Schools Challenge TV – What are we shooting in 2013?
It’s a big programme this week: there’s a preview of all the Schools Challenge events from March to May, at the Oxford Gun Company and at Bredon School, there’s a review of Bowman’s new range of clay pigeon traps,plus the various clays on offer from CCI, there is News, and there are reviews of the […]
A guide to driven game hunting in Germany
Boar, mouflon, red deer, roe and foxes are all on offer. As guests of Carl Zeiss sports optics, magazine editors from across Europe, including Sporting Shooter’s Dom Holtam, are on a driven hunt in Laubach in Germany. After a spot of practice at a range, we are briefed on the shooting etiquette and taken to […]
World of hunting and fishing – map
A handy Google Map of hunting, shooting and fishing around the world. This interactive map (below) shows the great estates, rivers, forests, hills and seas where Fieldsports Channel has filmed – and where you can book a day’s hunting, shooting or fishing. Click on each blue marker to watch that film.
The Banwen Miners’ Hunt
The season of 2012/2013 is the fiftieth since men first came out of the coal pit in Banwen, South Wales, and founded the Banwen Miners Hunt. Originally, they hunted foxes in and out of the slag heaps. Today’s meet is at an Indian restaurant – and the hunt is thriving. The coal mining may be […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hare vs eagle + British wild boar + Welsh miners hunting
We are launching eagles on hares in Lincolnshire, George Digweed on wild boar in Sussex and we are out with the Banwen Miners foxhounds pack in the Valleys of South Wales. It’s a packed programme this week, with incredible footage of hares’ tactics when faced with Roy Lupton and friends’ flying eagles. Meanwhile, George Digweed […]
Digweed: pigeon shooting with warm cartridges
Twenty-times world shooting champion George Digweed is out on the English North Downs shooting flighting pigeon on maize stubble. 90% of the birds are over 60 yards away, some nearing 100 yards. As well as a lesson in long range shooting George also shows us why it’s important to keep those cartridges warm for the […]
Up close roe triplets – too cute to shoot
Out after a fallow buck Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam witnesses a magical wildlife moment. With fieldcraft and a bit of luck a mature roe doe and her triplets graze to within just a few yards of him and the camera. We get some exceptional footage and nothing for the larder, but it’s not always […]
Taylor’s Travels: Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson
Olympic shooting star Peter Wilson tries out the new Holland & Holland Sporter, enjoys the South Dorset Hunt, talks Olympics and Rio 2016 and hangs out with his girlfriend, Michelle McCullagh. In advance of National Shooting Week 2013, Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor spends a day with Pete at home in Dorset. In this […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cat vs Fox – night vision in action
It’s not just night vision. Roy Lupton and his friends have found a way of turning night into day. As a result they see a lot more wildlife action than they ever have before, and a lot more foxes to shoot, too. Meanwhile, we’re at the Shooting Show with George Digweed and Andy Crow. And […]
Schools Challenge TV – Gorgs Geikie goes for Gold
Special guest this week is London 2012 Olympics pistol shooter Gorgs Geikie. She’s out with Double Trap Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Stevan Walton and David Florent of the Oxford Gun Company to try out the new Range Rover Vogue, to shoot clay pigeons and to fulfil a Top Gear-style challenge. She also gives her […]
Fieldsports Britain : Shooting foxes
We’ve got two kinds of foxshooting this week. First up, twenty times world champion shooter George Digweed has got a wild boar problem on his shoot in Sussex. He is out to get them – and uncovers an even bigger fox problem. The there is Roy Lupton, reinvented this week as The Human Leaf. Just […]
Unluckiest Fox in the Quarry
Cats famously have nine lives. Foxes are not so lucky, especially not this one, who is ignoring the advice of his friends the crows. This must be the unluckiest fox there was. Not a pleasant way to go – poor animal. This first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 166. To watch the whole show go […]
SHOTShow 2013 – the inside story
We’re at SHOT in Las Vegas talking to TV and YouTube stars Jim Shockey, Greg Quinn from GunBlast.com, Destinee from FateOfDestinee and Peter Carr from Sporting Rifle about the latest and the best hunting/shooting kit on the market this year. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 165. To watch the whole show go […]
Fieldsports Britain : Driven pheasant shooting + gundog training
We’ve got birds, birds and bird dogs this week. Roy Lupton is on a driven shoot in Hampshire. We’re so used to see him shooting foxes and deer, can he handle a shotgun on birds too? And when a disabled clay shooter said he wanted to go on a driven pheasant day, we stepped up […]
Hunting squirrels with a shotgun in Sussex
Roy Lupton is taking advantage of the bare trees to reduce the grey squirrel population on his shooting ground in Sussex. Ideally this is a job for two – one concentrating on the drey, the other gun on the runners. It’s an efficient way to keep these American invaders under control. This film first appeared […]
Rabbiting Rolls Royce – ultimate Texan hunting vehicle
We are in Texas where they take ‘shoot transport’ to a whole different level. The Rolls Royce Silver Spur shooting vehicle looks like it’s been taken off the set of Thunderbirds. This exquisite British-made machine is owned by Fausto and Sandra Yturria. They use it for everything from vermin control on their longhorn cattle ranch […]
Bolting rabbits to shotguns
With the rabbits destroying an ancient hedgerow, the farmer calls in Roy Lupton. It’s a form of rabbit control that requires quick reactions. Roy and his friend Ian are using ferrets to send those rabbits running. The blackthorn hedge makes it impractical to use nets to cover the rabbit holes so it has to be […]
Crowman gets a face full of pigeon
Andy Crow is out with Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam, protecting his young crops by keeping the birds in the air using bangers and his smoke stick. However, he leaves one a little late and he needs to take evasive action to prevent a wood pigeon in the chops. This film first appeared in Fieldsports […]
Hunting Oryx in Namibia with Blaser Safaris
We are hunting oryx in Namibia, with Zeiss sports optics, enjoying the best that Blaser Safaris has to offer. We find out that big game hunting in Africa is surprisingly cheap and highly exciting. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 130. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain130
Hunting jackals in Namibia
It’s the night of the jackal. We are lamping these varmints in Namibia, similar to the European sport of fox lamping and the American sport of coyote hunting. We have a FoxPro, a Blaser R8 rifle mounted with a Zeiss Duralyt scope and a big torch. We set up next to a rotting giraffe… This […]
Fieldsports Britain : Rolls Royce rabbiting + black bear hunting
We’re in the USA this week. We’ve got a Rolls Royce converted for rabbiting in Texas, the last of the black bear hunts with hounds in California, and all the latest kit from the Shot Show in Las Vegas. Texas ranch owner Fausto Yturria could not bear to part with his late father-in-law’s Rolls Royce, […]
Schools Challenge TV – CPSA registered shoots
Find out how to enter CPSA registered shoots. We join Schools Challenge competitor Will Ford for a day at the challenging Wylye Valley ground. He is a regular at CPSA registered shoots. What’s more, he has joined the Schools Challenge Academy, which gives him additional benefits, such as subsidised cartridges. That’s not all. There is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wily coyotes, Shot Show kit and record big game hunting
On this week’s show, we’ve come to America for coyote hunting, world record big game hunting, and the Shot Show 2013, the greatest gun show on the planet. Charlie Jacoby is after coyotes in California, the varmint of choice for the self-respecting American rifleman. We talk to Jason Bruce, star of Headhunter Chronicles on Sportsman […]
On Test: Taclight Night Master 800 torch
Lamping foxes is an art and everyone has their own way of doing it. There are the calls, the transport, the shooting rest and of course your lamp, strength of beam, colour and the way you throw it around the place. Well, tonight fox shooting fan, Roy Lupton, is trying a new lamping system which […]
On Test: Daystate Wolverine .303 – hot air or hot stuff?
The Daystate Wolverine .303 has got people talking – Some say ‘it’s awesome’. Others point out that, in order to own this work of Dr Frankenstein the UK you need to have a firearm certificate – and if you have an FAC why on earth would you bother about air when you can have powder? […]
Fieldsports Britain – DIY night vision + flying hawks on pheasants
Roy Lupton is out with his goshawk after rabbits and pheasants, and he has an apprentice with a red-tailed hawk. It’s a great spectator sport. Meanwhile, Andy Crow was appalled at Roy’s homemade attempts at night vision last week, he has brought a rat-shooting mate who has made a much better version for less money. […]
Schools Challenge TV – learning new shooting skills
It’s episode 1 of Schools Challenge TV. Backed by organisations and companies involved in the shooting industry and outside it, the School’s Challenge is a group of events tailored to under-21s from across the UK. In this film, kids learn to shoot, and Andrew Crawford of the CLA Game Fair and Nick Fellowes of the […]
Fieldsports Britain, episode 162
Fieldsports Britain, episode 162
Shooting in a camo mankini
Camo is not only important hunting tool but, for some, a lifestyle choice. Does it really mean the difference between hunting success and failure? And where does fieldcraft come into all this? We ask some of our stars about appropriate and highly inappropriate camo clothing. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 159. […]
Schools Challenge game-shooting day
Kids are trying out game shooting with the Schools Challenge Game Day 2012. Fed up with them hogging the sofa and emptying the fridge? Here’s a great way to get them out into the fresh air doing something worthwhile… send them game shooting. These under-21s have come to the Oxford Gun Company for the Schools […]
Fieldsports Britain News – 2nd January 2013
In News this week, record numbers unbox on Boxing Day, it’s the OO-ER-S-P-C-A, airgun action you can take, a challenging TV launch, and a bogus eagle takes the biscuit. This item first appeared in episode 162.
Fieldsports Britain – Screaming pheasants + build your own night vision
Pigeon-shooting fanatic Andy Crow is out on a spectacular south-of-England driven pheasant shoot, where he shoots his best bird of the season. He offers his tips for pheasant shooting and how to behave. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is playing with a homemade night-vision kit. The parts only cost a few quid. He tries the DIY set-up […]
Fieldsports Britain, episode 161
Fieldsports Britain, episode 161
Fieldsports Britain, episode 160
Fieldsports Britain, episode 160
Fieldsports Britain, episode 159
Fieldsports Britain, episode 159
Fieldsports Britain, episode 158
Fieldsports Britain, episode 158
Fieldsports Britain, episode 157
Fieldsports Britain, episode 157
Fieldsports Britain, episode 156
Fieldsports Britain, episode 156
Ferrari Macnab
It’s one of the great sporting challenges – a grouse, a salmon and a stag. Dominic Holtam has to achieve the challenge at two ends of the UK, in three days, and he is doing it in a four-wheel drive Ferrari
Bullet vs Twigs
Has your bullet ever hit grass or a twig before reaching your target? Did you miss? Well we’ve done a little experiment to see what happens when foliage ends up in the line of fire. We put two popular varminting cartridges, the.22-250 & .243 rounds, through hay, nettles and hazel twigs. This item first appeared […]
Bloopers 2012
It may come as a bit of a surprise but sometimes our well oiled production team and presenters don’t always get it right – here are some of our favourite outtakes of 2012. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 161. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain161
Fieldsports Britain – Best of 2012
It’s our review of 2012 – from the UK to the USA, to Africa, Hungary, Germany and hunting, shooting and fishing several thousand birds, fish and animals, with shotguns, rifles, bows, rods, ferrets – the best kit, and both the oldest and the newest tricks. We also have the 2012 blooper reel – where we […]
Heythrop Hunt – scenting trouble
The Heythrop Hunt has pleaded guilty to four counts of unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs. So why is that? The RSPCA is too rich for most people to face in court. The presiding magistrate called the RSPCA’s £327,000 costs “staggering”. He said the public could question whether the charity’s funds to bring the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven deer + boar, and decoying crows
We’re off to Germany for a 50-gun driven hunt, courtesy of Zeiss Sports Optics. It’s fast-moving sport, shooting game on the move with rifles. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is in the hotspot highseat. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is after his namesake,crows, protecting his crops on his farm in Kent, south-east England. And survival expert Jonny […]
On Test: Browning BL-22 – cowboy underlever
Is this the reason Cowboys just ate beans? Dom Holtan puts the Browning BL-22 underlever through its paces on the rabbits. It might not be as accurate as an Anschuetz but it’s a fun son of a gun! This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 124. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain124
Fieldsports Britain – Mark Gilchrist on camouflage + George Digweed on long shots
Are you mad about Mossy Oak? Do you rave about Realtree? Does Jack Pyke make you joyful? Well, this is the programme for you. It’s Camo Man, as you have never seen him before: manly Mark Gilchrist is trying new ways of blending in as he shoots pigeons. If you are a pigeon, be afraid. […]
Pellet power & performance 3 – Rabbit hunting
Awful picture isn’t it? But it’s going to show you how to achieve superb rabbit hunting results with an airgun. Successful airgun hunting requires great accuracy. We put three different air rifle pellet designs through their paces to see if they hit the mark before going out in the field after rabbits. We also look […]
Argo Adventure – Fallow deer, foxes and floating in a 6×6
This film has something for everyone. We kick off with a fallow stalk – then there’s a quick lesson in following a blood trail – more deer – a “conversation” with a trespassing dog walker – a successful bit of fox calling – followed by some aquatic Argo action, supposedly to retrieve the deer – […]
Gamekeeper’s Diary star goes pigeon shooting
National Gamekeeper Association’s Geoff Garrod and his son Justin are out on the pigeons. Justin has been building up his experience on clays before tackling live quarry. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 117. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain117
Fieldsports Britain – Training goshawks to catch partridges + shooting pigeons, episode 158
Our top falconer Roy Lupton has his goshawks and eagle out on a training exercise. He has a 45mph lure he is trying out on them, to get them ‘match fit’ for partridges and pheasants. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is decorating a tree (it’s that time of year) with pigeon decoys in order to bring the […]
