Fieldsports Britain – Shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids
We are mostly shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids, and finding out how to choose a puppy this week. We have got a new camera, as you will see… it means we can get up close and personal when we shoot eggs with an airgun, and even when we shoot rabbits at long distance. Roy […]
Fieldsports Britain – Tropical trout and a gold medal goat
Sport in Kenya this week, including trout on Mount Kenya, mudfish in the Masai Mara and learning how to throw a stick at an antelope. We search for fish high in the Aberdare National Park and we are in the hot savannah learning spear skills with the Maasai. Finally, we’re in Wales shooting big feral […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wreck fishing and rabbitting with a cowboy
We’re out after a record-breaking cod over wrecks in the English Channel. Back on land, the guys from Team Wild are attacking pigeons from two different angles – with shotguns and air rifles. Roy Lupton’s ferrets are busy bolting bunnies to the shotgun and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is shooting cowboy style! It’s all in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Trout fishing and the first roebuck of the season
Roy Lupton has been promised a gold medal roe buck in exchange for a sperm donation (from his eagle) but gets given the run around on a Hampshire estate swimming in deer. Talking of swimming, we’re re-stocking a reservoir with blue and rainbow trout then trying to remember where we put them. Andy “Crowman” Crow […]
Fieldsports Britain – White wild boar and university clay championships
It’s a wild boar special this week on Fieldsports Britain. They are blonde, they are French and they are on the rampage in Sussex. For the first time on British television, you a can follow a British wild boar hunt including the moment shooter Simon Barr pulls the trigger. Meanwhile Roy Lupton and Tim Pilbeam […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wicked Mr Squirrel + kids go shooting + pigeons
Evil Mr Squirrel is out to get the baby songbird eggs. Never fear! Roy Lupton is going to shoot him. Meanwhile, we are putting guns in the hands of children at the first Schools Challenge event of 2012. And the legend that is Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow is defending not just his crops but his […]
How we got into shooting: George Digweed, Peter Wilson, Abbey Burton and Stevan Walton
Some of the top stars in the world of clayshooting explain how they started in a series of inspiring stories for anyone – and we mean anyone – who wants to take up clayshooting. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 115. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain115
CPSA guide to shooting success with Abbey Burton
Clayshooting coaching tips from Commonwealth Games Olympic Trap silver medallist Abbey Burton. Learn to shoot straighter with Abbey. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain107
Fieldsports Britain – Seven wild boar in a row
Wild boar hunting – it’s a European obsession! We’re at IWA, the biggest gun trade show outside the USA, to see what’s going to be hitting the gunshops near you this year. There is kit for deerstalking (we go out after Chinese water deer with Zeiss’s new Victory HT scope), for foxshooting (we are out […]
Countryside Alliance Awards – the ‘Rural Oscars’
The Countryside Alliance handed out its prestigious ‘Rural Oscars’ at a Parliamentary reception on Wednesday 7th March. British and Irish titles go to businesses from Suffolk, Dorset, Shropshire and the Republic of Ireland and the Rural Hero of 2011 title goes to a Co Antrim Angler who founded a Trust to combat river pollution. The […]
Barney White-Spunner, executive chairman, Countryside Alliance
Foxhunting? It’s got a future. Shooting? nobody’s going to ban it. Barney White-Spunner is the new executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance and he has an agenda that’s going to put running the countryside back into the hands of people who live in the countryside.
Fieldsports Britain – Angry anti, pigshooting with airguns and a record muntjac
How to practice shooting driven wild boar in Kent, plus pigeons in Essex, a record muntjac in Hampshire and an angy anti from Leeds – what a lot of programme this week in Fieldsports Britain! We’re off to Roy Lupton’s place in Kent. Roy has got a fabulous new way to practice his double rifle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Whippets in Yorkshire and Cirencester pheasants
Rabbits, pigeons, pheasants and clays are all in trouble in Fieldsports Britain. It’s Ee Oop and By George this week as we go ferreting to whippets on the Yorkshire Dales and flushing pheasants to landowners with the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. That’s not all! Top shots Peter Wilson, George Digweed and Abbey Burton explain […]
Fieldsports Britain – fun in an Argocat
Fallow deer, urban foxes, and airgunning pigeons on this week’s show. It’s a red letter day for Roy Lupton and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam as they call in foxes in daylight and cull fallow, all with the help of Roy’s Argocat. Meanwhile, the urban fox experiment we are running is getting plenty of comments: […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shot Show 2012 kit and sport in the Louisiana swamps
Las Vegas! home of the Shot Show 2012, the biggest gun trade show on the planet. We are there to see the latest kit from the top manufacturers, coming to a gunshop near you. We have the latest in foxcalling technology, a way of converting your semi-auto rifle to full automatic (dodgy), why American wildfowlers […]
Fieldsports Britain – Giant rat hunting in Louisiana from an airboat + ShotShow kit
Latest kit from the biggest gun show on earth, fast-action ratting from an airboat, Cajun whitetail, muntjac stalking: Fieldsports Britain is reporting from America where everything is bigger and faster. But is it better? We are in the swamps of Louisiana after one of the world’s trickiest deer. We are shooting rats the size of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Night vision, quick duck and the Browning B725
Rabbits in darkness, duck in high winds, pheasants in the teeth of London politics and a new shotgun is launched on this week’s programme. We are using Nite Site night vision to look for rabbits with Andy Crow and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam. We are enjoying fastflying duck and geese below sea level with […]
Fieldsports Britain – Children’s driven gameshooting day at Kirtlington Park
Give children guns and look what they do: a brilliant day out and lots of pheasants for them to remember forever. It’s the final day of the series of events that make up the Schools Challenge 2011 – the game day for 30 children held at Kirtlington Park in Oxfordshire. And to start the programme […]
Fieldsports Britain – Blencathra foxhounds and blowing up Christmas baubles
It’s a bad day to be a Christmas bauble. We’re shooting a load of guns and calibres from .223 to .470 at them, then we are fellhunting with the fabulous Blencathra Foxhounds and we are pheasant-shooting in Dorset on the beautiful Crichel Shoot. Every day is like Christmas for Sporting Rifle tester Tim Pilbeam as […]
How to find lost or stolen dogs with DogLost
When Archie, a much-loved cocker spaniel, disappeared in 2009, his owners Simon Barr and Selena Masson thought they would never see him again. We meet Simon and Selena just after Archie was taken, and we talk to Jayne Hayes, the woman behind DogLost.co.uk, the service that reunites dogs with their owners. This item first appeared […]
Fieldsports Britain – Kristoffer Clausen eats fox + chasing rabbits with lurchers
We are catching rabbits with lurchers, we are decoying crows and pigeons, and we even have a bloke eating a fox. On this week’s Fieldsports Britain, ace hunter Kristoffer Clausen talks about living in the wilds of Norway for a whole year. He is over in the UK to enjoy some crow shooting with Mark […]
Fieldsports Britain – Norma Ammunition
How does the world’s best ammunition manufacturer make bullets? We visit the Norma factory in Sweden to find out. We blow up all kinds of gunpowder and propellant, we look at the difference between plastic-tipped bullets and soft-points, and Charlie gets to shoot a Sterling SMG and a .505 Gibbs hunting rifle. With unprecedented access […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish stag rut and airgun safety
To Scotland to watch the red stag rut in the Monadhliath Hills with David Taylor of the Countryside Alliance and stalker Jimmy Irvine, star of the Highland Keeper DVDs. Then to the south of England to learn how to play a range of fox calls with Roy Lupton and to watch the definitive airgun safety […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven mouflon and how to call in geese
Blow those hunting horns! This week we are mouflon shooting and calling geese. We are on a 25,000-acre hunting estate outside Berlin as the guests of sports optics manufacturer Zeiss enjoying driven mouflon, wild boar and deer, with all the pomp and ceremony that a top German hunting trip affords. We are also in Easter […]
Fieldsports Britain – Our 100th birthday blooper reel
It’s our 100th Fieldsports Britain programme! And in it we have George Digweed explaining how to shoot straight, sika stags rutting in Dorset, foxshooting with a £330 new lamp and the blooper reel from our first 100 programmes. George recently shot the world’s longest clay pigeon at 130 yards, so he is in great shape […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fallow buck in a tangle + Hampshire foxes + calling muntjac
What happens when a deer gets tangled in rope and fencewire? How do you call in a muntjac? Are Hampshire’s foxes really bigger? And how much fun can a Scottish estate be? You will find the answers to these vital questions and more in this week’s Fieldsport Britain, brought to you faithfully every Wednesday evening. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Australian-rules fox shooting + YouTubers who hunt
A pair of keen Australian foxshooters sent us one of their fox calls – and we are trying it out in Pomshire. It’s the Thunder from Down Under but it brings in the foxes. We are also deerstalking in South Ayrshire with Chris Dalton of Ayrstalk.co.uk, we are training a peregrine to stoop on a […]
Fieldsports Britain – World record long-distance clay + stalking Harry Potter’s stag
A world record long-distance shot at a clay pigeon, a dramatic stalk for a red stag across a Scottish estate made famous in the Harry Potter films and a happy afternoon firing shotguns at shooting glasses to see how safe they really are. It’s another quiet week on your favourite hunting TV show Fieldsports Britain. […]
How to call in roebuck in the rut
It’s a textbook demonstration of how effective a call can be during the roe deer rut. We are on a estate in Hampshire which hasn’t been touched for a few seasons in the hope of bringing in a big buck. The does are particularly receptive and they come back time and time again to play […]
Head shot? Bucks in tricky positions
We talk through shooting situations that present themselves during the roebuck season in the south of England. Is there a safe backstop, or is a head shot appropriate? These are some of the questions we should be asking, but what do you think? This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 85. To watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Zander, barbel, rats (with a digger), trout and game cookery
Zander fishing, rat shooting (you liked it so much last week we’re back with more) and why Cornwall is the must-shoot must-fish county in the UK. Dom Holtam takes us out after zander and barbel, two of coarsefishing’s best-kept secrets. Roy Lupton has put away the airguns and is moving on the rat-holes with diggers […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Warrener + driven rats + driven partridge
The Warrener, driven partridges, driven rats, and our competition to find Britain’s biggest rat. Roy Lupton uses everything from chainsaw smoke to Chinese takeaways to bring rats to his shotguns, airguns, terriers and blokes with spades. Meanwhile, a viewer from Hartlepool has sent in a picture of a rat that measures 18in from head to […]
Happy Birthday To You
For a shooter or hunter on your birthday, Browning offers this unusual version of ‘Happy Birthday To You’: bang-de-bang-bang, bang-bang! This first appeared as an item on Fieldsports Britain, episode 96. Music thanks to Al Mobbs at MobbsMusic. Venue thanks to the Oxford Gun Company.
Maritime Media’s big screens for shows and events
Maritime Media was formed in 2009 and is an independent digital outdoor media owner, specialising in the supply, installation and management of large-format digital screens, monetised by advertising. With more and more ad spend being pumped in to digital, the sector is growing at an unprecedented rate and it isn’t hard to see why — […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeonshooting, gundog pups and how to be a better person
Pigeons, gundogs, and how to get qualified as a hunter and a shooter this week. – Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is shooting pigeons with a Winchester SX3. – The Fieldsports Channel cocker spaniel is having puppies (here’s a blow-by-blow account of how to do it AND how not to do it). You can be better through […]
Fieldsports Britain – Birr Castle Game Fair + hawking rabbits
To Co Offaly in Ireland for the Birr Castle Game Fair, to Kent in the UK to take a variety of birds hawking after rabbits, and to Oxford where they are giving away prizes galore for shooting. Come with us to Ireland to see hawking, horses, shooting, and all the fieldsports at which Irish excel. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits, fallow deer and a fairytale Scottish castle
Rabbits, fallow deer, a fairytale Scottish castle, pigeons, clays, and social responsibility for rioters: what a mixture. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after fallow bucks in Kent. He’s not had much luck with Fieldsports Channel in the highseat recently. Will it go right this time? Meanwhile, Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is on the same […]
Fieldsports Britain – First grouse of 2011, 30lb salmon, 21 foxes
First grouse of the season, a 30lb salmon, 21 foxes in a night, antis behaving badly and Countryside Alliance Foundation bringing game cookery to urban England – it is again the best of British sport in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. With the help of a speedy Subaru Outback, we’re putting grouse, venison and salmon on […]
Anti-hunting ‘investigators’ caught on hidden camera
This is the moment two employees of the League Against Cruel Sports, a charity which campaigns against hunting, shooting and other activities, were caught trespassing in a wood in the South of England while trying to spy on someone. The bungling pair were caught on their own covert surveillance equipment that had been discovered and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects and roebuck calling, episode 89
Just two days away from the grouse season, we have the prospects for shooting in Scotland and England. We talk to Lindsay Waddell and Ed Bromet. It’s also the height of the roebuck rut. We’re out calling them in Somerset with Dirk Waltmann of German hunting magazine Pirsch and stalker Leo Naylor. Meanwhile, the legend […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cricketer Rob Key and George Digweed on the pigeons
Kent county cricket captain Rob Key goes pigeon shooting with world champion shooter George Digweed. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is riding shotgun (literally) with Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow on a combine harvester looking out for rabbits. And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is having a hard time finding a fallow buck amid a sea of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mantrap, cannon and who is stealing peregrines?
In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, we have a mantrap, a cannon, an England rugby star, a German with a riflescope, a look behind the scenes of the guntrade, the illegal trade in birds of prey and Bernard Cribbins (not the illegal trade in Bernard Cribbins – that’s quite different). It can only be our review […]
Fieldsports Britain – Exploding Coke cans, foxes, airguns and big cats
So much stuff for you this week on Fieldsports Britain: foxes, airguns, big cats and blowing up Coke cans with an extraordinary new clay pigeon trap. * Planning to replace your old airgun? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam shows off a great new airrifle, the Air Arms S410F, to try out on rats and rabbits. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons over wheat and a nice double rifle
To shoot or not to shoot – that is the question. If you are Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow, made famous by Sporting Shooter magazine, and birds are devastating your mate’s wheatfields, it’s an easy one to answer. And he has a number of tips and tricks up his camouflaged sleeves to deceive those pesky pigeons. If […]
Fieldsports Britain – Animal charity releases foxes next to chicken run
They are dumping foxes in the countryside near you. In this week’s programme, we uncover how one British animal welfare charity feeds foxes on dogfood and lets them go near a free-range chicken run. Duh! Meanwhile, back in the more enlightened world of shooting sports, we’re at the Beretta World shooting competition in Hampshire. We’re […]
Fieldsports Britain – Irish lurchers and Sutherland trout
Sport in Northern Ireland and Scotland this week – looking for the fastest longdogs and gundogs on land and water (lurchers competing for the Master McGrath), picking up tips about shooting straight from Mike Yardley and knocking down Finn McCool-sized bags of crows with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist. That’s all at the Shane’s Castle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with schools, foxing and pheasants
We have fishing, foxing, pheasants, the Clay Classic and an IPC award-winning clay ground in this week’s programme. We are with fishing expert Charles Jardine looking at his special love, the Fishing With Schools initiative, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. We are at the Marlston Shoot on the Berkshire Downs admiring their superb […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with Miss Switzerland
It’s international jetset week on Fieldsports Britain. Swiss supermodel Xenia Tchoumitcheva takes us trout fishing on Alpine streams, we are taking a tricky shot on a roebuck in Hampshire with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting at the Newick Park Hotel & Country Estate which offers a friendly driven shoot over 250 acres of glorious […]
Fishing for Schools
Top flyfisher Charles Jardine explains the UK’s Fishing For Schools project, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Ear defenders + pigeons over peas + partridges
What’s this ‘ear? Here is how to protect your hearing with our Big Friendly Test of ear defenders for shooters. And for those of you who didn’t wear hearing protection when you were younger I said WE’RE TESTING EAR DEFENDERS!! That’s not all. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain programme, we’re out on a traditional pheasant […]
