Day-night scopes head to head: HIK Micro Alpex vs Pard DS35
James Head from Devon and online airgun centre Crackshot compares two of his best-selling day-night scopes, the similarly priced HIK Micro Alpex and Pard DS35, and explains which one he would choose and why. Find Crackshot at Crackshot.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 797, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain797 More from Crackshot here:
Ratting action with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack
Last month we were with Sam Green in Norfolk for a driven pheasant and partridge day. Now we’re back at the shoot for a different kind of sport – ratting with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack. We start at the piggery buildings, then move on to compost heaps and game covers. The dogs ‘mark’ […]
Scotland wants to cull deerstalkers – Fieldsports News, 26 February 2025
Here are the links: Scotland could halve deerstalker numbers – News.stv.tv Rubbish keeps fox numbers high – GWCT LACS tears itself apart in High Court – The Times Wales announces greyhound racing ban – Countryside Alliance YouTube channel gives away deerstalking – YouTube Police shoot stag near school – Instagram and Facebook Wolf attacks horses – […]
Short sharp roe doe shoot
A quick outing stalking to fill the freezer: Elliot is out with John on a farm in the Scottish Highlands after a late-season roe doe with the Browning X-Bolt 2. For the Browning X-Bolt 2, visit Browning.eu For Copper Force ammo, go to Winchester.eu Find John at ProHuntLtd.co.uk Find Elliot on Instagram To watch all […]
Tikka bolt-action vs Beretta BRX1 straight-pull rifle, with Ian Hodge
Beretta and Tikka are part of the same manufacturing group, their rifles are different, but they go head-to-head on price. Ian Hodge from Cornish and online gunshop Ian Hodge Fieldsports explains what’s to like about each – and says which one is his favourite. For more about Ian Hodge Fieldsports, go to IanHodgeFieldsports.co.uk To watch […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rats vs JCB and terriers
We’re out with the Suffolk & Norfolk Rat Pack for some frantic ratting action with dogs and diggers. Elliot Roberts is harvesting meat for the freezer in Scotland, with a late doe cull. Ian Hodge compares rifles from Beretta and Tikka, SJ Hunt from the Country Food Trust talks to Charlie Jacoby in our podcast […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting sika by night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2Kl5f7i2gNiall Rowantree is stalking a sika stag in the dark in part 3 of our series A Year in the Life of Sika – and makes a surprise discovery. We are at the British Shooting Show, signing up new members, drawing some lucky prizewinners, and checking out the exciting new guns and gear on display […]
Police could raid gun owners’ homes – Fieldsports News, 19 February 2025
Here are the links: New gun grab powers – BASC Cambridgeshire licensing fail – Cambs.police.uk Shotguns could go on FACs – Countryside Alliance New shooting diary app – BoltShootingDiary.com Parking restrictions threaten shooting range – YouTube Verney-Carron files for protection – ActusNews.com Norway may challenge lead ban – FVN.no Vets urged to cut back on […]
British Shooting Show 2025 – new rifles, prizewinners and tech
Join Charlie Jacoby on a wander round the British Shooting Show 2025 looking for interesting kit, prize draws, British marques and some new thermal launches. We kick off with Alistair Harkness who is importing a new straight-pull rifle from German manufacturer Steel Action. Theoben is back, and to mark its revival the co-creator of the […]
Value of Shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 111
BASC chief executive Ian Bell explains the new Value of Shooting report , which shows how vital the sport is to rural economies. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more about the report, go to BASC.org.uk/the-value-of-shooting-report-2024 Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
The right dog for the job, with José Souto
Top game chef José Souto is a keen falconer, and uses his pointer Izzy to find and point game birds for his birds to hunt. He is keen to learn more about the skills of other gundogs, and joins Dan and Paul from Higgscroft Gundogs to see what a spaniel and retriever bring to a […]
MPs slam certificate fee hike – Fieldsports News, 12 February 2025
youtu.be/ODwzA3B4jlQ Here are the links: Certificate fee rise ‘unjustified’ say MPs – BASC Ireland faces mass deer cull – DonegalDaily.com and FRSFarmReliefServices.ie Taxpayers fund wild cat group’s ‘fetish suits’ – DailyMail.co.uk RSPB raises funds for former grouse moor – RSPB and FieldsportsChannel.tv/geltsdale/ Sky News man’s thumbs-up for BASC PR – YouTube Scotland rules out lynx release – […]
Driven shooting with the Browning 825
We join world champion clay shooter Sam Green on a lovely frosty January day at his shoot in Suffolk, to try out the new Browning 825 shotgun with a group of Browning staff and sponsored shooters, on driven pheasants and partridges, UK style. Watch a spectacular day on English partridges in France with the Browning […]
Fieldsports Britain – Game shooting with a world champion
What does a world champion clay shot like to do in January? We are shooting pheasants and partridges with the new Browning 825 on Sam Green’s shoot in Suffolk. Plus we join top game chef José Souto on a walked-up day in Leicestershire to learn about the special skills of different gundog breeds. We are […]
African officials slam UK trophy imports ban plan
African government officials are lining up to criticise the UK government for its plan to ban trophy imports. They say that the move is colonial, even racist, and takes no account for conditions in their countries. Speaking at the 2025 SCI convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Jagd & Hund hunting show in Dortmund, Germany, […]
Shooting squirrels with the high-tech Skout Evo airgun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00RtCnJvSs Terry Doe is blown away by the high-tech new Skout Evo, an airgun so advanced that it talks to you, and allows you to change firing modes at the press of a button. After months of testing on targets, he wants to take the gun out on a real hunt before it has to […]
Poachers caught on drone – Fieldsports News, 5 February 2025
Here are the links: Poachers captured on police drone – YouTube and BBC 10% of farmland in England to be planted with trees – Defra.gov.uk Hind cull U-turn – Countryside Alliance and ScottishParliament.tv Predator control promotional video – YouTube Fallow buck could be a record – CIC-wildlife.org White-tailed eagles set for Exmoor – Somerset Live Hunters […]
More than a working dog: the Malinois
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGKwBmuVnI The Belgian shepherd or Malinois has gone from herding and guarding livestock to frontline service. Dog trainer Sean Brown from Petsercise.co.uk in Northumberland introduces us to two different owners: one with a military dog-handling background and the other who wanted the Malinois as a pet. Both have different training techniques to keep the dogs […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cutting edge airgun squirrel shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWvi7LMcYhA Terry Doe is shooting squirrels with the futuristic new Skout Evo, an airgun so advanced it even talks to you. Our working dog breed series focuses on the Belgian shepherd dog or malinois. African officials have a strong message for UK politicians who want to ban trophy imports. James Head from Crackshot introduces the […]
Crackshot charity prize draw
You can win £6,000-worth of airguns and airgun kit in Crackshot’s 2025 prize draw in aid of a children’s hospice and a mental health charity. You can buy tickets online, at Crackshot’s own shop – visit g.co/kgs/h5HGPds – and at the British Shooting Show, where the draw will take place on 16 February 2025. For […]
All The Gear: Jack Pyke Lowland boots
Terry Doe has a new favourite pair of boots: The Lowland from Jack Pyke. He finds them lightweight and comfortable to wear all day, with grippy soles that don’t clog with mud. See the Jack Pyke range at JackPyke.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 792, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain792 More from Jack Pyke here:
How to call muntjac deer
There’s more to calling muntjac deer than you think. Roy Lupton reckons he has it cracked after a successful muntjac session, but this time he can’t hit the right notes, and the munties aren’t impressed. As the afternoon progresses, his luck changes and we get not one but three bucks. For more from Pulsar, visit […]
‘Mass the bass’: fishing in Florida
When one fishing-mad lad moved from the UK to Florida, he set about getting to grips with local angling opportunities. Fifteen-year-old Massimo Schneider says how he catches largemouth and peacock bass. Thanks to Mass’s brother Armando Schneider for writing and performing the music in this video. For more of Armando’s music, visit Soundcloud.com/user-215144790 To watch […]
SCI Convention smashes it for the UK
The SCI annual convention in Nashville is THE place to buy and sell hunting and shooting. At the 2025 event, British sporting agents are there in force, and doing spectacularly well. Demand for fieldsports is at an all-time high – and that can only be good for nature and conservation. Charlie finds out how good […]
Poachers run riot in 4x4s – Fieldsports News, 29 January 2025
Here are the links: Fens mass poaching meet – BBC News Gun certificate fee protest – BASC New Mauser rifle – Mauser.com Predator control promo – YouTube DEFRA bows to fish farm lobby – Instagram Zambia criticises British government – Sun.ac.za Patrol brings out annual – Patrolling.org To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 792, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Muntjac mayhem
Roy Lupton is trying to call a muntjac but finds it frustratingly hard to hit the right notes. British pheasant shooting is booming say sporting agents at a big American show. Plus a young angler shows how he reels in largemouth and peacock bass in Florida, Terry Doe puts on his Jack Pyke boots in […]
Sir Jim Paice shoots driven pheasants at Littlebury
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2C2TZjoMck Former Tory agriculture minister Sir Jim Paice has taken a lovely driven day near Saffron Walden in Essex for his friends and family. As chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, he explains why he shoots Eley steel loads in his 20-bore, and the benefits of shooting for wildlife and the countryside. Find […]
Fieldsports Britain – Golf course pheasants
Fore! GWCT chairman and former agriculture minister Sir Jim Paice is shooting driven pheasants on a golf course. Plus the cold snap doesn’t put off angling addicts: Andy Ford is flyfishing for trout in the snow. Fieldtester has Will Hogan explaining how the Swazi Doughroaster fleece got its name, Greg Smith MP is the subject […]
Snow trout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwiHhkHhvU Some anglers can’t wait until it’s warm. Andy Ford is a flyfisherman who needs his fix, so he is off to Manningford fishery in Wiltshire for a trout in the snow. For the fishery, visit ManningfordTroutFishery.netFor smoked trout from Manningford, go to BerksTrout.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 791, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain791 More […]
Swazi fleece – why is it called the ‘Doughroaster’?
Did you know that in New Zealand the “Doughroaster” is the guy left to tend the fire when out hunting? Will Hogan explains that not only is this warm technical fleece from Swazi perfect for firegazing, it also works out beating or stalking, and because of its subtle looks, you won’t feel out of place […]
Shock certificate fee hike – Fieldsports News, 22 January 2025
Here are the links: Certificate fee shock – Gov.uk and Search.app/frwi Poachers crash into ditch – Facebook Government supports grouse shooting – BASC Rewilding raises wildfire fears – Facebook Gun law book launch – Amazon Sea eagles kill 300 lambs – TheScottishFarmer.co.uk Daily Mirror faces legal challenge – Mirror.co.uk Locals are the true conservationists – […]
Antis lobby for lead ban – Fieldsports News, 15 January 2025
Here are the links: Antis lobby for lead ban – YouTube and TheGuardian.com Rogue lynx rewilders split conservation industry – Instagram Invictus Games laser guns don’t work in snow – InvictusGames2025.ca and Olympics.com Schöffel launches countryside awards – SchoffelCountry.com Chigborough catfish could be new British record – AnglingTimes.co.uk Swedish salmon film highlights decline – YouTube Western Australia […]
Police seize guns… for swearing
Les Brooks stalks deer, shoots pigeons and runs game shoots in Buckinghamshire. His cockney heritage makes him – and he is the first to admit this – a bit sweary. However, swearing got him into trouble. He called his son-in-law a rude word, that led to the son-in-law complaining to the police, @thamesvalleypoliceuk issued Les […]
Beretta 688 vs Browning 825
Ian Hodge from Cornish and online gunshop Ian Hodge Fieldsports looks at the differences and similarities between the two big shotgun launches of 2025: the Browning 825 and the Beretta 688. For more from Ian Hodge Fieldsports, go to IanHodgeFieldsports.co.uk Find him on Facebook Facebook.com/IanHodgeFieldsports and Instagram Instagram.com/ianhodgefieldsports To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s frosty fallow stalk
Roy Lupton is after a fallow doe on a lovely frosty Sussex morning, but he must work around dogwalkers, footpaths and a lack of backstops. We hear from a shooter who is the victim of a Thames Valley Police gun grab – for swearing. Ian Hodge compares new shotguns from Beretta and Browning: the 688 […]
Deerstalking among the dogwalkers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQwGxm68Zc It’s a super frosty morning in Sussex and Roy Lupton is out to stalk fallow. Out, too, are the local dogwalkers, and Roy and his friend Connor Gorsuch have to find deer undisturbed by them. Find Roy on Instagram Instagram.com/roylupton/ and Facebook Facebook.com/p/Roy-Lupton-100001695737924/ More with Roy Lupton here:
Fieldsports Britain – Big day on grey partridges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxMOet2yss It’s a Browning takeover this week, as we travel to France for a breathtaking driven grey partridge shoot to try out the new 825 from Browning, who are celebrating 100 years since the launch of the groundbreaking B25 over-and-under designed by John Moses Browning. After the thrilling fast action, we dive into the history […]
Fabulous driven English partridges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_OVq-5DAI Browning is launching its 825 shotgun, a historic milestone marking 100 years since the renowned B25 over-and-under. The gunmaker does it in style, inviting the UK’s top shooting writers and gun reviewers to an estate near Paris for a spectacular day on driven partridges – not French partridges as you’d expect, but ‘English’ grey […]
Labour’s hunt ban problem – Fieldsports News, 1 January 2025
Here are the links: Boxing Day meet success – LedburyReporter.co.uk Care home welcomes Quorn – Facebook.com RSPB accused of failing to check stoat traps – Facebook.com £12m taxpayer money paid to rewilding schemes – SearchForUKSubsidies.beis.gov.uk Browning buying Eley cartridges – Lecho.be Gun ranges boom in Finland – Newsweek.com Botswana issues 400 elephant licences – AllAfrica.com […]
The Browning story: from B25 to 825
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-PZBBoA43M The new 825 shotgun from Browning is a 100-year project. It started with the B25, designed by John Moses Browning in 1925, then took shape as the 125, 325, 425, 525 and 725. Gun writers Laurent Bedu and Michael Yardley, with help from Browning head of shotguns Lionel Neuville, tell the story of the […]
Barefoot buffalo hunt
The culmination of the week-long Cape buffalo course at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School is a hunt. The students take turns to be professional hunter, 2nd PH and ‘client’. Course leader Mynhard Herholdt has to put them in harm’s way, then make sure they get out alive. Buffalo are one of Africa’s most dangerous […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pheasants in the fog
Ollie Williams is thwarted by thick fog when he goes to shoot top notch driven pheasants at Three Valleys in Wales. Students take off their shoes and socks to stalk in to a herd of buffalo with the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. We look back over the gun licensing problems of 2024 and ask […]
2024: was it shooting’s golden year?
For shooting sports in the UK, it has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times. Team GB won gold and silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, it looks like it is the year an unsympathetic government in Westminster tries to take shooting out of the hands of the common […]
Certificate price hike goes ahead – Fieldsports News, 25 December 2024
Here are the links: £400 certificate confirmed – FieldsportsChannel.tv/guntax2025/ Wildlife Trust buys Cumbrian fell – NewsAndStar.co.uk Channel 4 attacks hunt – YouTube and Facebook Find your local Boxing Day meet – Countryside-alliance.org/boxing-day Hampshire Police repeat RSPB allegations – Hampshire.Police.uk Shop window brace mystery – Facebook To watch all of #FieldsportsBritain, episode 787, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain787
Ollie Williams shoots Three Valleys pheasants in the fog
Ollie Williams and Charlie Rolls have come to the renowned Three Valleys shoot, deep in the rugged countryside of the Welsh Marches. They are looking forward to pitting their skills against some of the most challenging pheasants in the world – but the famous hillsides are shrouded in thick fog. Unless conditions improve we may […]
Swazi Wapiti XP jacket – for game shooters and more
Will Hogan from Swazi shows the latest version of the Wapiti XP jacket, with new features that make it ideal for the game shooter. He says it’s great for deerstalking too. Find out more at Swazi.com To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 787, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain787 More with Swazi here
Gun certificates may cost £400 – Fieldsports News, 18 December 2024
Here are the links: Gun certificates may cost £400 – Telegraph.co.uk Lead ban details revealed – BASC.org.uk Deerstalker in gun-grab limbo – FieldsportsChannel.tv/stumiles Ardgay Game wins £1.5 million contract – ForestryAndLand.gov.scot Pyrenees hunting documentary – YouTube Eric Morecambe’s fishing kit up for sale – The-Saleroom.com Switzerland reopens ibex for foreigners – SwissInfo.ch and YouTube Young […]
How replica hunting trophies replace the real thing
The Westminster government wants to ban hunting trophy imports – but technology has overtaken MPs. Charlie visits Splitting Image Taxidermy in South Africa to look at how replica trophies are now better and cheaper than the real thing. Listen to our podcast that goes behind the scenes at this amazing taxidermy operation: FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast103 For more […]
Have a Crackshot Christmas
Santa’s favourite elf, James Head from Devon and online airgun shop Crackshot, says what he would like to get in his Christmas stocking this year. Check out Crackshot on the web at Crackshot.uk or find them on X @Crackshot1_ and Facebook @Crackshot1 To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 786, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain786 More from Crackshot […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hand-thrown birds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kohn2hsRvQo Beaters, who needs ’em? Here’s how the continentals put on a driven bird day. Plus, trophy bans are pointless now that modern tech means you can get a plastic replica of your trophy head that is better than the real thing. Our podcast this week goes behind the scenes at the amazing taxidermy operation […]
