Fieldsports Britain – driven wild *porco* 🐗

Fieldsports Britain – driven wild *porco* 🐗

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdhe6U48Do We’re hunting and fishing in northern and southern Europe this week. Roy Lupton has a multi-day montería in Portugal to enjoy, with wild boar a-go-go. Meanwhile, Niall Rowantree is in Lapland fishing for salmon, loving it, and explaining how he has given up on salmon in Scotland. Also in Scotland, the Assynt Crofters are […]

Win £160 of Shooterking clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 261

Win £160 of Shooterking clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 261

You can win a Moorland jacket and Moorland trousers from Shooterking priced at £160. Plus, Charlie is in the USA at the Safari Club International convention, Roy is in Portugal and Niall Rowantree is in Lapland, Birmingham and Tennessee. My, that man gets around.This week’s prizes and other links:Best Fox Call IcoTec Rascal websiteShooterking Serious Country […]

How not to roost-shoot pigeons

How not to roost-shoot pigeons

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVAYffKgO4 It could have been superb – but Dan Thor is  having a bad day. The pigeons are flocking into the wood where they roost in Essex. However, there’s no wind. They are coming in too high. Here’s how he copes with a pigeon roost-shoot day going wrong.   For Browning and Miroku guns go […]

How to film a big game hunt

How to film a big game hunt

Charlie Jacoby is with a professional hunter from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Edwin Corney is turning his hand to filming and Charlie is training him to film for Fieldsports Channel. Here’s how he gets on during a sable antelope hunt.Click here for more from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School  Here’s the film […]

Win a fox caller priced at £99 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 260

Win a fox caller priced at £99 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 260

You can win an IcoTec Rascal foxcaller from Best Fox Call priced at £99. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, how the British Shooting went, with a police firearms enquiry officer explaining himself, and Charlie is training a new cameraman in Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear […]

British government’s back-door ban on shooters who have lived abroad

British government’s back-door ban on shooters who have lived abroad

youtu.be/UCAqHqCM5yw The government’s new policy of granting gun certificates on production of medical records is penalising people who have lived abroad and don’t have medical records. Charlie Jacoby meets two people like that at the 2023 British Shooting Show. David Taylor is a British citizen who has lived his life in South Africa, where doctors […]

British Shooting Show 2023 – for gun collectors

British Shooting Show 2023 – for gun collectors

Did you think the 2023 British Shooting Show is only all about shiny, new kit? There’s plenty there for the gun collector, too. Charlie Jacoby chats to Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk about what he found.

Spitting sab convicted of assault – Fieldsports News, 8 February 2023

Spitting sab convicted of assault – Fieldsports News, 8 February 2023

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCdhr_qK9uk Here are the links: Spitting sab convicted of assault – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11705067/Saboteur-Boxing-Day-hunt-SPITS-woman-vowing-p-graves-riders.html Bird flu spreads to other mammals – www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64474594 Exmoor red deer TB link to cattle – link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01638-y Autumnwatch cancelled after Packham steps back – fieldsportschannel.tv/packhamcase Study looks at reintroducing black grouse to Sussex – www.birdguides.com/news/plans-to-reintroduce-black-grouse-to-sussex/ Welsh snares ban will harm threatened species – […]

Win a Spartan bipod priced at £289 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 258

Win a Spartan bipod priced at £289 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 258

You can win a Spartan bipod priced at £289, kindly donated by Baileys Shooting & Countrywear. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, we go to the Hunting Kind one-day conference, member Dave Hayes is on a mission to teach Scouts about British game, and there’s good news for crow and […]

Fieldsports Britain – beaters’ big day

Fieldsports Britain – beaters’ big day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9XvkqH9kY It’s Dan Thor’s beaters’ day – the big day for all the people who have put hard work into the pheasant season producing wonderful birds for guns, when they get to shoot the birds themselves. Find out how he gets on at Brent Pelham in Hertfordshire. We also preview the British Shooting Show, and […]

DEFRA works out that pheasants breed but once a year… duh – Fieldsports News, 1 February 2023

DEFRA works out that pheasants breed but once a year… duh – Fieldsports News, 1 February 2023

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4h9uBaKbd0 Here are the links: EU and UK agree new bird flu trade regs – AimtoSustain Scottish Government licenses hunting – Scottish Gamekeepers Association + Countryside Alliance Edinburgh plans to ‘go vegan’ – Farmers’ Weekly UK trophy ban bill next stage – Westminster Parliament Hunt confronts antis over spraying citronella – YouTube Record number of […]

Win £145 of Elevenses Distillery gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 257

Win £145 of Elevenses Distillery gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 257

You can win four bottles of Elevenses Distillery gin priced at £145. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, Gareth Wyn Jones talks about the perils of ignoring traditional landowners, we have a story about a dragon and I hand over a box of booze to wildfowler Andy Peake. This week’s […]

Packham sues YouTube channel over Facebook post

Packham sues YouTube channel over Facebook post

In January 2023, Chris Packham’s lawyer Leigh Day contacted us to say he plans to sue Fieldsports Channel Ltd over a Facebook post and an article on FieldsportsChannel.tv from June 2022.  Chris has willingly appeared on Fieldsports Britain since 2017, so we were surprised he reached for lawyers instead of a telephone in this case, […]

Fieldsports Extra ‘Extra’ – Packham wants to sue

Fieldsports Extra ‘Extra’ – Packham wants to sue

Here are Packham’s demands:i. Substantial damages in a sum to be agreed, with the amount to be fixed according to the extent of your cooperation with the balance of the demands in this letter;ii. The removal by you of the publications complained of from the URLs identified above;iii. An apology and retraction in terms to […]

Hunting British wild boar

Hunting British wild boar

Cai Ap Bryn takes part in a boar cull in Gloucestershire that has him waiting out in freezing temperatures but with high reward. It’s all part of a war on wildlife that the Westminster government won’t admit. Here’s how shooters and hunters are solving the problem of British wild boar. For more about Cai’s Bergara […]

Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s big UK pig

Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s big UK pig

Action and suspense in the woods for Cai Ap Bryn as he heads to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire as part of a team shooting British wild boar for the table. The guys at Deerbox.co.uk are struggling to keep up with demand for boar. It’s a tough outing for Cai in freezing temperatures but […]

Win tickets to the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 256

Win tickets to the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 256

You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 Februatry 2023. Plus Ben Heath from Deerbox looks back on a successful first couple of years and Victor Clements, who advises the Assynt Crofters Trust, says what the John Muir Trust is doing wrong.This week’s […]

Duck with a red-dot sight

Duck with a red-dot sight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_A3P_9HJ4It’s a classic driven pheasant and duck shoot for Roy Lupton, except it’s in Sweden and all the shooters are using Aimpoint red dot sights. He masters his Aimpoint S1 and puts it through its paces on snow-covered ground among some of the stateliest scenery southern  Sweden has to offer. The guns are also shooting […]

Five dead goshawks – what the police missed

Five dead goshawks – what the police missed

by Charlie Jacoby Police have arrested a man in connection with five birds of prey found shot in Suffolk. Police launched an investigation in January after the birds were found near a woodland car park near Thetford. X-rays established all five birds had been shot. A £13,000 reward was set up for information which could […]

Win a £130 Whisky Box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 255

Win a £130 Whisky Box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 255

You can win a Whisky Box from the Elliott Ross Company priced at £130 for your shooting and stalking outings. Plus one of our members introduces me to a newly refurbished clayground, Roy is getting beaten up in Switzerland, and a big game hunter is getting a thrashing from the Daily Mirror.Gun Dog Gun The Whisky […]

Recipe: smoked rabbit on an open fire

Recipe: smoked rabbit on an open fire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkwE85uINE Joe Wood (@high_elms) hot smokes rabbit loins over an open fire. Firstly, he cures them, sprinkling on a mixture of salt, sugar, star anise, bayleaf and black pepper. Cure the rabbit for 15 minutes, rinse off the cure and get the smoker going, using Half a cup of rice, 3 tbsp brown sugar and […]

How to hunt with a flintlock musket

How to hunt with a flintlock musket

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqHE2LgWkaY Fieldsports Nation member Joe Wood is a black powder enthusiast. He owns a reproduction 18th-century Brown Bess muzzleloading flintlock musket, and he wants to take it mooching for a rabbit or a pigeon. First, though, he needs to set up a target and check everything is working as it should. Put your fingers in […]

Win Gundog Gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 254

Win Gundog Gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 254

You can win Gun Dog Gin this week. Plus BBC Countryfile is nice about shooting. Don’t be fooled: Roger Draycott from the GWCT talks about threats to shooting, bushcrafter and black powder shooter Joe Wood talks about the benefits of Instagram, and Cornish shoot captain Mark Symons says he hardly ever shoots on his own […]

Win a Fieldsporter knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 253

Win a Fieldsporter knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 253

You can win one of Dean Smallwood’s ADG Custom Knives this week. Plus there’s a Swedish landowner on how to manage your deer, and Dominic Boulton from Aim to Sustain on how to manage your expectations for next season’s pheasant and partridge shooting.This week’s prizes and other links:For Cattyshack catapults, visit Cattyshack.co.ukFind ADG Custom Knives […]

News review 2022

News review 2022

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrDNGtRW_r4 2022 was a challenging year for hunters and shooters.  At Fieldsports Channel we have championed your causes and covered a wide range of stories from bird flu, the war in Ukraine and the death of Her Majesty the Queen. Below are the links to all the films featured in our news review of year.  […]

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