Fieldsports Britain – black is back
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8WUCKiHX1s Black – in the shape of crows – is casting its shadow over a Devon dairy farm. Pest controller Tom Davies is ready to take them on in a pre-dawn decoying raid. Meanwhile some gamekeepers and shoot operators are worried about the effect covid is having on bookings for next season’s gameshooting. David Whitby, […]
There are too many elephants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGVrFBsIuQ by Ben O’Rourke “What people don’t understand about the elephant situation is this,” says Ron Thomson, sharing an experience from his decades of wildlife management in Africa. “Let me give you some idea. Imagine elephants doubling their numbers every 10 years, which has been going on for more than 60 years in Botswana. “Over […]
Gameshooting in 2021/22: what will it be like?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd06nxjxkeU Following a tough shooting season in 2020/21, gamekeepers, shoot owners, operators and sporting agents are taking bookings for 2021/22. Some of them are being tougher about money upfront. Some report nervousness from shooters about losing deposits. Find Gwysaney Estate on Facebook More films about pheasant and partridge shooting:
Devon dairy farm crow shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRlhp7XHhSY Got a problem with crows? You need to set up your hide and decoys while it is still dark, and start shooting as they drop in to investigate. Tom Davies gets a full three hours of crow shooting on a Devon dairy farm ending at 8am before they work out what is going on. […]
MP to debate grouseshooting – Fieldsports News, 9 June 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5mD1a3k6w Here are the links:MPs to debate grouseshooting – Countryside AllianceWild Justice announces money-wasting legal move – Countryside AlliancePetition aims to send Packham packing – Change.orgFalconer forces Scotland to re-examine hare laws – Scottish governmentGovernment to bump up laws on livestock worrying – English governmentReports of gunshots lead cops to clay pigeon shoot – East […]
Leopard in a tree – Fieldsports Extra #172
You can win a cellular trailcam from Baileys Countrywear, plus I hear from a shoot owner about next season’s pheasants and the head of a South African shooting organisation about leopards. Click here for the Crosman 2300T Click here for the Spypoint Link Micro LTE trailcam Click here for the Vario Novo Natural, click here […]
Fieldsports Britain – the wonderful .22-250 calibre
www.youtube.com/watch?v=55mTUzu-qVo If Paul Childerley had to take one calibre to a desert island for the rest of his life, it would be the .22-250. In Scotland, you can use it to shoot everything from rabbits to roe deer, and that’s what he does, showing the versatility of this round. Meanwhile, Tom Davies is in Devon […]
Can you use a thermal spotter for fish?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgBY6cjAqWs Tom Davies wants to check that the fish in his dad’s fishing lakes are all in the right lakes. Armed with sunglasses, a rod, an underwater camera and the latest £5,000 thermal spotter, he sets out to spot fish. For the Pulsar Accolade 2, visit Bit.ly/accolade2To fish at Hatchlands, visit HatchlandsTroutFarm.co.ukFor Snowbee, go to […]
Buck, bunny and crow hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LoRg5gL304 Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is trying out his .22-250 on roebuck, rabbits and crows. He is in Scotland with Sergio Couto, where the .22-250 is legal for roe – and shows how effective the calibre is. This item is sponsored by Sako rifles (Paul shoots the Sako S20). Visit Sako.fiFind Paul on […]
Girls take top slots in Schools Pistol Champs
This season’s Schools Pistol Championships has come to a climax with a national final – and three top three seniors winners are girls. It was a close tussle for the podium positions, but it was the Cornish athlete Charlotte Hicks who took the individual title.After a few seasons out pursuing all her other sporting ventures […]
Air pistol and an emu – Fieldsports Extra #171
You can win an air pistol from Crosman, plus I hear from Paul Childerley and David, Richard Taylor and I meet Tom Davies’s dad’s emu. Click here for the Crosman 2300T Click here for the Peltor LEP-200 ear plugs For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members […]
How to shoot down on a clay target, with Sam Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6olDCU-JU The clay is flying fast, between trees and shrubs, and below your feet. You are on a platform above it. How do you approach a target like that? FITASC world champion shot Sam Green explains. For Browning, go to Browning.eu Sam shoots a B525 Ultra XS Read our review on Fieldtester For lessons with […]
Pine martens: good or bad for the countryside?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7H6sdawWk by Ben O’Rourke “If I were going to choose somewhere to radio track pine martens, I wouldn’t have chosen this,” says Craig Shuttleworth, who’s researching pine martens for Bangor University. “This terrain is a nightmare. The animal can go underground. Sometimes I come in and it takes me ages and I could have found […]
Dark Scottish buck stalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cuDAomm3yo Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is on his first roestalking trip north of the Border. He is in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto of SerCout Wild Harvest, looking for bucks. Not much deerstalking last year means they are thick on the ground. Find out how they get on. This item is sponsored by […]
Fieldsports Britain – Childerley’s Highland adventure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k65krscCcU It’s the 600th episode of Fieldsports Britain, so we have made it a good one. Paul Childerley is stalking roebucks in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto – and it’s roe deer soup on Sergio’s ground – lots of animals. News ed Ben O’Rourke tells the story of the pine marten and its reintroduction across the […]
Blair hunting ban ‘a failure’
Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban didn’t help the fox. That’s the conclusion of a new book, which shows up the failure of Blair’s 2004 Hunting Act. Two decades after Blair announced his bill to ban foxhunting, writer Charlie Pye-Smith and animal welfare campaigner Jim Barrington set out to find out whether the law met its animal […]
Sea eagles grab lambs – Fieldsports News, 26 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSj1N61ZvU Here are the links:Scotland drags feet on sea eagles – Scottish Farmer + Press & JournalAnimal rights extremists block McDonald’s distribution centres – Instgram + BBCVandals take down high seats in Norfolk – InstagramHen harriers missing from RSPB reserve – FieldsportsChannel.tv/geltsdaleBrown bears shot dead after escaping zoo – BBCLapwings lost after badger attack – […]
Antis and phones – Fieldsports Extra #170
You can win hearing protection from Peltor if you fill out our form, plus I talk to the former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, David has a plan, and one of our clients gets a phone call. For the Leupold rangefinder, go to Bit.ly/rx1400 Click here for the Peltor LEP-200 ear plugs For […]
English Open Sporting Championships 2021 – Claysports, episode 18
youtu.be/ogCCNsn3KUk Claysports TV is back. We report from the first major championship of 2021, the CPSA English Open Sporting at Barbury, where Richard Faulds fights in horrendous conditions for a title he hasn’t held for 13 years. It’s a thrilling head-to-head battle with Richard Bunning. Here are the links to the event, day by day:
Blowing up barrels – Fieldtester, episode 8
youtu.be/S9NUs580-j0 In this episode of Fieldtester we push shotguns barrels to the limit. Using real ‘in the field’ scenarios, we stuff the barrels with soil, sand, cartridge wads, ice, water and one of the most commonly discussed issues, a 20-bore shell accidentally inserted in front of a 12-bore shell. We also get a little carried […]
Scottish dead red deer horror – Fieldsports News, 19 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGZbocMX8 Here are the links:Scottish unborn red calf massacre – Facebook + Twitter + Evening StandardDEFRA plans minimum numbers of animals – DEFRAVine & Craven hit in online leak – Hunting LeaksGovernment restricts gamebird release sites – DEFRAPackham turns attentions to game meat – FacebookAfrican community leaders talk up trophies – Resource AfricaTeam GB confirms […]
Semi-auto fast shooting – Fieldsports Channel record
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiDAu2CnRWc Do you want to set a Fieldsports Channel record? How many shells can you load into a standard two-shot magazine semi-auto and shoot down range in under ten seconds? If you can do more than 12, send us a video and we will feature you in our show. Imagine the glory 🙂 Send your […]
Deerskulker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egm1ezPFcbY Cai Ap Bryn heads in to Essex woodland after muntjac – but it’s a wood that offers more questions than answers. Why so many fallow? Where are the munties? How do you cook hare? and what’s nipping the twigs off oak trees. Find out the answers – and answer some of these yourself – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s deerstalking mooch
Cai’s looking for muntjac in a wood in Essex. There’s plenty of wildilfe, from squirrels via hares to fallow, but he’s struggling to find the animal he came for. Still – plenty of opportunity to ‘read’ the wood and see what’s going on. Meanwhile, Charlie gos out with a team of practical shotgunners to try […]
Win a Leupold rangefinder – Fieldsports Extra #169
You can win a Leupold rangefinder, plus I talk to an author who has brought out a book of shooting short stories, and to Fieldsports Channel plc shareholder Andy Norris. For the Weschenfelder sausage stuffer, go to Bit.ly/weschenfeldersausage For the Leupold rangefinder, go to Bit.ly/rx1400 For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris For the […]
Interview: Francis Ray Hoff, author of Fur, Feathers & Fish
youtu.be/tFmTp6WmSHU Charlie Jacoby talks to Francis Ray Hoff, author of Fur, Feathers & Fish. Click here to buy the book on Amazon:
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
