How not to roost-shoot pigeons
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVAYffKgO4 It could have been superb – but Dan Thor is having a bad day. The pigeons are flocking into the wood where they roost in Essex. However, there’s no wind. They are coming in too high. Here’s how he copes with a pigeon roost-shoot day going wrong. For Browning and Miroku guns go […]
Firearms licensing in the spotlight at the British Shooting Show
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters came face to face with firearms licensing officers at the British Shooting Show. Officers from three police forces, Devon & Cornwall, West Mercia, and Warwickshire went to the 2023 event in Birmingham to meet shooters. The police staff were there to help with variations and offer practical advice on how to […]
Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Fieldsports News, 22 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPt5csr7YxU Here are the links: Call for shotguns to go on FACs – Guardian Police investigate after sab hit by horse – BBC Court rules that being an anti is ‘religion’ – Guardian Kent anglers defend a moat – petition Wildcats to be released in Devon & Cornwall – BBC Gamekeepers welcome muirburn – research […]
How to film a big game hunt
Charlie Jacoby is with a professional hunter from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Edwin Corney is turning his hand to filming and Charlie is training him to film for Fieldsports Channel. Here’s how he gets on during a sable antelope hunt.Click here for more from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School Here’s the film […]
Fieldsports Britain – Dan Thor’s pigeon predicament
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuurozMuw8 It was all looking so good. The pigeons are pouring into the wood, the guns are spread out, but Dan Thor is about to have one of the worst roost-shooting outings of his shooting career. Find out what goes wrong in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Plus, Charlie is in South Africa asking why London politicians […]
Win a fox caller priced at £99 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 260
You can win an IcoTec Rascal foxcaller from Best Fox Call priced at £99. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, how the British Shooting went, with a police firearms enquiry officer explaining himself, and Charlie is training a new cameraman in Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear […]
British government’s back-door ban on shooters who have lived abroad
youtu.be/UCAqHqCM5yw The government’s new policy of granting gun certificates on production of medical records is penalising people who have lived abroad and don’t have medical records. Charlie Jacoby meets two people like that at the 2023 British Shooting Show. David Taylor is a British citizen who has lived his life in South Africa, where doctors […]
British Shooting Show 2023 – for gun collectors
Did you think the 2023 British Shooting Show is only all about shiny, new kit? There’s plenty there for the gun collector, too. Charlie Jacoby chats to Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk about what he found.
Avon Vale Hunt expelled over video – Fieldsports News, 15 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5uZchuvGc Here are the links: Avon Vale Hunt incident – BHSA RSPB cash for dog training – Welsh Government BASC fight lead airgun pellet ban – BASC Fieldsports excluded from national recreation strategy – Countryside Alliance Sabs slam vegans for supporting RSPB & WWF – Vegan Markets Elon Musk reinstates Senator’s Twitter after hunting photos […]
Saudi falcon racing
youtu.be/hjpTuxWaD7A Saudi Arabia is mad about falcon racing – so much so they’ve built a huge stadium to host it in the middle of the desert. We join a GB falcon racing team as they put on an exhibition event showing off a new style of simulated hunt racing, developed in the UK by Dr. […]
Scientists warn trophy hunting ban would be ‘catastrophic’
youtu.be/yX-IFKZ6_zI On the hunt in Africa: Ed Sargeant is a Brit and new to hunting in Africa. Guided by trainee professional hunters from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School in South Africa, he is out for his first stalk. Ed says: “We saw a small group of springboks. We followed them, but they just kept […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting long range gongs and deer
youtu.be/Ez3lp4FzZd4 Paul Childerley needs to cull Chinese water deer in a field so big he can’t stalk close enough. Perhaps Zeiss ambassador and PRS shooter Andy Simpson-Nix can help – and convince him to give PRS competition a go too. We’re in Saudi Arabia to see how British falcons compete in a race under the […]
Best spring air rifle: Air Arms TX200 vs Weihrauch HW97
They’re two of the finest spring-powered air rifles ever made – but which is the best, the Air Arms TX200 or the Weihrauch HW97? James Head of Crackshot UK, the Devon and online airgun centre, is in no doubt. “There’s pros and cons for both and in the end it comes down to personal choice, […]
Government to pay shooters to kill foxes
youtu.be/AKZr3ixPnvY Managing predators is a daily battle for farmers, gamekeepers and landowners. Now the government signals it will recognise this effort and pay shooters for the work. It doesn’t say when or how much, but it includes predator control in the latest round of proposed farm subsidies. Foxshooter Mike Dickinson, who runs Calton Moor Range […]
Scouts learn about wild game and shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC57YSGhcK8 Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a simple mission: to introduce Scout groups to wild game. It’s a way of reconnecting kids with nature and he is touring the South-East of England’s Scout groups to do it. Find your local Scout group at scouts.org.uk
Ollie Williams hosts a shoot day after falling off a balcony ❤️🏝️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHqFnpzTtA It might be the end of the driven shooting season but it’s Ollie Williams’ first day back after a serious injury. He is hosting a shoot day with the help of two walking sticks, following an accident before Christmas where he fell off a balcony in Germany. He explains all that and has time […]
Fieldsports Britain – Ollie’s shooting pain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfJQf_Agzw Ollie Williams is disabled – it’s short-term, and it’s not stopping him from hosting a shoot day at home in Cornwall. We join him and friends to see how he copes on sticks. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Dave Hays has a mission to introduce Scout groups to wild game. He explains how he takes […]
Spitting sab convicted of assault – Fieldsports News, 8 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCdhr_qK9uk Here are the links: Spitting sab convicted of assault – www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11705067/Saboteur-Boxing-Day-hunt-SPITS-woman-vowing-p-graves-riders.html Bird flu spreads to other mammals – www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64474594 Exmoor red deer TB link to cattle – link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01638-y Autumnwatch cancelled after Packham steps back – fieldsportschannel.tv/packhamcase Study looks at reintroducing black grouse to Sussex – www.birdguides.com/news/plans-to-reintroduce-black-grouse-to-sussex/ Welsh snares ban will harm threatened species – […]
Win a Spartan bipod priced at £289 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 258
You can win a Spartan bipod priced at £289, kindly donated by Baileys Shooting & Countrywear. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, we go to the Hunting Kind one-day conference, member Dave Hayes is on a mission to teach Scouts about British game, and there’s good news for crow and […]
PCP airgun outfit for under £500 – is it any good?
Thinking of upgrading to a pre-charged pneumatic airgun? Good choice – but won’t that cost you something north of £1,000? Not necessarily, says Matt Clay at Shooting Sports UK, the Staffordshire and online gun shop. He’s offering a complete PCP outfit for under £500. It’s built around the Stoeger XM1, a smart, modern looking pre-charged […]
British Shooting Show 2023 preview – #BSS2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8Vc2tXZ48 We preview the Great British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 February 2023. Click here for British Shooting Show tickets Crackshot offer More from the British Shooting Show here:
Battle over ‘tax break trees’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4MgUB35duE A Scottish estate covered in Fieldsports News has sold for £10.5 million to a rewilding company. Highlands Rewilding bought the Tayvallich Estate in Argyll. It raised part of the money through crowdfunding. The new owner says it plans to restore the 3,500-acre estate’s ‘natural environment’. It already owns two Scottish estates, Bunloit in Inverness-shire […]
Fabulous end-of-season pheasants at the Brent Pelham shoot, with Dan Thor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHlDKBG7F4 What a way to end the pheasant-shooting season. Dan Thor is out with friends from the beaters’ line shooting driven birds at the Brent Pelham shoot in Hertfordshire – all the usual suspects plus more. The birds are flying well, the weather is bright and it all makes you look forward to next season. […]
Fieldsports Britain – beaters’ big day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9XvkqH9kY It’s Dan Thor’s beaters’ day – the big day for all the people who have put hard work into the pheasant season producing wonderful birds for guns, when they get to shoot the birds themselves. Find out how he gets on at Brent Pelham in Hertfordshire. We also preview the British Shooting Show, and […]
DEFRA works out that pheasants breed but once a year… duh – Fieldsports News, 1 February 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4h9uBaKbd0 Here are the links: EU and UK agree new bird flu trade regs – AimtoSustain Scottish Government licenses hunting – Scottish Gamekeepers Association + Countryside Alliance Edinburgh plans to ‘go vegan’ – Farmers’ Weekly UK trophy ban bill next stage – Westminster Parliament Hunt confronts antis over spraying citronella – YouTube Record number of […]
Win £145 of Elevenses Distillery gin – Fieldsports Extra, episode 257
You can win four bottles of Elevenses Distillery gin priced at £145. Plus the latest on Chris Packham’s proposed court case against us, Gareth Wyn Jones talks about the perils of ignoring traditional landowners, we have a story about a dragon and I hand over a box of booze to wildfowler Andy Peake. This week’s […]
Packham sues YouTube channel over Facebook post
In January 2023, Chris Packham’s lawyer Leigh Day contacted us to say he plans to sue Fieldsports Channel Ltd over a Facebook post and an article on FieldsportsChannel.tv from June 2022. Chris has willingly appeared on Fieldsports Britain since 2017, so we were surprised he reached for lawyers instead of a telephone in this case, […]
Fieldsports Extra ‘Extra’ – Packham wants to sue
Here are Packham’s demands:i. Substantial damages in a sum to be agreed, with the amount to be fixed according to the extent of your cooperation with the balance of the demands in this letter;ii. The removal by you of the publications complained of from the URLs identified above;iii. An apology and retraction in terms to […]
Hunting British wild boar
Cai Ap Bryn takes part in a boar cull in Gloucestershire that has him waiting out in freezing temperatures but with high reward. It’s all part of a war on wildlife that the Westminster government won’t admit. Here’s how shooters and hunters are solving the problem of British wild boar. For more about Cai’s Bergara […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s big UK pig
Action and suspense in the woods for Cai Ap Bryn as he heads to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire as part of a team shooting British wild boar for the table. The guys at Deerbox.co.uk are struggling to keep up with demand for boar. It’s a tough outing for Cai in freezing temperatures but […]
Assynt crofters vs John Muir Trust: battle for Quinag estate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtIjM6H-hVc by Deborah Hadfield A deer shot in the head is at the centre of the latest clash between the Assynt Crofters’ Trust (ACT) and the John Muir Trust (JMT). ACT claims the animal was killed as part of culling on Quinag estate, which neighbour’s ACT’s North Assynt estate. JMT is carrying out culling using […]
Dog training: how to work open ground
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGMk6ujodI Expert trainer and gundog breeder Dave Templar from Countryways Gundogs shows a field-trial-winning flush and retrieve by a cocker, and how he trains the dog to do it. For more about Dave, go to his website More from Dave the Dog
Police firearms failings put public in danger – Fieldsports News, 25 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftO_d-mXyQw Here are the links: BASC says firearms licensing is in crisis – BASC Horrific scene as poachers kill stag Petition prompts woodcock parliamentary debate – Wild Justice petition Gamekeepers shining spotlight on hare numbers – Fieldsports News Deer larder plans scrapped after anti backlash – Daily Telegraph Research recommends muir burning as management tool […]
Browning’s new BAR 4X semi-auto rifle
Browning has unveiled the latest version of its hugely successful Browning Automatic Rifle, the BAR 4X, which promises improved accuracy and a modular sighting system so you can personalise the rifle to your needs. It comes in four grades of finish, with a choice of engraving, stock shapes and wood, magazines, open and reflex sights, […]
Win tickets to the British Shooting Show – Fieldsports Extra, episode 256
You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the British Shooting Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17-19 Februatry 2023. Plus Ben Heath from Deerbox looks back on a successful first couple of years and Victor Clements, who advises the Assynt Crofters Trust, says what the John Muir Trust is doing wrong.This week’s […]
CPSA looks to drop the pigeon
The Clay Pigeon Shooting Association wants to drop the word “pigeon” in its name, in a bid to “modernise our sport’s brand image in order to help attract new shooters, members, and sponsors from outside the sport.” The organisation, which is the sport’s governing body in England, is asking its 25,000 members to comment on […]
Tested: HIK Micro Falcon FQ50 Pro thermal spotter
youtu.be/fliO-uk1xFc Mark Ripley, known as 260Rips on YouTube, is testing the latest thermal spotter from Scott Country: the HikMicro Falcon FQ50 Pro. He uses it to spot foxes, deer and rabbits, day or night, as part of his pest control duties. Today he’s after rabbits on a farm where they’re causing damage to grazing land. […]
Thugs attack hunter over Daily Mirror article
youtu.be/Cb8pfZn-EBM Essex businessman Syed Rizwan is a conservation hero. That’s what hunters call him. The father-of-three pours hundreds of thousands of pounds into wildlife and biodiversity projects worldwide. Anti-hunters take a different view. They call him ‘scum’ and ‘filth’ among hundreds of repulsive emails, messages and phone calls. Syed Rizwan funds conservation all over the […]
How to hit high partridges, with instructor Steph Davey at Ashcombe Adventure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQuAUrOZNM Fieldsports Nation member Philip Young wants to hit high partridges this season, so he has a lesson with instructor Steph Davey. It’s also an opportunity to take a look at the newly-refurbished Ashcombe Adventure clay ground in Devon, now managed by local gunshop Sportsman Gun Centre. Find Steph Davey on her website and on […]
Duck with a red-dot sight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_A3P_9HJ4It’s a classic driven pheasant and duck shoot for Roy Lupton, except it’s in Sweden and all the shooters are using Aimpoint red dot sights. He masters his Aimpoint S1 and puts it through its paces on snow-covered ground among some of the stateliest scenery southern Sweden has to offer. The guns are also shooting […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s stately Swedish pheasant shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1dm9krFGEA It’s all about the bird shooting in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. Roy Lupton is on a driven pheasant and duck day in Sweden, laid on by Aimpoint. He gets to use the Aimpoint S1 sight on his shotgun, plus he uses steel shot and discovers its limitations on driven birds. Meanwhile, Fieldsports Nation member Philip […]
Dead goshawk mystery – Fieldsports News, 18 January 2023
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrv2FTjQ70 Here are the links: Five young, fledged goshawks found dead – Fieldsports News Antis give police ‘heavily edited footage’ – North Wales Police or Word doc CPSA wants to drop ‘pigeon’ for ‘target’ – CPSA survey Scottish gamekeepers rage at out-of-season cull – The National + Nature.Scot Snares in political spotlight at Westminster – […]
Five dead goshawks – what the police missed
by Charlie Jacoby Police have arrested a man in connection with five birds of prey found shot in Suffolk. Police launched an investigation in January after the birds were found near a woodland car park near Thetford. X-rays established all five birds had been shot. A £13,000 reward was set up for information which could […]
Pulsar launches new Merger LRF XL50 thermal binoculars at 2023 Shot Show
Night vision and thermal imaging specialist Pulsar has launched new top-of-the-range thermal imaging binoculars, the Merger LRF XL50, at the 2023 Shot Show in Las Vegas. The company say the new binoculars are true all-rounders. They feature a wide field of view for scanning and target acquisition, and high image quality and detail across the […]
Win a £130 Whisky Box – Fieldsports Extra, episode 255
You can win a Whisky Box from the Elliott Ross Company priced at £130 for your shooting and stalking outings. Plus one of our members introduces me to a newly refurbished clayground, Roy is getting beaten up in Switzerland, and a big game hunter is getting a thrashing from the Daily Mirror.Gun Dog Gun The Whisky […]
Lovely small shoot day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-O5YcLvkOMHow does a small shoot run? Charlie Jacoby joins a shoot in North Cornwall, where almost anything can happen – and usually does. Thanks to Ian Hodge Fieldsports for asking him along. More pheasant shooting stories here:
Threats to shooting: the fightback
Fieldsports groups claim shooting is under threat from over-regulation: you can’t shoot a magpie in Wales but you can in England, the Scottish government plans to restrict the use of gundogs, and DEFRA wants a ban on lead airgun pellets. Those are just a few of the pointless new laws affecting shooting. Aim to Sustain, […]
Recipe: smoked rabbit on an open fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkwE85uINE Joe Wood (@high_elms) hot smokes rabbit loins over an open fire. Firstly, he cures them, sprinkling on a mixture of salt, sugar, star anise, bayleaf and black pepper. Cure the rabbit for 15 minutes, rinse off the cure and get the smoker going, using Half a cup of rice, 3 tbsp brown sugar and […]
How to hunt with a flintlock musket
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqHE2LgWkaY Fieldsports Nation member Joe Wood is a black powder enthusiast. He owns a reproduction 18th-century Brown Bess muzzleloading flintlock musket, and he wants to take it mooching for a rabbit or a pigeon. First, though, he needs to set up a target and check everything is working as it should. Put your fingers in […]
Fieldsports Britain – shooting a Brown Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdaHGUFQ3U Flash bang – ever thought about going shooting with a musket? That’s what Joe Wood from the Lincolnshire Wolds does. Today he is after rabbit, plus serves up a tasty smoked rabbit, cooked over an open fire. Meanwhile, Charlie is off to a pheasant shoot in Cornwall, where things never go according to plan. […]
