Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival 2026
It is one of the highlights of the flyfishing calendar: the Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival brings together anglers from all over the UK to see who can catch the biggest bass and mullet on a fly along 35 miles of the south coast of England. For details of the event see Orvis.co.uk To watch […]
Grouse numbers bouncing back – Fieldsports News, 5 August 2026
Here are the links: Grouse prospects – FieldsportsChannel Podcast 147 Grouse shoots boost economy – Scottish Land & Estates + YouTube Firefighting at Derbyshire shoot – BASC Climate science burning scandal – Scribehound.com Shooters help wildlife during droughts Antis vandalise their way to guga hunt ban – BBC French wildlife charities using fake videos – […]
2026 grouse prospects – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 147
2026 grouse prospects FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 147 youtu.be/5ORHzLbsAVE With the Gloirus Twelftth just around the corner, the GWCT gives its verdict on what the 2026 grouse-shooting season will be like. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT director of Scotland Nick Hesford, senior advisor Scotland Felix Meister and upland ecologist Leah Cloonan talk […]
Releasing pheasants in a heatwave
It is time for part-time gamekeeper Kevin Copeland’s pheasants to go to wood. We have followed some of these birds since they were eggs; now they are going into the release pens. With the scorching hot summer of 2026, Kevin takes extra care to keep the poults calm and cool as they step out of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hot birds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O73G4n9txgPart-time gamekeeper Kevin Copeland is cautiously releasing his pheasants in scorching dry weather. With birds to wood, Robert Bucknell offers his tips for keeping on top of the local foxes. The Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival sees dozens of anglers out on the south coast after mullet and bass. We have a new round of […]
Win TwelveBore.com tea or coffee – Fieldsports Extra, episode 440
You can win tea or coffee in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by TwelveBore.com. Plus we’re out releasing pheasants, looking for mullet and David catches a tuna. 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 insurance docs hereFieldsports membership FAQs – scroll […]
Peak District wildfire fight – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 146
Peak District wildfire fight FieldsportsChannelPodcast, episode 146 Richard Bailey from the Peak District Moorland Group calls the wildfires burning across Derbyshire a ‘fire wave’. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about what the Westminster government can do about it. Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound […]
Uplands’ bureaucratic fightback against DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 145
Uplands’ bureaucratic fightback against DEFRA FieldsportsChannelPodcast, episode 145 Jo Pearson’s job at the Moorland Association is to help upland estates fill out forms. These forms are applications for controlled burning licences from Natural England – and Jo knows that, if she fills out enough forms, DEFRA may get to hear about it, and may realise […]
Westminster wildfire policy madness – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 144
Westminster wildfire policy madness FieldsportsChannelPodcast, episode 144 Nobody is in charge of preventing wildfires. That’s the charge Andrew Gilruth of the Moorland Association levels against the Westminster government. Successive government failings mean the fires we see raging in the UK’s uplands can be stopped months in advance, if only there were the political will. He […]
Shadow DEFRA secretary supports hunting and shooting
Shadow DEFRA secretary supports hunting and shooting FieldsportsChannelPodcast, episode 143 youtu.be/vo1Y0DnfEro Victoria Atkins MP and her front bench team come to the 2026 Game Fair to show Conservative support for shooting and hunting. The shadow DEFRA secretary speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about where the Labour government is going […]
Simulated stalking at Drumlanrig Castle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIUVhQ1aJM A group of aspiring stalkers set out for a glorious day on the hill with rifle and stalker. The women don’t know what to expect; they just know they won’t be going home with a dead deer. They try a variety of shooting positions, including stalking in to a big metal fallow buck target […]
Tories’ thumbs-up for hunting – Fieldsports News, 29 July 2026
Here are the links: Shadow DEFRA secretary endorses trailhunting – YouTube Deerstalking cash for 18-30s – BASC and YouTube Fieldsports Channel to buy Scribehound – Scribehound.com ‘Disgusting’ antis comment on huntsman death – Facebook BBC rails against pigeon shooters – BBC Is bird flu coming to Australia? – AustralianHunter.com.au Dolphins help out bowfishers – Instagram […]
Getting Londoners into shooting
You’d think access to rifles and shotguns would be a problem for many would-be hunters and target shooters in London – but with a rifle range and clay shoot just inside the M25, the East Barnet Shooting Club does everything it can to remove barriers to entry, plus it doesn’t cost the earth and there’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting in the city
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP_enCSNn4AEast Barnet Shooting Club is getting Londoners into shooting, with a rifle range and clay ground inside the M25. We are up on the hill at Drumlanrig doing simulated stalking. Plus Charlie talks wildfires with the experts at the 2026 Game Fair – who is really to blame? David has the news on the news […]
Game Fair and Scribehound – Fieldsports Extra, episode 439
It’s all about the Game Fair and Scribehound in this week’s FX, plus you can win a Taipan Slash airgun. Kindly donated by James Adams-Foord, via Braces of Bristol, it’s a £2,200 PCP. Also on the show, Victoria Atkins MP shows her support for hunting and shooting, and David learns to shoot a handgun. This […]
Police nicked my airguns
Devon & Cornwall Police not only seized airgunner Tim Newcombe’s rifles and pistols, they are threatening to destroy them, even though they are Tim’s property. Tim describes the moment that armed officers broke into his garden with ladders and automatic weapons, following a complaint from his estranged wife. For more gun grab stories, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/shows/fieldsportsnews/gun-grab/ […]
Beanz meanz hidez
Dan Thor is back on the pigeons near his home in Essex – but the birds are giving him the runaround. All week he has watched them flocking to feed on this field of beans, but now the barley fields all around have been harvested and the pigeons have changed their behaviour. Can he use […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fieldsports harvest festival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMfPLjy0_S8Part-time Kent gamekeeper Kevin rides shotgun as the combine harvester brings in the crops. Plus the harvest is posing a pigeon challenge for Dan Thor who is out protecting a field of ripe beans. We’re giving away five £1,000 decanters specially designed for shoot elevenses. Police grab a shooter’s airguns, then threaten to destroy them. […]
Combining for foxes
With the 2026 harvest in full swing, we look at a traditional, fun and effective method of pest control – shooting foxes, rabbits and rats in front of the combine harvester. Part-time Kent gamekeeper Kevin explains his tips and tricks. To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 869, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain869 Watch more foxshooting here:
BASC wins High Court challenge over pheasant release – Fieldsports News, 22 July 2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9G9IfxWbU Here are the links: Judge raps Natural England over pheasant release – BASC Police investigate Burnham civil servant – Telegraph Rewilding blamed for massive wildfires – Facebook and Facebook Record Game Fair expected – Bit.ly/gamefair2026 Scotland to track sea eagles – HeraldScotland.com Italy to give hunters new freedoms – EENews.net Denmark offers wolf advice to […]
Win a Taipan Slash – Fieldsports Extra, episode 438
In order to encourage the younger generation, you can win a Taipan Slash airgun, as long as you can bring along a teenager who will be its ultimate owner. Kindly donated by James Adams-Foord, via Braces of Bristol, it’s £2,200 of PCP. Plus we talk to Kevin Copeland and Dan Thor, who are out foxing […]
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre programme 2026
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre programme 2026
Hero gamekeepers battle wildfires – Fieldsports News, 15 July 2026
Here are the links: Wildfires rage across British uplands – Facebook Ofcom to investigate Packham parakeet programme – Channel 4 Catapult maker gets legal letter – Bit.ly/tjcatapults Derbyshire farmer will not be charged for shooting alleged burglar – Daily Mail Man dressed as fox pulls out of by-election – Protect The Wild Ireland rejects hare […]
Sea Angling Classic 2026
More than 100 anglers in 36 boats gather in The Solent to compete in the 2026 Sea Angling Classic. For the past two years it’s been a team from Scotland who’ve won it. They’re aiming for an unprecedented hat-trick. Andy Ford reports. For more about the event, visit SeaAnglingClassic.com To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Precision deer management
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zCrAKcmF_o Niall Rowantree is battling to hold back the spread of sika deer, and turns to high tech optics so he can select the best individuals to take out. Andy Ford is at the Sea Angling Classic: can the Scots win the richest prize in fishing three times in a row? Plus James Head from […]
Airgun moderator comparison
James Head from online and Devon-based airgun shop Crackshot compares airgun moderators. He looks at the AU Ultra, Weihrauch’s moderator and the BRK MF170, and tries them out on two of his noisiest air rifles, the BSA Ultra CLX and the FX DRS. For more from Crackshot, click here Watch more from Crackshot here:
How the Alpex Pro can help with your Sika cull
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbgTvT2AXes Niall Rowantree is trying every trick in the book to stay on top of the sika deer in the forestry blocks he manages. That means being highly selective about his culling – and today he needs to target sub-yearling hinds. To do that, he is using his new HIKMicro Alpex Pro on his Blaser […]
Win a ‘TJ’ catapult – Fieldsports Extra, episode 437
You can win slingshot, kindly donated by TJ Catapults. Plus we talk to Mark Tutton from Rifleman Firearms about his open day, Niall Rowantree about deer velvet, and how do you get to join the England International Boat Team as an angler? This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members […]
Scottish government ‘failing foxes’
Scottish government ‘failing foxes’ New laws banning foxhunting AND trailhunting in Scotland are failing foxes. That’s the experience of huntsman and master Poppy Tutcher of the Duke of Buccleuch Hunt. She says the fox population in Dumfries and Galloway has almost vanished since the 2023 ban, because people are shooting foxes and not hunting them. […]
Horse mackerel, tuna and octopus: the new reality for Britain’s sea anglers
Horse mackerel, tuna and octopus: the new reality for Britain’s sea anglers Sea fishing on England’s south coast is changing rapidly. Adam Morris of Exe Fishing won the coveted Lyme Regis Sea Angling Club Boat Species Hunt 2025 with 45 species. He says it’s no longer about bass, mackerel and flounders. He reveals the new […]
Burnham must back the countryside – Fieldsports News, 8 July 2026
Here are the links: Burnham urged to reconnect with the countryside – Countryside Alliance Scottish government ‘failing foxes’ – FieldsportsChannel.tv/scottish-government-failing-foxes South coast fish species changing – FieldsportsChannel.tv/new-reality-for-britains-sea-anglers ‘Gleneagles for dogs’ – FieldsportsChannel.tv/gleneagles-for-dogs Reality TV star ‘scared’ gyrfalcons to death – Independent British Retriever Trophy – TBRT.co.uk Sea eagle death leads to wind farm shutdown – […]
Shouty gun on a sim day
Charlie shares a peg on a sim day in Devon with a noisy shooter. It’s on the lovely Huntsham estate, organised by Keith Montague of South West Sporting and hosted by Gareth Rule of AW Rule & Son Gun Makers. Find out more at SouthWestSporting.co.uk and AWRuleAndSonGunmakers.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 867, […]
Ground Cry
Galloway farmer Jamie Blackett is leading a new campaign to save Britain’s groundnesting birds. Ground Cry aims to help ground nesting birds recover through practical conservation, stronger evidence and better policy. Visit GroundCry.com To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 867, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain867 Watch more on gamekeeping here:
Limbering up for the shooting season
Fieldsports physio Helen Stammers recommends a range of simple exercises to help you limber up ahead of the game season, ready to lug around your gun and cartridges, and take on those high flyers over your head. Follow Helen at Instagram.com/thefieldsportsphysio and Facebook.com/optimiseTFSP To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 867, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain867 More gameshooting […]
Fieldsports Britain – Sim screamers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4F57wxxpykOne gun gets excited on a sim shoot day. There’s a new campaign to save groundnesting birds – and it’s backed by farmers. Get your body ready for the game season: we talk to a physio who specialises in shooters. Plus more foxing tips from Robert Bucknell in his foxshooting diary for July, and David […]
Win a rat trap – Fieldsports Extra, episode 436
You can win a rat or squirrel trap, kindly donated by Last Stop Traps. Plus we talk to Keith Montague about topography for sim days, Helen Stammers about how she got into being @thefieldsportsphysio, Charlie Thorburn of Mordor Gundogs on his new dog ranch, and Andy Tarrant on a mobile high seat he is selling. […]
Mobile high box by MobiJagd
youtu.be/Ja0NukitznE Andy Tarrant from Tarrant Refrigeration shows Charlie around the MobiJagd mobile high box, which his firm is now importing, and selling for £8,000 and upwards. For more, go to Bit.ly/mobijagd More accessories on Fieldtester:
BASC takes Natural England to the High Court – Fieldsports News, 1 July 2026
Here are the links: BASC takes pheasant release battle to High Court – BASC Mods no longer need variation – BASC Ground Cry launches to help groundnesting birds – Scribehound Angus Glens happy with blackcock count – ForestryAndLand.gov.scot Gamekeepers find injured golden eagle – Police Scotland Council traffic lights around dead deer – Telegraph Turkey […]
How a gun grab victim won his appeal
Professional deer manager Rob Rickard was the victim of a police gun grab. He talks to Fieldsports Channel’s David Wright about what happened, and how FAB’s Layla helped in his battle to clear his name and get his certificates back. Become a Fieldsports Channel member, help fund our fight for fieldsports in the media, and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fairway foxing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28xJbJ8hcUFoxshooting down the fairways: Jon Bailey and Jake Burgess keep it discreet with a variety of calibres and the latest thermal gear from Nocpix. We hear from a gun grab victim about how the police played dirty and how he successfully fought back. Plus David has the news on the news stump. It’s all in […]
Shooting foxes on a golf course
Jon Bailey and Jake Burgess are foxshooting on a well-manicured golf course in the Midlands. There are houses nearby, so they need to go under the radar, using a variety of calibres and the latest thermal scopes from Nocpix to do the job efficiently without attracting attention. For more about the Nocpix Ace range of […]
Win tickets to the Game Fair – Fieldsports Extra, episode 435
You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the Game Fair. Plus we talk to Jon Bailey about his rifle range, and Christopher Bryde introduces us to beachcasting. 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 insurance docs hereFieldsports membership FAQs […]
FAB update #4 – latest work of the Fieldsports Advice Bureau
Layla McGuigan from the FAB Fieldsports Advice Bureau says what she has been advising members who are battling police firearms departments against certificate revocations and renewal refusals. To get access to Layla’s advice, become a Fieldsports member and fund our fight for fieldsports in the media: FieldsportsChannel.tv/membership To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 865, […]
Swarovski’s high-tech glass: dS Gen III
Tim Pilbeam is out at first light with Will Close-Smith, after a summer roebuck. It’s an opportunity to try the new Swarovski dS gen III, a £4,000 scope that combines premium glass with the latest technology. For more on the Swarovski dS gen III see SwarovskiOptik.com Book a stalk with Parkwood Deerstalking at GunsOnPegs.com To […]
Bitting pheasant chicks
Part-time gamekeeper Kevin Copeland’s pheasant chicks are two weeks old, and it is time to fit them with bits – plastic U-shapes that prevent the young birds pecking each other to death, while still allowing them to feed and drink. To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 865, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain865 Watch more gamekeeping here:
Beth breaks world shooting record – Fieldsports News, 24 June 2026
Here are the links: Beth Norton breaks world Skeet record – ISSF and watch our interview on YouTube Hounds come to Westminster – BehindTheMasks.co.uk Antis look to hijack Natural History GCSE – Gov.uk Scottish sheriff rules on gamekeeper death – Aberdeen Live EU mulls mass bear cull – Euractiv.com Government loses control of English squirrel […]
Fieldsports Britain – Malformed Sussex buck
youtu.be/d-BdxqW5EQwTim Pilbeam is after summer roebucks with a new optical scope from Swarovski that combines tech with top-quality glass. Gamekeeper Kevin Copeland is bitting his young pheasants, and says why and how to do it. We catch up with Layla from the Fieldsports Advice Bureau for the latest updates on how she is helping our […]
Win an Armtect cartridge box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 434
You can win a cartridge box, kindly donated by Armtect. Plus we have our coder, Chris Hodnett, on your free new digital membership card (you can still buy the physical photo card from the shop), Layla McGuigan of the F.A.B on police who watch the show, and Tim on David’s boots.
GB’s great shooting hope – Beth Norton
Remember Bethany Norton, the girl who won a car at age 13 in the Oxford Gun Company’s Schools Challenge competition? Six years on, she is studying at university, shooting Skeet with Team GB, and with two World Cup golds already under her belt, she has her sights firmly set on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Homekilling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZG9qpH2iecHomekill skills: deerstalkers offer their services to farmers for livestock. Olympic hopeful: GB’s Beth Norton is a junior Skeet world champion and world record holder. What to do with deer skin? A Devon tanner has the answer. Plus David has the news on the news stump. It’s all in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain Links For membership […]
