Royals snip ribbon on new Purdey shop in Berkshire
youtu.be/MhC-ilEN3Sc The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have officially opened Purdey’s new gun shop in Berkshire. The Royal couple went to the Royal Berkshire Shooting School to open the shop, which has been seven years in the planning. Purdey took over the shop in 2018. TRH the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at Purdey
Niall Rowantree: what is ‘trophy hunting’ in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132
While Keir Starmer’s government is keen to ban trophy hunting in other peoples countries, it has no views about the roughly 20,000 stag heads handed to grateful hunting tourists by paid stalkers in Scotland each year. Deer manager Niall Rowantree discusses the issues around ‘trophy hunting’ and how Starmer has got it wrong. Watch Niall […]
The real story behind trophy hunting in Scotland
Why do people hunt trophy stags in Scotland? Professional deer manager Niall Rowantree explains that it’s not about ego — it’s about ecology. Hunters from around the world join Niall to stalk mature, non-breeding stags as part of sustainable deer management. They may want to keep the antlers as a memento of the experience, but […]
Fieldsports Britain – Trophy stags in the Highlands
Who goes trophy hunting red stags in the Scottish Highlands, and why do they do it? We’re with Niall Rowantree at the start of the rut to find out. Niall goes deeper into the subject in this week’s podcast. Plus, with the Labour government committed to banning ‘trail hunting’, Hunting Kind holds a conference in […]
Labour’s attack on gun licensing: what to do – Fieldsports News, 5 November 2025
Here are the links: Have your say on shotgun licensing changes – Facebook Farage promises to repeal trail hunting ban – FieldsportsChannel.tv/reform-pledges-reverse-labour-trail-hunting-ban Royal opening for new Purdey gunshop – FieldsportsChannel.tv/new-purdey-shop-in-berkshire Annie Oakley gun for sale – BBC Cable-tangled moose shot – VG.no Browning’s Scottish week – YouTube Spanish hunters are ordinary blokes – Okdiario.com Pheasant […]
Reform UK pledges to reverse Labour’s planned ban on trail hunting
youtu.be/2qZZKBwCJAI Speaking at the Biodiversity, Wildlife Management & Cultural Heritage Conference in London, David Jones, chair of the Reform UK campaign for the 2026 Welsh Senedd elections, announced that, “if this Labour Government bans trail hunting – an activity in which no animal is pursued – the next Reform Government will reverse that ban.” Labour’s […]
Weihrauch HW100 vs Daystate Revere
James Head from Devon and online airgun shop Crackshot looks at the pros and cons of two of his top-selling PCPs, the Weihrauch HW100 and the Daystate Revere. For more from Crackshot, click here To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 832, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain832 More from Crackshot here:
Win a Purdey paperweight – Fieldsports Extra, episode 401
You can win a Purdey paperweight priced at £265 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Purdey. Plus we have Niall Rowantree talking about hummels, Dr Nick Fox explains how to protect hunting sports using UNESCO and Alastair Phillips from Purdey celebrates the opening of the gunmaker’s new shop in Berkshire. This week’s prizes […]
British Army clay shots target drones – Fieldsports News, 29 October 2025
Here are the links: Army looks to shotguns to counter drones – Youtube MP ticks off police chief over gun licensing – Facebook Drug test to get a certificate? Injured pigeon shooter raises money for hospital – Hampshire Medical Fund CenterParcs’ red squirrel success – Center Parcs Belgian hunters corner English poachers – HVV.be Sweden […]
Driven grouse at Bolton Castle
Gamekeeper Paul Childerley is on a busman’s holiday. Usually running his own driven pheasant, partridge and duck shoots in the south of England, today he is at the Bolton Estate in the Yorkshire Dales for a day of driven grouse shooting. There is plenty of exciting action in the butt, and we learn how the […]
Glorious Isle of Mull stag stalk
After a wet and wild day’s stalking on the Isle of Mull, Tim Pilbeam is back out after a stag with the Steel Action rifle from Germany. This time a change in the weather leads to a change of plan. To learn more about the Steel Action Rifles go to Steel-Action.de For Schmidt and Bender […]
Northern Country Sports Show 2026 – what to expect
Harrogate looked like it wasn’t going to get a northern shooting show in 2026 – until a couple of standholders stepped up and said they would organise it themselves. Charlie Jacoby went on a rimfire range-day to meet them and find out more. More about the show here NorthernCountrySportsShow.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Childerley on grouse
Paul Childerley is shooting driven grouse at Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales. We’re back stalking stags on the Isle of Mull where a change of wind means a change of plan. Plus we meet the people behind the new northern shooting show in Harrogate next year, and David has the news on the news […]
Win a £350 knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 400
You can win a knife priced at £350 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by ADG Custom Knives. Plus we have grouse moor owner Lord Bolton on what grousehooting pays for, Scottish stalker oGraeme Sinclair on his best anti-midgie gear, and Charlie’s dad Martin Jacoby gives Darwin’s reason for why the antis are wrong… […]
Schoolkids to take fishing GCSE – Fieldsports News, 22 October 2025
Here are the links: New fishing GCSE – Countryside Alliance Antis trash game pens – UnoffensiveAnimal.is Surrey Police inaction on poaching – Surrey Police Scottish wildfires ‘biggest in living memory’ – BBC Gone Fishing returns to the BBC – BBC Catfish could be a world record – Facebook + Facebook PETA wants memorial for chickens – […]
Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 131
youtu.be/ecJCcooVTn0 Here is the story behind the PDS1. David Wright talks to the man who came up with it, Peter Jones – and asks the question: is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? You can find the PDS1 in our shop, priced at £395 Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Dan Thor’s pigeon-shooting surprise
Dan Thor is excited to be back on the pigeons after an unusually quiet summer. He is out with his friend Dean @essex_hunter_ and there are plenty of birds about – but they are spread over several large fields that have just been drilled. They pick a spot, but will the gamble pay off? Dan […]
David takes the PDS1 deerstalking test
After years of filming hunters and never pulling the trigger himself, Fieldsports Channel’s David Wright swaps his camera for a rifle and takes the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate level 1 with Peter Jones from the Shooting & Hunting Academy. Book your PDS1 course here: FieldsportsChannel.tv/product/proficient-deer-stalking-course-pds1 Learn more about the shooting and hunting academy here: ShootingAndHuntingAcademy.co.uk […]
Fieldsports Britain – Autumn pigeons
Dan Thor gets more pigeons than he bargained for in an exciting day’s decoying on the drillings. Fieldsports Channel’s David swaps his camera for a rifle to get his PDS1 deerstalking qualification with Peter Jones from the Shooting & Hunting Academy – then he is back in front of the camera with the news on […]
Can-Am launches an updated Traxter gamekeeping workhorse for 2026
Gamekeepers’ favourite, the Can-Am Traxter, will see the launch of a new model in 2026. The HD11 represents a ground-up overhaul of the V-twin HD9 and HD10 models, both launched in 2022. Prices for Can-Am’s new HD11 model in both four wheels and six wheels, start at under £25,000, nearly £10,000 more than the old […]
Win Jack Pyke clothing and boots – Fieldsports Extra, episode 399
You can win a Jack Pyke hoodie, trousers and a pair of boots priced at £150 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the perils of stalking in Florida form James Scheider, what Darren Sherwood from Exmoor Game School offers, and a tour of the Safari Club International Hunter’s Embassy in Washington DC from […]
Hart Topek 40 backpack review
by Guy Singleton Firstly, a huge thank you to Fieldsports Britain and S&H for the backpack. Out of 256 entrants, I was the lucky winner of this competition. And what a prize. The backpack is well made, with quality materials and stitching. It is a nice tactile material, which, despite being soft, looks quite durable. There […]
Gold medal sika stag
Peter and Mike set off to attempt the first ever Dorset Macnab: Fur, Feather and Bluefin tuna in a day. Storm Amy scuppers their plans, but they snatch success from the jaws of defeat, stalking in to one of Dorset’s monster sika stags – which turns out to be a gold medal. To talk to […]
Outrage at police bull slaughter – Fieldsports News, 15 October 2025
Here are the links: Police shoot escaped bull – Three.fm Scotland backs down on muirburn rules – Moorland Association on X Wales consults on greyhound ban – Survey here National Trail Hunting Day – WeAreHunting.com Vinnie Jones stars in new magazine – CountrySports.net BASC pie & pea supper – Tickets here Hunters fund Pakistan medical […]
Classic Webley revolvers: CO2 pellet firing replicas
Terry Doe is shooting a faithful reproduction of the classic Webley Mk VI revolver, now available as a CO2 powered pellet pistol. As a confirmed air rifle enthusiast, he is discovering a whole new world of pistol plinking fun – and he says it will improve his rifle shooting technique too. See the range of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Monster deer of Dorset
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUSErJs5NU We are stalking into one of Dorset’s monster sika stags with a gold medal head. A group of schoolkids learn how to break down a roe carcase. Terry Doe is having a plinking good time with a CO2 reproduction of the classic Webley Mk VI revolver, and David has the news on the news […]
The Exmoor Game School
Darren Sherwood runs the Exmoor Game School with a mission to bring field-to-fork to the attention of schoolkids across the South-West. After 22 years as a schoolteacher, Darren set up the Exmoor Game School, a not-for-profit company, to engage children and families with the origins of their food, and to promote the ethical, sustainable and […]
Win more gun oil – Fieldsports Extra, episode 398
You can win more gun oil from Tygris in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus David complains about the weather, Pete Hyde shows how to grow the perfect Christmas tree and Paul Austin is launching a new shooting magazine. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wet and wild stag stalking on Mull
Wet and wild in Mull: Tim Pilbeam battles the weather to get onto the stags. Terry Doe says what the well-dressed airgunner is wearing this season. BASC and a cartridge importer discuss the lead shot ban in this week’s podcast, and David has the news on the news stump. It’s all in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain […]
Our camera died – but we got our stag
Fieldsports Channel cameraman David’s video camera has survived all kinds of abuse over the years, but this trip was the final straw for his trusty Panasonic camcorder. He is filming Tim Pilbeam after an early season stag on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The beasts are wary, the terrain is […]
What to wear for autumn airgun hunting
Now that autumn is here, Terry Doe runs through his choice of hunting clothing to keep you comfortable and effective in the field no matter what the weather throws at you. See the Jack Pyke range at JackPyke.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 828, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain828 More with Terry Doe here:
Conservationists release predators – Fieldsports News, 8 October 2025
Here are the links: Pine martens released on Exmoor – BBC and TwoMoorsPineMartens.org Hunting worth €180 billion a year to Europe – FACE and YouTube DEFRA shadow’s thumbs-up for shooting – BASC Browning buys Eley-Hawk – FNHerstal.com Northern Ireland fish disaster – BBC Foxhound blood donation – Instagram Western Australia gun rally – YouTube Target shooters fire […]
BASC on the lead shot ban – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 130
youtu.be/opxam757Z7E Ian Bell and Terry Behan from BASC join Nick Levett-Scrivener from non-lead cartridge importer Shooting Star to discuss the Westminster government’s plan to restrict lead cartridges. They join Charlie on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025. Click here for the latest from BASC on non-lead ammo. For Shooting Star, go to ShootingStarCC.co.uk Other […]
Win a £134 Hart backpack – Fieldsports Extra, episode 397
You can win a a combined backpack and rifle slip from Hart in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we go behind the scenes on Mull where David is filming Tim Pilbeam and others, we have a close encounter with a stag from William Paquay of Browning, and Charlie celebrates the life of Mo. This week’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Caithness red rut stalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoVrLazIP7UAre deer learning to use deer fences against deerstalkers? We’re stalking Scottish reds in the rut and one stag is giving us the deer-equivalent of two fingers. Plus we are out in the Yorkshire Dales with the Cigar Smoking Hunter. James Head compares airgun night vision scope options, the new Daily Telegraph environment editor Patrick […]
‘Flawed’ Scottish bill threatens deerstalking – Fieldsports News, 1 October 2025
Here are the links: Mandatory training threatens Scottish deerstalking – BASC London hunting conference filling up fast – Hunting Kind Dyfed-Powys Police try to confiscate the same guns twice – Dyfed-Powys Police Anglers win battle of Derbyshire pond – Countryside Alliance Albania reopens hunting – Facebook Elephant attacks tourists who go too close – Facebook […]
Cigar-smoking hunter
Think Cigar Smoking Hunter and you might imagine an old man in tweed with a box of Havanas. Not this one. He’s a 31-year-old electrician from Manchester called James, he prefers new world cigars, and he has a YouTube channel called The Cigar Smoking Hunter’. This evening, he is out stalking roebucks in the Yorkshire […]
Night vision scopes: HIKMicro Alpex 4K Lite LRF vs Pixfra Volans V850 LRF
James Head from Crackshot compares two of his top selling night vision scopes, the HIKMicro Alpex 4K Lite LRF and the Pixfra Volans V850 LRF, listing their pros and cons. For more about Crackshot go to Crackshot.online More from Crackshot here:
How deer use fences against hunters
Fences are an obstacle for deer, and an obstruction for deerstalkers. We are in glorious Scottish countryside in the far north of Caithness with François Fortpied from Belgium and stalker John Dodd. These blocks of forestry around Loch Calder, near Thurso, offer the chance of a red or a sika in the rut, and maybe […]
Win Tygris gun oil – Fieldsports Extra, episode 396
You can win a set of three gun oils from lubricant specialist Tygris in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re out deerstalking with the Cigar Smoking Hunter in Yorkshire, we look at a stalker-and-client relationship in Scotland, and Dean Smallwood livens up Fieldsports Live by having a stroke. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership […]
Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 129
youtu.be/mC2bsWSa7xg Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025, two months before he takes up his job, to talk to Charlie about his latest book, Uncommon Ground. For Patrick’s book, Uncommon Ground, visit Amzn.to/42OF6tU For more from Patrick, visit Telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pa-pe/patrick-galbraith/ Other ways to listen to our […]
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking SAS-style
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wehn3w9Ay8We are deerstalking in Hampshire, and hearing about the campaign to protect ex-soldiers from prosecution half a century on. Roy Lupton competes with the best at a thrilling falconry event that pits the birds against a remote controlled crow. Plus we are at the loch-style flyfishing championship on the Lake of Menteith, and David has […]
Black grouse return to North Yorks Moors – Fieldsports News, 24 September 2025
Here are the links: Black grouse breeding success – GWCT NGO challenges police crime commissioner – NGO Geese arrive in Scotland – YouTube New airgun channel – YouTube Danes celebrate children who go hunting – YouTube Elk becomes a Facebook sensation – BBC To watch all of #FieldsportsBritain, episode 826, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain826
Greys Lochstyle Team Championship 2025
Teams from around the UK compete for the biggest cash prize in competition flyfishing, the Greys Lochstyle Team Championship, fought on Scotland’s only freshwater lake (as opposed to loch), the Lake of Menteith. They fish ‘loch-style’, trout fishing with unweighted flies from a free-drifting boat. Scottish anglers dominated in 2024, but will they succeed this […]
Fabulous falcon racing – with a remote controlled crow
Roy Lupton and his team are flying their falcons at Vowley in Wiltshire, the UK’s only falcon racing centre. The birds compete to bring down a remote controlled crow – and there are cash prizes on offer for the winners. Learn more about falcon racing at Vowley.com To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 826, […]
Deerstalkers campaign to protect ex-soldiers
SAS veteran Nick Kitson is stalking in Hampshire with an old colleague, Kit Philp. They are keen to promote the campaign to stop lawfare-type prosecutions of ex-soldiers, sometimes more than 50 years after the event. Sign the petition ‘Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions’ here Petition.parliament.uk/petitions/725716 To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 826, visit […]
Win a Larsen trap – Fieldsports Extra, episode 395
You can win a larsen trap from Last Stop Traps in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re out deerstalking with retired Colonel Nick Kitson DSO SAS and Lt Col, Kit Philp Coldstream Guards. Roy Lupton teases David about the size of his kit at Vowley falcon racing, Andy Ford is with Hywel Morgan at The […]
Crofters demand right to cull more deer – Fieldsports News, 17 September 2025
Here are the links: Scottish crofters want stalking rights – WeLoveStornoway.com and FT.com John Muir Trust’s ‘toxic culture’ – Herald Scotland Police crush poacher’s X-Trail – Facebook Rhino wars film – Vimeo Tigers to be classified as vermin – Mathrubhumi.com Stone Age hunter’s kit – New Scientist To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 825, visit […]
How the UK’s burning ban will fuel a wildfire disaster
In a record year for wildfires in Britain’s uplands – 1,000 of them – only Starmer’s government could enact legislation that will make the problem even worse. To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 825, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain825 More on the muirburn debate here:
Fieldsports Britain – How Scott won his guns back
Clay shooter, gamekeeper and friend of Fieldsports Britain Scott Shuckford had to fight to get his guns back from the police: he tells his story. What is the government playing at? It has just tripled the area at risk of wildfire with its latest burning ban. We join Fieldsports members on a wet and windy […]
