Fieldsports Britain – Dan Thor goes feral
youtu.be/lla-28Vs1PY Dan Thor swaps his shotgun for an air rifle and goes after feral pigeons in a nostalgic stroll around the farmyard where his dad grew up. JP Gaudin, The Seated Gun, takes on high-flying pheasants at the stunning, family-run Leighton Long Mountain shoot in Mid-Wales. Plus Aim to Sustain’s Ian Coghill lays into the […]
Win gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 299
We are giving away a case of 6 bottles of gin priced at £227, kindly donated by the Wrecking Coast Distillery, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Dan Thor airgunning ferals, a gamekeeper in Wales, Lee Allison, talking about how his shoot helps the local area, Ian Coghill on facing off the enemies […]
Crispi boots – the stalker’s favourite
Crispi boots are a favourite with hill stalkers and others who want dry, comfortable feet after a hard day’s walking in all kinds of terrain and undergrowth. Jane Keen of Cluny Country Store explains why the boots are proving so popular. “We stock the Crispi Hunter boots, which have been called ‘hill slippers’ by some […]
Wales plans backdoor shooting ban – Fieldsports News, 15 November 2023
Here are the links: Wales backdoor shoot ban – BASC Fieldsports writer’s guns seized – X (formerly Twitter) Scottish snare ban – Scottish Land and Estates and ScottishParliament.tv Rural mobile phone coverage – Countryside Alliance New DEFRA Secretary – Countryside Alliance Game meat for homeless – The Guardian Namibia won’t sign treaty – Informante.web.na Avian flu […]
Airgun rat action with Terry Doe
Where there are chickens there are usually rats. That’s bad news for the owner of the fancy fowl, but great news for Terry Doe, former editor-in-chief of Airgun World, who has a load of new kit to deal with our pest problem. Unfortunately the quality of the image through the Infiray day/night scope and thermal […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cannibal rat shooting
youtu.be/EMRv2PJzOLQ It’s a thermal bonanza this week. Airgun supremo Terry Doe is shooting cannibal rats around the chicken coops with the aid of an Infiray thermal spotter. Plus Robert Bucknell and his foxing-mad gamekeeper John are trying out the latest thermal gear from Pulsar. We’ve also got an update on new thermal spotters from HIK […]
Thermal foxshooting masterclass with Robert Bucknell
Essex foxshooter Robert Bucknell has got his hands on the latest thermal kit from Pulsar – the Telos XP50 monocular, and the binocular Merger, both with a built-in laser rangefinder. Robert and his gamekeeper, John, have been giving the units a thorough test in the field. John, who shoots 100 foxes a year with his […]
Steel shot should not force you to sell your old gun
Yes, that’s Nigel Farage. An evening with the Blacker family in Cornwall sees local shooters (and Nigel) bring in their guns for assessment. Bill Blacker and his sons Jim and Matt are among the foremost gunmakers and gunsmiths in the UK, and they advise on how to save your old gun and use it with […]
Win a Bergara shooting seat – Fieldsports Extra, episode 298
We are giving away a shooting seat from Bergara priced at £99, kindly donated by Artemis Outdoors, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a parade of grand old men: Terry Doe for the airgunners, Robert Bucknell for the foxshooters and a member oif the Blacker family for the gunmakers.This week’s prizes and other […]
HIKMicro Condor thermal viewer and Thunder thermal riflescope with optical zoom
If you want the very latest in thermal viewers and riflescopes at a sensible price, then HIKMicro’s latest products are worth a look – the Condor monoculars and the revolutionary Thunder, the first thermal riflescope with optical zoom. Join Dan Chart from Fieldsports Channel as he teams up with Hikmicro’s expert, Richard Ryan, for an […]
Magnificent driven game at Warter Priory
Fieldsports Nation member Pete Thompson enjoys an unforgettable day at Warter Priory in East Yorkshire, which he bought in our auction to support our legal battle with BBC presenter Chris Packham. The estate is famous for world-class driven game shooting, and has hosted royalty and world leaders. Head keeper Frank Croft explains how he’s not […]
Top-flight Welsh partridges
We’re shooting massive Welsh partridges on the Mighty Garth with Paul Childerley, Fieldsports Nation member Gary Froggatt, and shoot owner James Davies Cooke’s old mates from his days at Sparsholt. With the Welsh government attacking fieldsports at every opportunity, this could be our last chance to enjoy outstanding sport and wonderful hospitality in these stunning […]
RSPB targets pheasant pens – Fieldsports News, 8 November 2023
youtu.be/7qraCVBFyag Here are the links: RSPB targets pheasant pens – Scribehound.com Shoots attack United Utilities – UUConsultativePanel.co.uk Labour would stop badger cull – VetTimes.co.uk Trophy import ban is racist – DailyMail.co.uk Call to make trap-wrecking illegal – ScottishGamekeepers.co.uk Pie & pea fundraising supper – Facebook ‘Racist’ bird names changed – AmericanOrnithology.org US hunting and fishing […]
Fieldsports Britain – Packham, partridges and high pheasants
youtu.be/KZGFG8pBJfA Our legal battle with Packham is over – we explain what it all means. We’re shooting top flight Welsh partridges with Paul Childerley, Fieldsports Nation member Gary and the Sparsholt massive. Plus it’s a win-win at Warter Priory. Pete Thompson, another Fieldsports Nation member, helps fund our legal battle and enjoys a world-class driven […]
Win a £150 shooting lesson – Fieldsports Extra, episode 297
We are giving away a shooting lesson priced at £150, kindly donated by the Oxford Gun Company, in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re wrapping up the Packham defamation hearing with member Gary Froggatt and our own David Wright. And a loader called Pete explains why he sprays his gun’s barrels with oil between drives.This […]
Tony Blair’s fox welfare shame – Fieldsports News, 1 November 2023
youtu.be/chaNCIGyQyA Here are the links: Hunting ban ‘a failure’ says Rural Wrongs book – Fieldsports News Durrells rewild grousemoors – Durrell.org New UK gun auction house – LonsdalesAuctioneers.com Australia feral horse cull – Independent.co.uk Norwegians want to shoot more lynx – Nrk.no GWCT lapwing study – GWCT.org.uk BASC deer carcase tips – BASC.org.uk CA advice […]
Airflo Fishing Open Championship 2023
Andy Ford is off to Rutland Water where the country’s top reservoir trout specialists are battling it out over two days for the title of Airflo fishing open champion. Plus there’s controversy: should the competition be catch-and-kill or catch-and-release? The anglers decide… For more on AirFlo fishing competitions, including the results of this one, go […]
Hunting Irish sika with wonky noses
Paul Childerley is in the Wicklow hills battling the Irish weather to get onto a sika stag in the rut. He’s keen to experience the eerie whistling and argy bargy that make this a magical time of year in these awe-inspiring mountains. After a lung-busting climb and some close calls, Paul finally gets the opportunity […]
Jeremy Wade from River Monsters – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 85
youtu.be/uTrOvmL3vyA Jeremy Wade from TV’s River Monsters makes two visits to the 2023 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. He talks to Charlie about his early life fishing, his favourite kinds of fishing and his definition of ‘sporting’ fishing. Click here for more clips from the series. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast85 […]
Fieldsports Britain – stormy sika stalk
Paul Childerley is in the Wicklow hills battling the Irish weather and treacherous terrain to get onto a sika stag in the rut. A team of young guns try out driven pheasant shooting in Devon – and they’re not paying a penny. Trout anglers vote on whether to knock catch-and-release on the head. Jeremy Wade […]
Young shots’ free pheasant day
Ashtree Shoot in South Devon has found a brilliant way to get youngsters into shooting. It gives up an early-season day for its own guns so it can invite two dozen newbies to give the sport a go. The set-up is simple. Guns double up on pegs, shooting every other drive, and mentors including pro […]
Win Bollé shooting glasses – Fieldsports Extra, episode 296
We are giving away Bollé Altus shooting glasses priced at around £100 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we’re with deerstalkers Martin Curran and Tom Garner, staghunter David Renney, deer (and other mammal) campaigner Jim Barrington, angler Jeremy Wade and, from New Zealand, Katie Hargreaves and Rich Leonard.This week’s prizes and other links:Santoku knifeBollé Altus […]
Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 84
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_u_U8ybaY Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states. This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham Other ways to listen to our […]
GRS Fenris adjustable rifle stock for hunting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVFb_JJqf0 Ryan Charlton from GRS’s UK distributor Highland Outdoors talks through the new Fenris adjustable rifle stock, designed for hunting. Click here for more about the GRS Fenris
Yankee squirrels vs Ukrainian airgun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUbMh8mwSc James Marchington reviews a Ukrainian pre-charged pneumatic bullpup air rifle, the Zbroia Sapsan. Once it’s pumped up and zeroed, it’s off to a local pheasant shoot to deal with some pesky grey squirrels which are helping themselves to grain from the pheasant feeders – but hunting squirrels in early autumn isn’t as easy as […]
BASC uncovers gun certificate police error – Fieldsports News, 25 October 2023
Here are the links: Backdated shotgun certificates: BASC investigates police blunder – BASC Countryside Alliance praises Suffolk council – Countryside Alliance Scottish trailhunting ban ‘may be illegal’ – Nature.Scot Trailcams to monitor people in Jersey countryside – BBC Marmot hunting to continue in France – FranceTVInfo Norway deer collisions up 15% – TV2.no Australia takes […]
Tim tests Swarovski Z8i+ scope
‘Circle, red dot, kill’ – that’s what you want a scope to do for you, says Tim Pilbeam, and the Swarovski Z8i+ does it. He is out on his range in Sussex with local deerstalkers and a gunsmith to put the scope through its paces and see what the advantages are. For more about the […]
Fieldsports Britain – new Swaro scope
Tim Pilbeam is going bang in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. He has his hands on the new Swarovski Z8i+ scope and he and his deerstalking friends are putting it through its paces on his range in Sussex. Elsewhere in the county, squirrels are under threat from a Ukrainian airgun. James Marchington reviews the Zbroia Sapsan and […]
Win a Flint & Flames knife – Fieldsports Extra, episode 295
We are giving away a Flint & Flames knife priced at £125 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus Tim Pilbeam has a new Swarovski scope to play with, Tristan Breijer from FACE explains the anti/pro-hunting battle lines, and we have a pair of American Fieldsports Nation members: Dan Hill in the rain in Somerset and […]
New lead ban proposals – Fieldsports News, 18 October 2023
Here are the links: HSE consultation on lead ammunition – BASC Game assurance scheme joins Aim to Sustain – BASC Norway urges fish farmers to shoot tuna – SalmonBusiness.com Sea eagles ‘out of control’ – FWI.co.uk Council’s anti-vegan fightback – Countryside Alliance Capercaillie scientists scapegoat voles – ForestryAndLand.gov.scot New coins to feature endangered wildlife – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fallow for the freezer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcfBJISLno Cai Ap Bryn’s freezers are running low after a hectic summer serving up venison at high profile events like the Game Fair at Ragley. Now he’s after a fallow buck to replenish his stocks of healthy wild meat. Meanwhile, Charlie is in Africa, hunting wary hartebeest with the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, and […]
How to track a hartebeest with a loo roll
youtu.be/mmEs8VDu_O4 Charlie is on a plainsgame hunt in South Africa with the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, where he has trouble with hartebeest and learns a new technique for tracking wounded game… toilet paper. You can learn to be a PH, or go hunting with the students, at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School Watch […]
Cai goes shopping for a fallow
youtu.be/xAySiZL8ACI Cai Ap Bryn’s freezers are running low after a hectic summer serving up venison at high profile events like the Game Fair at Ragley. Now he’s after a fallow buck to replenish his stocks of healthy wild meat. For more information about the Bergara range of rifles – head to ArtemisOutdoorsUK.co.uk Cai Ap Bryn’s […]
Formula One’s Ross Brawn on clayshooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 83
Ross Brawn, managing director of one of today’s biggest spectator sports, Formula One, and a keen shooter, chatted with Charlie Jacoby in the Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. They talked about how to re-establish clayshooting to international greatness. This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK’s largest gun show, […]
Win how-to-cook game tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 294
We are giving away two tickets at £115 each to a game seminar by super-game-chef José Souto. Plus the boss of Formula One Ross Brawn says how to make clayshooting great again, member Trevor Knowles takes me out deerstalking and Ollie Williams goes guinea-fowl shooting.This week’s prizes and other links:Find the Pellet-Pod on Amazon + […]
Sako 90 vs 85: what’s the difference?
Sako rifles have always been known for their quality. Robin Shedden of Cluny Country Guns fondly remembers his Sako 75, which would put bullets into a thumbnail sized group at 180 yards every time. “That’s what you’re getting with Sako: quality,” he says. Since then we’ve seen the Sako 85 and now the 90, so […]
How to call in rutting moose
Swedish Lapland still has wild places, and that’s where Paul Childerley is headed with his guide Robert Magnstrom. We first met Robert when he took us capercaillie hunting in the snow. It was then he promised us a return trip to call in moose in the rut. Over the past 15 years he has worked […]
Fieldsports Britain – difficult moose
Paul Childerley returns to Swedish Lapland to hunt moose in the rut with the new Sako 90 Peak in .300 Win Mag. His guide Robert Magnstrom uses a roll of kitchen flooring to carry his grunts across vast areas of uninhabited wetlands – but will the moose be impressed? Meanwhile Ollie Williams enjoys a day […]
Ferreting and mental health – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 82
Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. […]
Gamekeeper anger at politicians – Fieldsports News, 11 October 2023
Here are the links: Scottish gamekeepers sick of being ‘pawns’ – Scottish Gamekeepers Association Call for change to proposed Scottish snare ban – Scottish Land and Estates Wales snare ban in force – Welsh Government, BASC North Yorks police investigate shot buzzard – Facebook post Trout for the table? Spanish hunters go digital – EU […]
Brimpsfield Park Estate game shoot
Ollie Williams enjoys a day at Brimpsfield Park Estate in Gloucestershire. It’s a 350-bird mixed pheasant, partridge and duck driven shoot over four drives. For Eley-Hawk, visit EleyHawkLtd.com For Brimpsfield Park Estate, contact Ben Hughes at Bruern Game Supplies, which you can find on Facebook and Instagram – or visit the Brimpsfield Park Estate page […]
Win a Pellet-Pod – Fieldsports Extra, episode 293
We are giving away Pellet-Pods from a Fieldsports Nation member for your airgun pellets this week, plus Paul Childerley is filming the moose rut with David in Lapland, and Simon Whitehead talks about how ferreting is a kind of therapy. This week’s prizes and other links:Jack Pyke Sherpa Fleece gilet £36.95 and Sherpa fleece jacket £42.95 Find […]
Baby rhino update, from Rockwood – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 81
Baby rhino update, from Rockwood – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 81 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJN2EQytQLs In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vets saved some of its sight. They named the animal ‘Hope’. Wicus Diederichs from Rockwood reports on Hope’s progress and how […]
Is Prince Harry sending 2,000 rhinos to their deaths?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZz1QdPKvCQ US wildlife organisation African Parks (president: Prince Harry) plans to release 2,000 southern white rhino into wildlife parks across Africa. Stephen Palos from SUCO asks whether African Parks has thought this one through – or are the animals being presented with a ribbon around them to organised crime to poach the animals for their […]
Quickfire rabbits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-6ktI7Exs Tom Davies shows off fast shooting with a .17HMR, controlling rabbits on farmland in Devon. He has a new rifle and he has to zero his Pulsar Thermion 2 thermal scope on to it, and then fulfil an order for rabbits. Charlie is not helping… For more about Pulsar, go to ThomasJacks.co.uk You […]
Thermal night vision fusion on deer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3CwA4Z3bs Essex foxshooter Robert Bucknell and his deerstalking buddy Nigel Fulton make their judgement about the new thermal / night vision fusion available from HIKMicro, plus Nigel takes it out to try for a fallow buck. For more from HIKMicro about the Falcon FQ50 Pro monocular, and the binocular Raptor Pro RQ50L with a built-in […]
Webley & Scott Pro Comp: an affordable competition clay gun
What do you have to spend on a new shotgun for serious clay competition? £2,000? £2,500? That was the entry level price, but now there’s a contender at little more than half the cost, and with a good solid British name to boot: the Webley & Scott Pro Comp. Dan Bibb of Shooting Sports UK […]
Fieldsports Britain – old boys, new kit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4qCr-HrVkw Two old men are getting to grips with modern thermal this week. Robert Bucknell and Nigel Fulton have the latest from HIKMicro to try out on deer. Meanwhile, Tom Davies is on Dartmoor with kit from Pulsar on the hunt for rabbits. He puts in some pretty shooting to make his bag in record […]
Are empty bullet cases banned? – Fieldsports News, 4 October 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deGgWx3MIWI Here are the links: Are empty bullet cases banned? BASC says no Scotland brings in new laws on deer and hounds – links: Application form for the use of more than two dogs for the management of wild mammals above ground + licensing guidance + preventing serious damage application form Rural Reaction targets Tories […]
Win Jack Pyke shooting clothing – Fieldsports Extra, episode 292
We are giving away Jack Pyke fleece gilet and jacket, plus Robert Bucknell talks about thermal spotters, Alex Sayer is at the Conservative Party conference looking out for the countryside and Tom Davies criticises the cameraman.This week’s prizes and other links:Two Smoking Barrels Jack Pyke Sherpa Fleece gilet £36.95 and Sherpa fleece jacket £42.95 For 40% off […]
