Formula 1 boss joins Southern Water protestors
Saj Rahman and Andy Ford Southern Water’s pumping station at Fullerton in Hampshire, on the banks of the River Test, dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into the UK’s most famous chalkstream. Locals say they’ve had enough. On 18 March 2024, organised by two local riverkeepers, they were joined in a protest of more […]
Servicing your gun: how the pros do it – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 90
www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LCP1DVIcE It’s the job that many of us put off, sometimes for weeks, a few for months, a handful for several seasons. John Spary and Joe Hocking are gunsmiths: the ones who get to clean, check, repair and occasionally pick up the pieces of our guns. They explain what goes into a gun service, plus […]
Spartan Javelin bipod: preview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08HyzCGrZBE The Spartan Javelin is a modern take on the bipod for your rifle. Ryan Charlton of distributors Highland Outdoors explains that it’s lightweight, slips in a pocket, adjustable, and with its magnetic attachment system it’s quick and easy to deploy. Find out more at Highland Outdoors
How to get into wildfowling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4p6S2LUaI Starting out in wildfowling is easy. Clubs all over the UK are keen to meet you, take you out and show you what the sport is all about. In this film, Holbeach Wildfowlers take Nicole Moore as a guest to their ground on the Wash. Meanwhile, Charlie Byrne buys a day with the Devon […]
Poachers dump dead hares at village shop – Fieldsports News, 20 March 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUB8gYHYVy8 Here are the links: Dead hares horror – Daily Mail Bans head back to parliaments – Fieldsports News Botswana economy faces ‘crisis’ – New Zimbabwe British shooting is worth a billion – BASC Eat Game triumph for school – Queen’s College Hatfield House hunt hits back – Welwyn Hatfield Times Wild Trout Trust auction […]
Grousemoor licensing set to become law in Scotland
Grousemoor licensing and a partial muirban ban have passed their latest stage in the Scottish Parliament. The Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill looks like it will pass later in the week. The reaction from the Countryside Alliance is that it is not what shoots want but they can work with it. MSPs who brought forward […]
Win a £150 fox target – Fieldsports Extra, episode 316
You can win a £150 fox target this week, kindly donated by Tom’s Targets. Plus we have protestors on the River Test (and they’re on our side) including former F1 boxx Ross Brawn, Cai Ap Bryn just after he’s had a run-in with a dogwalker, sporting agents from Roxtons and Bettws Hall talking about American […]
Africans protest against UK trophy hunting import ban bill
Protests Botswana against the UK government British authority and influence in southern African countries is ‘as bad as in the Zulu Wars’ says one commentator. The reason? The UK government wants to enact a ban on trophy imports, throwing the whole basis for wildlife conservation in Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique and other […]
Gamekeepers and farmers hit back at United Utilities
Angry farmers and gamekeepers have hit back against their landlords with a damning report. Called ‘United Utilities at Haweswater’, the document examines failures by landowners United Utilities and Lowther Estates, and their consultant the RSPB. It details how the landowners are driving tenant farmers out of business, how their tree planting schemes are failing with […]
Win a £125 chair – Fieldsports Extra, episode 315
You can win a portable orthopaedic chair, designed for shooting, kindly donated by Just1Seat.com. Plus we have announcements about membership pricing, insurance, a misunderstanding over the Daily Mail, an angry capercaillie and a bear in a trap. This week’s prizes and other links: Jackal Medical Orthopaedic seat for shooters Need legal help with a hunting, shooting or gun […]
Win a £90 medical kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 314
You can win a Bleeding Control Kit from Jackal Medical, priced at £90. Plus we have ferreting in New Zealand, boar trapping in Florida, homeloading in Leicestershire and a professional hunter hard done by UK newspapers. This week’s prizes and other links:Mega VR Bit.ly/megavrJackal Medical Need legal help with a hunting, shooting or gun issue? email […]
Win a £269 VR gun – Fieldsports Extra, episode 313
You can win the VR ‘gun’ we used at the British Shooting Show, priced at £169. It was a stonker of a show, with members new and old. Thanks to all who said hello. We have an update from the show, plus Paul in Portugal, and how pheasant shooting helps a lonely City boy. This […]
British Shooting Show 2024
youtu.be/RZioVNz1Pjs Part one ⬆️ More than 2,000 brands under one roof, tens of thousands of visitors, shooting sports at the heart of the NEC in Birmingham: what more could you want? Join Andy Ford, Terry Doe and Nicole Moore for our highlights packages from the British Shooting Show 2024. Part two ⬇️ youtu.be/UgySTXDIopY
Win a knife at the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 312
The big news is our new legal helpline. Aimed at the legal problems you might encounter when you apply for a shotgun or firearm certificate, it is a new member benefit. Our lawyer Layla McGuigan talks about what that offers. Plus we have a knife giveaway at the British Shooting Show, Jim Barrington says what […]
Win a designer shotgun bead – Fieldsports Extra, episode 311
We are giving away four shotgun sights from XS Sights and you can win one of them. Plus there’s Nicole Moore on taking part in Fieldsports Live, an iguana hunting guide explains his business, Sir Johnny Scott puts in w word for the Welsh, and Fieldsports member Adrian Burdett explains what he is doing in […]
Win an SCI KUIU rucksack – Fieldsports Extra, episode 310
We are giving away an SCI KUIU rucksack this week – the rucksack you get if you join as a three-year member of Safari Club International. Plus we have a flowering of Fieldsports members: Stuart Collett is out with Nicole Moore, Will Lomas says what he would like Fieldsportd Channel to do, and James Schneider […]
Win knives and a sharpening set – Fieldsports Extra, episode 309
We are giving away a knife and sharpening set totalling around £100 retail value, kindle donated by Rifleman Firearms in Somerset and online. Plus pro-foxhunting journalist Charlie Pye-Smith says why that doesn’t mean he is anti foxshooting and farmer Gareth Wyn Jones says what gamebirds he likes to eat. Vale Field & Game ValeFieldGame.comRifleman Firearms RiflemanFirearms.comFarming […]
Win another Spypoint trailcam – Fieldsports Extra, episode 308
We are giving away a £150 Spypoint trailcam from Vale Field & Game this week. Plus we have a mini feature on how two people are trying to get preservation of hunting culture enshrined in law, which will make it hard for the antis to ban us.This week’s prizes and other links:Spypoint trailcams at Bailey’s […]
Sedbergh School Shoot
The boys and girls from Sedbergh School run their own pheasant shoot. It’s a project that introduces them to conservation, wildlife and the great outdoors. Enthusiastically backed by staff, parents and locals, they put on several shoot days throughout the season. There’s a waiting list of kids to join the shoot. We join them for […]
Heather burning warning – Fieldsports News, 17 January 2024
Here are the links: Heather burning warning – RuralReaction.uk Bearskins’ ban plea – BBC Atlantic salmon in UK now endangered – AST Grouse and kestrels endangered – Nature.scot Aussie duck ban threat – Guardian Irish game fair postponed – Down News Elephant permits on hold – SCI NRW faces legal challenge – FishLegal BASC launches […]
New launch: Aimpoint Acro S2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVty1XF0Is Aimpoint is launching its new Acro S2 with a day’s duck hunting for its new ambassadors. We join Johannes Kesselstatt, Jules Breant and Wild Srbija for driven duck in southern Sweden. For more about the Acro S2, visit the Aimpoint website Johannes Kesselstatt on Instagram Jules Breant on Facebook Wild Srbija on YouTube […]
Fieldsports Britain – red dot ducks
Fieldsports Britain – red dot ducks www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkEm-rnR0I We’re all about ducks and pheasants in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. We join the Swedes for a duck day in order to look at the new Aimpoint Acro S2 red dot sight. Johannes Kesselstatt is shooting straight. After the news, we’re off to the English Lake District for a […]
BSA R12 CLX Super Carbine vs FX Crown MkII Compact
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVIetvzYgVk Ian Hodge discusses options for the pro pest controller, who is buying a sub 12-ft/lb PCP airgun. He looks at two of his top sellers, the FX Crown and the BSA R12, and discusses why people buy them, plus what scopes and moderators they put on them. The airguns in the video – Ian […]
Win a pair of trailcams priced at £269 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 307
We are giving away £269 pair of trailcams from Baileys Shooting & Country Wear this week. Plus we have news ed Andy Ford on farming, a teenager on how why his school runs a pheasant shoot, and Jaf Jefferson on setting up the ‘Squirrel Feeder of Despair’ (coming soon).This week’s prizes and other links:Dartmoor Deer […]
Win a venison box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 306
We are giving away tickets to the British Shooting Show this week, priced at more than £250. Plus we have Paul Childerley hunting red deer in full hazmat, a pair of Westmorland wildfowlers talking about young shots and our 2023 bloopers reel. This week’s prizes and other links:British Shooting Show, NEC Birmingham from Friday 23 February […]
Win British Shooting Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 305
We are giving away tickets to the British Shooting Show this week, priced at more than £250. Plus we have Paul Childerley hunting red deer in full hazmat, a pair of Westmorland wildfowlers talking about young shots and our 2023 bloopers reel. This week’s prizes and other links:Skinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodBritish Shooting Show, NEC Birmingham from […]
Charlie’s dad talks trophies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 304
It’s a break from the usual this week – Charlie talks to his dad, Martin Jacoby, about trophies and why we put them on our walls. Please add your comments below.This week’s prizes and other links: Skinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodTargets & Tins in Hampshire cing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. How […]
Ian Hodge’s Christmas stocking filler ideas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpP54Be5BU For more from Ian Hodge, go to IanHodgeFieldsports.co.uk More Ian Hodge films here:
Rolled venison with sausage stuffing – alternative wild meat Christmas roast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhmK7PfW9Pg Cai is creating an alternative Christmas roast with venison and sausage stuffing. For those with a freezer full of delicious wild meat this is a simple alternative to that dry old bird you might be serving over the festive break. Cai turns a simple piece of meat into a beautiful dish that would be […]
Crackers Christmas story about reindeer hunt – Fieldsports News, 20 December 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcEY4X1Occ Here are the links: Mirror uses Christmas for anti-hunting campaign Fieldsports Channel + GBNews on YouTube RSPB announces kill list Magpies off the list in Wales – Countryside Alliance Gamekeepers support legal challenge – NGO BASC gets go-ahead to take DEFRA to court – FieldsportsChannel Podcast Tony Blair took £1 million bung for hunt […]
Seven down: big Aimpoint deer drive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezNafXAMGw Improve your driven big game shooting the Aimpoint Academy way. David films Aimpoint Academy winner Johannes Kesselstatt from Germany on a driven deer hunt in Sweden – and he has an amazing last drive. In spring 2023, Aimpoint announced it was looking for the next Franz-Albrecht, the brightest shooting talent from across the […]
Fieldsports Britain – fallow deer fever
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8Pw6Byo-k One lucky man, Johannes, gets the extraordinary pressure of David accompanying him on his first driven big-game hunt as an Aimpoint Academy winner. He rises to the occasion and has a magnificent last drive on the fallow. Meanwhile, Cai Ap Bryn cooks up a venison feast for Christmas and Ian Hodge actually is Father […]
Win Skinner’s dogfood – Fieldsports Extra, episode 303
We are giving away Skinner’s dogfood this week, priced at more than £100. Plus we have our Aimpoint Academy winner, George Lawrence, talking about the experience and some outtakes from gunshop owner Ian Hodge dressed as Father Christmas.This week’s prizes and other links:Hedgerow Goblet Hunter, the HGH from CattyShack Bit.ly/hghcattySkinner’s dog food Bit.ly/skinnersdryfoodTargets & Tins […]
How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 89
youtu.be/Y0EzFlbIMBc UK prime minister Tony Blair said that his 2004 Hunting Act would benefit foxes. Twenty years later, it turns out he was wrong. In a chat with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023, Jim Barrington, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, spells out the mistakes that Blair made, […]
Win a Cattyshack catapult – Fieldsports Extra, episode 302
We are giving away a Cattyshack HGH catapult this week, kindly donated by Wayne Martin. Plus we have Dan Thor on not shooting much at his day on the pheasants, Niall Rowantree is finding out about reindeer wrangling and Jim Barrington says how Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting (like we didn’t know).This week’s […]
Win a £264 TreSpade mincer – Fieldsports Extra, episode 301
We are giving away a TreSpade mincer priced at £264. It’s the TreSpade TC-8 El Young that minces a kilo of meat a minute. Plus we have Wayne Martin on catapults, Gareth Wyn Jones on politics and Malin Hewins in a tangle with her dog.This week’s prizes and other links:Wrecking Coast DistilleryTreSpade TC-8 El Young […]
Win a £250 cool box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 300
We are giving away a Yeti cool box priced at £250. Plus we have deer drone operator Ben Harrower, Rajeev Mathew gives an update on the tiger hunting debate in India, we introduce our new news editor Andy Ford, and Laura Saunsbury, who co-wrote the definitive book about British gun law, says how her book […]
Win gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 299
We are giving away a case of 6 bottles of gin priced at £227, kindly donated by the Wrecking Coast Distillery, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Dan Thor airgunning ferals, a gamekeeper in Wales, Lee Allison, talking about how his shoot helps the local area, Ian Coghill on facing off the enemies […]
Win a Bergara shooting seat – Fieldsports Extra, episode 298
We are giving away a shooting seat from Bergara priced at £99, kindly donated by Artemis Outdoors, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a parade of grand old men: Terry Doe for the airgunners, Robert Bucknell for the foxshooters and a member oif the Blacker family for the gunmakers.This week’s prizes and other […]
Win a £150 shooting lesson – Fieldsports Extra, episode 297
We are giving away a shooting lesson priced at £150, kindly donated by the Oxford Gun Company, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re wrapping up the Packham defamation hearing with member Gary Froggatt and our own David Wright. And a loader called Pete explains why he sprays his gun’s barrels with oil between drives.This […]
Win Bollé shooting glasses – Fieldsports Extra, episode 296
We are giving away Bollé Altus shooting glasses priced at around £100 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re with deerstalkers Martin Curran and Tom Garner, staghunter David Renney, deer (and other mammal) campaigner Jim Barrington, angler Jeremy Wade and, from New Zealand, Katie Hargreaves and Rich Leonard.This week’s prizes and other links:Santoku knifeBollé Altus […]
Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 84
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_u_U8ybaY Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states. This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham Other ways to listen to our […]
GRS Fenris adjustable rifle stock for hunting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVFb_JJqf0 Ryan Charlton from GRS’s UK distributor Highland Outdoors talks through the new Fenris adjustable rifle stock, designed for hunting. Click here for more about the GRS Fenris
Yankee squirrels vs Ukrainian airgun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUbMh8mwSc James Marchington reviews a Ukrainian pre-charged pneumatic bullpup air rifle, the Zbroia Sapsan. Once it’s pumped up and zeroed, it’s off to a local pheasant shoot to deal with some pesky grey squirrels which are helping themselves to grain from the pheasant feeders – but hunting squirrels in early autumn isn’t as easy as […]
BASC uncovers gun certificate police error – Fieldsports News, 25 October 2023
Here are the links: Backdated shotgun certificates: BASC investigates police blunder – BASC Countryside Alliance praises Suffolk council – Countryside Alliance Scottish trailhunting ban ‘may be illegal’ – Nature.Scot Trailcams to monitor people in Jersey countryside – BBC Marmot hunting to continue in France – FranceTVInfo Norway deer collisions up 15% – TV2.no Australia takes […]
Tim tests Swarovski Z8i+ scope
‘Circle, red dot, kill’ – that’s what you want a scope to do for you, says Tim Pilbeam, and the Swarovski Z8i+ does it. He is out on his range in Sussex with local deerstalkers and a gunsmith to put the scope through its paces and see what the advantages are. For more about the […]
Fieldsports Britain – new Swaro scope
Tim Pilbeam is going bang in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. He has his hands on the new Swarovski Z8i+ scope and he and his deerstalking friends are putting it through its paces on his range in Sussex. Elsewhere in the county, squirrels are under threat from a Ukrainian airgun. James Marchington reviews the Zbroia Sapsan and […]
Win a Flint & Flames knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 295
We are giving away a Flint & Flames knife priced at £125 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Tim Pilbeam has a new Swarovski scope to play with, Tristan Breijer from FACE explains the anti/pro-hunting battle lines, and we have a pair of American Fieldsports Nation members: Dan Hill in the rain in Somerset and […]
Win how-to-cook game tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 294
We are giving away two tickets at £115 each to a game seminar by super-game-chef José Souto. Plus the boss of Formula One Ross Brawn says how to make clayshooting great again, member Trevor Knowles takes me out deerstalking and Ollie Williams goes guinea-fowl shooting.This week’s prizes and other links:Find the Pellet-Pod on Amazon + […]
Ferreting and mental health – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 82
Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. […]
