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
Poaching gangs hit Midlands farms
By Ben O’Rourke It looks like your typical English countryside with fields, hedges and woods stretching far in all directions. But this seemingly sleepy East Midlands region is being terrorised by poachers. Slicing the area in two is the A1, which allows easy access for gangs of young adults in four-wheel drives with dogs and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow takes his grandson shooting
You can’t start them too young, says Crow. He takes his grandson Regan into the pigeon hide for a days decoying – and the lad loves it. Not only do we have pigeon shooting, this is the first week we unleash our new news editor. He revisits goose shooter Barry Swain, who has had more […]
Sir Ranulph Fibs – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 29
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a much-loved national treasure – but when it comes to hunting tourism, he can’t help telling whoppers. Together with Eduardo Goncalves of the Campaign Against Trophy Hunting, he takes to the Sky News TV studio to try to encourage Boris Johnson to ban hunting overseas, even though that would harm […]
Try our IWA 2020 replacement service
Were you planning to showcase your kit at IWA? Why not try our IWA replacement service? Fieldsports Channel will come to you and make a series of simple, slick, professional videos of you or your staff showcasing your products. It will be just like your booth in Nuremberg but from the comfort of your own […]
On Test: Savage Arms 110 Lightweight Storm
Jason Doyle puts the Savage Arms 110 Lightweight Storm through its paces. He takes this rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor up into the Wicklow Hills in stormy conditions to try to take a sika hind. Find out how he gets on. For Savage Arms, visit SavageArms.com For more about Hornady’s ELD-X bullets, see our review […]
Stormy sika stalking – Fieldsports Ireland episode 18
Jason stalks sika hinds alone in the Wicklow mountains. It’s a not just test of kit and shooting but also his filming ability as he attempts to self-film the hunt in less than ideal weather. Then Jason hands the rifle to Daniel in even more savage conditions to stalk a mountain sika stag. Daniel’s girlfriend […]
Short Rifle Evolution Green
by Charlie Jacoby In a world where leaving lead fragments in your gralloch can earn you a frontseat in the falconers’ hall of hate, it’s time to swap out your old lead bullets for modern lead-free alternatives. But which materials actually kill deer? Well, RWS decided to have a go with tin. Presumably, RWS boffins […]
Where have all the rabbits gone? – Andy Crow and Jaf Jefferson – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 28
Andy Crow, Jaf Jefferson from the South Somerset Ferrets discuss the UK’s rabbit problem: there aren’t enough rabbits. Click here for Jaf’s YouTube channel. For more on disappearing rabbits, read this article in The Sun. For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Crow, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ For more […]
Sporting gun technology with Blaser – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 27
For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Blaser, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/gun-and-tackle-trade/blaser/ Here is the film on our website: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast27 For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/charlie-jacoby/ How to listen to our podcasts:
Tim Pilbeam talks moose – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 26
Tim and David chat about the behind the scenes while on their moose hunt in Northern Sweden. Here’s the moose film For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Tim, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/tim-pilbeam/ For all of David films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/david-wright/ Sign up for our […]
Top comedy instagrammer #brucesshooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 25
He’s the man behind Drop Bear, the L.E.S.B.I.A.N shooting device and almost naked shotgun techniques. Now he’s here to tell the naked truth. He’s @BrucesShooting Visit Instagram.com/brucesshooting For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/charlie-jacoby/ How to listen to our podcasts:
