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 […]
Ollie Williams’ hot tuna fishing ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwE3scAJNY4 Ollie Williams enjoys a bucket list experience on the hunt for getting a bite from a sea legend. He’s hunted and fished all over the world. It was out in the waters near his home in Cornwall he came face to face with a majestic Bluefin tuna. Ollie sailed with Steve Porter of the […]
Young shots’ driven day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jIeivhAnQ It’s a young shots’ day at the Gwysaney Estate in North Wales. The start of the partridge season sees a team of junior guns head out to shoot and enjoy exceptional birds. For Gwysaney Sporting, go to Facebook.com/GwysaneySporting or find it on GunsOnPegs More driven game here:
Fieldsports Britain – rocketing partridges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNMBGf84RI Who says there aren’t enough young guns out there? It’s partridge time for kids as we join a team of guns on the Gwysaney Estate in North Wales. Meanwhile, Ollie Williams is trying out the finest in British big game fishing with the CHART scheme for Atlantic bluefin tuna. And there’s a new political […]
Rural Reaction: new political party for the countryside
youtu.be/B7Xz85z_Li0 by Charlie Jacoby It’s not just the opening of the pheasant-shooting season. New political party Rural Reaction launches on 1 October 2023. An event will take place near the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Rural Reaction aims to take on the Tories in their rural heartlands. After Boris Johnson’s 2019 manifesto abandoned the countryside, […]
Gamebird licence climbdown – Fieldsports News, 27 September 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Amnp5frhPI Here are the links: Caution over game bird licence climbdown – BASC Fishing is good for you – MDPI French wolves hunted – Connexion France Packham ‘incitement to terrorism’ claim – Advertiser & Times £8 million to kill off Orkney stoats – press release Bass deadlines near – UK Bass Southern Water in court […]
Win BOG shooting sticks – Fieldsports Extra, episode 291
We are giving away BOG Death Grip shooting sticks priced at more than £200. Plus Ollie Williams talks about tuna fishing. James Davies Cooke says whey young shots are so important to game shooting and I go on a sim day with Fredercik Beesley gunmakers.This week’s prizes and other links:EdgeSport Hunting Combo Kit EdgeSport five-piece gut […]
What’s the right shotgun for a left-hander?
You are left-handed, so you need a left-handed gun, right? Not necessarily, says Robin Shedden of Cluny Country Guns. Several of the big shotgun manufacturers offer their guns in left-handed versions, but those aren’t always fully left-handed, he explains. The left-handed Berettas and the Blaser F16 are built on right-handed actions, and fitted with a […]
Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival 2023
youtu.be/dgN7VT0i5vQ The Orvis Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival 2023 took place from Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September 2023 in Chichester Harbour and Hayling Island. Andy Ford guides us through The festival, based from the Langstone Quays Hotel, which aims to bring together likeminded anglers to forge new friendships, develop new skills and learn more about […]
Hunters’ chopper horror – Fieldsports News, 20 September 2023
youtu.be/CzP9inpKVw4 Here are the links: Hunters’ helicopter terror Banks under pressure Feeding deer to lions appals antis Scots estates win conservation praise Angler lands lake monster catfish Coffey criticised Canada geese on White House lawn Sika nipple test
Golf course rabbit control
Nicole Moore, Instagram’s Shooting Girl with an Afro, has taken on rabbit control duties at a golf course close to her home in Norfolk, where the rabbits are causing terrible damage to the greens. She’s using a .22 Sako rifle, subsonic ammo, and she has got a new ATN X-Sight day/night scope so she can […]
Fieldsports Britain – hole in one rabbit
youtu.be/n5qUhhjf_yY Nicole Moore looks after the greens on a Norfolk golf course with a rifle. With night vision, she is out to make every putt count by controlling the rabbits that dig extra holes for the golfers. She explains the job, why the golfers like her and what she does with the rabbits afterwards. We’re […]
Fieldsports meets feature film making at Cornish gun shop
youtu.be/MSbKMWTcITg In the Cornish countryside, Fieldsports meets feature filmmaking. At an open day to celebrate the extension to Ian Hodge’s shop, my film crew came along too. Many of you will know me as a news correspondent for Fieldsports Channel but I am also a film director. We will be shooting a scene of my […]
Win deer butchery kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 290
We are giving away two deer butchery sets from Smith’s EdgeSport, including knives and sharpeners. Plus Ian Hodge asks the police round to his place, Richard Ryan showcases thermal, Nicole Smith has a rabbit recipe and Deborah Hadfield is shooting a feature film, that includes shooting.Muntjac Trading gundog training skirt EdgeSport hunting combo kitEdgeSport five-piece […]
Trail hunt ban defeated – Fieldsports News, 13 September 2023
Here are the links: Trail hunt ban defeated – Countryside Alliance RSPB accuses gamekeepers – Daily Mail Scottish businesses reject bill – Yahoo Thieves hit clay ground again – JustGiving appeal page Prince Harry charity buys 2,000 rhinos – African Parks Saltwater fly festival – SaltwaterFlyFishingUK.com Clock ticking for capercaillie – GWCT press release Rimfire […]
Fieldsports Britain – Thermal poult protection
youtu.be/14unHSCsVn0 Gamekeepers are busy protecting their vulnerable young birds from foxes, poachers and more – and thermal is a vital and versatile tool. Paul Childerley and his team take the latest thermal kit from Zeiss out on their rounds to see how it performs.Meanwhile Ollie Williams heads to Scotland to experience a thrilling high partridge […]
How gamekeepers use thermal
Keeping their birds alive and well is every gamekeeper’s priority – and the biggest threat to their pheasants, ducks and partridges is foxes. Thermal technology gives keepers the tools to outwit such a cunning predator. German optics company Zeiss has just released a range of thermal spotters and a front mounted add-on for a riflescope. […]
Ollie Williams takes on Aikengall’s extreme partridges
Ollie Williams is excited to shoot at Aikengall & Monynut, not far from Edinburgh. It’s famed for showing high partridges in stunning Scottish scenery. Ollie is shooting his favourite side-by-side, and Eley VIP Game cartridges, with 32g of no.5 shot. He takes a while to find the right lead on the high, fast birds. Meanwhile […]
Tier One Quick Detach scope mount
Tier One are renowned for their precision Monomount scope mounts – but what if you want to swap your scope to another rifle? Their new quick-detach mount is the answer. “It’s got all the bnefits of the Monomount,” explains Ryan Charlton of distributors Highland Outdoors. “It’s made from a single piece of 7000 series aluminium […]
