Fieldsports Britain : Rolls Royce rabbiting + black bear hunting

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 […]

Shooting in a camo mankini

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

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

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

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 […]

Ferrari Macnab

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

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

Fieldsports Channel’s Bloopers/funnies/cockups 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

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

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

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

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

Pellet power & performance 3 – Rabbit hunting

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

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

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  

Biggest hunting/shooting/fishing YouTube channels

Fieldsports Channel has hit 10 million views, joining a club of (we reckon) 15 YouTube channels in hunting, shooting and fishing to have done the same. So it inspires us to produce the ‘Fieldsports Fahsand Club’. Here is the list of the biggest channels on YouTube in our world by views.

Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit shooting pellets and how to forage for food

Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit shooting pellets and how to forage for food

Round pellets, flat pellets and pointed pellets – which is better when you are after rabbits? Roy Lupton conducts an almost scientific test to show which of them do the most damage to a rabbit. It’s a test that will lead to higher standards in shooting. That’s not all. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is after […]

The McDougal sporting challenge

The McDougal sporting challenge

Shoots across the country are diversifying, playing to their strengths and offering more than just well presented birds. At the Ashbourne estate in Sussex the McDougal Challenge is to shoot a cock pheasant in the morning then, after a hearty lunch, tie a fly using a tail feather and then catch a trout in the […]

Roe stalking in Hampshire – poaching problem

Roe stalking in Hampshire – poaching problem

Roy Lupton is out after roe does in Hampshire and is horrified to find that poachers have been killing his deer. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 156. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain156

African clays and walked-up francolin shoot

African clays and walked-up francolin shoot

We are enjoying a Sporting layout at Blaser Safaris lodge in Namibia. Using the Blaser F3 shotgun we get our eye in before heading out for some walked up high speed francolin. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 142. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain142  

Eco-friendly foxshooting with George Digweed

Eco-friendly foxshooting with George Digweed

World champion shot George Digweed is proving that “glide-by” fox shooting is the future as he puts a new battery-powered Polaris through its paces. With the crops off, it’s the perfect opportunity for him to reduce the number of foxes on his shoots. Normally he takes between 100-130, this year he’s anticipating 200+. This item […]

Fieldsports Britain – Partridges in Paris and calling foxes in Scandinavia

Fieldsports Britain – Partridges in Paris and calling foxes in Scandinavia  (episode 155)

We are going continental this week. We are on a shooting estate near Paris enjoying a day’s driven partridges with the research & development team from Browning shotguns. We take a look at the latest foxcalling techniques to come from Sweden. Back at home in the UK, we are out with the Countryside Alliance, taking […]

Driven partridge shooting outside Paris

Driven partridge shooting outside Paris

We join the research & development team from Browning to try out the new 725 ‘Citori’ model on a driven partridge shoot near Paris. There will be new B725 models in 2013 and this is where to see them in action. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 155. To watch the whole show […]

Game to Eat – Food journalists go deer stalking

Game to Eat – Food journalists go deer stalking

We are deerstalking and pheasant shooting in Sussex – and it is all for a good cause. The Countryside Alliance’s Game To Eat campaign is showing food journalists from The Sunday Times and LoveFood.com where game meat comes from. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 155. To watch the whole show go to […]

Fieldsports Britain – The Ferrari Macnab

Fieldsports Britain – The Ferrari Macnab   (episode 154)

‘The Macnab’: grouse, stag and salmon, all in a day. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam presents the ‘Ferrari Macnab’: a stag in Cornwall, a grouse in Yorkshire and a salmon in the North of Scotland, all thanks to the new 208mph Ferrari FF. But does he make it? Find out in this film, which is […]

Bow hunting in Hungary with Max Hunt

Bow hunting in Hungary with Max Hunt

Max Hunt is one of the best bowhunters in the world. The Gyulaj estate in Hungary is one of the best hunting estates in the world. And the fallow rut is on – one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the world. In this film, Max explains the sport of bowhunting, how to do it, […]

Grouseshooting + great grouse recipe

Grouseshooting + great grouse recipe

Game chef Lee Maycock is on his first ever day on the moor in search of red grouse. He wants to find out why this bird isn’t used more often in British cooking. He joins the Hancock family in Yorkshire where they’re hosting a walked up grouse shooting day. And he finds out about the […]

Shooting badgers illegally

Shooting badgers illegally

Guilty party? – Meles meles, the common badger Fieldsports Channel has been sent a disc and a statement. It says we should all be shooting badgers – and it shows a badger being shot.

Fieldsports Britain – How to call in great big bucks

Fieldsports Britain – How to call in great big bucks  (episode 152)

Roy Lupton has an appointment with some fallow bucks in Sussex, and he has the right instruments to call them to him. You can learn some tips on how to call male fallow yourself. Meanwhile, a viewer called Keith from Middlesex near London has devised a new trap for catching urban foxes in order to […]

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