Browning Owners Club day 2012
We’re at the Oxford Gun Company on a glorious sunny summer’s day for the Browning Owners Club day 2012. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 131. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain131
How to track African game
We are in Africa, and we’re talking crap. From fewmets to faeces, from stools to stinky stuff, what animals leave behind them can tell you what they are, what they are doing and where they are going. The experts talk us through it. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 130. To watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – YouTube gamers shooting, wild boar and how to track animals
We’re showing YouTube gamers how to shoot shotguns and rifles, we’re tracking African animals with our very own poo safari, we’re at the Browning Owners Club day and Team Wild is after wild boar on the Continent. It’s a packed programme this week as the XBox generation gets off its collective backside to do some […]
KSI goes hunting – blam
LadiesLoveJaM, FearCrads, MrsBlackOps,OakelFish, and KSIolajidebt we salute you. You shoot proper guns beautifully – and this film shows how. We are out with the top YouTube gamers to try out shooting sports with real firearms. See how the guys get on. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 131. To watch the whole show […]
Angry leopard release
There’s a leopard caught in a trap! Blaser Safari’s Marc Hillerman is called out by his farm manager after discovering a dead antelope in his laundry room. He assumes it’s been killed by a predator. He sets a trap and discovers the culprit is actually a young leopard. We come along to see how we […]
Test Splat Special – Shooting a football and an onion with a shotgun
Ever wondered what happens when you shoot a football and a onion with a shotgun? No us neither – but just for fun and under under strict conditions we shoot a small redundant children’s football and an even smaller vegetable, and recorded the dramatic events with a high speed camera… nothing proved nothing gained. This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting oryx and a leopard in the laundry
We are hunting in Namibia this week, with Zeiss sports optics, enjoying the best that Blaser Safaris has to offer: unbeatable oryx hunting, behind the scenes at a safari hunting lodge and quite a surprising leopard. We find out that big game hunting in Africa is surprisingly cheap and (what do you think?) highly exciting. […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed, airgunning pigeons and rabbits and the Schools Challenge
We are interviewing a shooting legend, we are shooting pests with airguns and we are at the second leg of the Schools Challenge clayshooting competition in this week’s show. Shooting world champion George Digweed is our star on a reasonably-priced trout lake. He takes us fishing in order to talk about his life and how […]
Foxing for beginners
Rifle magazine’s Tim Pilbeam and Sporting Shooter magazine’s Roy Lupton. Tim has set up a course of targets on his farm in Sussex. And, of course, along the way, they run into real foxes. Packed with tips and advice, this item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 127. To watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – German boar, Scottish gundogs and Himalayan pheasants
We are shooting wild boar, learning top gundog training tips, and watching the work of the World Pheasant Association on this week’s show. Team Wild’s Ian Harford and Simon Barr are in the forests of Germany with the guys from clothing company Outfox and they are after roe deer and boar. Charlie Thorburn of Mordor […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish deer, pigeons and English foxshooting
Want to stalk roebuck? Want to shoot pigeons? It has to be Scotland in May. We are in Perthshire downing pigeons in high winds, and we are in Dumfriesshire after Britain’s prettiest deer with Zeiss professional hunter Colin Lockerbie. And as a bonus feature, Colin is showing us how to net salmon the ancient Viking […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids
We are mostly shooting eggs, mink, rabbits and corvids, and finding out how to choose a puppy this week. We have got a new camera, as you will see… it means we can get up close and personal when we shoot eggs with an airgun, and even when we shoot rabbits at long distance. Roy […]
Slo mo shooting – Eggs with air rifles
Test Splat Special is our new series looking at household items that go sploosh or squelch when you shoot them. This week we try a variety of different eggs with some surprising calibres. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 126. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain126
Fieldsports Britain – Tropical trout and a gold medal goat
Sport in Kenya this week, including trout on Mount Kenya, mudfish in the Masai Mara and learning how to throw a stick at an antelope. We search for fish high in the Aberdare National Park and we are in the hot savannah learning spear skills with the Maasai. Finally, we’re in Wales shooting big feral […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wreck fishing and rabbitting with a cowboy
We’re out after a record-breaking cod over wrecks in the English Channel. Back on land, the guys from Team Wild are attacking pigeons from two different angles – with shotguns and air rifles. Roy Lupton’s ferrets are busy bolting bunnies to the shotgun and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is shooting cowboy style! It’s all in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Trout fishing and the first roebuck of the season
Roy Lupton has been promised a gold medal roe buck in exchange for a sperm donation (from his eagle) but gets given the run around on a Hampshire estate swimming in deer. Talking of swimming, we’re re-stocking a reservoir with blue and rainbow trout then trying to remember where we put them. Andy “Crowman” Crow […]
Fieldsports Britain – White wild boar and university clay championships
It’s a wild boar special this week on Fieldsports Britain. They are blonde, they are French and they are on the rampage in Sussex. For the first time on British television, you a can follow a British wild boar hunt including the moment shooter Simon Barr pulls the trigger. Meanwhile Roy Lupton and Tim Pilbeam […]
Foxing: 21 in a night
Fox shooter Roy Lupton is expecting a bumper crop tonight. He is out in a customised Land Rover Discovery to make an impression on a fox population that is out of control. Roy reckons it’s going to be a big night. How big, he does not yet know…. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain […]
NiteSite night vision on test with Andy Crow and Dom Holtam
We start with a stalk, try eating game feed, sit up a high seat, enjoy the wildlife, get annoyed by a dog walker who spoils the fun and end up testing a NiteSite while out rabbitting. What a way to spend an evening. This was first shown in Fieldsports Britain, episode 111. To watch the […]
Golden eagle and peregrine fitness training
Peregrine falcon training can be a breeze when you start playing with kites. In this film Roy Lupton is taking his young falcon “the Dude” to new heights and throwing in some golden eagle training for good measure. This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 98, to watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wicked Mr Squirrel + kids go shooting + pigeons
Evil Mr Squirrel is out to get the baby songbird eggs. Never fear! Roy Lupton is going to shoot him. Meanwhile, we are putting guns in the hands of children at the first Schools Challenge event of 2012. And the legend that is Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow is defending not just his crops but his […]
Fieldsports Britain, Mr Squirrel gets it, pigeon shooting and the schools challenge
Evil Mr Squirrel is out to get the baby songbird eggs. Never fear! Roy Lupton is going to shoot him. Meanwhile, we are putting guns in the hands of children at the first Schools Challenge event of 2012. And the legend that is Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow is defending not just his crops but his […]
Taylor’s travels: Pigeon shooting in Kent
It’s crop protection time. David Taylor, director of shooting at the Countryside Alliance, meets game chef Mark Gilchrist who is trying to keep the wood pigeons off the spring crops. He also gets his hands on the new Browning pigeon (and pheasant and clay) gun: the B725. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
How we got into shooting: George Digweed, Peter Wilson, Abbey Burton and Stevan Walton
Some of the top stars in the world of clayshooting explain how they started in a series of inspiring stories for anyone – and we mean anyone – who wants to take up clayshooting. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 115. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain115
CPSA guide to shooting success with Abbey Burton
Clayshooting coaching tips from Commonwealth Games Olympic Trap silver medallist Abbey Burton. Learn to shoot straighter with Abbey. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain107
Peter Wilson explains Olympic shooting sports
Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson joins the Fieldsports Channel team to explain Olympic shooting sports. The Olympic Double Trap gold medallist talks about clay disciplines with fourth-in-the-world women’s Olympic Trap shooter Abbey Burton, top Double Trap shooter Stevan Walton and 19-times world Sporting and FITASC champion George Digweed. This is an easy guide to the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Seven wild boar in a row
Wild boar hunting – it’s a European obsession! We’re at IWA, the biggest gun trade show outside the USA, to see what’s going to be hitting the gunshops near you this year. There is kit for deerstalking (we go out after Chinese water deer with Zeiss’s new Victory HT scope), for foxshooting (we are out […]
The Ledbury Hunt
Nicky Sadler follows the Ledbury Hunt, hunting within the law, in its Friday country, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. Hounds are known to have hunted the area around Ledbury on the Hereford and Gloucestershire border for at least 300 years. The Ledbury Hunt as presently constituted can trace it’s origin to 1846 when according to the […]
Countryside Alliance Awards – the ‘Rural Oscars’
The Countryside Alliance handed out its prestigious ‘Rural Oscars’ at a Parliamentary reception on Wednesday 7th March. British and Irish titles go to businesses from Suffolk, Dorset, Shropshire and the Republic of Ireland and the Rural Hero of 2011 title goes to a Co Antrim Angler who founded a Trust to combat river pollution. The […]
Barney White-Spunner, executive chairman, Countryside Alliance
Foxhunting? It’s got a future. Shooting? nobody’s going to ban it. Barney White-Spunner is the new executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance and he has an agenda that’s going to put running the countryside back into the hands of people who live in the countryside.
Fieldsports Britain – Angry anti, pigshooting with airguns and a record muntjac
How to practice shooting driven wild boar in Kent, plus pigeons in Essex, a record muntjac in Hampshire and an angy anti from Leeds – what a lot of programme this week in Fieldsports Britain! We’re off to Roy Lupton’s place in Kent. Roy has got a fabulous new way to practice his double rifle […]
Corinium 100m rifle range, Cirencester – review
We visit the Corinium rifle range – www.coriniumrange.com – in Gloucestershire, run by Swarovski pro stalker Paul Hill. Need to check a zero or test some ammunition? Here is an excellent range run by a superb shooter. Find out more about what Paul offers in this film, which first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 107. […]
Kristoffer Clausen eats a fox
The Norwegian film maker and survival expert is in the UK to meet game chef Mark Gilchrist who has promised him some new hunting experiences. We chat with Kristoffer in a pigeon hide after a morning of crow shooting – and we find out what fox tastes like. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
South Somerset Ferreters – a great family day out hunting rabbits
Like ferrets and lurchers? You will love the South Somerset Ferreters. Where other people get together in shopping centres or leisure parks, here is a group of families who like nothing better than to meet up in the great British countryside with kids and picnics, and bolt rabbits to longdogs. This item first appeared in […]
CPSA guide to shooting success with George Digweed
Top tips on clayshooting with multiple world champion George Digweed, brought to you by the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 100. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain100
Smashing pumpkins with Sporting Rifle reviewer Tim Pilbeam
Working for Sporting Rifle magazine, Tim Pilbeam is snowed under with guns of all shapes and sizes. He shows us how he puts five very different rifles through their paces. To add some festive spice we ask him to hit some long range baubles and some not so festive pumpkins!! The rifles on test are: […]
Taylor’s Travels: working whippets
The Yorkshire Dales are a paradise for rabbits. In order to save the grass for the sheep, that means a lot of fun ferreting and working longdogs. Countryside Alliance director shooting David Taylor goes out with some of the top dog people in the UK to learn about working whippets. This item first appeared in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Whippets in Yorkshire and Cirencester pheasants
Rabbits, pigeons, pheasants and clays are all in trouble in Fieldsports Britain. It’s Ee Oop and By George this week as we go ferreting to whippets on the Yorkshire Dales and flushing pheasants to landowners with the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. That’s not all! Top shots Peter Wilson, George Digweed and Abbey Burton explain […]
Shooting driven mouflon in Germany
We are hunting mouflon near Berlin – some of the most exciting sport you can hope to enjoy. It is a driven hunt for the benefit of 70 gunshop owners from around the world, organised by Zeiss Sports Optics. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 101. To watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – fun in an Argocat
Fallow deer, urban foxes, and airgunning pigeons on this week’s show. It’s a red letter day for Roy Lupton and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam as they call in foxes in daylight and cull fallow, all with the help of Roy’s Argocat. Meanwhile, the urban fox experiment we are running is getting plenty of comments: […]
Pheasant shooting at the much-loved Valley Shoot in Kent
We are out on lovely autumn pheasant and partridge shoot day in Kent, the Garden of England. As well as some nicely presented birds, we follow the fortunes of a shooter and hear how the shoot came about. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 106. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain106
Fox takes crying “baby” from pram
Here is what happens when people feed foxes. They become tame enough to lose their fear of humans. This time it is not a real baby. It is a dead piglet, dressed in a baby-grow. It was used in Channel4/More4’s Foxes Live programme on 8 May 2012. ‘Dave’ is a pest controller from Bromley in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shot Show 2012 kit and sport in the Louisiana swamps
Las Vegas! home of the Shot Show 2012, the biggest gun trade show on the planet. We are there to see the latest kit from the top manufacturers, coming to a gunshop near you. We have the latest in foxcalling technology, a way of converting your semi-auto rifle to full automatic (dodgy), why American wildfowlers […]
Fieldsports Britain – Giant rat hunting in Louisiana from an airboat + ShotShow kit
Latest kit from the biggest gun show on earth, fast-action ratting from an airboat, Cajun whitetail, muntjac stalking: Fieldsports Britain is reporting from America where everything is bigger and faster. But is it better? We are in the swamps of Louisiana after one of the world’s trickiest deer. We are shooting rats the size of […]
Browning B725 Citori UK launch
Browning launches the B725 Citori to gunshops in the UK at top clay ground the Royal Berkshire Shooting School. Watch this film to find out what gun shop owners think of this gun in both Sporter and Hunter models. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 110. To watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Night vision, quick duck and the Browning B725
Rabbits in darkness, duck in high winds, pheasants in the teeth of London politics and a new shotgun is launched on this week’s programme. We are using Nite Site night vision to look for rabbits with Andy Crow and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam. We are enjoying fastflying duck and geese below sea level with […]
The biggest fox in Britain 2012
Are foxes getting bigger? Pest controller Roy Lupton thinks they are. He shot an enormous 35.5lb dog fox on new years eve. It dwarfs other “normal” specimens measuring 130cm from nose to end of tail. As reported in The Sun newspaper, 2 January 2012.
Ratting with smoke, shotguns, airguns and terriers
There’s more than one way to catch a rat. And if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We start with smoking ’em out with a chainsaw and shotgun, and then let the terriers have a sniff. The last resort is to sacrifice some left-over Chinese takeaway to see if they fancy a late […]
Fieldsports Britain – Children’s driven gameshooting day at Kirtlington Park
Give children guns and look what they do: a brilliant day out and lots of pheasants for them to remember forever. It’s the final day of the series of events that make up the Schools Challenge 2011 – the game day for 30 children held at Kirtlington Park in Oxfordshire. And to start the programme […]
Goose shooting in Kent
Farmer Andy Crow always has problems with pigeons but now he’s having to contend with Canada and greylag geese. Every morning they’re landing on a pond on the farm he manages in Kent, and then venturing into the young crops for easy pickings. Time to call some friends and wait for them to arrive. This […]
