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 […]
Benelli Sp’Auto 2011
Held at the West London Shooting School, the Benelli Sp’Auto is the only Sporting shoot aimed exclusively at semi-automatic shotgun users. Specifically designed around the semi-auto, the event allows full use of the auto’s three shot facility. Stands are presented as either (a) three targets on the call of “pull” or (b) two targets on […]
Oxford Gun Company award-winning clay ground
The Oxford Gun Company won the 2011 Shooting Industry Awards for best clay-shooting ground. Doug and David Florent explain what makes the ground unique. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Animal charity releases foxes next to chicken run
They are dumping foxes in the countryside near you. In this week’s programme, we uncover how one British animal welfare charity feeds foxes on dogfood and lets them go near a free-range chicken run. Duh! Meanwhile, back in the more enlightened world of shooting sports, we’re at the Beretta World shooting competition in Hampshire. We’re […]
Fieldsports Britain – Irish lurchers and Sutherland trout
Sport in Northern Ireland and Scotland this week – looking for the fastest longdogs and gundogs on land and water (lurchers competing for the Master McGrath), picking up tips about shooting straight from Mike Yardley and knocking down Finn McCool-sized bags of crows with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist. That’s all at the Shane’s Castle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with schools, foxing and pheasants
We have fishing, foxing, pheasants, the Clay Classic and an IPC award-winning clay ground in this week’s programme. We are with fishing expert Charles Jardine looking at his special love, the Fishing With Schools initiative, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. We are at the Marlston Shoot on the Berkshire Downs admiring their superb […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with Miss Switzerland
It’s international jetset week on Fieldsports Britain. Swiss supermodel Xenia Tchoumitcheva takes us trout fishing on Alpine streams, we are taking a tricky shot on a roebuck in Hampshire with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting at the Newick Park Hotel & Country Estate which offers a friendly driven shoot over 250 acres of glorious […]
Fishing for Schools
Top flyfisher Charles Jardine explains the UK’s Fishing For Schools project, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Ear defenders + pigeons over peas + partridges
What’s this ‘ear? Here is how to protect your hearing with our Big Friendly Test of ear defenders for shooters. And for those of you who didn’t wear hearing protection when you were younger I said WE’RE TESTING EAR DEFENDERS!! That’s not all. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain programme, we’re out on a traditional pheasant […]
Fishing for Heroes meets Project Healing Waters
In May 2011, UK charity Fishing For Heroes hosted the guys from American charity Project Healing Waters on a fishing trip around the south of England. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 78. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain78 Fishing for Heroes is a unique charity which specialises in the support […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hypnotise a bird and avoid a charging lion
How to hypnotise a bird, how to tell when a charging lion is going to kill you (or just scare you), how to set up your quad bike for rabbiting – all these vital ‘life skills’ and more are revealed in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. The much-admired Roy Lupton dizzies doves in order to train […]
Ian Coley Shooting School
We review Ian Coley Shooting School, one of the finest instruction, guns and game shooting resources in the West of England. Located just outside Cheltenham it has a shooting ground, gunshop and sporting agency all on one site with easy access and parking. It is the only shooting business in Cheltenham to offer a full […]
Fieldsports Britain – Project Healing Waters for Iraq war veterans
Watch Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans catch trout, talk about what they went through and explain how flyfishing helps them get over post traumatic stress disorder. Watch Browning owners get together and celebrate owning Brownings. Watch Benelli owners do the same with Benellis. And see all shooters enjoy coming together for a day at the […]
Mark Gilchrist shoots pigeons in Oxfordshire from an Idleback chair
Shooting magazine celebrity chef Mark Gilchrist tries out the Idleback pigeonshooting chair on a spring day pigeon shooting with Shoot Warehouse in Oxfordshire. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
George Digweed shoots crows in Sussex
George Digweed tries out the new Idleback pigeonshooting chair on a day in Sussex. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 70. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain70
Pam Zaitz hunts deer in England
American TV host Pam Zaitz comes to the English Lake District to stalk native British red deer with stalker Jonathan Standing. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 52. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain52
Abbey Burton hunts rabbits with night vision
Abbey Burton and Ed Ling try out rabbit shooting with the new N550 Pulsar digi-sight and an Ideback chair. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
Fieldsports Britain – Elephants and clayshooting
It’s clays, clays, stalking, elephants, muzzleloaders and more clays this week in Fieldsports Britain. We are in Kent working out what makes the best shooting sticks. We are in Zimbabwe, courtesy of Norma Ammunition, to find out when a charging elephant really means it and when they are just mucking about. We are at the […]
Stalking fallow deer in the south of England
We’re out with Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam and his stalking partner Colin Hinkley. They are saving a farmer’s crops from a herd of fallow. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode
Shooting walked-up grouse
We enjoy a day’s grouse shooting in Cumbria over English pointers and setters. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 40. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain40
The famous Crowman shoots pigeons
Sporting Shooter pigeon expert Andy ‘The Crowman’ Crow is out protecting the Kent farm he manages from pigeons. We join him in the pigeon hide. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 69. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain69
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge, thermal imaging and culling roebuck
We’ve got roe deer stalking, young shots in the Schools Challenge, fox hunts growing flowers and the last word in thermal imaging to help you spot your wildlife in the programme this week. Roy Lupton is out at Kingsclere in Hampshire culling roebuck and maintaining the health of the deer herd there. Meanwhile, the staff […]
TransK9 dog cages and dog transit boxes
Attention to detail has been a priority in the design and manufacture of all TransK9’s dog cages and dog transit boxes. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in kennel management and design the firm from Scotland offers a range of maintenance-free kennel and dog transit products that offer not only excellent value but […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ballywalter game fair
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Chief Constable Matt Baggott both show their support for hunting, shooting and fishing at the Ballywalter Game & Country Living Fair in Northern Ireland. We are there to film it for Fieldsports Britain this week. We also use the fair to take a walk through the history of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Phil Spencer goes shooting
Maneaters, rabbit burgers and a TV celebrity: Phil Spencer of Channel 4’s ‘Location Location Location’ is on the programme this week in Kent to shoot pigeons, stalk fallow deer and talk about the work of the Countryside Alliance. Norma Precision ammunition expert Don Heath tells the tragic story of his hunting student who was killed […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to tell when a buffalo is about to charge
How to avoid a charging buffalo, how Realtree camo gets you girlfriends (or boyfriends) and how to cook an Easter bunny – you get the most essential knowledge from Fieldsports Channel every week. We are with Zimbabwean professional hunter Don Heath as he explains when buffalo hunts go wrong, we are at the Kelmarsh Game […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits at night + Blenheim Palace fishing
It’s love and war this week. Sporting Shooter magazine chef Mark Gilchrist is at war with rabbits in Kent. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton’s ferrets and falcons are in the mood for love, and he has to oblige! And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam continues his love affair with fallow and roebuck stalking. Then there’s romance. What […]
Fieldsports Britain – WMS Steel Challenge
In the programme this week, we’re picking up tips from a team of long-distant rifle shooters who are at the WMS Steel Challenge range in Wales to compete for Swarovski glass, we have an entertaining way of exercising hunters with the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt in Sussex, and we are asking the question: […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dodgy antis with guns + George Digweed uses night vision
In our Fieldsport Britain programme this week we’ve gone topsy-turvy. We’ve got antis chasing deerstalkers, rabbits chasing rabbitshooters, and crow shooters sitting very, very still or the crows won’t come near them. There’s a new film out called Blooded about antis chasing naked deerstalkers across Mull. Its trailer was so shocking YouTube banned it. It […]
Fieldsports Britain – Schools Challenge and Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow shoots pigeons
This week we’ve got pigeon shooting with the ‘crow man’ Andy Crow, deerstalking with Sporting Shooter editor Dominic Holtam, the Schools Challenge competition for the best young shooters in Britain, and our own super competition for one lucky viewer to win a TransK9 dog box for your car worth £450. Out with Andy in Kent, […]
Ballistics tips with Keith Poyser, part six
A beginner gets to shoot: part six of the series by Keith Poyser of Bangs Bucks & Bullseyes on accurate field rifle shooting. Ideal viewing for deer hunters/stalkers, the film is sponsored by Lilja rifle barrels, BAT Machine Co and HPS ammunition. Keith is an Imperial Meeting medallist, competition winner, “Expert” rated on statics by […]
