Fieldsports Britain – Hot Cornish tuna
We’re hunting massive tuna off the Cornish coast – it’s the UK’s newest world-class big game sport. Roy Lupton is giving David a hard time as they go after a roebuck in the late rut. Should you buy new or secondhand? Ian Hodge says why a new Tikka rimfire could be a better buy than […]
You won’t believe how we caught this tuna
It’s an epic 80-minute battle. Watch top tuna angler Mark Nelson go up against a 300lb fish off Falmouth in Cornwall in one of the great big-game sportfishing tussles the world has to offer. To book a day’s tuna fishing off Cornwall, visit SportfishingCharters.co.uk Steve Porter’s tuna boat YouTube Tunny Club YouTube To watch all […]
New Tikka vs old CZ rifle
New or secondhand? Ian Hodge from Cornish and online gunshop Ian Hodge Fieldsports explains the advantages of paying for a new gun – not least that you can save the VAT if you are a farmer or pest controller. For more from Ian, click here To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 821, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain821 […]
Worst wildfire year ever – Fieldsports News, 20 August 2025
Here are the links: Record year for wildfires – BBC and BBC Kennel Club sells gundog trialling estate – ChronicleLive.co.uk London wildlife management conference – Bit.ly/ukwildlifeconference French town hands out free boar traps – Connexion France National Park pulls out of hen harrier project – Cumbria Crack Aussies protest gun laws – YouTube Python hunter wins […]
Roy’s late roebuck rut attempt
Roy Lupton might have been stood up by cameraman David during the height of the rut, but he’s not giving up. He’s heading out to see if there’s still any late rutting action. There is plenty of wildlife about, including several does with kids, but that elusive cull buck is proving hard to find. To […]
Win a Pro Ferrum gun cleaning kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 390
You can win a Pro Ferrum gun cleaning kit priced at £76.99 plus a runner-up prize of more Pro Ferrum oil in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. That’s not all. Tuna boat captain Pete Hyde says why his is the coming sport, and Roy Lupton is on hand to give us fashion tips. This week’s prizes […]
What’s the quickest PCP magazine to load?
The team at Devon and online airgun shop Crackshot get together to see which is the quickest PCP magazine to load: is it the Air Arms system, the Weihrauch version, or the one from Daystate/Brocock? Find out which wins… For more about Crackshot, click here To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 820, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain820 […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons coming in hot
It’s pigeon Top Gun this week – and they’re coming in hot. Geoff Garrod explains how he sets out his pattern so the birds present the perfect shot on their final approach. American stalkers are after roebuck in Cornwall with Ollie Williams. Plus Crackshot hosts the great PCP loading race, the grouse season is under […]
Grouse prospects ‘poor’ – Fieldsports News, 13 August 2025
Here are the links: Grouse densities down for 2025 – GWCT RSPB ‘demonising’ gamekeepers – Moorland Association Cash for firefighting gamekeepers – Cairngorms.co.uk GWT health checks for keepers – NGO New group to defend trailhunting – Countryside Alliance Essex stalkers’ butchery event – Call Wrights of Frinton on 01255674410 or email wrightsoffrinton@yahoo.co.uk Gangster’s gun licence […]
Geoff’s pigeon pattern secrets
Game chef José Souto is back out with pigeon supremo Geoff Garrod, on the Essex estate where Geoff is the gamekeeper. It’s a scorching hot summer’s day but the standing wheat still needs to be protected from hordes of pigeons. As they chat in the hide, Geoff reveals how he sets out his pattern to […]
Americans hunting roebuck
Different deer – different techniques: hunting roebuck in the UK is different to hunting whitetail in the USA. Brian Pitell and Ashley Frederick from Safari Club International’s Pittsburgh Chapter go out with Ollie Williams in the Cornish countryside during the roe rut to stalk bucks. SCI UK chapter on Facebook SCI Pittsburgh chapter on Instagram […]
Win a £75 dog training vest – Fieldsports Extra, episode 389
You can win a dog training vest priced at £75 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to Geoff Garrod about pigeon shooting kit, US big game hunter Brian Pitell about how antis behave, a farmer, a land agent and an accountant about the family farm tax, and Ollie Williams about What’s Wrong With […]
Fieldsports Britain – Get ready, McBoar are coming
We’re going full-boar this week: feral pigs are booming in Scotland. Niall Rowantree goes to Germany to learn how to manage them. Plus a rewilder teams up with a gamekeeper to create a pheasant shoot with a difference, and David has all the latest news on the news stump. It’s all in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain […]
Is Scotland wild boar ready? – Germany’s tactics revealed
Niall Rowantree knows there is a fast‑approaching feral pig crisis threatening Scotland. He travels to Germany to find out what a successful management plan looks like, plus he brushes up against the big-predator debate. Would lynx release in Scotland be a success? German hunters reveal all. For more information about the HIKMicro range head to […]
Shotgun licensing tightened – Fieldsports News, 6 August 2025
Here are the links: New shotgun rules – Gov.uk Online Safety Act hits gunshops – Gov.uk UN protection for fieldsports – HuntingKind.com BASC starts legal action against Natural England – BASC RSPB wants cash for curlews – RSPB Terrier club rescues Sherlock – Facebook Schöffel Countryside Awards – YouTube Zoo feeds pets to predators – […]
Rewilder works with gamekeeper – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 126
Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread’s Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, which combines a mix of grey partridge shooting and arable. Benedict and Southill gamekeeper Paul Dunn explain how ‘restoring’ nature and shooting can work together, including restoring wetlands and reintroducing beavers. They […]
Win a £200 offroad ATV driving course – Fieldsports Extra, episode 388
You can win an offroad driving course for quadbikes priced at £200, kindly donated by Explore Off Road in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to Niall Rowantree about wild boar and Charlie’s dad about English common law. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership […]
Starmer plans gun clampdown – Fieldsports News, 30 July 2025
Here are the links: Government plans to merge shotgun and firearm certificates – YouTube Trump embarrasses Starmer over family farm tax – YouTube Airguns stolen from range – The Argus Cambridgeshire poaching arrests – Cambs.police.uk Fake hunt websites warning – Instagram Angola opens for hunting – Facebook Foxing Land Rover for sale – YouTube Devon […]
Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 125
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of the three-day Game Fair at Ragley Hall, farmer and former MP Neil Parish comments on what we have learned from DEFRA, and what’s coming up on the rural agenda. Click here for Neil’s own podcast. Other ways to listen to […]
DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 123
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government’s record on the countryside, including the family farm tax, lead ammo ban, trophy imports, Countryside Stewardship schemes and whether he is in favour of nationalising farming. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
The future of the GWCT – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 124
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity. For more from the GWCT, go to GWCT.org.uk Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Greg Smith MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 122
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Greg Smith MP says how he spoke up for grouseshooting, even though his constituency is in Buckinghamshire. Plus he examines other threats to shooting sports. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Robbie Moore MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 121
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Robbie Moore MP talks about how he and others disposed of the attempt by BBC TV’s Chris Packham to force a ban on grouseshooting. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP at the 2025 Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 120
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP explains the threats to shooting sports from the Labour government. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Fieldsports Britain – Labour’s plan for the countryside
We put a government minister on the spot in the Game Fair Theatre. Plus we are stalking medal Swedish roebucks by the seaside, and we go behind the scenes at the 2025 World English Sporting Championship at EJ Churchill shooting ground to find out how they put it on. David can’t understand why one of […]
Government minister actually answers questions on the countryside
Find out what the government has planned for the countryside, including farm inheritance tax, lead shot, trophy imports, general licences and countryside stewardship. DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to defend the government’s record to Charlie Jacoby, while MPs and former MPs Greg Smith, Robbie Moore, Sir Jim Paice […]
Behind the scenes at the World Sporting 2025
Like the proverbial swan, the World English Sporting Championship may be gliding serenely across the water – but underneath there’s frantic paddling going on. We’re going behind the scenes to see what it takes to organise a shoot with 1,800 entries from all over the world – and how Laporte clays and traps are helping […]
Win a £269 riflescope – Fieldsports Extra, episode 387
You can win a riflescope priced at £269, kindly donated by Swamp Deer Optics in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, we talk to a shooting watchmaker, new members at the Game Fair, and David soaks up the adulation. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Digi-scope vs old-fashioned glass scope?
Ian Hodge from Cornish and online gunshop Ian Hodge Fieldsports sells a lot of optics. He says what’s happening to the markets for modern day/night vision and thermal scopes compared to traditional glass riflescopes. For more from Ian Hodge Fieldsports, click here To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 817, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain817 Watch more with […]
Fieldsports Britain – World’s best clay shots
The world’s finest clay shooters in action: we’re at the 2025 World English Sporting Championship at EJ Churchill. Jaf Jefferson is after three tricky foxes in Somerset with rifle and night vision, keeping livestock safe. Plus Ian Hodge looks at glass riflescopes versus digital and David has the news on the news stump. It’s all […]
Three tricky foxes
There are three foxes behind the farmhouse and Jaf wants to shoot them. They are a threat to next season’s lambs. Jaf and Murray are out in Somerset with rifle and night vision, keeping livestock safe. Find Jaf’s YouTube channel at YouTube.com/@southsomersetferretersfiel5202 For night vision scopes and thermal, check out ThomasJacks.co.uk To watch all of […]
World English Sporting Championship 2025
The World English Sporting Championship returns to EJ Churchill in Buckinghamshire for 2025. Around 1,800 shooters have come from far and wide to shoot the 200 world-class targets, and enjoy the razzmatazz and good-natured competition of a week-long festival of shooting. It all culminates in a close-fought six-way super-final to decide who will be crowned […]
New rural voice for Scotland – Fieldsports News, 23 July 2025
Here are the links: Scottish Rural Party – ScottishRuralParty.co.uk Police firearms licensing failures – BASC Schoolboy stands up for fieldsports – Facebook Bear hunters warned after activist threats – Sverigesradio.se Australian officials shoot deer from helicopters – ABC Africa’s hunting cash bonanza – YouTube Eco-tourists kill wildlife – Facebook Robo-bunnies tackle snake problem – Facebook […]
Win Game Fair Theatre books – Fieldsports Extra, episode 386
You can win books from guests at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus, Browning’s sponsorship manager says how to become a Brownig sponsored shot and it’s Chris Potter’s annual ferret show. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Tradition in a bottle: the art of Foxdenton fruit liqueurs
No shoot is complete without a nip of sloe gin. We talk to Nick Radclyffe of Foxdenton to discover what goes into making a delicious fruit liqueur for the field – and Nick reveals a few trade secrets on how to make the best shooting tipple. For more about Foxdenton visit FoxdentonEstate.co.uk or find them […]
Labour is failing the antis – Fieldsports News, 16 July 2025
Here are the links: Antis lose faith in Labour – The Guardian Rigby lashes out at Labour– Telegraph Shooting gives Scotland £246m in benefits – BASC Drunken tree cutting prison sentence – BBC and YouTube Irish eagles go hungry – Yahoo Oslo Court rules on bear hunt – Nettavisen.no and Nrk.no Mozambique’s lion population rebounds […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mike Yardley’s driven pheasant tips
We’re looking forward to the game season with a driven pheasant masterclass with Mike Yardley at the glorious Sandricourt estate near Paris, celebrating the launch of Browning’s new 825 over-and-under. Will you be shooting game with steel this season? Our viewers are not keen – 85% say they don’t support a ban. We gauge the […]
Massive majority against lead ammo ban
The world of shooting does not want a lead ammo ban. Look into it more carefully and a complex picture emerges. Charlie Jacoby talks to Warter Priory headkeeper Frank Croft, who banned lead on his shoot in 2021, pigeon shooters Geoff Garrod and José Souto who have moved over to steel, Simon Reinhold from gun […]
Driven pheasants with the Browning 825
We are at the glorious Sandricourt estate outside Paris, shooting driven pheasants, English style, with the new Browning 825 as the gunmaker celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first commercially produced over-and-under shotgun. In between flushes, shooting journalist Mike Yardley explains the two classic styles of shooting developed by Percy Stanbury and Robert Churchill, and […]
Win Moochwear – Fieldsports Extra, episode 385
You can win a teeshirt and knife, kindly donated by Cattyshack’s new Moochwear line, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus a farmer and former MP talks about the family farm tax, a distiller discusses his ancestors and a gamekeeper says why he has no regrets. This week’s prizes and other links: For membership now with […]
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre programme 2025
Here is a complete guide to what’s on in the Game Fair Theatre at Ragley Hall, 25-27 July 2025, which is sponsored by Carter Jonas.
Anti-gun groups welcome lead ammo ban
Anti-shooting groups have welcomed the news that the government is to ban lead shot and lead bullets in Britain. The ban is a three-year phaseout from 2026 to 2029, with exemptions for airgun pellets, small-calibre rifle ammunition such as .22LR, ammunition used by elite athletes, the military, police and in ‘outdoor target shooting ranges’ with […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to make a carbon rifle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=–WPJEehH5E How carbon fibre and steel make the best rifle barrels: we get oil under our fingernails in an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Bergara factory as the gunmaker launches its new super-light full carbon rifle. Plus the Sea Angling Classic out of Port Solent: a £65,000 prize pot for the best sea angler – […]
Sea Angling Classic 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4U_ru0LwVM The Sea Angling Classic 2025 was another nailbiting match, this time with £65,000-worth of prizes on offer. Run by @worldOFanglingspirit it took place out of Port Solent and Andy Ford went along to report on it. For more about the event, visit SeaAnglingClassic.comTo contact Andy, email Fordy@fieldsportschannel.tv To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
Seaside reef fishing – a great day out
Catch dogfish, conger – anything that lives on the bottom of the sea. Charlie Jacoby joins Fieldsports member Christopher Bryde to go reef fishing off the South Coast of England with Exe Fishing. For more about Exe Fishing visit ExeFishing.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 815, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain815 Watch more sea fishing here:
Exclusive: inside Bergara’s new rifle factory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AeaH9nglw Bergara is a relatively new name in rifle manufacturing, but the company is brimming with enthusiasm and wants to change things for hunters worldwide, reinvesting profit into projects to help change hearts and minds. Fieldsports Channel was allowed an exclusive peek into the new Bergara factory in northern Spain, where we discover the firm […]
2,500 kids learn about grouse moor management – Fieldsports News, 9 July 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7yZEGEwBI Here are the links: Let’s Learn Moor success – BASC Nesting success on managed uplands – Facebook and also on Facebook RSPB gamekeeper allegations ‘based on nothing’ – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk CIC revises red and muntjac measuring – CIC Free training for anglers – Angling Trust Northern Country Sports Show – NorthernCountrySportsShow.co.uk Gun company backs cancer […]
Win a gunpod – Fieldsports Extra, episode 384
You can win a tripod shooting stick in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re in Spain to find out about the Bergara foundation, and Chris Bryde is back out fishing – this time for dogfish. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at £80 per person hereFieldsports […]
Nicole’s first airgun rabbit
Nicole Moore wants to take up airgunning for live quarry. Happily, John Peake from her sponsor Fortis Clothing is an airgunning nut. Today he is taking her on her first outing after rabbits. She is using a day-night scope from another of her sponsors, HIKMicro. A rabbit comes out, but the shot is not plain […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeon shooting scorcher
Andy Crow is out on pigeons, on the hottest day of the year so far, with tips on how to cope with the heat. Nicole wants a rabbit with her new airgun and gets help from an expert. James Head discovers the fun you can have with a modern BB gun. Paul Childerley introduces our […]
