Fieldsports Britain – Hares with golden eagles and a muntjac cull
For fast-action sport, we’re after hares with golden eagles in the Berkshire countryside thanks to Roy Lupton. We’re also joining top Oxfordshire stalker Owen Beardsmore of Cervus UK to look at a lovely estate he manages in the Chilterns, and joining in with the muntjac and fallow deer cull. And we’re training a Bavarian mountain […]
Fieldsports Britain – British big cats and a stolen gundog reunited with its owner
It’s vintage Fieldsports Channel. We have the hunt for big cats in Wales (are those cat’s eyes by the sheep carcass?). We have the preview of the Handicap Classic, one of the best prizes in shooting. We have George Digweed on the best clay cartridges. And we have Selena Masson, ex Shooting Times, reunited with […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit hounds, pheasant cartridges and a Hampshire shoot
We’re chasing rabbits with a trencher pack of terriers and other curs in Somerset’s lovely Quantock Hills this week. We’re also at the Steventon Shoot in Hampshire (Jane Austen used to live there) where the keeper has returned after 20 years to bring about change. And we’re with top shot George Digweed to discuss the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s biggest fox
Our massive 26lb Maidstone fox has been one of the biggest stories in the British press so far this year – but now we have found a bigger fox. Dennis Rowsell of Somerset shot a 34lb fox in 2009. We interview him in this programme about it. That’s not all. We’re also learning about […]
Fieldsports Britain – British wild boar + the Quantock Staghounds
British wild boar, staghunting in the South-West and even a fox competition. This week’s show has the best of British big game. It’s a seasonal way to round off 2010 and bring in 2011 with a bang. Learn what life is like under the hunting ban for the Quantock Staghounds; join a deer ranger on […]
The Quantock Staghounds on a law that’s not working
So how do you do a job you love knowing that what you do may possibly be illegal? In this film for the Countryside Alliance, Quantock Staghounds vice chairman James Hawthorne explains how the muddled hunting ban is affecting his hunt, and how the Countryside Alliance is fighting for repeal. This film first appeared in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Kids’ game shooting day and our Christmas party
Take two dozen kids, give them shotguns and let them loose in the countryside. Sounds like a recipe for disaster? Not a bit of it. In the week that senior British politicians called for a crackdown on people under 21 using guns (in response to two middleaged men – Raoul Moat and Derrick Bird – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul Taylor on sika stalking
We’re out after sika with one of the mighties of the sport of deerstalking, Paul Taylor, we’re flyfishing, and we are learning to shoot straighter with top rifle shot Keith Poyser. You get all the best advice on Fieldsports Channel. Paul Taylor reveals some of the mysteries of the sika rut. And Keith Poyser shows […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ferreting, Christmas gift guide and long-range rifle shooting tips
It’s the start of the Christmas shopping season – and we’re hunting great shooting stocking fillers and reindeer (don’t worry, Wee Tim, not real reindeer). If you want a couple of Christmas present ideas, stick your loved one in front of this week’s show. That’s not all. There’s also ferreting with Sporting Shooter chef Mark […]
Fieldsports Britain – North Devon wildfowling
It’s always worth it for duck. We are up to our knees in mud with James Green and Jeffrey Olstead of BASC as we take trip to the Taw Estuary in North Devon and discover the very early morning joys of wildfowling with the Taw & Torridge Wildfowling Club. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is out in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Deerstalking special: muntjac and that Exmoor Emperor
With BBC Countryfile allowing the League Against Cruel Sports to make a case for a ban on deerstalking, we are celebrating this sport with muntjac in Essex and red deer in the Lake District. We’re out with Geoff Garrod of the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation after Britain’s smallest deer and we take take a foreign ‘trophy […]
Fieldsports Britain – Prince Philip at BASC and George Digweed on pigeon cartridges
It’s the big royal story – no, not Wills and Kate! HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dominates the world of British shooting this week, speaking in support of the sport during a visit to BASC headquarters. We were there to see the helicopter come and go. We’re with another giant of the sport, George […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting pheasants, partridges and grouse at Ripley Castle
It’s a good-sized day at Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire and we’re with a team of guns enjoying not just pheasant and partridge drives but duck and the king of the gamebirds, grouse. From the parkland setting around the castle itself to high Hardcastle Moor via the incredibly challenging ‘Landslide’ drive, this is some of the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Clayshooting cartridges with Digweed, rough shooting and straight shooting
It’s another packed show from Fieldsports Channel. This week we’ve got the world’s greatest shot George Digweed, talking about clayshooting cartridges. We have got the foxhunting season and we are out with the Old Surrey Burstow & West Kent Hunt. We’re with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist on the roughest day since they invented rough. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Commonwealth Games shooting heroes and foxes with Robert Bucknell
Our Commonwealth Games shooting winners (and we hope our Olympic winners in 2012) get an airing on this week’s programme. We ask double gold medal winer Stevan Walton and silver medallist Abbey Burton what was Delhi like? How do you get to be the best shot in the civilised world? And how come Britain swept […]
Fieldsports Britain – Inside the secretive Zeiss sports optics factory
It’s the most mysterious piece of kit in shooting and in this week’s programme we’re on a mission to discover the answer to the big question: how do they make riflescopes? We are the first camera crew to be allowed behind the scenes at the classiest of glass merchants, Zeiss in Germany, to see precisely […]
Fieldsports Britain – Which rifle for seals and squirrels?
What’s cuter: seals or squirrels? In this week’s programme we’re off to shoot both of them. We’re with Center Parcs ranger Jerry Moss in Cumbria, a leading light in the Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group. He’s the one who designed that new Daystate airrifle, the Red Ranger, specifically for squirrels. He shows how he […]
Fieldsports Britain – Meet Alice Barnard of the Countryside Alliance
Meet Alice Barnard, the new chief executive of the Countryside Alliance. Presenter Charlotte Reather talks to the 33-year-old from Leicestershire about her views on issues ranging from the repeal of the hunting ban to public transport in the countryside. This is Alice’s first television interview in her new role. Watch it only on free online […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting pigeons with airguns and the history of pheasant shooting
It’s a dog and bird episode of our weekly programme. On the bird front, we join ace airgunner Frank Underdown to learn how to bring in pigeons to decoys and shoot them with an airgun. We also have expert Mike Yardley to teach us about the history of pheasant shooting. And for dog lovers everywhere, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Glamouflage at the Midland Game Fair
We’re looking at camouflage this week. Indeed we’re looking at ‘glamouflage’: as fashion at last weekend’s Midland Game Fair and in the field, calling in and shooting foxes in daylight, where you have to be very, very invisible. That’s not all. We’re also at the final of the Mitsubishi Motors World Series clayshooting championship. Last […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven partridge with .410s and foxshooting
How to put a scope on a rifle (and then go and shoot a fox with it); how to handle a big-bag partridge day at the mighty Challacombe shoot on Exmoor with just a .410 or 28-bore in your hands (badly); how to shoot pheasants straighter with expert Mike Yardley on the beautiful Mornacott Estate […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rannoch stags + Birr Castle Game Fair
This week’s half-hour programme has us in Ireland, Scotland and England. We’re crossing the water to see the lurcher and terrier action at the Birr Castle Game Fair in Co Offaly, we’re in the West Country learning how to shoot pheasants straighter with top shot Mike Yardley, and we’re in Scotland asking the question: how […]
Fieldsports Britain – Alex Hogg, Scottish Gamekeepers Association
It’s the man who wants buzzards back on the vermin list. In this week’s programme, Alex Hogg, chairman of the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, talks about that as well as the Wildlife & Natural Environment Bill which is due to be debated by the Scottish Parliament. Why does the Scottish Government hate deer, snaring and muir […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons, helice, pheasants and fallow
It’s all about pigeons – and a bit about pheasants and fallow deer. In this episode of our half-hour weekly show Fieldsports Britain, we’re in the West Country shooting pigeons with guns who got together on Facebook and we’re at the British Helice Grand Prix at the West Kent Shooting School – a shooting sport […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects
Grouse grouse grouse: are there lots to shoot? why can you only move them at night? what makes the king of gamebirds so magical? In this week’s show we talk to John Duncan of sporting agent Roxtons and Mark Merison of Strutt & Parker about prospects for the 2010 season; with the BBC rumoured to […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed goes foxing + Mike Yardley shoots pheasants
Sporting hero George Digweed returned from Italy a fortnight ago confirmed as probably the best British clay shot who has ever lived. He won his 17th world championships – the World Sporting. His first was in the 1980’s, so that means he has been a world champion across four decades. But clays are not all […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting cartoon and CLA Game Fair preview
The triplets are back – and now they’re armed! The fabulous foxhunting Simes girls from Leicestershire go out and enjoy a shooting lesson – and we go with them. The identical 13-year-olds and their long-suffering elder sister show what fun shooting sports are. That’s not all: * We’re with top shooting writer Mike Yardley as […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit recipes and long distance rifleshooting
Fancy shooting a fox at 1,000 yards? We learn how at an incredible long-distance range thanks to riflescope manufacturer Zeiss. Planning a romantic weekend break? We review a new package from the Oxford Gun Company that combines shooting with love. Maybe it should be the Oxford ‘Fun’ Company (!) – And for the latest rabbit […]
Fieldsports Britain – River Test in crisis
We’ve got shooting and fishing this week. First fishing: the River Test is meant to be a world-class angling destination. In this week’s half-hour show on Fieldsports Channel, we’re talking to Hampshire chalkstream luminaries such as Mick Lunn to find out why the gin clear waters are running a murky brown colour – and why […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow Shooting, Shane’s Castle game fair and how to run a charity clay
Crows at short range, an Irish game fair and how to put on a charity shoot: this week’s programme has it all for the discerning summer shooter. Learn how to hide out for corvids with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist (don’t worry – he’s not going to give you any crow recipes), join us at […]
The King’s Ginger and the Edwardian Shots
A cartoon guide to the Edwardian shooting party, brought to your screens by our friends at Berry Brothers & Rudd, makers of that superb shooting restorative, The King’s Ginger.
Fieldsports Britain – Trout, pigeons and politics
Trout, pigeons and politics. In this week’s show we are in the spectacular wilderness that is the North-West tip of Scotland (thanks to the Kinlochbervie Hotel) looking for trout in the multitude of hill lochs: small black fish which show up black on a peaty black background, so not easy. We’re there with Rob Gray, […]
Fieldsports Britain – British wild boar, goshawk chicks and Cumbria shooting politics
What will the future hold for firearms law following the Cumbria shooting tragedy? In this week’s half-hour Fieldsports Britain show, we’re talking to top experts and lobbyists about whether the Government will ban any guns. Bill Harriman and Mike Eveleigh of BASC and Rob Gray of the Countryside Alliance give their predictions. But it’s not […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cumbria fishing festival and survival with Jonny Crockett
What a show we’ve got for you…! + We’re at the Cumbria Fishing Festival learning top tips about river flyfishing for trout and grayling with Jeremy Lucas. + We’re out with survival expert Jonny Crockett dining off the bushes. + Love your lurchers and terriers? We’re racing them at the Highclere Country Fair and learning […]
Fieldsports Britain – Carp and pike with Jan Porter
We’re after pike and carp at Bishops Bowl Fishery in Warwickshire with Jan Porter, one of the top coarse anglers of today and the face of Shimano angling kit. if you want any particular angler next to you when you go fishing, you can’t do better than Jan.
Fieldsports Britain – Inside the Browning factory + hunting in Belgium
This week we visit the secret military installation that is Browning’s factory in Belgium where, alongside the automatic rifles, the craftsmen of the Browning Custom Shop make some of the most sought-after shotguns in the world. We go stalking roebuck and foxshooting with Browning in Belgium, using the latest X-Bolt rifles, and we take the […]
Polaris RZR quadbike review
Is this the ultimate gamekeeper transport? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes the Polaris range for a burn round the fields. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 15. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain15
Canal Game Farm
A thriving game farm that takes great pride in producing pheasant poults, partridge poults (chicks) and mallard growers. Situated five miles south of Ashford in Kent, it is able to supply birds all over Great Britain from Perth, Scotland to Exmoor, Devon. Specialising in Reeves and white pheasants, it sources all its day-old poults from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Keiron Cunningham in The Sun plus the Schools’ Challenge clay comp
Incredible. The Sun newspaper ran a full page article saying how awful it was that we showed a film of Rugby League superstar Keiron Cunningham going deerstalking. ITV used a similar piece. What has happened to British journalism? Have they sent all the good ones to cover the General Election? In this week’s Fieldsports Britain […]
Fieldsports Britain – Abbey Burton + Browning Owners’ Club + Lake District trout
In this programme, we’ve got shotguns, fish and politicians: * What makes you like one gunmaker over another? We’re at the Browning Owners Club day to find out. * Trout are rising all over the Lake District. We’re there to preview the Cumbria Fishing Festival. * London 2012 OlympicTrap hopeful Abbey Burton is teaching a […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rugby league legend Keiron Cunningham goes deerstalking
St Helens rugby league team captain Keiron Cunningham is one of the great ambassadors of fieldsports. In this week’s half-hour programme we follow him out deerstalking. He’s after red hinds on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border with top stalker Mike Dickinson and he’s trying out a new Zeiss FL scope. Find out if he gets lucky. That’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Kelmarsh game and country fair
Your local game fair will be bigger and better than ever before this year – and this week our half-hour weekly programme tells you why. We’re at Kelmarsh Game & Countrysports Fair, a showcase for what game fairs are offering this year.- See how you can win a Mitsubishi car on the clay line – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing for Heroes, Crufts-winning gundog and goshawks
It’s the best countryside show on telly. Half an hour a week, and this week Fieldsports Britain has for you: + The winner of Crufts working gundogs, Melvyn Hobbs and his world-beating English springer spaniel Moley and, of course, how they won + A nasty dose of shell shock: Here’s how a group of flyfishers […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed pigeon shooting
Probably the best shot in the world, George Digweed has won seven World FITASC Championships, nine World Sporting Championships, thirteen European Championships and fourteen World Cups. He runs pheasant shoots and you wouldn’t want to be a pigeon in his home county of Kent at this time of year. Just as the pigeons are hammering […]
Fieldsports Britain – New shooting kit at the IWA gun trade show 2010
Want to know the latest and greatest kit from gunshops this year? It’s the European hunting show IWA, held each March in Germany, and we’re there to see what the Brits are buying and selling. You will see the last word in sporting rifles, shotguns, camo gear – and a lot of stuff that would […]
Fieldsports Britain – Lamping with hawks + Olympic shooting + cooking squirrels
There’s so much to see in this week’s Fieldsports Britain, episode 16. We’ show amazing footage of lamping rabbits with a hawk, we’re at the launch of a new scheme that will deliver gold medals for British shooters at the next Olympics, we’re learning to shoot straighter with three national shots, including our own Ab […]
Fieldsports Britain Crufts 2010 preview
Crufts 2010 – it is the greatest dogshow on earth and Sunday 14th March 2010 is gundog day. All over the country, gundog owners are preparing to take their best friends to the NEC at Birmingham. All of them are aiming to end the day in the big hall on the lefthand side – the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Triplet girls who hunt with the Quorn
Amy, Harriet and Laura Simes are the kind of gang you’d expect to find at St Trinians. They are noisy 13-year-old identical triplets who love hunting and shooting – and on the half-hour Fieldsports Britain show available to watch from tonight you will see how we tried to keep up with them. That’s not all. […]
Shooting Politics, episode 13, 17th February 2010
The British Association for Shooting & Conservation is past its 100th birthday and has come a long way since it was a loose association of wildfowlers headed by Stanley Duncan. Now Graham Downing has written “A Sporting Century”, a book telling the history of the UK’s biggest shooting organisation and its forerunner, the Wildfowlers’ Association […]
Fieldsports Britain – Gundogs Special
In his time Chris Burns has been the gundog training expert for Shooting Times and Sporting Shooter. He runs Breezeleaf Kennels in the south of England and he has invited Sporting Shooter editor James Marchington to one of his regular shoots at Penshurst Place in Kent to show him just what topnotch gundogs can do […]
