Urbanisation forces hunt to close – Fieldsports News, 8 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd913-UdG7M Here are the links: Ancient hunt to disband – BBC Bluefin tuna CHART programme to continue – Angling Trust Appeal for shooters to lobby Welsh Government – GWCT National Trust bans grouse shooting on Peak District estate – The Star Fears of anti-shooting bias in Attenborough wildlife series – Twitter Anglers celebrate National Trust […]
Win a £195 tweed gilet – Fieldsports Extra, episode 262
You can win a tweed reviersible gilet from Pin Piuma priced at £195. Plus, Cathy Mayne talks about hunting trophies and Charlie is in hot water in South Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Shooterking Pin PiumaWest Highland Hunting Packham case on Fieldsports NewsSelous Flyfishing Camp Skiing cockerels How to enter Fieldsports Nation competitions: for members on YouTube, Patreon […]
Scottish vs Swedish salmon fishing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMfkCemLIeo The River Kalix is one of Swedish Lapland’s premier salmon rivers – and that’s where Niall Rowantree goes to try for a fish. Unlike Scotland, there are plenty of fish in this river. To book a fishing trip or a holiday, check out Jockfall.com For more info about Swedish Lapland, go to HeartofLapland.com […]
Roy’s Portuguese boar hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnZIPJacas When it comes to fast-action shooting on driven big game hunts, Roy Lupton is one of the UK’s top shots. He goes to a Portuguese montería to try his hand at speedy wild boar, and finds out what it takes to put on a huge and complex hunt. For Tikka rifles, go to […]
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 […]
New gun law threat – Fieldsports News, 1 March 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtC-lES94pk Here are the links: Fieldsports groups lobby ministers to protect gun laws – Countryside Alliance Poachers banned from owning dogs – FarmingUK MPs debate shortening woodcock season – Hansard No UK release plans for wolves and lynx – Guardian Sabs criticise police over trailhunter PC – BBC Holy Island fish victory – Daily Mail […]
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 […]
PoIitician or PH: who’s the conservation hero?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blO_hSfhOs by Charlie Jacoby In the wild Northern Cape of South Africa, professional hunter Ben-Mari du Plessis is doing all she can to keep her herd of sable antelope alive. In the Palace of Westminster, 8,000 miles away, a politician in the British government, Rebecca Pow, is trying to stop her. Ben-Mari and her family […]
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 […]
Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Fieldsports News, 22 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPt5csr7YxU Here are the links: Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Guardian Police investigate after sab hit by horse – BBC Court rules that being an anti is ‘religion’ – Guardian Kent anglers defend a moat – petition Wildcats to be released in Devon & Cornwall – BBC Gamekeepers welcome muirburn – research […]
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 […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dan Thor’s pigeon predicament
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuurozMuw8 It was all looking so good. The pigeons are pouring into the wood, the guns are spread out, but Dan Thor is about to have one of the worst roost-shooting outings of his shooting career. Find out what goes wrong in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Plus, Charlie is in South Africa asking why London politicians […]
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
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
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.
Scouts learn about wild game and shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC57YSGhcK8 Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a simple mission: to introduce Scout groups to wild game. It’s a way of reconnecting kids with nature and he is touring the South-East of England’s Scout groups to do it. Find your local Scout group at scouts.org.uk
Ollie Williams hosts a shoot day after falling off a balcony ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHqFnpzTtA It might be the end of the driven shooting season but it’s Ollie Williams’ first day back after a serious injury. He is hosting a shoot day with the help of two walking sticks, following an accident before Christmas where he fell off a balcony in Germany. He explains all that and has time […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ollie’s shooting pain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfJQf_Agzw Ollie Williams is disabled – it’s short-term, and it’s not stopping him from hosting a shoot day at home in Cornwall. We join him and friends to see how he copes on sticks. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a mission to introduce Scout groups to wild game. He explains how he takes […]
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
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 […]
British Shooting Show 2023 preview – #BSS2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8Vc2tXZ48 We preview the Great British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 February 2023. Click here for British Shooting Show tickets Crackshot offer More from the British Shooting Show here:
Fabulous end-of-season pheasants at the Brent Pelham shoot, with Dan Thor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHlDKBG7F4 What a way to end the pheasant-shooting season. Dan Thor is out with friends from the beaters’ line shooting driven birds at the Brent Pelham shoot in Hertfordshire – all the usual suspects plus more. The birds are flying well, the weather is bright and it all makes you look forward to next season. […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Dog training: how to work open ground
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGMk6ujodI Expert trainer and gundog breeder Dave Templar from Countryways Gundogs shows a field-trial-winning flush and retrieve by a cocker, and how he trains the dog to do it. For more about Dave, go to his website More from Dave the Dog
Police firearms failings put public in danger – Fieldsports News, 25 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftO_d-mXyQw Here are the links: BASC says firearms licensing is in crisis – BASC Horrific scene as poachers kill stag Petition prompts woodcock parliamentary debate – Wild Justice petition Gamekeepers shining spotlight on hare numbers – Fieldsports News Deer larder plans scrapped after anti backlash – Daily Telegraph Research recommends muir burning as management tool […]
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 […]
How to hit high partridges, with instructor Steph Davey at Ashcombe Adventure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQuAUrOZNM Fieldsports Nation member Philip Young wants to hit high partridges this season, so he has a lesson with instructor Steph Davey. It’s also an opportunity to take a look at the newly-refurbished Ashcombe Adventure clay ground in Devon, now managed by local gunshop Sportsman Gun Centre. Find Steph Davey on her website and on […]
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 […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s stately Swedish pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1dm9krFGEA It’s all about the bird shooting in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Roy Lupton is on a driven pheasant and duck day in Sweden, laid on by Aimpoint. He gets to use the Aimpoint S1 sight on his shotgun, plus he uses steel shot and discovers its limitations on driven birds. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Philip […]
Dead goshawk mystery – Fieldsports News, 18 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrv2FTjQ70 Here are the links: Five young, fledged goshawks found dead – Fieldsports News Antis give police ‘heavily edited footage’ – North Wales Police or Word doc CPSA wants to drop ‘pigeon’ for ‘target’ – CPSA survey Scottish gamekeepers rage at out-of-season cull – The National + Nature.Scot Snares in political spotlight at Westminster – […]
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
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 […]
Lovely small shoot day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-O5YcLvkOMHow does a small shoot run? Charlie Jacoby joins a shoot in North Cornwall, where almost anything can happen – and usually does. Thanks to Ian Hodge Fieldsports for asking him along. More pheasant shooting stories here:
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
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 […]
Fieldsports Britain – shooting a Brown Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdaHGUFQ3U Flash bang – ever thought about going shooting with a musket? That’s what Joe Wood from the Lincolnshire Wolds does. Today he is after rabbit, plus serves up a tasty smoked rabbit, cooked over an open fire. Meanwhile, Charlie is off to a pheasant shoot in Cornwall, where things never go according to plan. […]
At last, Scottish wind farms admit killing birds of prey – Fieldsports News, 11 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvV-OWaM5Q4 Here are the links: Wind turbines kill Scottish birds of prey – Daily Telegraph Quarantine for caught-up pheasants and partridges – DEFRA (PDF) HSE postpones lead ammo report – Countryside Alliance RSPB wants pheasant releasing halted – BBC Countryfile RSPB seeks island ferret hunter – job ad Elon Musk lights up antis on Twitter […]
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 […]
Dog training: how to control yourself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSCejngkKLA Dave ‘the Dog’ Templar is training a cocker in cover for field trials. This is slightly different to training a dog to work on a driven pheasant day. The principles are the same – and one of them is keeping a lid on your own emotions. He talks about how to do that. For […]
Swedish driven boar 🐗 & trophy bucks with new ShotKam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-qEJeIeRwQ Roy Lupton is one of the best shots with a rifle on driven big game that red dot sight manufacturer Aimpoint has come across. Now we have the proof. He has a stonking day on wild boar and deer, including medal fallow. It’s a driven hunt on a private estate in Sweden, sponsored by […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s massive driven big game day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51E-RugYpD0 It’s probably the biggest driven big game day we have filmed. Roy Lupton is on form with his Tikka rifle and Aimpoint sight, as the boar and bucks come at him. Find out just how on form. Meanwhile, top gundog trainer Dave Templar says how controlling himself is harder than controlling his field trialling […]
Government bans antis from MoD land – Fieldsports News, 4 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbq48ydp3k Here are the links: MoD takes on hunt sabs – Twitter Hunters clean sabs’ graffiti – Staffordshire Live BASC opposes Scottish firearms licence increase – BASC English MP calls for new hunting ban – Plymouth Herald Scottish red squirrel protection cash wasted – Yahoo Scottish bill could allow foxhunting at Balmoral – ProtectTheWild Packham […]
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
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. […]
