You’ve been asked shooting. Here’s what to expect
words by John Roll Pickering You are going to shoot game. Perhaps it is something that you have not done before, though you may have shot wildfowl, pests or clay pigeons. This aritcle gives you all the information you need about what equipment you should take and what may happen at the shoot. […]
Fatal disease in hares briefly stops coursing in its tracks
A disease that has jumped from rabbits to hares briefly led to a ban on coursing in Ireland. Following the first confirmed case of type 2 rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHDV2) in hares, found in Co Wexford and Co Clare, Ireland’s Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht suspended licences issued to the Irish Coursing Club […]
Ben Husthwaite on the incoming chandelle clay pigeon – Smokin’ Targets
World champion shot Ben Husthwaite on how to plan the ‘incoming chandelle’. His technique for the incomer is almost the opposite of his technique for the going-away targets. ▶ This item is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ Improve your shooting with a Shotkam from our shop ▶ Click here for more films by Ben Husthwaite […]
Solo red deer stalking – Rucksack & Rifle
Tim Pilbeam packs rifle and rucksack, and heads out on his own after red hinds. He has the blessing of deer manager Niall Rowantree. He is deerstalking in Argyllshire. ▶ This item is sponsored by Kite Optics ▶ To go stalking with Niall Rowantree, visit West Highland Hunting ▶ Click here for more films by […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Beach Holiday
Here’s why holidaymaking deerstalkers should shoulder the deer cull in the UK. Just as the Scottish government plans to hire professional deer shooters, Tim Pilbeam and Niall Rowantree point out that there’s a huge, free resource available to the Scottish taxpayer: hunting tourism. Tim is the tourist and Niall the professional deer manager who briefs […]
2019 grouse prospects – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 10
What will the 2019 grouseshooting season be like? In this short, sharp podcast, Duncan Thomas reveals the prospects for grouse to Charlie Jacoby on stage at the 2019 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at Hatfield House. Duncan Thomas is northern regional director for BASC. ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you […]
Gavin Gardiner talks about guns at his 2019 Gleneagles sale – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 9
Your Scottish sporting week should be matched with a great gun. THE place to shop for them is the Gleneagles gun auction in Perthshire. Gun auctioneer Gavin Gardner talks about guns coming up in his 26 August 2019 sale at Gleneagles Hotel, including Edward Sutton’s Stephen Grant pinfire, a Holland & Holland stalking rifle in […]
Ben Husthwaite on the going-away chandelle clay pigeon – Smokin’ Targets
Top shot Ben Husthwaite takes his Shotkam out after the ‘going-away chandelle’ on the clay ground. He reveals his techniques for shooting one of the most difficult targets in sporting clays. ▶ This item is sponsored by Gamebore www.gamebore.com ▶ Improve your shooting with a Shotkam from our shop fieldsports.shop/?product=shotkam-shotgun-camera This item appears on YouTube […]
Bring roe deer in close with a simple squeak
Roy Lupton is out after roe deer. With the bucks rutting at the end of July, he calls them in to cull them. Join him on some of the most exciting deerstalking the UK has to offer. ▶ £200 off Leica rangefinders (only UK & ROI) fieldsports.shop/?product=leica-crf2700b ▶ Buy a buttolo and call your own […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy of the Rutters
With the roe rut underway, Roy Lupton calls in bucks using a buttolo call. Find out how easy that is to do at this time of year. Meanwhile, Ben Husthwaite brings you the latest on chandelle targets in his Smokin’ Targets series. David is on the News Stump, Charlie brings you Hunting YouTube, and we […]
Bushpigs – African Hunter episode 1
It’s all about hogs in the first episode of African Hunter. This series is by Africans for Africans. Find out how the locals do it. We are in the Winterburgs of the Eastern Cape hunting two of them with bow and rifle, including a couple of monsters – the ‘Mountain Boar’ and, the really big […]
Pigeons and corvids over crops – Wild Wing shooting
It’s summertime and that’s bad news for birds feasting on crops near Jason Doyle’s home in southern Ireland. He is out pigeonshooting, and keeping an eye out for passing corvids, too. Here are the links to the sponsors: Gamebore supplies the Black Gold 28g no 6 and Clear Pigeon 32g no 6 cartridges www.gamebore.com The […]
Shooting pigeons over crops – Fieldsports Ireland, episode 12
Jason Doyle is pigeon-shooting in Ireland in this episode, plus seeing how Ireland’s ICP set and hosted an international clay competition, and he joins gunshop owners as they look at new products in Ireland from the Beretta group, with the help of importer GMK. It’s summer Irish sport in our monthly show, Fieldsports Ireland. Here […]
Packham pulls out of general licences court case
Chris Packham’s Wild Justice group has withdrawn its latest legal action against the Government over the general licences saying it has ‘run out of time’. Wild Justice closed down the general licences in the spring with a single legal letter. It had hoped to do the same to the rules over control of corvids to […]
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2019
Fieldsports Channel ran three days of chatshows at the 2019 Game Fair, in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. From shooting organisations to TV stars such as Jeremy Wade, Charlie grilled, toasted and roasted the most prominent voices in the world of shooting and fishing. Here is a selection: See also FieldsportsChannel Podcast #14 […]
Wonderful Wicklow sika stalking with John Fenton
Irish deerstalking legend John Fenton takes Paul Childerley, Jason Doyle and a Sako 85 Carbonlight into the Wicklow Hills to stalk sika. In the latest in our Barrels & Brass series with Sako rifles, find out about the history of this deer in Ireland, and how difficult they are to find and shoot. ▶ For […]
Animal Liberation Front kills thousands of pheasants
Last week, activists hit a small family game farm in Kent. They struck in the middle of the night and released thousands of birds to certain death. Kent Police says it is investigating. Officers are appealing for anyone with information to call the appeal line on 01622 604100 quoting crime reference 46/132523/19. You can also […]
Andy is back after pigeons on the stubble – CrowHow
When the government stopped the general licences, we thought that was it for shooting pigeons over stubble. Not a bit of it. Andy Crow is now back enjoying a big clean-up day with friends, and a keen young shot who has only been pigeon shooting once before. Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow’s new young pigeon shot
Jack Carrington takes pole position in the pigeon hide next to Andy Crow this week. The 13-year-old and his dad are out with Crow, as well as other friends and relations scattered across four hides on the farm Andy manages in Kent. They are shooting pigeons over stubble, and it could be one of the […]
Grouse moors deny Packham raptor allegations
Managing Britain’s uplands is more about managing media attacks these days. Bewildered grousemoor keepers and other estate staff are reeling from attacks by Chris Packham and other bird campaigners after he uncovered a surprisingly large number of birds he alleges the estates have killed. All the estates say they are not responsible for the birds’ […]
Wild Justice plans fabulous waste of taxpayers’ money
DEFRA’s most vexatious litigant is at it again. Wild Justice is crowdfunding a £40,000 legal bill that will allow its solicitor to write a letter aiming to force DEFRA to ‘assess’ the impact of pheasant and partridge release in the UK. Wild Justice says that the 43 million captive-reared pheasants and 9 million red-legged partridges […]
NRA removes signposts to tenant it wants to run out of town
New visitors to Bisley Shooting Ground at the top end of Bisley Camp will now have to find it using their satnavs. The NRA has removed all of the shooting ground’s signs from Bisley. The action is believed to be connected with a dispute over renewal of the shooting ground’s lease. “We simply cannot understand […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting a Barbecue Buck
Hunting is so much more than firing the built. Can Ap Bryn goes on a nature ramble that includes boars and bears in order to find a buck to cook up for a barbecue. He is in Croatia with top hunting guide and keen rewilder Tomo Svetic. Meanwhile, Charlie meets a militant vegan, Jay Tiernan, […]
Roebuck hunt and big game ramble – Hunt & Cook
Cai Ap Bryn has a roebuck to shoot. Along the way, he is treated to some of the great sights in nature – European brown bears, among them. Even a pair of bears mating. He is out in Croatia in some of the most spectacular country in Southern Europe. ▶ Cai Ap Bryn is sponsored […]
Animal rights militant Jay Tiernan – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 8
Jay Tiernan is a militant vegan, who stamps on badger traps and condones the cutting of wire to release pheasants from game farms. The face of the anti-badger cull movement and press officer for the Animal Liberation Front, he argues his case with Charlie Jacoby. ▶ This item appears on YouTube in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
On Test: Zeiss’s 2019 riflescopes
We go simulated stalking and long-distance rifle shooting out to 500 metres with Paul Childerley. It’s all so Zeiss can set out its stall to UK gunshops. We are on hand to see what they think of the product line-up. ▶ Click here for more about Zeiss sports optics ▶ Click here for our review […]
DEFRA secretary declares war on hunting
DEFRA secretary Michael Gove has moved from big game hunting supporter to anti hunter. The British government minister writes an article for the 14 July 2019 Mail on Sunday newspaper claiming wildlife should not be shot because it is sentient. This goes against his own arguments in Parliament as recently as November 2018 when he […]
Rifle destruction test: Sako 85 Carbonlight
Some people look at the new carbon stock material and worry that it will snap. Sako wants to reassure them, so has charged Paul Childerley with trying to destroy one of the Carbonlight rifles. ▶ For more information about the Sako range of rifles and bullets go to Sako.fi and follow them Instagram.com/sako_international ▶ To […]
Dr Mark Avery’s vision for the countryside – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 7
It’s the battle for who runs the countryside: Dr Mark Avery is part of the Wild Justice group which successfully stopped the general licences, he campaigns against gamekeepers whom, he claims, kill hen harriers, and he wants the countryside rewilded. He argues his points with Charlie Jacoby, who represents gameshooters, pest controllers and the managed […]
Fieldsports Britain – we thrash a rifle to bits
Just how tough is your rifle? Paul Childerley takes a brand new Sako 85 Carbonlight, runs over it with an armoured personnel carrier, drags it through mud water, shoots it and sees if it fires at all, let alone straight. Find out how how he gets on. Meanwhile, Charlie meets one of the most dangerous […]
Hunting show exposé funded by ads… for hunting show
Pressure from animal rights activists has scared the NEC Bimingham into banning hunting guides from exhibiting at the Great British Shooting Show in 2020. Please help reverse this situation by signing our petition on the Change.org petition website, here: Chng.it/BFrxsmKXVh – it has hit 3,000 signatures in just a few days, boosted by a call […]
Sako’s secret carbon fibre stock factory – exclusive access
Paul Childerley gains access to the Sako factory to look at how the company makes its revolutionary new rifle stocks. ▶ For more information about the Sako range of rifles and bullets go to Sako.fi and follow them Instagram.com/sako_international ▶ To go stalking with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk ▶ Click here for all our films with […]
Fieldsports Britain – the carbon rifle revolution
Paul Childerley travels to the Sako factory in Finland to find out how the Finns make their advanced carbon rifle stocks. Join him behind the closed doors of the Sako factory to watch them produce stocks. Meanwhile, Charlie is getting stressed in Italy. Swarovski is hosting its #huntingsummit2019 and the theme this year is how […]
Stress-testing shooters at #huntingsummit2019
Charlie Jacoby is at the #huntingsummit2019 in Tuscany, where co-sponsors Swarovski, Steyr Arms, norma ammunition and Sitka clothing have built a rifle range into the side of old cliffs. He is there with 20 other ethical hunters to find out how stress affects them when they go shooting. ▶ For more films and pictures for […]
Swarovski launches new riflescope
Austrian optics manufacturer Swarovski has launched a new all-round riflescope to add to its Z8i line. Aimed at the Hunter who might be shooting long-range one day and at close quarters the next, the new scope has an incredible nagnification. The 3.5-28×50 scope keeps its weight down with an objective lens that’s smaller than usual […]
Crow’s back on the jackdaws
After the general licences debacle, it’s time for Crow to get back to day-to-day pest control on the farm. Today, he has jackdaws on the end of his shotgun – and a few choice words about the damage the government has done to farming with its Natural England cock-up. ▶ For more on the general […]
Fantastic pheasant shooting in China
Charlie Jacoby heads to Shanxi Province in China, where pheasants come from, and goes shooting on 200 sq km of open country above the Yellow River. He encounters birds, butterflies and Liu, the Chinese equivalent of Andy Crow. ▶ Click here for all our films with Charlie ▶ For Fieldsports Channel’s work in China, go […]
Fieldsports Britain – Charlie goes to China
For some people it’s all about finding the source of the Nile. In this week’s show, Charlie Jacoby tracks down the source of the pheasants. He goes to the mountains above the Yellow River in China to shoot the original pheasants. He is also in Shanghai, at the first ever China Hunting Show, finding out […]
China Hunting Show launches with a bang
The China Hunting Show is underway at the National Convention & Exhibition Centre in Shanghai. The first hunting show in China, 55 exhibitors from all over the world have taken more than 80 stands. Most of the standholders are safari companies, with most of those from southern Africa. It is a retail show and standholders […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wild boar meat feast
This week, Cai and Tomo Svetic are hunting game for a long over due dinner date. The game chef jumps on an aeroplane from his native Kent and heads for the Balkans, where the wild boar and roe grow fat in the Mediterranean sunshine. Watch him hunt them and cook them in the new episode […]
Wild boar and roebuck in Croatia – Hunt & Cook
There’s nothing Cai likes better than a cooking up a game meat feast. That’s why he’s off to Croatia to hunt some of the best wild meat on the planet and cooking up using some Croatian flavours . It’s the new episode of Hunt & Cook. ▶ This item is sponsored by Blaser. Visit […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting giant guinea-pigs
Tim Pilbeam is in Argentina shooting a range of farm pests, including the world’s largest rodent, the capybara, and gigantic Asiatic buffalo. It’s a pest control job much like back home in the UK, but with surprising South American twists. Ben Husthwaite explains how to swing-through in the latest in his Smokin’ Targets series on […]
Swing-through with negative hold – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Improve your shooting with a top shot. Ben explains the technical aspects of swing-through and how to get the best out of it. ▶ Smokin’ Targets is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ For more from Ben, visit Facebook.com/benhusthwaite/ ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here This item […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul goes intercontinental calling
We know Paul can call in bucks to his clients in his native Bedfordshire (and we give that a go just to make sure he is on song) – but can he do the same with a duiker ram in South Africa? Paul takes guest Claes Björksten from Sako rifles out after muntjac – then […]
Can you call in antelope?
Paul finds out in South Africa. He is out with Nico Els in the Eastern Cape – plus he is guiding a guest, Claes Björksten from Sako rifles, after muntjac in Bedfordshire – just to show it can be done. It’s all a big surprise for Nico. ▶ For more information about the Sako range […]
Eco hunting clothing from Red Kettle
Forget microfibres and ceramic-based fabric. What could be more environmentally friendly than cotton? Well, that’s all very well – but cotton doesn’t keep you warm and dry. Not true, says the founder of hunting clothing manufacturer Red Kettle, Christian Saugmann, who has worked out a system of using venture cotton for his jackets. ▶ For […]
Grilled Rabbit with garden herbs barbecue recipe
Jason Doyle takes rabbit meat from a recent shoot and gives us his grilled rabbit with garden herbs barbecue recipe. Ingredients 2 Jointed rabbits 1 Chopped onion 4 Cloves of garlic Some fresh thyme A sprig of rosemary Salt & pepper For the marinade A handful of fresh thyme A handful of fresh rosemary 2 […]
Pro gun fit – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
Where do you put your gun stock on your shoulder? Top Shot Ben Husthwaite explains the mysteries of gun fit, how fitting the shotgun to your shoulder properly can help you achieve medal success in clayshooting and raise your game on the pigeons, pheasants and grouse. ▶ Smokin’ Targets is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ […]
Shooting geese in the Netherlands
We join a Dutch pest controller for a morning’s goose shooting. In a country where they even gas geese outside airports, we are after a range of birds, including Egyptians, Canadas, greylags and barnacles. ▶ For more about Igor’s magazine, go to Waidmannsheil.nl ▶ Find out more about the UK’s general licences chaos at Fcha.nl/generallicences […]
Fieldsports Britain – How the Dutch cope with general licences
As the UK general licences chaos continues, we go to the Netherlands to see how they shoot pest birds there. We join shooters Igor Timmermans and Bastian Maris on a morning after Canada, Egyptian, greylag and barnacle geese. It’s just across the water from the UK but completely different rules. Meanwhile, top shot Ben Husthwaite […]
