Schools Challenge TV
Fieldsports Channel recorded The Schools Challenge young shots initiative from 2009 to 2015. We are delighted that the UK’s premier young shots programme now runs its own YouTube channel. here are some of the films we made: Infro about game shooting, vermin and pest control for under-18s in Britain You can have a shotgun certificate from […]
Fieldsports Britain : Fallow deer cull + grayling on the Kennet
The fallow deer cull is coming to an end. To keep the herd healthy, it’s Roy Lupton’s job to take five animals with the minimum disturbance. That means head-shooting, and headshooting means you have to hit an something the size of an apple at 100 yards ten times out of ten. Miss and you will […]
Fieldsports Britain – Slingshot Special + IWA 2013
We’re off to meet the king of the catapults. He is a hilarious Bavarian called Joerg Sprave who has come up with devices to throw spears and saw blades as well as being superbly accurate with ball bearings. He shows how to make and how to fire catapults, and explains his deep fascination for rubber. […]
Schools Challenge TV – Perfect country school
Bredon School in Gloucestershire has a clay pigeon shooting team and its own clay layout. Does that make it the perfect country school? It offers shooting – and plenty of other ways to get your boots muddy. Bredon’s shooting team is one of the main contenders in the Schools Challenge shooting competition. David Florent of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking stars Tom Wood, Ray Mears, John Wilson
We have England rugby player Tom Wood on his love of fieldsports and his road to recovery from injury thanks to his bow. Bushcraft TV star Ray Mears is talking the importance of having a good pair of binos, Northampton Saints’ Scott Armstrong is enjoying long-range shooting this week, and top angling TV presenter John […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbiting with ferrets and lurchers, foxshooting and gundogs
* We’re out with ferrets, lurcher and Shooting Times’s Simon Whitehead in Norfolk after rabbits * The legendary Roy Lupton teams up with Captain Camo himself, Mark Gilchrist, to go foxshooting in Kent * Ricky Moloney is our Skinners gundog training expert, with his tip about how to show displeasure to a dog + We […]
Schools Challenge TV – What are we shooting in 2013?
It’s a big programme this week: there’s a preview of all the Schools Challenge events from March to May, at the Oxford Gun Company and at Bredon School, there’s a review of Bowman’s new range of clay pigeon traps,plus the various clays on offer from CCI, there is News, and there are reviews of the […]
World of hunting and fishing – map
A handy Google Map of hunting, shooting and fishing around the world. This interactive map (below) shows the great estates, rivers, forests, hills and seas where Fieldsports Channel has filmed – and where you can book a day’s hunting, shooting or fishing. Click on each blue marker to watch that film.
Fieldsports Britain – Hare vs eagle + British wild boar + Welsh miners hunting
We are launching eagles on hares in Lincolnshire, George Digweed on wild boar in Sussex and we are out with the Banwen Miners foxhounds pack in the Valleys of South Wales. It’s a packed programme this week, with incredible footage of hares’ tactics when faced with Roy Lupton and friends’ flying eagles. Meanwhile, George Digweed […]
Taylor’s Travels: Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson
Olympic shooting star Peter Wilson tries out the new Holland & Holland Sporter, enjoys the South Dorset Hunt, talks Olympics and Rio 2016 and hangs out with his girlfriend, Michelle McCullagh. In advance of National Shooting Week 2013, Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor spends a day with Pete at home in Dorset. In this […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cat vs Fox – night vision in action
It’s not just night vision. Roy Lupton and his friends have found a way of turning night into day. As a result they see a lot more wildlife action than they ever have before, and a lot more foxes to shoot, too. Meanwhile, we’re at the Shooting Show with George Digweed and Andy Crow. And […]
Schools Challenge TV – Gorgs Geikie goes for Gold
Special guest this week is London 2012 Olympics pistol shooter Gorgs Geikie. She’s out with Double Trap Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Stevan Walton and David Florent of the Oxford Gun Company to try out the new Range Rover Vogue, to shoot clay pigeons and to fulfil a Top Gear-style challenge. She also gives her […]
Fieldsports Britain : Shooting foxes
We’ve got two kinds of foxshooting this week. First up, twenty times world champion shooter George Digweed has got a wild boar problem on his shoot in Sussex. He is out to get them – and uncovers an even bigger fox problem. The there is Roy Lupton, reinvented this week as The Human Leaf. Just […]
Unluckiest Fox in the Quarry
Cats famously have nine lives. Foxes are not so lucky, especially not this one, who is ignoring the advice of his friends the crows. This must be the unluckiest fox there was. Not a pleasant way to go – poor animal. This first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 166. To watch the whole show go […]
Fieldsports Britain : Driven pheasant shooting + gundog training
We’ve got birds, birds and bird dogs this week. Roy Lupton is on a driven shoot in Hampshire. We’re so used to see him shooting foxes and deer, can he handle a shotgun on birds too? And when a disabled clay shooter said he wanted to go on a driven pheasant day, we stepped up […]
Fieldsports Britain : Rolls Royce rabbiting + black bear hunting
We’re in the USA this week. We’ve got a Rolls Royce converted for rabbiting in Texas, the last of the black bear hunts with hounds in California, and all the latest kit from the Shot Show in Las Vegas. Texas ranch owner Fausto Yturria could not bear to part with his late father-in-law’s Rolls Royce, […]
Schools Challenge TV – CPSA registered shoots
Find out how to enter CPSA registered shoots. We join Schools Challenge competitor Will Ford for a day at the challenging Wylye Valley ground. He is a regular at CPSA registered shoots. What’s more, he has joined the Schools Challenge Academy, which gives him additional benefits, such as subsidised cartridges. That’s not all. There is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wily coyotes, Shot Show kit and record big game hunting
On this week’s show, we’ve come to America for coyote hunting, world record big game hunting, and the Shot Show 2013, the greatest gun show on the planet. Charlie Jacoby is after coyotes in California, the varmint of choice for the self-respecting American rifleman. We talk to Jason Bruce, star of Headhunter Chronicles on Sportsman […]
On Test: Taclight Night Master 800 torch
Lamping foxes is an art and everyone has their own way of doing it. There are the calls, the transport, the shooting rest and of course your lamp, strength of beam, colour and the way you throw it around the place. Well, tonight fox shooting fan, Roy Lupton, is trying a new lamping system which […]
On Test: Daystate Wolverine .303 – hot air or hot stuff?
The Daystate Wolverine .303 has got people talking – Some say ‘it’s awesome’. Others point out that, in order to own this work of Dr Frankenstein the UK you need to have a firearm certificate – and if you have an FAC why on earth would you bother about air when you can have powder? […]
Fieldsports Britain – DIY night vision + flying hawks on pheasants
Roy Lupton is out with his goshawk after rabbits and pheasants, and he has an apprentice with a red-tailed hawk. It’s a great spectator sport. Meanwhile, Andy Crow was appalled at Roy’s homemade attempts at night vision last week, he has brought a rat-shooting mate who has made a much better version for less money. […]
Schools Challenge TV – learning new shooting skills
It’s episode 1 of Schools Challenge TV. Backed by organisations and companies involved in the shooting industry and outside it, the School’s Challenge is a group of events tailored to under-21s from across the UK. In this film, kids learn to shoot, and Andrew Crawford of the CLA Game Fair and Nick Fellowes of the […]
Fieldsports Britain, episode 162
Fieldsports Britain, episode 162
Fieldsports Britain News – 2nd January 2013
In News this week, record numbers unbox on Boxing Day, it’s the OO-ER-S-P-C-A, airgun action you can take, a challenging TV launch, and a bogus eagle takes the biscuit. This item first appeared in episode 162.
Fieldsports Britain – Screaming pheasants + build your own night vision
Pigeon-shooting fanatic Andy Crow is out on a spectacular south-of-England driven pheasant shoot, where he shoots his best bird of the season. He offers his tips for pheasant shooting and how to behave. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is playing with a homemade night-vision kit. The parts only cost a few quid. He tries the DIY set-up […]
Fieldsports Britain, episode 161
Fieldsports Britain, episode 161
Fieldsports Britain, episode 160
Fieldsports Britain, episode 160
Fieldsports Britain, episode 159
Fieldsports Britain, episode 159
Fieldsports Britain, episode 158
Fieldsports Britain, episode 158
Fieldsports Britain, episode 157
Fieldsports Britain, episode 157
Fieldsports Britain, episode 156
Fieldsports Britain, episode 156
Ferrari Macnab
It’s one of the great sporting challenges – a grouse, a salmon and a stag. Dominic Holtam has to achieve the challenge at two ends of the UK, in three days, and he is doing it in a four-wheel drive Ferrari
Bloopers 2012
It may come as a bit of a surprise but sometimes our well oiled production team and presenters don’t always get it right – here are some of our favourite outtakes of 2012. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 161. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain161
Fieldsports Britain – Best of 2012
It’s our review of 2012 – from the UK to the USA, to Africa, Hungary, Germany and hunting, shooting and fishing several thousand birds, fish and animals, with shotguns, rifles, bows, rods, ferrets – the best kit, and both the oldest and the newest tricks. We also have the 2012 blooper reel – where we […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven deer + boar, and decoying crows
We’re off to Germany for a 50-gun driven hunt, courtesy of Zeiss Sports Optics. It’s fast-moving sport, shooting game on the move with rifles. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is in the hotspot highseat. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is after his namesake,crows, protecting his crops on his farm in Kent, south-east England. And survival expert Jonny […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mark Gilchrist on camouflage + George Digweed on long shots
Are you mad about Mossy Oak? Do you rave about Realtree? Does Jack Pyke make you joyful? Well, this is the programme for you. It’s Camo Man, as you have never seen him before: manly Mark Gilchrist is trying new ways of blending in as he shoots pigeons. If you are a pigeon, be afraid. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Training goshawks to catch partridges + shooting pigeons, episode 158
Our top falconer Roy Lupton has his goshawks and eagle out on a training exercise. He has a 45mph lure he is trying out on them, to get them ‘match fit’ for partridges and pheasants. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is decorating a tree (it’s that time of year) with pigeon decoys in order to bring the […]
Biggest hunting/shooting/fishing YouTube channels
Fieldsports Channel has hit 10 million views, joining a club of (we reckon) 15 YouTube channels in hunting, shooting and fishing to have done the same. So it inspires us to produce the ‘Fieldsports Fahsand Club’. Here is the list of the biggest channels on YouTube in our world by views.
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit shooting pellets and how to forage for food
Round pellets, flat pellets and pointed pellets – which is better when you are after rabbits? Roy Lupton conducts an almost scientific test to show which of them do the most damage to a rabbit. It’s a test that will lead to higher standards in shooting. That’s not all. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is after […]
Fieldsports Britain – Vinnie Jones’s Russian Macnab + ferreting + deerstalking
Vinnie Jones is after fox, salmon and raccoondog – the South Somerset Ferreters are after rabbits – Roy Lupton is looking for roe deer – and we’ve even got some scientists whingeing about the perils of lead shot. It’s a dangerous week to be wildlife on Fieldsports Britain. We lead on the news that Vinnie […]
Fieldsports Britain News – 21st November 2012
The headlines this week – an ex-footballers shoots and scores in Russia – Holy Halibut it’s another record catch – Deadlock in a double deer disaster – and pigeon shooting postponed because Piper plummets into pattern. Stalking the stories – fishing for facts. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 156 www.youtube.com/show/fieldsportsbritain
Wildlife Diseases and Conservation – a one day symposium
We are in London for a one day symposium on Wildlife Diseases and Conservation, run by the Veterinary Association for Wildlife Management and held at The Royal Society of Medicine in London. This film is brought to you by the Countryside Alliance Film Unit. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL420A6E1F70009222 Timetable – and links to individual speakers Session 1, chairman […]
Fieldsports Britain – Partridges in Paris and calling foxes in Scandinavia
We are going continental this week. We are on a shooting estate near Paris enjoying a day’s driven partridges with the research & development team from Browning shotguns. We take a look at the latest foxcalling techniques to come from Sweden. Back at home in the UK, we are out with the Countryside Alliance, taking […]
Advertise on Fieldsports Channel TV part 2 – Talk To James
Advertising on Fieldsports Channel part two — being the further adventures of James. For part one, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrc87ETB50 Brave Sir James is dashing round, seeking advertisers, From gunmakers, to engineers, to game fair organisers. He’s galloping forth globally, and nobly persuading The gun trade and the tackle trade that Fieldsports is worth aiding. James puts […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Ferrari Macnab
‘The Macnab’: grouse, stag and salmon, all in a day. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam presents the ‘Ferrari Macnab’: a stag in Cornwall, a grouse in Yorkshire and a salmon in the North of Scotland, all thanks to the new 208mph Ferrari FF. But does he make it? Find out in this film, which is […]
Driven grouse – all you need to know
There is winged game and then there is winged game. And then there is driven grouse – it is expensive – it is exclusive but with good reason.
Grouseshooting + great grouse recipe
Game chef Lee Maycock is on his first ever day on the moor in search of red grouse. He wants to find out why this bird isn’t used more often in British cooking. He joins the Hancock family in Yorkshire where they’re hosting a walked up grouse shooting day. And he finds out about the […]
Shooting badgers illegally
Guilty party? – Meles meles, the common badger Fieldsports Channel has been sent a disc and a statement. It says we should all be shooting badgers – and it shows a badger being shot.
Fieldsports Britain – How to call in great big bucks
Roy Lupton has an appointment with some fallow bucks in Sussex, and he has the right instruments to call them to him. You can learn some tips on how to call male fallow yourself. Meanwhile, a viewer called Keith from Middlesex near London has devised a new trap for catching urban foxes in order to […]
Feral pigeons in the crosshairs
Feral pigeon in the crosshairs You don’t have to be a game chef like Mark Gilchrist to appreciate that no-one wants pigeon poo in their sandwiches. But when the skies start to darken thanks to bird numbers around wheat storage barns it’s time to send some of them to the big grain store in the […]
