World Gunmakers’ Evening sells to the Game Fair
The Game Fair has bought the World Gunmakers’ Evening from its founder, ITAP Group, which runs GunsOnPegs.com. The Game Fair paid an undisclosed sum for the event, which attracts low hundreds of high net worth attendees to a tabletop event at a London hotel each year, where they can look at the latest guns from […]
Sentience, trophies and a government muddle over animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDT0MhTP_I The government in England wants to bring in laws making it illegal to cause distress to various animals in a range of different circumstances. These are all covered by existing animal welfare laws, especially the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Nothing daunted, a new, glossy, embargoed brochure from DEFRA called Our Action Plan for Animal […]
How to get started on bouncing rabbits, with Sam Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5_YpQb-7k Ellie is new to clayshooting. FITASC world champion Sam Green talks and walks her through the first stage of her shooting career, starting with bouncing rabbit basics. For Browning, go to Browning.eu Sam shoots a B525 Ultra XS Read our review on Fieldtester For lessons with Sam Green, visit Facebook.com/samgreenshooting More of our films […]
Cosmic Cornish crow shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4bK0rGaog Fieldsports Nation member Jon Reed is a shooting sportsman from West Cornwall. Charlie risks falling off the edge of the world by driving down to see him for a day’s crow, rook and jackdaw shooting, not far from RNAS Culdrose, which explains the helicopters. Crow calls: Jon’s choice from Primos and Nordik Barrborn
Fieldsports Britain – how to call in crows, rooks and jackdaws
Look out Cornish crows. Charlie is off to the Lizard this week to meet Fieldsports Nation member Jon Reed, who is decoying crows over newly-drilled barley. Jon gives Charlie a masterclass in calling corvids. Meanwhile, FITASC world champion Sam Green is back to improve your shooting, this week helping a novice shot with her first […]
Queen’s Speech plans for hunting and shooting – Fieldsports News, 12 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqVD02TVfo Here are the links:Boris plans animal rights laws – Fieldsports News English Heritage attacks local wildlife management – TwitterRSPB gets its talons into Invercauld Estate – Police Scotland and West Mercia PoliceBritain’s biggest bird of prey to be reintroduced in Norfolk – Roy DennisNada Farhoud’s hare out of place Twitter and TwitterNorthern Irish anti speaks […]
Win a sausage stuffer – Fieldsports Extra #168
Win a sausage stuffer – Fieldsports Extra #168 You can win a sausage stuffer (yes, really), plus we talk animal sentience, social media networks and hedgehog poo. For the Weschenfelder sausage stuffer, go to Bit.ly/weschenfeldersausage For the ISOTunes Sport Advance, visit Bit.ly/isotunesadvance For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter Fieldsports Nation
Gunbuck.co.uk – the relaxed social media network that’s (slowly) taking on Facebook
Mark Heath from Staffordshire is a fieldsports photographer-turned-Zuckerberg. Back in the 1990s he worked as a photographer specialising in hunting and shooting sports for titles
Roebuck stalking prize
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ7E9IYSTOg Nigel Appleton won a stalking outing with Tom Davies in a competition on Fieldsports Extra. Tom runs Dartmoor Deer Services and takes Nigel to
Fieldsports Britain – a buck in your sights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIjVXJ47MkI We get close to the action as deerstalker Nigel Appleton goes out with Tom Davies from Dartmoor Deer Services after a roebuck. Nigel won
Traps and rifles: how to bring back the grey partridge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2u7yZkaHXI “There’s a pair of grey partridges that like this particular feeder. Whether we shall see them or whether they’ll keep a low profile…” shrugs
Big night rabbit-shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzfq5ESvqU Jaf Jefferson and the South Somerset Ferreters go out after rabbits with lamps, night vision and rifle from the back of a truck. Plus
Wind farm cuts off eagle’s wing – Fieldsports News, 5 May 2021
Here are the links: Sea eagle dies after collision with wind turbine – Facebook National Trust’s ban on muirburn ‘worsened Marsden Moor blaze’ – The
Win bluetooth hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra #167
Win bluetooth hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra #167 Win an airgun + David’s busy week (and hairstyle) + Nigel Farage + rabbiting with Jaf. Thanks to Highland Outdoors for the Webley, which you can find at Bit.ly/raiderclassic For the ISOTunes Sport Advance, visit Bit.ly/isotunesadvance For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter
Crows, rooks and jackdaws: how to tell the difference
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZARiKh4oCg Matt Turley and Nigel White are shooting corvids over drilled barley. All three species on the pest list in England are dropping in and
Anglers battle Port of Dover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyxInmL0Iz0 “When I first came I was eight. My son’s now ten and I’ve been looking forward to bringing him in on the pier fishing,”
Thermal rat hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVn0Fv4GlQ Tim Pilbeam and his gamekeeper friend Roy have a rat problem. Happily, they have all the latest thermal equipment from Pulsar, plus a brand
Fieldsports Britain – Petting zoo pest control
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCma8dyG0q0 With rats outnumbering the animals at the petting zoo, it’s time for Team Tim to step in, armed with pest control tech. Tim Pilbeam
National Trust cold-shoulders keepers – Fieldsports News, 28 April 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_KgjZAlDY Here are the links:National Trust shuns keepers who put out moor fire – Examiner Live and National TrustNational Trust destroys ancient grassland – BBC Have
Win a Webley airgun – Fieldsports Extra #166
Win an airgun + David’s busy week (and hairstyle) + Nigel Farage + rabbiting with Jaf. Thanks to Highland Outdoors for the Webley, which you can find at Bit.ly/raiderclassic For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon and Facebook simply comment with your answer
2in-chambered Joseph Lang 12-bore
This 2in-chambered 1960s Joseph Lang 12-bore sold at JS Fine Art Auction, Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 24 April 2021. Guided at £200, it sold for £1,100.
How to teach gundogs on a summer simulated game day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfgnFbINHg At Cotswold Fieldsports, they do things differently. You won’t find anyone to teach you field trial tips and tricks. Today, they are running a
Fieldsports Britain – lamb protection squad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAXZEd0r9c Tom Davies goes out foxshooting with Charlie Jacoby. The lambs on Dartmoor are big enough to fend for themselves, but stupid enough to get
How to make an instinctive clayshooter more thoughtful
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZEl0Yi43s Ed Solomons has a problem with his latest clayshooting pupil. Paul Childerley is a fast-action gameshooter, great on birds travelling near to him and
Dartmoor foxshooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awVrgwTRnc It’s April and Tom Davies has shot 50 foxes so far this year. Tonight he is after number 51. It’s the end of lambing
Pulsar Accolade 2 vs Helion – review
Tom Davies from Dartmoor Deer Services compares the Pulsar Accolade 2 LRF XP50 with his trusty old Pulsar Helion XQ50, and says what the differences
Copy-and-paste hen harriers – Fieldsports News, 21 April 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zb6eZylw8 Here are the links:RSPB spams newspapers with hen harrier propaganda – News & Star and RSPB press releaseDozens of dogs seized from traveller site
Guns & Land Rovers – Fieldsports Extra #165
Win ear plugs, how to call a fox, how to train a dog, and which Land Rover were they going to use at the funeral? Plus members’ tributes to Prince Philip. Thanks to Sam Green Shooting, which you can find on Facebook For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter Fieldsports Nation
Gough Thomas’s Henry Atkin 12-bore
The famous shooting writer Gough Thomas’s Henry Atkin 12-bore shotgun is for sale at Holts on 21-22 June 2021. Estimate is £7,000-£9,000. It’s been in
Stephen Grant hammer 12-bore – review
Diggory Hadoke of VintageGuns.co.uk finds a Stephen Grant hammer 12-bore with Damascus barrels in Gavin Gardiner’s 21 April 2021 sale. Lot 286 is a 12-bore
Hunting fallow deer and roos in Australia
Charlie Jacoby is out with Mark Reams after fallow deer in Victoria, Australia, on farmland outside Melbourne, and speaks to Simon Toop from Game Victoria.
How to make bearskins worn by guardsmen
The British Army tried fake fur, but it was useless. Wellington Barracks-based military tailor Jonathan Macintyre explains where the bearskin caps work by guardsmen come
How Foley designs a gun bus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dQzLcgwY8 An example of British engineering at its best, Foley Specialist Vehicles in Essex takes the Land Rover 130 Defender and turns it into a
Fieldsports Britain – Prince Philip, a great shooting man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuoNf31Vybg It’s all about Prince Philip in #FieldsportsBritain this week. In our tribute to an outstanding countryman, we talk to the people who built the
Westminster to debate grouseshooting again – Fieldsports News, 14 April 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgkRH1Dj48 Here are the links:Delayed grouse shooting debate set for this month – GWCTSick greens bash Prince Philip – YouTubeBASC backs Yorkshire Post awards –
Duckhunting shoot-and-cook in Australia
Charlie Jacoby goes out with duck hunters Glenn Falla and Paul Rahman, who shoot some birds and cook up a feast afterwards. Plus he talks
Duckhunting in Victoria
Charlie Jacoby follows hunter Casey Poletti in Victoria, Australia, shooting black duck. For more from Outdoor Sporting Agencies, visit OSAAustralia.com.au
Prince Philip talks about shooting sports
Prince Philip at BASC’s Marford Mill headquarters in 2010.
Prince Philip – Fieldsports Extra #164
Prince Philip – Fieldsports Extra #164 How do you tell if a buck is old or young at this time of year? plus the last knockings of Tim Pilbeam’s copper bullet test, the latest on the Buddhists and the rifle range, you can win deerstalking, and Charlie has had an idea. Thanks to Sam Green
Prince Philip dead at 99: shooting mourns loss of a great countryman
Prince Philip’s death at 99, announced today by Buckingham Palace, brings to a close the life of a great countryman. A keen gameshot throughout his
We’re sending Boris a tonne of letters
Let’s remind the government who their friends are Are you a hunter, shooter or fisher who enjoys your sport in the UK? Please can you
Fieldsports Britain – bucks, bullets and Buddhists
youtu.be/FEm9cfrGDOQ Tim’s after fallow and Tom’s shooting roe. Tim Pilbeam is stalking fallow as the final outing in his grand copper bullet test: 350 deer
Green attack on grouse – Fieldsports News, 7 April 2021
Here are the links: Greens con Scots on grouse – Facebook Moss grows better on burnt moors – Science Direct + GWCT + Daily Mirror
How to shoot loopers, with Sam Green
That difficult target which goes up, around and – well, if you haven’t shot it by then you’re in trouble. Or are you? FITASC world
1st April roebuck stalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iclumg4HqCM If you have been itching to get out on the roebucks, 1st April is the day you can do it in the UK. Pro
Fallow buck shot with copper
What reaction does Tim Pilbeam get when he shoots deer with non-toxic rounds? Today, he is out after one of the 350 deer he and
Deer & bullets – Fieldsports Extra #163
How do you tell if a buck is old or young at this time of year? plus the last knockings of Tim Pilbeam’s copper bullet test, the latest on the Buddhists and the rifle range, you can win deerstalking, and Charlie has had an idea. Thanks to Seeland for the prizes Find Dartmoor Deer Services,
Trade secrets: choosing steel for knifemaking
Master knifemaker Alan Johnson how to choose the right steel for your knife. He runs Danum Blades in South Yorkshire, the home of British steelmaking,
350+ deer shot: the biggest test of non-lead hunting ammunition – Fieldtester, episode 7
youtu.be/ME9wnU8VKZw Do lead alternative bullets kill deer? Do they ‘pencil’? do they perform at range, do they mushroom? In this experiment, 15 stalkers from Sussex
Debunking the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 41
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W4w0XYKCE Eduardo Gonçalves brought out three books in 2020 supporting his own Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and we have found someone who has read
