How to catch partridges with goshawks
Roy Lupton takes his birds into the field to find other birds. He is using goshawks. Originally a yeoman or poor gentleman’s hawk, the goshawk provides great sport on these little birds as well as a bury of rabbits. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 4. To watch the whole show go to […]
Roebuck stalking in the Lake District
Visit the Greystoke Castle estate with us. Once the biggest estate in England to be surrounded by a deer wall, it is now a venue for some glorious roe with stalker Steve Pymm. We go out to get a buck. And Tarzan is nowhere in sight. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
Game Fair gadgets
We were at the CLA Game Fair 2009 at Belvoir Castle, looking for truly innovative kit. The CLA held awards for innovations. Among the contenders are a dogbed that dries your dog, a new trailer for carrying both deer and quadbikes, a dummy launcher for training your dog and a new portable game larder
West Somerset Hunt
Philip Ghazala is a new joint master of the West Somerset Hunt and he has to cope with all the pressures that role brings. This afternoon he’s out autumn hunting within the law and the field is enjoying itself as only foxhunters can, taking part in the barely controlled stampede that is a hunt in […]
How to shoot bouncing rabbits
Here’s Alan Rose, one of the top clay instructors in the UK, showing how to hit rabbits at the world famous West London Shooting School. Many shooters were brought up on rabbits – but that doesn’t stop them being one of the most difficult animal to shoot as it bolts to or from its bury. […]
Foxshooting with Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds
The foxhunting ban may be increasingly toothless but it has had one marked effect. Foxshooting has become incredibly popular. One of its champions is an Olympic champion. Clayshooting gold medallist Richard Faulds takes us out lamping in Sussex, protecting local lambs. Richard won gold for Trap Shooting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He may […]
Chinese water deer stalking in Bedfordshire
With a few weeks to go before the end of the Chinese water deer season, Sporting Rifle editor Pete Carr has his work cut out making up cull numbers on one Bedfordshire farm
Foxing in Devon
With the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and Sporting Rifle expert Mike Powell is no exception. He’s protecting his poults from a family of local foxes. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 4. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain4 Sign up to our weekly email […]
Pigeon shooting with Sporting Shooter’s Mark Gilchrist
Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist is behind a straw bale in Kent and the pigeons are out in front. Not only does he enjoy blazing late summer sport but he goes to cook them afterwards at a school restaurant he is running with pupils from Kings School Canterbury. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
White pheasants
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or (b) a pain in the neck that can earn you a fine of £50+ if you shoot it, depending on whether you are (1) a gamekeeper or (2) a hapless […]
English grey partridge conservation
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season – but these ones are not for shooting. They have been bought as part of farmer Tim Piper’s conservation effort. He has planted habitat suitable for them. Shocked that there were no native grey partridges to live in his […]
How to shoot high pheasants
How to shoot high pheasants: expert Alan Rose of the West London Shooting School gives his tips and shows the commonest errors – and goes to show its not as hard as you think. Listen to his advice. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 4. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain4 […]
Game farm – chicks arrive
Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of April. Staff are there to make sure they settle in and start the long slow process that will see them delivered to shoots as full-grown birds in just a few months time. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
How to shoot partridge
Alan Rose shows how to hit low partridges when they are comin atcha. Alan works for the world-famous West London Shooting School, once the home school of celebrated instructor Percy Stanbury. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 3. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain3
Game farm – hut building
It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took them down at the end of last season and now, at the beginning of April, they are reassembling them. Watch all the preparations they make for the arrival of the baby birds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Shooting Politics, episode 4, 30th September 2009
Robin Page is an angry old git… …Thats by his own admission too. Robin is the subject of tonights half-hour Shooting Politics show on Fieldsports Channel. Hear the former BBC presenter rail against Labour, the Conservatives, farming and, of course, the BBC. When it comes to slinging insults at all those who want to concrete […]
Salmon fishing on the Tay with Neil McGown
The River Tay is where Scotland’s record fish was killed. It has long attracted salmon anglers, and among them the owner/chef of the East Haugh House Hotel outside Pitlochry. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain5
Shooting Politics, episode 3, 16th September 2009
The British countrysports debate programme. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, on the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent Savills. Questions they are answering are: […]
Shooting Politics, episode 2, 2nd September 2009
It’s our countrysports debate programme Shooting Politics and it is out now. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, Chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson, and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent […]
Shooting Politics, episode 1, 19th August 2009
Panellists on the new countrysports webTV debate programme Shooting Politics lay into the RSPB for its attacks on gamekeepers, its attempt to ‘monster’ countryside managers and its failure to offer an alternative that will provide Britain’s wild spaces with the conservation work that gamekeepers provide as part of their jobs. This episode was filmed at […]
Crufts 2009 gundogs
Do you want to know what the perfect gundog looks like? You won’t see it on the BBC, which dramatically pulled out of covering Crufts 2009. Instead, watch it on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Gundogs at Crufts 2009 is the subject of a 45-minute TV documentary that’s free to download and watch on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Presenter Charlie Jacoby brings […]
Fieldsports Britain – RSPCA kills an eagle, plus learn to ferret and catch carp
This poor eagle is in the hands of Kent falconer and Fieldsports Channel falconry expert Roy Lupton. It’s a poor eagle because it was soon to be dead, following a catalogue of errors made by the RSPCA, DEFRA and the RSPB. We tell its story, including horrifying footage of the conditions the RSPCA made the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking at Balmoral and Snipe in Wales
See deerstalking as it should be done – the Royal way. Episode 5 of our Fieldsports Britain half-hour programme features the start of the deer rut at Balmoral, with hillstalkers Peter Carr and Wesley Stanton out to make the most of it. That’s not all: • See the magical arrival of the grey geese at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roebuck, partridges with goshawks, fox calling and chalkstream fishing
Pour yourself a glass, sit down for half an hour and click on to Episode 4 of Fieldsports Britain. We have crammed falconry, deerstalking, chalkstream flyfishing and everything you need for the pheasant opening day into 30 minutes. In this episode: How to shoot high pheasants: expert Alan Rose of the West London Shooting School […]
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking Castle Greystoke and Rabbiting from a Quadbike
It’s our best Fieldsports Britain programme yet. We’ve packed foxhunting (er… trailhunting), shooting, trout on the fly, falconry and deerstalking into this Fieldsports Fest of 30 minutes. High-octane sport rabbiting from a quadbike: Ashley Vellacott farms sheep and beefstock in the West Country and the rabbits are doing an awful lot of damage. Hunting with […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse on the Glorious Twelfth, roebucks and trapping salmon
Back in March 2009, The Sunday Times showed pictures of a once-in-a-decade British deer – a white roebuck. The newspaper reported that foreign hunters were lining up to pay £1,000s to have the opportunity to stalk this deer. Find out what happened to this deer on the 30-minute webTV programme Fieldsports Britain. And that’s not […]
Fieldsports Britain – The West Country Macnab and hunting with a cheetah in Essex
What does the grouseshooting season hold in store in Scotland? The West Country Macnab – can we catch a brownie, a sea trout, a salmon and a sea bass on the fly in one day in Devon? John Tobin explains how to squeak in a roebuck in Kent, and what’s a cheetah like at catching […]
Delicious Deep-Fried Pheasant Breast – the Pre-Season Freezer Pleaser
Top game chef Cai Ap Bryn shows what to do with all those unnamed game meat morsels that are still in your freezer. He cooks up a storm using just an outdoor Dutch oven – and you can too. Follow his tips here. For Ronnie Sunshines range of cookware go to www.RonnieSunshines.com For more about […]
Advanced Pike Attractants
Ant Glascoe Jr. Takes on winter piking with some not so common sense. Will pike be attracted to unusual smells? This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here Sign up for our weekly […]
