Flying start to the game season – Fieldsports News, 4 September 2024
Here are the links New game season underway – BASC Blue tongue fears – BASC and Gov.uk Hunting knife surrender call – Gov.uk Warter Priory country sports fundraiser – WarterPriory.com Salmon numbers crash – GWCT Angling Mentors launch – Orvis Otters make a comeback in Norway – Jegeravisen.no Child killed by wolf in India – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Who is Britain’s top clay shot?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-9l26_C9zIBritain’s top clay shooters flock to North Yorkshire for the climax of the competition season at the EJ Churchill ground at Swinton. We follow the action to see who will be crowned British Open Sporting Champion. David is in Lapland hunting roe, foxes and Volvos. Fieldsports membership solves one problem for gun grab victim Lewis […]
British Open Sporting Championship 2024
For Sporting clay shooters, the British Open is the big one: the one they would all love to win. This year ‘The British’ returns to the lovely EJ Churchill ground at Swinton in North Yorkshire. The event has a festival vibe as shooters flock from near and far. The cream of Britain’s clay shooters are […]
Update – Kent gun grab saga drags on
Lewis Dedman told us his gun grab story at the start of the summer (Watch that one here). The professional pest controller contacted us because Kent Police had asked for a psychiatric report to prove he wasn’t a suicide risk before they’d consider returning his firearms, but no-one was willing to assess him. Our film […]
Scandi road trip – Hunting foxes and Volvos
As part of a 4,000-mile road trip to pick up a 1971 Volvo from 100km inside the Arctic circle, David and his son, Archie, meet up with our Lapland correspondent Lars Munk from Heart of Lapland. After the car is strapped to the trailer Lars shows David a 100-year-old fox trap that was found in […]
2024-2025 gameshooting prices and prospects – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 96
youtu.be/jJ-iZ3zqM6o Speaking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game fair Theatre, Digby Taylor from GunsOnPegs.com announces his new research. It’s the most accurate predictor of prices for gameshooting around. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Win a £129 Orvis backpack – Fieldsports Extra, episode 340
Play Video You can win an slingpack priced at £129 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Orvis. Plus we talk helicopters with Rob Fenwick of EJ Churchill, fox skinning with Lars Munk of HeartofLapland.com, gun certificates with pest controller Lewis Dedman, the pheasant shooting season with Digby Taylor of GunsOnPegs.com and the market […]
Shooting the fox that retrieves rabbits
Pest controller Simon Grimmer is after rabbits and foxes at a livery yard in Surrey, close to the M25 motorway. The rabbits damage pasture and risk injuring the horses, while the foxes are creating a health hazard around the buildings. Simon is using two Sako rifles for the job: a .17HMR and a .223, both […]
Gareth Wyn Jones bashes Brian May – Fieldsports News, 28 August 2024
Here are the links: Brian May badgers the nation on the BBC – Youtube and BBC European trophy hunting ban may be illegal – CIC-wildlife.org Wildfire tsar to ‘halt blazes’ – The Times ‘Sack Packham’ RSPCA and RSPB told – Countryside Alliance Gun grab victim hopes police learn lessons – FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast95 Artificial Intelligence deters deer – […]
Fieldsports Britain – M25 foxshooter
We’re out with Surrey pest controller Simon Grimmer, shooting rabbits and foxes at a livery yard beside the M25. Plus it’s the .410 Open Championship, and the smallbore battle royal between Paul Childerley and Geoff Garrod. Find out who wins. Ian Hodge says what the well-dressed shooter is wearing in the field this season. We […]
The man who beat the police – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 95
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4wLW8p_niA When the police took the guns from Chris Sharp after Chris was the victim of an assault, he turned to lawyers for help. One of them, Peter Glenser KC, joins Chris on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie what happened, and where he has got to now with his […]
Shooting fashion, from Ian Hodge Fieldsports
Ian Hodge talks through what clothes sell to women who go shooting, from fun to functional. Some of these items are now in the Ian Hodge Fieldsports sale. Check Ian’s website IanHodgeFieldsports.co.uk More from Ian Hodge Fieldsports here:
British Open .410 championship 2024
Geoff Garrod and Paul Childerley shoot it out between them at the 2024 British Open .410 championship at EJ Churchill, with help from James Marchington, Richard Taylor, Martin Jeminson and Rob Jess. Find the full results on Facebook To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 770, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain770 More clay shooting here
Win a sim day in the North-West – Fieldsports Extra, episode 339
Play Video You can win a day on a simulated game shoot priced at £200 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by LYC Simulated Game Days. Plus we have pest controller Simon Grimmer’s tip for getting through electric fences, Chris Sharp and Peter Glenser KC on Chris’s gun grab case and Fieldsports member Richard […]
How Facebook and Instagram are trying to kill off Olympic shooting
by Charlie Jacoby British Olympic hopeful Courtney Palmer-Jones speaks for all shooters when she complains that Facebook’s restrictions on guns are ‘a form of censorship’. Her interview appears on the BBC website. She is a victim of pointless, virtue-signalling by social media execs, a growing trend that does nothing to keep society safe from nutters […]
Fishing against Packham
Fieldsports member Nick Edwards is flyfishing for trout on the river Itchen with Fieldsports Channel’s news editor Andy Ford, who also happens to be an England international fly angler. Nick bought the day in our auction last year, when we were raising funds to fight a legal attack by Chris Packham. To watch all of […]
Stalking a roe for its cuts
Chef José Souto knows how to present game. He can take a roebuck and make it look as appetising as any cut of meat gracing the plate in a quality restaurant. He demonstrates how he butchers a roe carcass, selecting cuts from the haunch that he says taste better than the loin. Then he takes […]
Bergara Crest Carbon – with the ‘aggressive’ palm swell
Bergara’s man in the UK, Lewis MacFarlane, talks about the Bergara Crest Carbon fullbore rifle – the one with the ‘aggressive’ palm swell. For more from Bergara via distributor Artemis Outdoors, visit Bit.ly/aobergara To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 769, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain769 More from Bergara here:
Fieldsports Britain – José and Paul out for a buck
José Souto takes Paul roestalking and teaches him how to get the best from a haunch. Fieldsports member Nick Edwards is trout fishing on the Itchen with Andy Ford, a day that he bought in our auction to support us against Chris Packham last year. Facebook and Instagram seem to be set on closing down […]
Brian May badger documentary furore – Fieldsports News, 21 August 2024
Here are the links: Fears over Brian May BBC badger documentary – BBC, Nature.com and Countryside Alliance No action over Packham’s Barclays outburst – Telegraph Moorland fires death fears – Regional Moorland Groups Rigby suffers Facebook ban – JohnRigbyAndCo.com and Facebook.com/JohnRigbyandCo Free deerstalking qualification – HighWeald.org and YouTube Scotland deer pilot scheme launched – Nature.Scot and BASC […]
Pro pest control: how to choose an FAC air rifle
James Head from Crackshot compares a Daystate Red Wolf HP 60 ft/lb, a Daystate Wolverine R 30 ft/lb and a BRK Ghost 30 ft/lb. For more from Crackshot, visit G.co/kgs/PVN44v8 More from Crackshot here:
Win a shooting flask and cup set – Fieldsports Extra, episode 338
Play Video You can win a shooting flask and cup set, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra, kindly donated by Leicestershire and online gunshop Vale Field & Game. Plus we have which steel cartridges Paul Childerley chooses for duck, how to nymph by Andy Ford, the dangers of wildfires from Richard Bailey, and warnings about social […]
BBC TV presenter bashes Barclays at anti-grouse-shoot protest
www.dailymotion.com/video/x94141m by Charlie Jacoby Chris Packham really doesn’t like UK bank Barclays. “If anyone here is banking with Barclays, then I suggest you stick your head in a bucket of fuel and set fire to it,” he told a crowd, “because you’re burning our planet down and it’s time to put this stuff behind us.” […]
Pigeon catch and cook with chef José Souto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ5HP4nwO5g Game chef José Souto is picking up some top pigeon shooting tips from the master, Essex gamekeeper Geoff Garrod. Geoff offers José advice on hide building, decoy set-up and more – and at the end of the day José returns the favour by cooking up a delicious snack for Geoff with the pigeons they […]
For the love of catapults
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h112l5oWSqg The England Slingshot Federation championship is a friendly meet-up and camp-out on a farm next to the River Severn in Gloucestershire. The competition is on a tough course centred around a pond. Organiser Keith Dighton shows us around, and we catch up with some legendary slingshot shooters and makers. Find the England Slingshot Federation […]
Roy’s roe rut dilemma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogoXM2zNNM Roy Lupton is complaining. David is late because of torrential rain flooding the lanes leading to “roe rut central”. Once he’s stopped having a dig they head off in search of the roe bucks he’s been watching parading around his permission but with no-one to film them. As would luck would have it there […]
Fieldsports Britain – how to call in a roe stalker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5S2VoYUcA Roy Lupton is calling in roe in the rut with a buttolo call, while David is calling in Roy with a packet of M&Ms. Geoff Garrod teaches top chef José Souto pigeon decoying tips, and José shows Geoff how to cook up a tasty pigeon snack. Charlie is off to the England Slingshot Federation’s […]
Packham rants at bank’s customers – Fieldsports News, 14 August 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch70wPTAexg Here are the links: Packham lashes out at Barclays customers – FieldsportsChannel.tv/actionforwildlife2024 Media debates rights for hunters – Telegraph.co.uk and FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast93 DEFRA minister Zeichner offers reassurance on shooting and shadow DEFRA minister Barclay blasts Zeichner – FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast94 New Zealand hunters target 10,000 goats – DOC.govt.nz GB Olympic shooting success cost £6.2 million – BBC […]
Shadow DEFRA minister tells Zeichner ‘get off the fence’ – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 94
youtu.be/-AFtyCeJvA0 Shadow DEFRA minister Steve Barclay says Daniel Zeichner should ‘get off the fence’ and announce Labour’s plans for the countryside. Plus he warns that even though the DEFRA minister is broadly pro-shooting, he can’t do much to stop Labour bringing in anti-hunting and shooting legislation. Barclay was talking to Fieldsports Channel’s Charlie Jacoby at […]
Win a £220 catapult – Fieldsports Extra, episode 337
Play Video You can win a superb Romany Custom Catapults slingshot or cataplut, priced at £220., in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus its maker Asa Wilson explains how the sport of shooting catapults is a great leveller, top game chef José Souto tells Geoff Garrod why we should all eat game meat, Chris Packham is […]
Fieldsports Britain – What’s next in hunting tech
Future tech: Niall Rowantree and David visit thermal and night vision specialist HIKMicro in China for a glimpse at the revolutionary new technology that’s coming soon to scopes, spotters and drones. Back in the UK, Cai is a pigeon plucker and David is the pigeon plucker’s mate as they deal with birds after a day’s […]
Packham scores own goal – Fieldsports News, 7 August 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZrA5-LI-aA Here are the links Packham scores own goal – FieldsportsChannel Podcast Rutter robbed of Olympic gold + Peter Wilson speaks out – Fieldsports News Grouse numbers crash – Roxtons Moorland fire blamed on barbecues– WestYorksFire.gov.uk BASC launches fourth deerstalking scheme – BASC.org.uk/new-deer-stalking-opportunities-for-basc-members-in-east-of-england/ and BASC.org.uk/deer/stalking-schemes/ Scouts and Guides try clays – Facebook Wolf warning to Dutch […]
New Chinese hunting tech: HIKMicro experience 2024
Future hunting tech: Niall Rowantree and David head to HIKMicro HQ in China to see for themselves the exciting new technology we’ll be using for hunting scopes, spotters and yes, even drones, in the next few years. They are seriously impressed by the sheer scale of the operation, as well as the groundbreaking new tech […]
Pigeon pluckers
David has bought a plucking machine to help him prepare chickens for the table. Cai Ap Bryn wants to try it out on pigeons, so they spend a few hours in the hide, then head back to pop some birds in David’s machine, amid a barrage of innuendo. The results are… well, mixed, but Cai […]
Hunters are a ‘protected minority’ – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 93
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z2ZVslPc4IEd Swales and Ronan Brown from Hunting Kind join Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas theatre at the Game Fair 2024, to explain how hunting could qualify for protection under human rights legislation, with hunters being classified as a ‘protected minority’. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Amber’s Olympic skeet ‘chip of god’
Britain’s Olympic skeet silver medallist Amber Rutter drew praise for the sporting way she reacted to Olympic officials robbing her of gold. Amber won a silver in skeet in a shoot-off with Chile’s Francisca Crovetto Chadid. With the scores level, she was denied the chance of a gold medal after the referee said she’d missed […]
Thousands of kids get their first shooting experience at Scout jamboree
The BASC clay shooting line was a smash hit at the 2024 international Scout jamboree in Essex. Thousands of excited children grabbed the opportunity to try clay pigeon shooting at the flagship Scouting event in the south of England. Scouts and Guides aged aged from 11 to 18 queued all day, every day, to get […]
Win a leatherbound gamebook – Fieldsports Extra, episode 336
Play Video You can win a beautiful leatherbound gamebook from the Stamford Notebook Company, priced at £67, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Cai tries out David’s plucker, Tim Bonner from the Countryside Alliance defends the defence of trailhunting, hundreds of scouts and guides shoot clays in Essex and a former US marine goes deerstalking […]
What to expect from the Labour government – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 92
With a new government in power in Westminster, three people with a stake in the future of fieldsports and the countryside come together to talk to Charlie about what Labour could or even will do – to trail hunting, trophy imports, shooting sports and farming. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the […]
Shooting gold for Team GB – Fieldsports News, 31 July 2024
Here are the links: Olympic gold for GB trapshooter Nathan Hales – TeamGB.com Grim outlook for grouse – WilliamPowellSporting.co.uk Shooting organisations have positive dialogue with DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast92 Hinkley Point C ‘will kill two fish a minute’ – FGS.world and YouTube Shooting needs more women – BASC Deer carcases should be left to rot say […]
Fieldsports Britain – Skye stag stalk
Skye gamekeeper Scott MacKenzie and his young daughter have a cull job to do on a red stag. Tom Davies continues his non-toxic journey and finds a copper cartridge that works on roebucks. Terry Doe gives his view on the Accumax air rifle, a fun, lightweight break-barrel with power enough for hunting. David has the […]
Skye gamekeeper and daughter cull a red stag
Skye gamekeeper Scott MacKenzie is setting out to cull a red stag. The stags are causing damage to the tenant farmer’s silage fields. He is accompanied by his 16-year-old daughter, Orla, who is studying to follow in Scott’s footsteps. We find a suitable beast among a group lying in the grass, but it’s a long […]
Why Terry Doe loves the Accumax break-barrel airgun
Terry Doe mostly shoots high-tech PCP air rifles, but when it comes to fun and relaxation he turns to a great little break-barrel springer like the Accumax from ASI. It is well made and accurate, comes in three different stock finishes, and has a clever anti-resonance system inside to reduce the shake when you fire. […]
Tom Davies talks about Rushbrooke knives
Tom Davies tries out his new Rushbrooke knife gralloching two roe deer, and explains what he likes about it. Go to RushbrookeKnifeCompany.com To watch the knife in action, go to YouTube For more about Tom’s venison business, go to DartmoorDeerServices.com To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 766, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain766 More knife reviews here:
Tom’s copper journey: roebuck cull
Tom Davies is trying out a new copper round on roebucks. He has a farm to clear of deer using the ammunition that manufacturer Wapiti has sent him. It works, twice – giving him the opportunity to try out a new gralloching knife too. For more about Tom’s venison business, go to DartmoorDeerServices.com For Wapiti […]
Win a £199 Ridgeline smock – Fieldsports Extra, episode 335
Play Video You can win a Ridgeline Monsoon smock priced at £199 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we are all about the Game Fair: new members, squirrel problems and the strange affair of the Fieldsports Channel chairs’ gravitational pull… This week’s prizes and other links: For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membership Annual […]
Fieldsports Britain – squirrel vandals
The squirrels have gone barking mad in Charlie’s dad’s wood. They have killed a dozen young oak trees by stripping off the bark. It looks like sheer vandalism. Charlie calls in Jaf Jefferson from the South Somerset Ferreters to solve the problem. While we’re on ferrets, Charlie is off to Chris Potter’s 16th annual ferret […]
Grey squirrel tree killers
After a successful squirrel eradication programme in the winter, disaster strikes in the summer. A dozen good-quality oak trees are dead and all the indications are that squirrels killed them. Have new squirrels moved in? Does shooting squirrels create vacancies for more squirrels? Jaf Jefferson and Martin Jacoby explore the problem. To watch all of […]
NGO calls for deer plan – Fieldsports News, 24 July 2024
Here are the links: NGO launches deer strategy – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk Government hands out DMQ funding – BASC Estate hit with general licences restriction – Strathspey Herald Antis plan to publish pro-hunting ‘list’ – Protect The Wild Clean up rivers, says FishLegal – Change.org Danish King promotes Olympic skeet – Instagram Brown bear hunting opens in […]
Shooting enthusiasts start their own game farm
The last few years have been a nightmare for game farmers, with covid, bird flu, and massive hikes in costs. Despite all that, keen shooters and Fieldsports Channel members James Elliott and Mark Rea plunged into game farming last year, setting up their own game farm at Mark’s parents’ farm in Essex. With support from […]
