Teresa Dent CBE from the GWCT – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 113
youtu.be/JKX8exmYtq4 Teresa Dent CBE led the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as chief executive for 22 years. In the spring of 2025, she retires. In July 2024, she came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk about the trust’s work, and the difficulty of producing science that politicians can use. Other ways to […]
Win an Olight Osight red dot sight – Fieldsports Extra, episode 366
You can win an Olight OSight red dot sight priced at £160 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus dog trainer Sean Brown talks about neutering, member Mark Froggatt says What He Wold Like To See Done, and the GWCT’s Teresa Dent CBE says what expasperates her. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with […]
Country Food Trust – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 112
youtu.be/l90cTv7xEy8 SJ Hunt runs the Country Food Trust, a charity that delivers game, venison, poultry and vegetarian meals to food banks and the homeless. It is the major market for pheasants, partridges and deer carcases. Talking to Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, she explains how it works. Visit the Country […]
Fieldsports Britain – A Year in the Life of Red Deer
The wildlife – the scenery – the deerstalking. Over 12 months, we follow wildlife manager Niall Rowantree as he looks after the deer on the Ardnamurchan Estate. how does he produce a healthy population of deer? And how does deer management weave itself into the fabric of estate life? For the whole series, visit […]
Niall Rowantree
Find out more about Niall’s Blaser R8 Click Here Niall Rowantree Niall uses Hornady ammunition. Visit its website. Click Here Niall uses HIKMicro optics Click Here Follow/contact Niall Facebook Instagram Deer expert Niall Rowantree has spent more than 35 years providing wildlife and deer management services to both the public and private sector. He made […]
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Win a Fenman tweed waistcoat– Fieldsports Extra, episode 365
You can win a tweed shooting waistoat from Fenman Fieldsports & Leisure in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Elliot Roberts has a close shave with a walker while out deerstalking, and there’s an uncontrollable Norfolk terrier, blood up from ratting. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup […]
John Jeffries Custom Catapults
youtu.be/81Pu3igZ-GU Ever fancied a slingshot made of mammoth ivory? John Jeffries makes beautiful catapults in collaboration with Emberleaf Knives, some of them for more than £1,000. Find John on Facebook More catapults here:
Last chance to win a Maxus II – Fieldsports Extra, episode 364
It’s all about the British Shooting Show in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, with amazing catapults, an African Safari outfiiter and a special offer on a shooting app for iPhones. Plus you can still win a Browning Maxus II semi-auto shotgun. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup […]
Win a £1,679 Browning Maxus II – Fieldsports Extra, episode 362
You can win a Browning Maxus II semi-auto shotgun in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus top tips on presenting with earplugs in, and Ian Bell form BASC describves a strategy for changing the minds of Labour MPs about fieldsports . This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup […]
The story of the rabbit – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 110
youtu.be/cL4xO6OLIWE They shot 5,000 rabbits in one day in Shropshire and 7,000 in one day at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The rabbit has had a relatively short but dramatic history in the UK, from Roman food source through population explosions, and becoming one of the most prized quarry species of the great Victorian shots. Shooting […]
Win tickets to the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 362
You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the British Shooting Show, at the NEC Birmingham next weekend, 14-16 February 2025. We will of course be there. Come and say hello. Plus Terry Doe talks airgun pellet prep, a pair of Zimbabweans complain about the British government’s plans for a trophy import ban, […]
Eat Wild’s Louisa Clutterbuck – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 109
Louisa Clutterbuck from the game meat marketing agency Eat Wild explains her role, and how it fits in with other agencies such as Game To Eat and Eat Game. She talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. (And she had the baby, a boy called Jasper). For more, go to Eat […]
Win a squirrel feeder and a deer hanger – Fieldsports Extra, episode 361
You can win a a squirrel feeder and a deer hanger made by Kathy Morgan’s company KM Exhausts in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus His Excellency Rodney Sikumba says the British government is a bit rubbish, James Dent from Roxtons, Marc Brown from Bettws Hall and Marc Newton from RIgby line up to say why […]
Greg Smith MP – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 108
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpe3B_HT3NM Greg Smith MP says how to deal with the Labour government. Of course, he was talking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024, just after the general election, and much water has gone under the rural bridge since then – but his advice stands. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win NZ Hunter for a year – Fieldsports Extra, episode 360
You can win an annual subscription to NZ Hunter priced at £75 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Sir Jim Paice gives his political prognosis for shooting, Greg Smith MP says it’s not all bad and Mark Froggatt takes me Chese water deer stalking. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go […]
Government tries to price rural people out of shooting sports
The government’s decision to increase firearms licensing fees by more than double poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. That’s the message from shooting organisations, led by BASC. “An inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at […]
Ferreter Simon Whitehead – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 107
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma625zPoa-M Simon Whitehead has been a ‘celebrity ferreter’ all of his working life. He talks about the job to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. Find Simon on Instagram, on YouTube, or on his webpage Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win a luxury Tuffies dogbed – Fieldsports Extra, episode 359
You can win a Tuffies dogbed priced at £211-£338 (depending on the size of your dog) in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Roy Lupton has a go at David, Christopher Bryde talks about laser guns instead of rifles at biathlon events and I find a bra in a tree. This week’s prizes and other links:For […]
Gamekeepers Welfare Trust – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 106
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9jAkknpSE Ian Grindy from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust tells the story of the charity and explains why it is needed more than ever. He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more from the GWT, visit TheGamekeepersWelfareTrust.com Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
More than a gundog: the labrador
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg9GkU6LGHI Pet, friend, workmate – the labrador may be all these things to you. To wider society, it is a help around the house and even an essential service. Dog trainer Sean Brown from Petsercise explains the wider applications of this popular gundog breed, and how it is the labrador’s original breed purpose that makes […]
All The Gear with Terry Doe: Webley Eagle air rifle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWoTju92oA8 Terry Doe has been shooting the Webley Eagle PCP air rifle – and he is impressed. He reckons it’s solidly built, reliable, and one of the most accurate .22 airguns he has used. He runs through its features, and offers a couple of tips to help you get the best results from the gun. […]
The NEW Browning 825 – gunshops’ verdict
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn_sZqe5gAg Here’s what British gunshop owners have to say about the new Browning 825 shotgun. They try it out on a simulated game shooting day in Essex. To watch this gun in action on grey partridges, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/browningpartridges Thanks to Seabrook Sporting for the sim game day Thanks to Ben Ford for filming. Find […]
New Year’s honours for shooters – Fieldsports News, 8 January 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzyo5Pnxsk Here are the links: Shooting sports new year’s honours – Northern Echo + YouTube/airability + Dom’s Food Mission on Instagram NZ honours deer manager – YouTube Welsh airgun range plans expansion – Leader Live Hunt sabs tell public to lie to cops – Facebook RSPB launches hen harrier live map BASC funds police training […]
Fieldsports Britain – why the world needs gundogs
youtu.be/iwAOD5dS674 In a new series we look at how gundogs’ special skills help people outside the world of shooting. This episode: the labrador. Plus, we are in Essex to see how the UK’s gundealers react to the launch of the new Browning 825 shotgun. Terry Doe looks at the Webley Eagle air rifle, our podcast […]
Win a CVLife riflescope and a red dot sight – Fieldsports Extra, episode 358
You can win a CVLife riflescope and a red dot sight in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we talk to gun trainer Sean Brown about his experience with Channel4 TV, our own commercials director James Westbrook tries out the Browning 825 and we have that old potboiler, our annual bloopers reel. This week’s prizes and […]
Browning 825: a peek under the bonnet
When it launched the new 825, Browning had firm views about how it should improve the old 725. Browning head of shotguns Lionel Neuville tells Charlie about Browning’s design thinking. Watch the 825 in action here:
Escape To The Chateau’s Dick and Angel – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 105
youtu.be/ecWVU2MFQ1M Dick and Angel Strawbridge from the Escape To The Chateau TV series head to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 to talk about their lives with Charlie Jacoby. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win Kite binos priced at £240 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 357
You can win Kite Optics binoculars priced at £240 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have interviews surrounding the launch of the Browning 825 shotgun with top French shoot manager Thibaut Constant, Browning head of shotguns Lionel Neuville and gun writer Michael Yardley. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go […]
Badger Ammunition Titan
youtu.be/GHPxyUHj_30 South African company Badger Ammunition has brought out its Titan range of big game cartridges in .375H&H. There are two types: the Titan MonoMoly 304gr EXBT and the Titan 300gr MonoMoly CSFB. Zaakir Badat tries them out in South Africa and says what he thinks of them. Visit BadgerAmmunition.co.za/rifle.html See our film buffalo hunting […]
Bergara B14 in .375H&H
youtu.be/Fv24ZjTUTRI The Spanish-made Bergara rifle company is making its pitch as a reliable African big game rifle. Zaakir Badat tries it out in South Africa and says what he thinks of it. Visit Bergara.online See our film buffalo hunting film: youtu.be/C9zBhMaAm8s
Big-game cartridge fast-loader
youtu.be/c0PvuQoAki8 Fumbling with cartridges is not what you want to do when dangerous game is charging you. The Northern Cape Professional Hunting School has made up a simple, plastic cartridge fast-loader for double rifles. This item is not available in the shops. To enquire about it, contact Mynhard via NCPH.co.za See our film buffalo hunting film: […]
Quick-release double rifle sling
youtu.be/_omUOX1G-8I The noise of clips and swivels on your rifle sling can spook buffalo. The Northern Cape Professional Hunting School has made up these leather slings that slide on and off your rifle – in this case a double rifle. This slide-on, slide-off sling is not available in the shops. To enquire about it, contact Mynhard […]
Jeremy Wade – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 104
youtu.be/osQx0AQ57Vo The star of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade, joins Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. This podcast is an amalgamation of two interviews in the theatre, where he talks about the series that made hinm famous, and what projects he plans to do next. For more from Jeremy, go to JeremyWade.co.uk Other ways […]
Win big game hunting kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 356
You can win a fast cartridge loader and a quick-release double-rifle sling in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have interviews with the man who made them, Mynhard Herholdt from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Ollie Williams is shooting pheasants – or not – in Wales, and we go behind the scenes at the […]
Heym 88B/89B double rifles – factory tour
youtu.be/qxyi7YrwXMg We visit the Heym factory in Germany, talk to Büchsenmachermeister or master gunsmith Rico Stephan about how Heym makes its famous lightweight double, and South African dangerous game specialist Mynhard Herholdt, who runs the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, explains why he chooses Heym doubles. For more, go to Heym-Manufaktur.de For the Northern Cape […]
Splitting Image Taxidermy’s story – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 103
Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa’s most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port Elizabeth and operating all over southern Africa. He tells his story. For more about Splitting Image Taxidermy, visit SplittingImageTaxidermy.co.za Thanks to Safari Club International’s Life Hunter Advocate Society for supporting this film. Visit SafariClub.org Other ways […]
Deerstalker in gun-grab limbo
youtu.be/9KtwTRMmxZA Dorset Police seized a deer manager’s firearms and is now declining to let him have them back. Stu Miles’s girlfriend dumped him, may have made an allegation to the police about him, which led to them seizing his guns, and then withdrew that allegation. Now the constabulary is refusing to give back his guns. […]
BASC goes behind the new gun tax proposal – interview
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9azqs6 ‘Rural communities face steep ‘gun tax’ rise to boost police budgets’: That’s the headline in the Daily Telegraph, prompting fears among gun owners that they will be asked to pay for public safety. BASC’s Christopher Graffius (interview above) allays those fears. He says: “All we have is one article in the Telegraph and it […]
Win a Katie Hargreaves print – Fieldsports Extra, episode 355
You can win a bird print by Katie Hargreaves in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have interviews with a Slovak pheasant shooting host, a South African taxidermy company boss and a professional hunter who is now in a wheelchair. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup […]
Future of deer with Niall Rowantree and Prof Rory Putman – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 102
youtu.be/1gSl6iHEEyM Deerstalker and wildlife manager Niall Rowantree talks to deer biologist Professor Rory Putman about the remarkable sika deer, as part of our filming of the Year in the Life of Sika. Rory explains why sika are so successful when reds struggle, how their range is increasing and why they are so difficult, in fact […]
Win £179-worth of Isotunes hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra, episode 354
You can win IsoTunes Caliber hearing protection priced at £179 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the additional prize of a signed copy of Professor Rory Putman’s book, British Deer & Their Management. Ian Hodge says why puts a Fieldsports membership countertop display in his shop, and James Westbrook explains what’s up with […]
How to get fishing on the NHS – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 101
youtu.be/7a-YD0HXNCo Podcast this week is from the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, back in July 2024. It’s an interview with David Lyons, an angler who suffered from depression and successfully persuaded the NHS to prescribe him fishing. He runs the charity Tackling Minds, which takes fellow-sufferers fishing. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win Browning goodies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 353
You can win Browning goodies including its Ars Mechanica coffee-table book in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Terry Doe on his aches and pains, George Lawrence on his favourite duck for the table, Tim Shayle of Countryman Sports in Gloucester on how he and other local shooters forced a U-turn out of local […]
Win gundog training vests – Fieldsports Extra, episode 352
You can win one of two gundog traiing vests in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Cai Ap Bryn on the grey streak in his hair, and shoot owner Geoff Sayers explains the novel way he funds the Carswell Coastal Shoot in South Devon. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance […]
Win a £250 Jackal Medical kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 351
You can win a Bleeding Control Kit from Jackal Medical, priced at £250 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have more from a gun grab vicitim in South Wales, Tim Pilbeam explains his deerstalking training and we’re at the London farmer’s protest. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual […]
Win a Danum Blades rifle sling – Fieldsports Extra, episode 350
You can win a beautifully handmade rifle sling from Danum Blades in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a buffalo stories, Cai Ap Bryn on cooking geese, Ollie Wiliams on how much lead to give high pheasants, John McLaurin from SCI on the Trump presidential election victory and a load of Kiwis shouting ‘Hello […]
Woodcock – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 100
Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breeding birds, and why they are not actually that endangered at all – despite what the anti-shooters like to claim. Andrew talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. Other ways […]
£1,450 defibrillator week#2 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 349
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Win a £1,450 defibrillator for your shoot – Fieldsports Extra, episode 348
You can win a defibrillator from WEL Medical priced at £1,450 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Sir Johnny Scott on the troubles facing shooting if trailhunting falls, a young lad, Zach Turner, is raising money for the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust and Alan Johnson from Danum Blades answers that knife-sharpening question from Vivian […]
