]
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, the minister in charge of the environment in England reiterates a promise UK prime minister Boris Johnson made to ban the import of trophies. The announcement will please the Tory […]
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 to Packham and the RSPB trot out lies about grousemoors. However, they came away convinced that those of us on the side of nature can win this battle, as long […]
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 in Plymouth in August 2021. Now the facts support them. The number of gun certificates revoked in the South-West is nine times higher than normal. BASC uncovered the figures following […]
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, helping to put the countryside back together were the gamekeepers of the North-East of England and Scotland. BASC’s Gareth Dockerty explains what happened. The clear-up after Storm Arwen Meanwhile, the […]
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 you a better shot, including rifle git, trigger pull and how to shoot comfortably and effectively. We filmed this at the Braces of Bristol range. Braces offers a wide range […]
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 Gen II does a lot of the heavy lifting for deerstalkers and other hunters. It provides you with the data you need to make the show, plus it even superimposes […]
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 and turrets, the scope’s internal calculator does the work for you. All you have to do is take the shot accurately. That’s the new scope that Tim Pilbeam, has his […]
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 help in Storm Arwen clear-up – Fieldsports News Illegal dogwork under the spotlight – Fieldsports News Antis try to force trophy ban – Mail on Sunday Establishment turns its back […]
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 lives in the UK, and he is on a mission to show off British shooting and hunting sports to a Russian audience. Today he is out after fallow – with […]
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 ‘squirrel chasing’ ban – Countryside Alliance Ireland MFH plans hunting leaks appeal – Twitter Armed officers demand Devon shooter’s guns – Fieldsports News BBC puts out biased anti-grouseshooting report – […]
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 BASC so he can show off what the shoot offers in front of TV cameras. We follow Garry through his day on the shoot, including the horrors of being filmed […]
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 at shooting under pressure with the help of Johnny Carter from TGS Outdoors, Garry Doolan from BASC (hampered by a borrowed gun) and Gwysaney shoot owner James Davies-Cooke. Plus we […]
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 app, known in the rest of the world as the MyHunt app, who wants to use the power of shooters’ mobile phones to put us front and centre in the […]
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 damascus barrels with 3½-inch chambers, about ¼ and ¾ choke borings, top extension, the frame, rebounding bar locks, hammers and patent sliding top lever with fine scroll engraving and retaining […]
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 tested these separate Leupold binoculars and rangefinder – but he was pleasantly surprised. “The BX-5 Santiam HD binoculars have superb optical quality,” he says. “They’d compare with European binos costing […]
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 – and he loves it. “Every now and then something comes along that suits you down to the ground. The VX-5 does everything I want my scope to do, and […]
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 few years ago, and really liked it,” he says. “I was always impressed by its accuracy.” His only problem with that rifle was the stock, which was smaller and lighter […]
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. Ryan Dalton runs the popular Into The Wild Podcast IntoTheWild.podbean.com Katie Hargreaves is a wildlife artist KatieHargreavesArt.com Paul Childerley is a hunting guide (and so much more) Instagram.com/paulchilderley Charlie Jacoby […]
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’ Templar of Countryways Gundogs explains what to look for – and what to avoid. Visit CountrywaysGundogs.com and for Ollie go to CornishSportingAgency.com And here is the short version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2aH18u_GoU
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 Wright head on to the North Yorkshire Moors in search of a cull animal, with Jason trying out new Ruger and Leupold kit. Meanwhile, David Templar is back with more […]
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 the animal’s chin. Plus he shows off his new Ruger and Leupold combo and explains why he likes it. RRPs for the kit Jason is using: Leupold RX-1600i rangefinder £648 […]
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 fence charge – Daily Telegraph GWCT report gives thumbs-up for pheasant release – Fieldsports News Police force stops issuing gun licences – Fieldsports News Welsh government bans trailhunting on its […]
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. His family took over Place Farm, outside Norwich, a year ago. Henry got his rearing operation underway – and hoped that one day he might be shooting partridges on his […]
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/ + countrysquire.co.uk/2021/11/15/packhams-wildheart-charity-lied-about-rescuing-tigers/ Zookeeper’s wife picks up £150,000 for decorating – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10202001/Charity-employing-Carrie-Johnson-paid-bosss-wife-150-000-design-services-accounts-show.html Police target stolen quadbikes and lurcher boys – Fcha.nl/police-target-stolen-quadbikes-and-lurcher-boys/ PETA pushed fake fur on guardsmen’s bearskins – Fcha.nl/bearskins Bird […]
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 Ratters for a farmyard foray. There are rats everywhere, and it’s their job to tease them out and into the smiling jaws of the terriers. On a more civilised level, […]
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 the importance of shooting your own supper. At the Scottish Game Fair 2021, Fife chef Chris Trotter brought together Mark Bush from local food marketing group Great Perthshire, who also […]
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 stick to its releasing guidelines. The in-depth resarch shows that the picture is complicated. The GWCT authors summarise it as, ‘negative effects are caused by the birds themselves while positive […]
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 hands full with illegal dog work. A shocking video on Twitter shows officers trying to catch suspected up to 100 lurcher boys. The Bedford Independent news website reports that dozens […]
Thermal / night vision event: Pulsar Digex C50 + Leica Calonox
youtu.be/zr3IxByMZuI Leica and Pulsar head to Braces of Bristol’s rifle range to talk about their new night vision and thermal scopes and spotters. Mark Karn from Leica shows off his new Calonox spotter and scope attachment, and Tom Gosbell from Thomas Jacks talks through the new Digex C50 scope. Click here for more on the […]
Win Gun Dog Gin – Fieldsports Extra #195
You can win £60-worth of Gundog Gin in this week’s show. Plus we look at quadbike theft, nightvision and thermal, and YouTube’s policy on them.This week’s prizes and links:Jack Pyke goodies For Gun Dog Gin, go to GunDogGin.co.uk + @gundogginClick here For the Zeiss competition,And click here to see that mink attack in fullThe Braces evening: […]
Famous Grouse artist – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 50
The man who gave us the grouse on the Famous Grouse bottle, Rodger McPhail is one of the top sporting artists in the UK. Charlie Jacoby talks to him at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at Ragley Hall, July 2021, about what it takes to be an artist, and whom he rates among other […]
How to choose a labrador puppy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NZdj0Jw5c David Templar of Countryways Gundogs is one of the top labrador experts in the UK. He explains to Ollie Williams how to choose a labrador puppy, what to look for in breeding, conformation and temperament, and what hip scoring means. Click here for more from David Templar Click here to go shooting with Ollie […]
Top gun line-up shoots high pheasants
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 District, including Andy Crow, Dan Thor, Jason Doyle, Paul Childerley, Wayne Martin and Brody Woollard. They are there to try high birds in a tricky breeze… and the banter and […]
Fieldsports Britain – driven shoot dream team
It’s the Marvel Guardians of the DC Beano comic galaxy shooters’ day at the Upperwood Estate in the Peak District. Everyone in the line-up of guns has their own superpower, including Andy Crow, Paul Childerley, Wayne Martin, Brody Woollard, Jason Doyle and Dan Thor. All of them are facing testing birds in a stiff wind, […]
Big-budget anti-hunting video – Fieldsports News, episode 624
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwfBupetgfo Here are the links: Hunters are scum – the movie – LinkedIn Northern Ireland anti hunting law published – Fieldsports News Sabs snap photos of children Animal rights activists plan Christmas pub massacre – YouTube Danish royals celebrate the hunting season – Daily Mail Livestock deaths enrage French farmers – La Depeche Norwegians fine […]
