Girls’ Gun Day
Abbey Ling is holding one of the many ladies’ shooting days organised by the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club to raise money for the British women’s shooting team. This item appears in Claysports, episode 3. To watch the whole show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/claysports3 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter Fieldsportschannel.tv/register
How to shoot 1,000 yards with no scope
Stickledown Range at Bisley plays host to a match between dozens of shooters capable of hitting a target 1,000 yards away – and they don’t use rifle scopes. It is the Inter-Counties match. Meet the best rifle shots in the world and find out about long distance target shooting. This film was first shown in […]
How They Choose Olympic Shooters
Britain’s Olympic shooters are roaming the international trap and skeet scene like a pack of slavering wolves. they are on the hunt for quota places to Rio 2016 and, with the deadline looming in September, they haven’t got long. GB has only won two quota places to next years Olympics. The European Games at Baku […]
Schools Challenge TV – £5,000-worth of prizes
That’s what’s on offer in the Rizzini Classic, a clay competition lasting most of this year. We cover the Gloucestershire leg of the competition, hosted by Bredon School, which has been pushing shooting as a sport for its pupils. Bredon has won many £1,000s-worth of prizes in clay competitions i the last two years. We […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeon Raspberry Ripple
He shoots three pigeons in one go! The pressure is on Andy Crow to shoot woodpigeons. Roy Lupton wants lead-free pigeon meat to feed to his growing brood of goshawk and peregrine chicks. It’s a busy week for the Fieldsports Britain crew: the shooter with no hands Jamie Chandler is organising a clay day and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbiting like Star Wars
Summer hunting sports this week: shooting roebuck, rabbits and trying to find foxes at their most elusive. Charlie takes Star Wars techniques to join the South Somerset Ferreters shooting rabbits, Andy Crow is deerstalking – and has a word to say about the people who have been shooting his deer with airguns. News leads on […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tracers: Where do Bullets Go?
When you pull the trigger of a rifle, your bullet does not necessarily fly in a straight line to your target. Sporting Rifle magazine expert Tim Pilbeam has some tracer rounds and shows where it goes. That’s not all. Mike Powell has the last in the series of Outfoxing – he is looking at thermal […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s Love Helmet
Love and death on this week’s Fieldsports Britain: Roy Lupton is wearing his special ‘Love Helmet’ to help his breeding peregrines. Meanwhile, a deerstalker has his roebuck carcase stripped in just a few minutes – are there wolves in Kent? There’s our guide to voting for hunting and shooting in the UK general election, News […]
2015 UK General Election resources
Here is our list of useful websites to help you choose who to vote for (who supports hunting and shooting). Find out what your candidate thinks about guns and shooting – and contact your candidate to voice your views – via BASC’s online candidate finder. campaign.publicaffairsbriefing.co.uk/BASC/emailsupport.aspx Vote-OK aims to ensure that in May 2015 that […]
Schools Challenge TV – Bredon School Clayshooting Winners
It’s the Bredon School leg of the Schools Challenge series of competitions, and teams from schools around the country are slugging is out on the clay pigeon stands. The added bonus this time is that the winners also get the chance to enter the final in December where the top prize is a £12,000 car […]
Fieldsports Britain – Teaching Americans to Lamp Foxes
Roy Lupton is out with a lamp, rifle and an American in this week’s show. He is after foxes – and he is after teaching our American cousins a thing or two about the joys of lamping. Meanwhile, Charlie Jacoby is on a tour of British gun launches. he tries out the AYA Centenary, he […]
On Test: Browning B725 Pro Trap High Rib
We are at the Browning UK press launch this week to learn about how it plans to take the world of trapshooting by storm. Browning has launched the Browning B725 Pro Trap range, including a high rib. There are also guns to suit every taste, including great quality wood on the Sporter range and a […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to be a Shooting Journalist
Tim Pilbeam lives the life. He gets rifles to review, he gets to play with them, and people make decisions about shooting kit after reading his views online and in magazines. Thanks to the internet, you can do this too. Tim says how. That’s not all. Crow says why he likes his .17HMR more than […]
Fieldsports Britain – How the Antis Tried to Nobble a Nation
The antis deliberately set out to destroy hunting on Malta. They reckoned that if they got one European state to ban bird shooting, they could get all of them. Last weekend, they failed. Charlie Jacoby visits Malta to find out if the likes of Bill Oddie and Chris Packham are right – are the hunters […]
Super stealthy rabbiting
If you want to creep up on rabbits from the comfort of a vehicle, you need to go electric. Andy Crow doesn’t believe in electricity, especially not for rabbiting, so he is the perfect person to try out the new Mitsubishi Browning PHEV, a hybrid 4×4, and take it rabbit shooting. For more about the […]
Schools Challenge TV – The University Challenge 2015
It’s the University Challenge. Teams from across the country gather at the Oxford Gun Company gather to shot it out over a 100-bord sporting layout. Find out which university wins, and stay tuned to win a year’s subscription to sporting Shooter magazine. For more, visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk Sign up for our weekly email newsletter bit.ly/weeklyemail
Fieldsports Britain – Catapult Karate
It’s a kind of martial art. If you can hit a Polo mint at 20 metres in under 30 seconds, maybe you have got what it takes. Charlie Jacoby goes to the beating heart of British catapulting – the UK championships – to find out more about modern techniques and top catty tech. He meets […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tick Tech and Top Trucks
Hunters and shooters get the best new technology in their kit – and this week we showcase two of the best of the best: deerstalking clothing which gets rid of the bugs and ticks that carry disease, and a 4WD vehicle quiet enough for you to be deadly on rabbits and foxes. We find a […]
Fieldsports Britain – Meet the New Terrier… it’s a Bumblebee
What a pile of different sporting activities in this week’s show! Roy Lupton is out with rifle and red-tailed hawk after rabbits and foxes, Mike Powell explains how to bait foxes, and Charlie Jacoby is with his dad trying to catch mice in a hairnet by using bumblebees to flush them. That’s not all. There […]
Schools Challenge TV – TSC Oxford 2015: shoot off
It’s the first major competition of the Schools Challenge year. TSC Oxford 2015 saw more than 200 under-21s gather to shoot it out for a series of prizes culminating in a £12,000 car, which will be awarded in December. Bredon School and RAU Cirencester were neck and neck. Find out who won in this week’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Blackcurrant Bunnies
We are helping Ribena by shooting rabbits this week. Cai Ap-Bryn his his rifle and night vision out in the blackcurrant farms of Kent. Down in Devon, Mike Powell explains what makes the perfect fox box, and Roy Lupton has seen the light! – well, the light given off by his African eagles compared to […]
Fieldsports Britain – My What Big Teeth You Have, Grandma
It’s Europe’s biggest gun trade show. the Fieldsports Channel team lands in Nuremberg, spreads out and sees what’s interesting. Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam meets a wolf 23-times world champion clay shot George Digweed is wowed by the scale of it all Franz-Albrecht zu Oettingen-Spielberg explains how he came to shoot seven wild boar […]
Schools Challenge TV – How to buy your first shotgun
Here is how a gun shop works out the best shotgun for you – by taking into account your height, your build and your shooting ability. The experts at the Oxford Gun Company explain the rules and unravel the mysteries of selling shotguns. For more, visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – High Tech Hunting
Roy Lupton and Darren Rogers are out after foxes with every piece of high-tech kit we can muster: night vision, day vision, thermal, handheld calls, electronic calls, state-of-the-art rifles and cartridges. So how do they get on? Is it a techie triumph or are they all the gear and no idea? That’s not all. We […]
Fieldsports Britain – The 6ft fox
Roy calls a fox in to 6ft – ‘practically close enough to hug it’. He is using a Silva fox call from Australia. Meanwhile, Charlie’s out with a couple of foxshooters who have a dazzling array of calls but no foxes. They do have rabbits and a rimfire, all to the benefit of the championship […]
Schools Challenge TV – Shooters’ Gym Workout
Shooters shoot straighter if they work on their shooting muscles. Sports fitness expert Nigel Patterson shows TSC Academy member Tom Scott where he needs to work in order to survive a gruelling 6-hour shoot. For more info, go to www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – Crow Hits The Pigeons
Crow’s on a mission to bring down pigeon numbers in Kent. He has new kit, a pigeon hide that would win an award at the Chelsea Flower Show and Ruby the dog ready to retrieve. We’re also in Yorkshire where William Powell offers pheasant shooting on a grouse moore – we find out if it’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Deer injured by dogs
When they set specially-bred dogs on deer in the south of England, they leave the countryside littered with hobbling, injured animals. The lurcher boys are not interested in the deer – just the chase. They give coursing a bad name. Paul Childerley takes Ginny Langton stalking after a Chinese water deer on his ground in […]
Schools Challenge TV – How to get a job in shooting
How to you get a job in the gun trade? The fastest way to start is by working for your local gunshop. The Oxford Gun Company has started an apprenticeship scheme. We talk to the first person to take it up – and other young people who have jobs in the shooting industry. What does […]
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s Biggest Cocks
We are in search of Britain’s biggest cock pheasants. Andy Crow reckons he is in with a chance with a four-pounder (1.84kg) he shot on a shoot in Kent. The average fully-grow cock pheasant weighs 3lb. More pheasants in Bedfordshire, where Paul Childerley is holding a walked-up day. One gun reveals that pheasant shooting is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Park Foxes
A town centre deer park is a haven for foxes – especially one that hasn’t seen a foxshooter for more than a year. Roy is out with night vision, thermal and a mission to bring numbers down. We are also calling in duck with MPK Calls on Langstone Wildfowlers’ stretch of coast in the south […]
Schools Challenge TV – Discovery Sport Launch
Schools Challenge TV this week is devoted to cars – in particular one car. The new Land Rover Discovery Sport. If you want to launch the perfect shooting vehicle to shooting people, where do you do it? A shooting ground, of course. Stratstone has come to the Oxford Gun Company with a fleet of dazzling […]
AirHeads – Roy on Rats
A packed AirHeads this week – six items in our airgun magazine show. Roy Lupton is shooting rats with night vision; James Marchington and Charlie Jacoby are hunting squirrels including a trophy (!) squirrel, Andy Crow and Phill Price are trying out oldfashioned feather darts, David Wright has the latest airgun celebrity launches from the […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Deer that Loves Hunting
Meet Owen. He’s a young red stag who thinks he is a beater. Raised by the shoot, he joins the beating line at the Mornacott Shoot in Devon and then pops down to meet the guns for a drink. Apart from a moment during the rut when he decided to mount one of the guns, […]
Pigeons over Rape with Andy Crow
Andy Crow has a pigeon problem on his oilseed rape crop – so much so that local shooters have been calling him up and asking if they can have a go. No they can’t. Andy and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam set out the decoys for what turns into the best day of the year […]
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Fieldsports Britain – British Wild Boar
British Wild boar are under the spotlight. We look at the Boar Essentials: do we hunt/conserve them or wipe them out? With a man dead after swerving to avoid a feral hog crossing the road, and one of the Princess Royal’s prize Gloucester old spots killed by a wild boar, the press is full of […]
Rimfire Football
It’s our group test of rimfire rounds, with a little help from top shot Abbey Burton. Winchester has brought out its new 42 Max, a .22 subsonic with a 42-grain bullet. We put it up against the 40-grain subs from RWS, CCI, and Winchester and a 38-grain wildcard from Remington. Do different bullet types affect […]
Schools Challenge TV – Shoot Straight and Win a Car
Here’s what the Schools Challenge has in store this year. It’s a full programme of shooting events for clay shooters at school, college or university. And in its 10th anniversary year, TSC is giving away a £12000 car among more than £50000-worth of prizes. Visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk Sign up for our weekly email newsletter bit.ly/weeklyemail
Fieldsports Britain – Lighting Up Pigeon Shooting
We’re hunting answers. Roy Lupton and Andy Crow get together to look into an age-old question. Does Mr Crow tell the truth when he says a shot on a pigeon was THIS long? Roy fields his rangefinder and locks on to the flying birds while Crow shoots them. See them settle one of the great […]
Fieldsports Britain – Where we screwed up in 2014
We’ve got deerstalking, birdshooting and a litany of mistakes for you this week. Where everyone else is giving you their ‘best of 2014’, we have put together our ‘worst of’. Which film was most hated? Who is most annoying, James Marchington or Nigel Farage? And what are our top five death threats? Meanwhile, David Carsten […]
Downton Does Grouse – Fieldsports Channel News
The headlines this week: ✩ Alnwick Castle stars in Christmas Downton Abbey special ✩ Tiger trade on the up ✩ Newspapers snipe at Prince William over hunting ✩ Jægernes julehjælp wows Danes ✩ American Kennel Club adds Sicilian rabbit hunting breed ✩ How to make a lighted shotshell wreath Stalking the stories – fishing for […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting a Christmas Goose
Dom Holtam is out to shoot a goose this Christmas – Andy has a problem with Canada geese hitting his crops. We have our Global Hunting Survey – take part and you could win lots of prizes! It’s the Fieldsports Britain 2014 blooper reel, featuring outtakes form a year of our programmes, including Roy’s laugh […]
Schools Challenge TV – 2014 review + bloopers
It’s the Schools Challenge year in review. TSC Academy members step forward and say what they have learned. There is an interview with the man behind the school shooting facilities at Bredon. And it’s the must-watch TSC blooper reel – the finest outtakes and embarrassing moments. Visit www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – Crow’s On Form
It’s your weekly hunting/shooting video fix, and this week Crow is after winter pigeons, while Tim Pilbeam is preparing for a hindstalking trip. Andy Crow teams up with cousin Gary to see what impression they can make on pigeons flying in to a rape crop. Meanwhile, meticulous preparation in the Pilbeam household means the hind […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tough Old Boar
It’s the big slo mo bow penetration test. Roy has come back from his boar bow hunt (where he had to use a rifle) with a burning desire to find out what arrows work best on big pigs. For this experiment George Digweed shoots and butchers a young Sussex boar for us, and Roy shoots […]
Schools Challenge TV – Kids Win Guns
It’s the final of the Winter Series, the last clay shooting competition of the year, and the Schools Challenge competitors are out to win £3,000-worth of guns and shooting equipment. See how they get on. Plus there is news, and interviews with the Independent Schools Association about its plans for shooting, and Edgar Brothers about […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Big Boar
Hunting wild boar in France – Roy Lupton gets close to a monster pig. Will he get it with bow, with rifle, or will he miss it altogether? Find out here, and enjoy our version of ‘Wild Boar Fever’, filmed in France last week. Charlie is quaffing champagne at the launch of a new Blaser […]
Fieldsports Britain – Birds, Bees & Boar
A truly packed programme of hunting and shooting tonight: ▶ A pheasant shooting estate is reborn – Altcar in Lancashire – and it is all thanks to clay pigeon trap manufacturer Promatic ▶ The Purdey Awards for Conservation show just how green pheasant and partridge shoots are ▶ Roy Lupton is sharpening his bowhunting skills in preparation […]
Schools Challenge TV – How Top Clayshooters Think
Win guns, money, cars and the admiration of your mates. It’s the definitive guide to competitive Sporting clay shooting, as top shot Christ Childerhouse guides you round a 50-bird Sporting layout on a competition day. Also on hand are some of the kids he has taught, as part of the Schools Challenge. We talk to […]
