Airgun shooting, safety and ownership guide by Terry Doe
Want to shoot airguns? Here are a few tips from Airgun World editor and king of the airgunners Terry Doe. It’s a useful guide for anyone whether new to the sport or a national champion! Produced by AMTA, this film shows basic air rifle safety and awareness. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fallow buck in a tangle + Hampshire foxes + calling muntjac
What happens when a deer gets tangled in rope and fencewire? How do you call in a muntjac? Are Hampshire’s foxes really bigger? And how much fun can a Scottish estate be? You will find the answers to these vital questions and more in this week’s Fieldsport Britain, brought to you faithfully every Wednesday evening. […]
How to track down a man-eating lion
Faced with a man-eating lion, professional hunter Don Heath, tells us how he dealt with the disease-ridden cat. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 74.To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain74
Fieldsports Britain – Australian-rules fox shooting + YouTubers who hunt
A pair of keen Australian foxshooters sent us one of their fox calls – and we are trying it out in Pomshire. It’s the Thunder from Down Under but it brings in the foxes. We are also deerstalking in South Ayrshire with Chris Dalton of Ayrstalk.co.uk, we are training a peregrine to stoop on a […]
How to tell if a buffalo is about to charge
Professional hunter Don Heath needs to be able to read the body language of dangerous game. In this film he talks us through incidents involving buffalo. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 73. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain73
How to tell if an elephant is about to charge
Professional hunter and ballistics expert Don Heath talks us through the body language of African game. His job is to make sure his clients don’t get killed and to teach other professional hunters how to stay cool when faced with elephant, lion and buffalo. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 77. To watch […]
Idleback Chair works at Bisley ranges
The Idleback Chair is comfortable – but does it provide the same accuracy as shooting prone? We ask GB fullbore target shooter Martin Watkins to check it out. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 97. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain97
World record longest shot at a clay pigeon
Twenty-times world champion George Digweed has set a new world record for shooting a clay pigeon. In front of the cameras from Fieldsports Channel, and using standard cartridges, he shot one at 130 yards. George pulled off the incredible shot at the Bisley Live shooting show. The record rounds off an incredible year for George, […]
Fieldsports Britain – World record long-distance clay + stalking Harry Potter’s stag
A world record long-distance shot at a clay pigeon, a dramatic stalk for a red stag across a Scottish estate made famous in the Harry Potter films and a happy afternoon firing shotguns at shooting glasses to see how safe they really are. It’s another quiet week on your favourite hunting TV show Fieldsports Britain. […]
How to call in roebuck in the rut
It’s a textbook demonstration of how effective a call can be during the roe deer rut. We are on a estate in Hampshire which hasn’t been touched for a few seasons in the hope of bringing in a big buck. The does are particularly receptive and they come back time and time again to play […]
Head shot? Bucks in tricky positions
We talk through shooting situations that present themselves during the roebuck season in the south of England. Is there a safe backstop, or is a head shot appropriate? These are some of the questions we should be asking, but what do you think? This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 85. To watch the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Zander, barbel, rats (with a digger), trout and game cookery
Zander fishing, rat shooting (you liked it so much last week we’re back with more) and why Cornwall is the must-shoot must-fish county in the UK. Dom Holtam takes us out after zander and barbel, two of coarsefishing’s best-kept secrets. Roy Lupton has put away the airguns and is moving on the rat-holes with diggers […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Warrener + driven rats + driven partridge
The Warrener, driven partridges, driven rats, and our competition to find Britain’s biggest rat. Roy Lupton uses everything from chainsaw smoke to Chinese takeaways to bring rats to his shotguns, airguns, terriers and blokes with spades. Meanwhile, a viewer from Hartlepool has sent in a picture of a rat that measures 18in from head to […]
Happy Birthday To You
For a shooter or hunter on your birthday, Browning offers this unusual version of ‘Happy Birthday To You’: bang-de-bang-bang, bang-bang! This first appeared as an item on Fieldsports Britain, episode 96. Music thanks to Al Mobbs at MobbsMusic. Venue thanks to the Oxford Gun Company.
Fox shooting and rabbiting with a Harris hawk
We pile on to Roy Lupton’s Argocat and head off with a rifle and Harris hawk. Both prove deadly this evening with foxes responding to the call and the birds hitting their targets time and time again. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 64. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain64
Stalking muntjac in Oxfordshire
We’re out in the early morning with top stalking agent Owen Beardsmore of Cervus UK and his client Mark Broadhurst. We are looking for muntjac on an estate in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire. Owen explains how he looks after the deer in his care with salt and mineral licks. Keith Watson turns up to […]
Hunting Hares with a Golden Eagle
Roy Lupton is on the Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire with his golden eagle ‘Baby’ on the look out for brown hares. We work hard for our quarry but there is an awesome flight showing just how incredible these birds and this style of hunting can be. This item first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 62. […]
Shooting British wild boar in the snow + Ford Ranger test
We are shooting wild boar and testing the Ford Thunder pick-up. Editor of Sporting Shooter magazine Dom Holtam is also ex editor of Performance Car magazine and also a deer warden in Sussex. We attend a roadside casualty before going onto Dom’s high seat to feed in the boar with apple pulp. We return later […]
Maritime Media’s big screens for shows and events
Maritime Media was formed in 2009 and is an independent digital outdoor media owner, specialising in the supply, installation and management of large-format digital screens, monetised by advertising. With more and more ad spend being pumped in to digital, the sector is growing at an unprecedented rate and it isn’t hard to see why — […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeonshooting, gundog pups and how to be a better person
Pigeons, gundogs, and how to get qualified as a hunter and a shooter this week. – Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is shooting pigeons with a Winchester SX3. – The Fieldsports Channel cocker spaniel is having puppies (here’s a blow-by-blow account of how to do it AND how not to do it). You can be better through […]
NVQ for hunt staff
Hunt staff are taking an NVQ1 in animal care and health & Safety, backed by the Countryside Alliance and run by Haddon Training from Wiltshire. So what can a Government-sponsored course do for hunting folk? We join a lad from the Kimblewick Hunt who is on it. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
How to pass your DSC1 Deer Stalking Certificate
We pick up tips from a group of deer stalkers on the National Gamekeepers Organisation DSC1 course. They get to learn about gun safety, rifle accuracy, deer habits and the law, a quarry identification test and questions about meat hygiene. For the last part, they visit a £3 million game processing unit on a private […]
Partridge shooting with tanks
As a thank you to the forces serving in Afghanistan, the shoot at Sedgeford Hall on the Norfolk coast invite the locally based soldiers as guests on a driven day. In return light dragoons arrive with a machine that’ll certainly put some birds up. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 64. To watch […]
How to cook sea bass on a barbecue
Game chef Mark Gilchrist cooks bass on an open fire in the British countryside. Also on the menu are homemade venison burgers and pigeon kebabs, all served with homemade tomato sauce. Meanwhile, Dom Holtam tests a pie iron from Bushwear to ensure the sausages are done to perfection. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
Wildfowling in Scotland
We’re with the Wigtown Bay Wildfowlers Club learning about how they acquired land with help from the Wildlife Habitat Trust. Then we’re sharing a muddy hole with a young wildfowler and his father’s hammer gun. With a 40mph wind he makes the best shot of his life bringing down a pinkfooted goose that’s going like […]
Air rifle review S410 vs old BSA
Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam compares the old with the new, testing the power of the Air Arms S410F with that of an old BSA – a tool many of us would of started shooting with as kids. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 86. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain86
How to make cheap shooting sticks
Mark Gilchrist talks you through how to fashion yourself a new set of shooting sticks with some baling twine and a few poles from a garden centre. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 77. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain77
Hunting big cats in the UK
Using sheep as bait, Peter Carr goes in search of one of the big myths of the British countryside: are there leopards or lynx, beasts of Exmoor or Surrey panthers, roaming our wild places? He heads for Pembrokeshire where there have been more than a dozen sightings. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
How to set up a quad bike for rabbit shooting
Mark Gilchrist shoots thousands of rabbits a year for farmers and landowners. He needs to be efficient at what he does and tonight he tells us how he likes to set-up and shoot from a quad. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 79. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain79
Fox charity dumps doxes in countryside
The Fox Project in Kent is letting foxes go next to a chicken run. It’s incredible how cruel animal welfare groups and animal rights people can be. Local foxshooter Roy Lupton is infuriated and imagine how the chicken owner feels. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 84. To watch the whole show go […]
Shooting rabbits from a combine harvester
Game chef Mark Gilchrist rides shotgun on Andy “Crowman” Crow’s combine harvester on the look-out for bolting rabbits. This new style of ‘driven game’ gives Mark and his Browning Maxus a good dusting. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 88. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain88
Lamping rabbits with Andy Crow and Mark Gilchrist
Mark Gilchrist has a Browning T-bolt .17HMR to play with and, with the help of Andy Crow, the pair are certainly making a dent in the local rabbit population. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 72. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain72
Fieldsports Britain – Birr Castle Game Fair + hawking rabbits
To Co Offaly in Ireland for the Birr Castle Game Fair, to Kent in the UK to take a variety of birds hawking after rabbits, and to Oxford where they are giving away prizes galore for shooting. Come with us to Ireland to see hawking, horses, shooting, and all the fieldsports at which Irish excel. […]
CENS ProFlex Digital ear protection
Shooters try out the CENS ProFlex digital ear protection system by Puretone. Commonwealth Games silver medallist Abbey Burton and Sporting Shooter gamechef Mark Gilchrist both give the technology a go. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 92. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain92
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits, fallow deer and a fairytale Scottish castle
Rabbits, fallow deer, a fairytale Scottish castle, pigeons, clays, and social responsibility for rioters: what a mixture. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after fallow bucks in Kent. He’s not had much luck with Fieldsports Channel in the highseat recently. Will it go right this time? Meanwhile, Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is on the same […]
The Flurry Launcher
It looks like a flying saucer. In reality, it is a revolution in simulated game shooting. The Flurry Launcher is capable of firing up to 4 clays per second with a range of more than 200 yards. It really is the only credible alternative to driven game. Find out more at FlurryLauncher.com. This film first […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bernard Cribbins fishes and Roy Lupton shoots fallow
Actor and fieldsports enthusiast Bernard Cribbins is pushing a boat out for a good cause at a trout fishery in Oxfordshire. Roy Lupton is stressing about whether or not to shoot a fallow buck in the head. We reveal the high prices people will pay to shoot white or weird deer. And Helena Neraal explains […]
First and fastest Scottish grouse of 2011
It’s the fastest grouse off the moor in 2011. On the Glorious 12th August, we are on the Atholl Estates with chef and shooter Neil McGowan of East Haugh House Hotel. He has to get a grouse back into the kitchen in time for elevenses so it can become part of lunch. All he has […]
Fieldsports Britain – First grouse of 2011, 30lb salmon, 21 foxes
First grouse of the season, a 30lb salmon, 21 foxes in a night, antis behaving badly and Countryside Alliance Foundation bringing game cookery to urban England – it is again the best of British sport in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. With the help of a speedy Subaru Outback, we’re putting grouse, venison and salmon on […]
Anti-hunting ‘investigators’ caught on hidden camera
This is the moment two employees of the League Against Cruel Sports, a charity which campaigns against hunting, shooting and other activities, were caught trespassing in a wood in the South of England while trying to spy on someone. The bungling pair were caught on their own covert surveillance equipment that had been discovered and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects and roebuck calling, episode 89
Just two days away from the grouse season, we have the prospects for shooting in Scotland and England. We talk to Lindsay Waddell and Ed Bromet. It’s also the height of the roebuck rut. We’re out calling them in Somerset with Dirk Waltmann of German hunting magazine Pirsch and stalker Leo Naylor. Meanwhile, the legend […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cricketer Rob Key and George Digweed on the pigeons
Kent county cricket captain Rob Key goes pigeon shooting with world champion shooter George Digweed. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is riding shotgun (literally) with Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow on a combine harvester looking out for rabbits. And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is having a hard time finding a fallow buck amid a sea of […]
James Haskell learns shooting from John Bidwell
James Haskell has a shooting lesson from world champion shooter John Bidwell at the CLA Game Fair 2011. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 87. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain87
Fieldsports Britain – Mantrap, cannon and who is stealing peregrines?
In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, we have a mantrap, a cannon, an England rugby star, a German with a riflescope, a look behind the scenes of the guntrade, the illegal trade in birds of prey and Bernard Cribbins (not the illegal trade in Bernard Cribbins – that’s quite different). It can only be our review […]
Fieldsports Britain – Exploding Coke cans, foxes, airguns and big cats
So much stuff for you this week on Fieldsports Britain: foxes, airguns, big cats and blowing up Coke cans with an extraordinary new clay pigeon trap. * Planning to replace your old airgun? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam shows off a great new airrifle, the Air Arms S410F, to try out on rats and rabbits. […]
Triple Classic and World English Sporting 2011
Thanks to Blaser shotguns and Promatic traps, we cross the pond to the USA to see how well the British shooting contingent did at the Triple Classic 2011 clay shoot in Texas. Answer? Yee-blooming-haa! This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 80, 8th June 2011. To watch the whole programme go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNrYK0F8M2E Sign […]
Chatsworth wins Countryside Alliance award
HG The Duke of Devonshire explains why his home, Chatsworth, has won the 2011 Countryside Alliance lifetime achievement award. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 89. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain89
On Test: FLIR Scout
At last! An affordable (sort of) thermal imaging system. Now you can look beyond the trees to count your deer. Now you can see you fox coming long before it sees you. Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam tries it out. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 76. To watch the whole show […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons over wheat and a nice double rifle
To shoot or not to shoot – that is the question. If you are Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow, made famous by Sporting Shooter magazine, and birds are devastating your mate’s wheatfields, it’s an easy one to answer. And he has a number of tips and tricks up his camouflaged sleeves to deceive those pesky pigeons. If […]
Beretta World 2011
Held at Meon Springs in Hampshire, the Beretta World Sporting Championships is now officially the UK’s biggest sporting clay shooting competition attracting nearly 1,000 entries. The competition has been running for more than 20 years and is a must for every serious Beretta sporting shooter. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 84. To […]
