Fieldsports Britain – Hypnotise a bird and avoid a charging lion
How to hypnotise a bird, how to tell when a charging lion is going to kill you (or just scare you), how to set up your quad bike for rabbiting – all these vital ‘life skills’ and more are revealed in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. The much-admired Roy Lupton dizzies doves in order to train […]
Ian Coley Shooting School
We review Ian Coley Shooting School, one of the finest instruction, guns and game shooting resources in the West of England. Located just outside Cheltenham it has a shooting ground, gunshop and sporting agency all on one site with easy access and parking. It is the only shooting business in Cheltenham to offer a full […]
Fieldsports Britain – Project Healing Waters for Iraq war veterans
Watch Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans catch trout, talk about what they went through and explain how flyfishing helps them get over post traumatic stress disorder. Watch Browning owners get together and celebrate owning Brownings. Watch Benelli owners do the same with Benellis. And see all shooters enjoy coming together for a day at the […]
Abbey Burton hunts rabbits with night vision
Abbey Burton and Ed Ling try out rabbit shooting with the new N550 Pulsar digi-sight and an Ideback chair. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
Fieldsports Britain – Elephants and clayshooting
It’s clays, clays, stalking, elephants, muzzleloaders and more clays this week in Fieldsports Britain. We are in Kent working out what makes the best shooting sticks. We are in Zimbabwe, courtesy of Norma Ammunition, to find out when a charging elephant really means it and when they are just mucking about. We are at the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge, thermal imaging and culling roebuck
We’ve got roe deer stalking, young shots in the Schools Challenge, fox hunts growing flowers and the last word in thermal imaging to help you spot your wildlife in the programme this week. Roy Lupton is out at Kingsclere in Hampshire culling roebuck and maintaining the health of the deer herd there. Meanwhile, the staff […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ballywalter game fair
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Chief Constable Matt Baggott both show their support for hunting, shooting and fishing at the Ballywalter Game & Country Living Fair in Northern Ireland. We are there to film it for Fieldsports Britain this week. We also use the fair to take a walk through the history of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Phil Spencer goes shooting
Maneaters, rabbit burgers and a TV celebrity: Phil Spencer of Channel 4’s ‘Location Location Location’ is on the programme this week in Kent to shoot pigeons, stalk fallow deer and talk about the work of the Countryside Alliance. Norma Precision ammunition expert Don Heath tells the tragic story of his hunting student who was killed […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to tell when a buffalo is about to charge
How to avoid a charging buffalo, how Realtree camo gets you girlfriends (or boyfriends) and how to cook an Easter bunny – you get the most essential knowledge from Fieldsports Channel every week. We are with Zimbabwean professional hunter Don Heath as he explains when buffalo hunts go wrong, we are at the Kelmarsh Game […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits at night + Blenheim Palace fishing
It’s love and war this week. Sporting Shooter magazine chef Mark Gilchrist is at war with rabbits in Kent. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton’s ferrets and falcons are in the mood for love, and he has to oblige! And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam continues his love affair with fallow and roebuck stalking. Then there’s romance. What […]
Fieldsports Britain – WMS Steel Challenge
In the programme this week, we’re picking up tips from a team of long-distant rifle shooters who are at the WMS Steel Challenge range in Wales to compete for Swarovski glass, we have an entertaining way of exercising hunters with the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt in Sussex, and we are asking the question: […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dodgy antis with guns + George Digweed uses night vision
In our Fieldsport Britain programme this week we’ve gone topsy-turvy. We’ve got antis chasing deerstalkers, rabbits chasing rabbitshooters, and crow shooters sitting very, very still or the crows won’t come near them. There’s a new film out called Blooded about antis chasing naked deerstalkers across Mull. Its trailer was so shocking YouTube banned it. It […]
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge and Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow shoots pigeons
This week we’ve got pigeon shooting with the ‘crow man’ Andy Crow, deerstalking with Sporting Shooter editor Dominic Holtam, the Schools Challenge competition for the best young shooters in Britain, and our own super competition for one lucky viewer to win a TransK9 dog box for your car worth £450. Out with Andy in Kent, […]
Fieldsports Britain – IWA gun trade show 2011 and Chinese water deer
Donner und blitzen! We’re in Germany (again) – this time at the European hunting innovation show IWA, in Nuremberg, where all the best shooting products for the next year or two get their first outings. We’re looking at thermal imaging, anti-smell devices and we’re even finding time to nip off back to Bedfordshire to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Clarissa Dickson-Wright on what she would like to do to a badger
It’s the cooks and books episode! We’ve got Clarissa Dickson-Wright (that’s not a real picture in case you wondered) talking about her book Potty, wich has 100 of Clarissa’s favourite recipes that can all be cooked in one dish in the oven or on the hob. Clarissa also talks about her forthcoming book, a history […]
Fieldsports Britain – From rabbits to Cape buffalo
We’re in Sussex, Somerset and Africa looking for game big and small. Top shot Mike Yardley is after buffalo in the Limpopo region of South Africa with Oribi Outfitters. Meanwhile Commonwealth Games Olympic Trap silver medallist Abbey Burton is swapping her shotgun for rifle and is after rabbits, using Pulsar N550 Digisight night vision and […]
Fieldsports Britain – On test: Kawasaki Mule, JCB WorkMax, John Deere Gator and Kubota RTV
Fancy a new gamekeeping vehicle? We’re testing the Kawasaki Mule, the Kubota RTV, the John Deere Gator and the JCB Workmax against each other. Let’s see which one is the winner! That’s not all. We’re at a young shots event near Bristol trying out ferreting and falconry. And we’re talking to the new chief executive […]
Fieldsports Britain – Drumlanrig Castle dogs and the search for pigeons, rabbits and deer
It´s dogs and guns this week. We´re off to the fabulous kennels of the Duke of Buccleuch in South-West Scotland in search of canine comfort, and we visit the makers of the TransK9 dog transport system. Then it´s back to the south of England where Sporting Shooter magazine chef Mark Gilchrist has got a new […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven partridge with a tank, wildfowling and lamping
For the programme this week, our arsenal includes a Spartan armoured car, a double rifle converted to goose gun and two Harris hawks. And what a bag: two foxes, four rabbits, a selection of Norfolk partridges and the reachiest pinkfoot goose you may ever have seen. We’re shooting driven birds with the Light Dragoons next […]
Fieldsports Britain – German driven boar
Achtung boar! We’re in Germany on a driven boar hunt with top sports optics company Zeiss and we ask the question: who are the top boarshooters? Germans, Italians, Scandinavians or Brits? Find out here. That’s not all. We are also following up injured animals with a Hanoverian hound. And we are in London with Rob […]
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 […]
