Hunting big Hungarian red stags
UK deerstalker Paul Childerley heads to Hungary, where he is spoiled for choice. There are big bucks and huge red stags around every corner. The trick is choosing the right one. ▶ Paul uses a Sako rifle. For more about Sako, visit Sako.fi ▶ For Sako rifle accessories on Amazon, visit Amzn.to/2ltJeyd ▶ For Sako’s […]
Is Bradford Council killing more baby birds? – Fieldsports News, 29 April 2020
Here are the links: Moorland mowing caught on camera – Fcha.nl/horse-trainer-under-investigation-for-baildon-mowing Gamekeepers stop wildfires – Fcha.nl/british-wildfire-season-2020 Vigilante villagers – The Guardian BASC backs Scottish government lockdown U-turn – The Courier When can we fish and shoot again? #whenwefishagain – YouTube & Birmingham Mail GWCT slams government over carrion crows (please note – we accidentally used […]
Knocking down crows – Fieldsports Ireland episode 20
Jason is shooting crows over two farmyards. They have been eating and pooping over the cattle feed and need sorting out. He didn’t expect to put out another Fieldsports Ireland under lockdown – but it’s an episode he filmed in 2019 that he found under his hat.
How the gun trade is helping hospitals – Charlie’s Chatshow – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 33
Beretta and Browning are making respirators for hospital to help the coronavirus effort in Italy and Belgium. Meanwhile, Blaser in Germany is making masks. Daniele Piva, Adrien Koutny and Frederic Hanner talk to Charlie about their companies’ efforts. Thanks to: Daniele Piva, www.beretta.com Adrien Koutny www.browning.eu Frederic Hanner www.blaser.de Here’s what Coronavirus means for […]
Shoots confident about 2020 season – Fieldsports News, 22 April 2020
Here are the links: Most pheasant shoots to go ahead – Fcha.nl/most-shooters-will-happen UK heads for record wildfire season – Fcha.nl/british-wildfire-season-2020 Rural groups blast RSPB over shooting consultation – BASC Bird charity in row over ‘selfish’ falcon breeders – YouTube + Natural England blog RSPB rents out nature reserve to power station – Fcha.nl/rspb-slammed-over-plan-to-put-power-station-on-nature-reserve-in-northeast-england Packham proposes […]
Deer gralloch – how to manage mistakes
Deer expert Niall Rowantree shows how to solve deer gralloch problems. His DSC2 student, Dr Cathy Mayne, has just shot a fallow doe and they are gralloching it in the field. ▶ This is part of our Alien & Natives series, visit Fcha.nl/aliens-and-natives ▶ This item is sponsored by Blaser rifles Blaser.de ▶ To go […]
Trout – catch and cook
Game chef Cai Ap Bryn is hauling in brown trout and cooking them on an open fire. He is on a hunting trip with his mate Trigger Sondheim in Norway, and the lake below the cabin is full of fish. He shows how to rustle up a feast with trout, lemon, butter and basil. To […]
Fieldsports Britain – how to manage a fallow deer herd
Deer expert Niall Rowantree is known for his red deer, his sika and even his roe. Less well-known is the herd of 100 fallow deer on the ground he manages at Ardnamurchan in the Scottish Highlands. He and ecologist Dr Cathy Mayne go out to stalk two fallow does, as part of his management plan. […]
Magpie shooting in Wales under threat – Fieldsports News, 15 April 2020
Here are the links: Wild Justice aims at Welsh general licences – Crowd Justice Shooters back NHS charity raffles: John Rothery, Jack Pyke, The Shooting Diary Qualify as a GWCT ‘shoot operator’ for free – GWCT Poaching incidents in Gloucestershire – Twitter Sell guns on the roadside, says USA – Time New hunting land for […]
How to age and measure Chinese water deer
Deer manager Paul Childerley shoots a lot of Chinese water deer on his ground in Bedfordshire every year, plus he has stalking clients he takes shooting, too. He is an expert on what makes a good CWD trophy – and he explains it all here. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Sako Sako.fi ▶ Zeiss Zeiss.com […]
Code of Bad Shooting Practice
There’s a pheasant shooting film out on YouTube that has angered the rest of the UK shooting community. A couple of weeks ago [25 March 2020], a man from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire put up a film that he made about rough-shooting. He and his friends obviously had a lovely day out – but his […]
On Test: steel shotgun cartridges on rabbits
Steel has well-documented benefits and drawbacks for shooting pheasants and pigeons – but how about rabbits. Simon Whitehead tries out steel shotshells on ground game at his home in North Yorkshire to see how they perform, plus he cuts open the rabbits to look at the terminal ballistics of both steel and lead shot. Cartridges […]
Fieldsports Britain – Steel-proof Rabbits
In the big country of North Yorkshire, top rabbit man Simon Whitehead has a rabbit problem. His problem is: what’s the best steel shot to shoot them? All his life, he has used lead shot, but now he wants to look at alternatives. He puts steel cartridges up against lead cartridges to find out. Staying […]
Germany exempts shooters from lockdown
The German federal government is allowing shooters to break the coronavirus lockdown and carry out wildlife control. According to German interior minister Horst Seehofer, ‘the Federal Government regards exemption of hunters from a general curfew as justified’. A letter to the German Federal Hunting Association, the Deutsche Jagdverband, from civil servant Stephan Mayer sets out […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow does Argentina
Pigeon expert Andy Crow tries out dove shooting in Argentina. It’s massive. Millions – maybe hundreds of millions of birds throng Cordoba, feasting on crops of maize, sorghum and peanuts. Andy is in a prime position to shoot as many as he can. But how does this measure up to the humble English woodie? Crow […]
Doves vs Woodpigeons – Andy Crow’s in Argentina
Which is best? A big day decoying and shooting British woodpigeons or a monster day roost-shooting Argentinean doves? Andy Crow travels to Cordoba and back to Kent to to find out. Thanks to Jack Pyke for making this happen JackPyke.co.uk To go shooting with with Frontera wing shooting, visit FronteraWingshooting.com
South Somerset Ferreters’ 2019 season
Dramatic footage of ferreting – and fun approach to the sport marks the South Somerset Ferreters’ YouTube channel. You should subscribe on YouTube. In this film, our YouTube member and shareholder Jaf Jefferson reviews the 2019 season, lets us use some of that footage and talks about problems facing the UK’s rabbit population, including myxomatosis […]
Hedgerow food you can pick: pilewort and pennywort
Going for your daily walk? Bushcraft expert Jonny Crockett has a couple of plants you can pick and eat: lesser celandine or pilewort and centella or pennywort. Follow Jonny’s instructions: eat pennywort raw and pilewort cooked Jonny’s website is SurvivalSchool.co.uk
HS2 rolls on – Fieldsports News, 8 April 2020
Packham’s bid to save woodland derailed – Daily Mail and Fcha.nl/hs2 Gamekeepers left out of coronavirus relief – Fieldsports News Rewilders’ tree plans will release greenhouse gases – BBC Top airgun maker launches NHS fundraiser – Just Giving Cops called in after sheep slaughtered – Facebook Farmers can close footpaths – NFUOnline Vegans bully […]
The British Countryside #athome – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 32
What’s going on in the British countryside during the coronavirus? Charlie finds out. Thanks to: Garry Doolan at BASC BASC.org.uk Gamekeepers Welfare Trust video on Facebook Tim Pilbeam, Rucksack & Rifle Simon Whitehead PakefieldFerrets.co.uk Frederic Hanner at Blaser Blaser.de Jon Bailey at Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear BaileysShooting.co.uk Rob Fickling, Beyond The Divide BeyondTheDivide.com.au Here’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Magic of Roe Deer
The roebuck is one of the most attractive deer we look after in the British countryside. As the roebuck season gets underway in the UK – with few of us allowed to go stalking – Niall Rowantree tells the story of the roe deer, its natural history and even its mythology. While most of us […]
Aliens & Natives, with Niall Rowantree
Deer expert Niall Rowantree discusses Scotland’s four deer species, two aliens and two natives, their natural history and how to manage them. Niall starts with the roe deer. What makes the animal so loved by deerstalkers and even wildlife-watchers? He looks at roe deer management and hunting, natural history and even some of the stories […]
How to assess deer fertility
Deer manager Niall Rowantree is in the larder playing wildlife detective. He’s in the middle of assessing the health of the roe doe he’s just shot. She’s thin, has a low fat score, and he hasn’t seen her with young for 2 years. So was her condition too poor to carry young? By looking at […]
How to deep clean your rifle scope
Paul Childerley shows how to wash your scope and keep it in tiptop condition. Paul Childerley is sponsored by Zeiss www.zeiss.com To go hunting with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk
How to make a hunting knife
Master knifemaker Alan Johnson talks through the process, including choosing steel, cutting a shape, grinding an edge, making and fitting a handle, and the leatherwork to make a good sheath. He runs Danum Blades in South Yorkshire, the home of British steelmaking, comparable with Solingen in Germany for its knife making heritage. For Danum […]
Hunt sabs ignore coronavirus lockdown – Fieldsports News, 1 April 2020
Here are the links: Hunt sabs warned against breaking lockdown rules – press release Aussie guns and ammo sales ban Cops hunt for destructive moorland bikers – Facebook British Game Alliance in the soup Birds of prey ‘poisoned’ in Derbyshire – newspaper Prince’s red squirrel sanctuary plan hits snag – Daily Mail GWCT slams BBC […]
Speedy fallow stalk and suspended gralloch – Fieldsports Ireland, episode 19
Sometimes, things just go right. Jason is suited and booted, ready for an epic stalk. Just 10 minutes from the car, a shot presents itself, so he takes it. He then chooses to do a suspended gralloch – as he rarely does them – and he needs the practice. He talks us through what he […]
Coronavirus chatshow – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 31
It’s shooting sports in the time of coronavirus. What’s going to happen to the 2020 gameshooting season? Chris Horne from GunsOnPegs and gamekeeper / sporting agent Paul Childerley explain what’s happening to shoots. Niall Rowantree from West Highland Hunting talks about how the Highlands of Scotland are coping. What is the world of shooting […]
Scottish government refuses to help ‘shooting’ businesses
The Scottish government is using the current C19 crisis to force rural businesses from farms and estates to gamedealers out of business. Using coronavirus payouts as cover, the Scottish government under Nicola Sturgeon is trying drive rural businesses involved in shooting into bankruptcy. BASC calls the Scottish government’s decision to exclude deer forests, game larders […]
BBC partridge numbers cock-up
The BBC figures on the numbers of grey partridges are wildly inaccurate. That’s the response from the GWCT to a programme on BBC Radio 4, which claimed “today there are only about 100 grey partridges left in the UK”. The programme Short Cuts on 24 March 2020 tried to monster game shooting by putting the […]
Countryside calendar changes
Coronavirus has changed the shape of spring and summer events. Game fairs are moving dates. The Royal Windsor Horse Show is to ‘go virtual’. Here’s what’s happening: 17 July – 14 August Virtual Hound Show VirtualHoundShow.com Cancelled: 22-23 August Galloway Country Fair is cancelled Cancelled: 28-29 August Northern Shooting Show, North Yorkshire is now not […]
C19 hits shooting sports – Fieldsports News, 25 March 2020
Here are the links: Coronavirus hits shooting – read our story Packham’s pandemic prediction backfires – Facebook Shooterking offers 500 protective suits for free – Shooterking Love Island hunter back in the news – YouTube Gamekeepers put out Peak District heather fire – Facebook Sussex estate reintroduces beavers after centuries of extinction – Sussex […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to survive at home
We’re all in the cooler now. And bushcraft experts Jonny Crockett, Cai Ap Bryn and Sergio Couto show us how to make the best of it. Cai is making a venison bone broth, Jonny picks hedgerow plants to add to it, and Sergio has helped set up a new UK-wide service delivering game meat to […]
Bone broth recipe
Ingredients 1.5kg venison bones 2 large onions 1 whole garlic bulb 4 celery stalks 3 carrots 2-inch piece of ginger 2-inch piece of turmeric 3 litres of water 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
Shooters hand out free meat to NHS workers
Need meat? Shooters can provide. With butchers and supermarkets across the country seeing panic buying, deerstalkers and pigeonshooters are offering free meat to the needy. Using Facebook to bring together both the customers and the providers, Game Relief already has 500 members – and it is growing fast. One of the admins, Sergio Couto, a […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s Sako Strapondeggtomy
What’s a Strapond🥚tomy? Find out here. It’s Paul Childerley’s test for rifle recoil. Put an egg between the rifle butt and your shoulder. If it breaks, you have a kicker. That’s one of the ways he tries out his new Sako S20 rifle, plus he takes it deerstalking. He got it a month ago […]
Coronavirus and the British gun trade
As coronavirus sweeps the UK, what’s happening to the gun trade? We’ve all seen the scenes in the US of people queueing up outside gun shops, eager to get their hands on weapons, ammo or both, in some sort of “end of times” precursor. In Britain, we’re not quite there… yet. Ben O’Rourke visits gun […]
On Test: Sako S20
Paul Childerley has been using the Sako S20 for a month and has shot more than 80 deer with it. It’s time for him to give his views on how it shoots and whether he likes it. ▶ To go stalking with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk ▶ For the new Sako S20, visit Sako.fi This film […]
Legal battle over gamebird release – Fieldsports News, 18 March 2020
Here are the links: Legal battle over game-bird release – BASC website West of England Game Fair scrapped – Facebook Pandemic ends hunting early – Hunting Office website Northern Shooting Show shift – Northern Shooting Show website Owners warned about dogs attacking New Forest deer – Bournemouth Echo Culls save trees, says forestry chief – […]
Packham pushes grouse back into Parliament – Fieldsports News, 11 March 2020
Here are the links: Parliament to ponder driven grouse ban – again – Wild Justice press release BASC says no game bird deal with supermarket – Facebook Dachshund Maisie sweeps top Crufts prize – Facebook Thieves make off with Paul Childerley’s dog – Facebook Deer gets plastic bag stuck on head – Twitter Otter […]
‘Shot’ peregrine killed by car
When newspapers reported the death of a peregrine, they copied and pasted the press release from animal rights activists. It had been shot, they said. Ben O’Rourke visits Belper in Derbyshire and finds out that it had been run over. It may have had lead shot in it as well, but that could have been […]
Thermal sights: are they sporting?
Cai Ap Bryn and Tim Pilbeam go deerstalking with thermal. They know that it’s amazingly effective – but is it too effective? Join their debate and leave your answer in the comments below. ▶ For Pulsar in the UK go to ThomasJacks.co.uk
Smoke, terriers and a fountain of rats
Rats, terriers, children, the elderly – throw them all into a farmyard and the rats won’t survive the encounter. See what happens when we join the Kent & Sussex Ratters. Find the Kent & Sussex Ratters on Facebook Kent & Somerset Ratters terrier portraits
Fieldsports Britain – Ratting Riot
One of the Kings of England named ratting as his favourite sport. It’s easy to see why. We’re out with the Kent & Sussex Ratters as they take apart an old farmyard. It’s a haven for rats, and their dogs work hard to despatch as many as they can. Plus we are deerstalking with […]
How Bullets are Bad for Birds – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 30
Roy Lupton really doesn’t like lead. He’s a falconer whose birds have suffered from lead particles in gralloch and even lead shot in rabbits. He talks to Chris Parish in the USA, who enjoys hunting/shooting sports, and who is also an environmentalist who captures Californian condors and monitors them for lead poisoning. Between them, they show […]
No refunds for German gunshow IWA standholders?
IWA has not been answering emails about refunds, according to some standholders. After postponing the March event to September, organisers have now decided to scrap it completely. IWA became a casualty of coronavirus at the end of February 2020. The second biggest show of its kind in the world was postponed just before the gun […]
Shooting and Countryman Show, EventCity, Manchester, Saturday-Sunday 19-20 September 2020
UPDATE 15th September 2020: This event has been cancelled due to coronavirus. Come and see us at Manchester exhibition centre EventCity, which hosts the British Shooting & Countryman Show in September. Buy your tickets online, or call the ticket hotline on 0844 8737 332 Show dates: 19-20 September 2020 Show opens 9am (advance tickets) […]
Lead debacle continues – Fieldsports News, 4 March 2020 Fieldsports Channel
Here are the links Lead shot debacle continues Fcha.nl/leadban Government adviser says UK doesn’t need farms Daily Mail Labour’s wacky idea for farms FarmingUK.com Safari expert calls out Sir Randolph Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast29 Hunt sabs ransack rabbit control group, steal ferrets – Facebook Warwickshire Hunt sab charged with assault – Countryside Alliance Ace angler Marina Gibson tackles […]
Gooseshooter vs antis
A few weeks ago we told you about Barry Swain’s difficulty in doing his pest control job due to persistent harassment from antis. Complaining to the police seemed to go nowhere. Despite messages from you viewers boosting his moral, Barry’s world is still a complicated one. Police are telling him one thing, while the farmer […]
Decoying pigeons in February (while babysitting)
Crow’s five-year-old grandson Regan joins him in the hide for a day on the pigeons. It’s babysitting Crow-style. Andy is sponsored by: Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or Blaser.de Gamebore Gamebore.com Jack Pyke JackPyke.co.uk Click here for all our films with Andy
