Fieldsports Britain – modern foxshooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9h0C8nPWr4 A lot of foxes fall over in this week’s episode, which asks the question: what’s happened to foxshooting in recent years? Gamekeeper’s Diary legend Geoff Garrod tells the story of foxshooting and predator control by gamekeepers from early fox drivers, via lamping, to the thermal scopes of today. Plus we look at innovation from […]
Hen harrier success – Fieldsports News, 24 August 2022
Here are the links: Hen harrier brood scheme success – YouTube + Moorland Association Scottish government looks at snaring ban – Fieldsports News Anti media make false claims over Ritz grouse – Guardian original story + Order-Order.com Puppy prices collapse over household money worries – Daily Mail + for Chris’s vizslas email chris@christopherharris.net Cumbria won’t accept […]
Win foxhunting history – Fieldsports Extra #234
You can win a print commemorating the 2004 action by the #WestminsterEight, bursting in to the chamber of the House of Commons during the passage of Tony Blair’s bill to ban hunting with hounds. Plus we look at deer RTAs, foxshooting vehicles and how much lead to give a running fox.This week’s prizes and other […]
The 2022 Ken Hill wildfire and what happens next
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09b6SGDOR4 The flames and smoke from one lowland wildfire in Norfolk in July 2022 could be seen from miles away. The fire damaged 120 acres of marshland which is managed by the Heacham Wildfowlers Club. The group, which shoots ducks and geese had been working to restore the habitat. Marsh warden Darren Whitmore says the […]
The magic of roebuck stalking
It’s the end of the roebuck rut – and it’s a bumper outing. Roy uses the last of the bucks’ mating drive to call them in, plus he uses the stalk to look for magical muntjac, the busy little deer of England’s southern woodlands. He is using every advantage to stalk them, because there’s going […]
A bespoke game gun for off-the-peg money
Can you really get a custom-built game gun for off-the-shelf money? Absolutely, says Robbie Shedden of Cluny Country, laying out the Chapuis range on the gunshop counter. This French gunmaker is now part of the Beretta group. It offers side-by-sides and over-and-unders at prices from around £2,500 up to £6,500-£7,000 – and just about every […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s treble
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAAFU2eWhc With his woods overrun with muntjac and roe, Roy has a go at a deerstalking treble. It’s the last knockings of the roebuck rut and the animals are still coming to the call. Meanwhile, Ollie Williams tries out a new big game hunting experience on his doorstep in Cornwall. He goes spearfishing with Mat […]
RSPB’s new attack on gameshooting – Fieldsports News, 17 August 2022
youtu.be/zichjyqUi-M Here are the links: RSPB ignores evidence on gamebird releasing – BASC Secrets of merlins revealed in NGO film – YouTube Study links broken hips with vegetarian diet – BBC Namibia threatens to quit CITES over trophy hunting ban – Namibia Brief Conservation expert Amy Dickman backs trophy hunting – The Conversation IFAW sends […]
Why Roy Lupton will stalk deer until the day he dies – Fieldsports Extra #233
We have Roy on why he goes deerstalking, a wildfowling club that’s dealing with a wildfire on its marsh, and how spearfishing is taking off in Cornwall. Plus you can still win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra.This week’s prizes and other links:BestFoxCall Gen2 IcoTec HellionGull on TikTokWhale on […]
The Westminster Eight – 18 years on – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 66
youtu.be/jeHHVbF7C94 In September 2004, eight campaigners burst in to the chamber of the House of Commons to protest against Tony Blair’s ban on hunting with hounds. Blair was ignoring the largest ever peacetime march, more than 400,000 people, who marched on Westminster in 2002 protesting against the same law. Blair’s ban, which came into force […]
What’s ‘Hunting Kind’? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 65
youtu.be/0jq9OhE9AUM The antis brought in bills to restrict hunting in England, Wales and Scotland – but none of them work. So they want to bring in new bills. Ed Swales from Hunting Kind explains the challenges facing hunting with hounds in Scotland and Northern Ireland. More on this: Other ways to listen to our podcasts
Helen’s Way raises £6,000 for gamekeepers
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8d0aoy Gamekeepers Welfare Trust chief executive Helen Benson has finished her journey from the north of Scotland to the south coast and back up to Sandringham. The trip raised awareness for gamekeepers and allowed her to stop at shooting estates al over the country. Helen kept her fans up to date with her progress on […]
Grouse-shooting 2022 season preview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDtyq0sX14 Antis target the grouse season. They know that disrupting a grouseshooting day will bring them publicity. Their biggest target is opening day, the glorious 12 August, as they know that many driven shoots will be on the moors. The Wentworth estate in the Peak District is one of several that won’t start shooting on […]
Countryfile under fire – Fieldsports News, 10 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJbbr1bywGo Here are the links: BBC fails to represent rural issues – Daily Mail Packham vs Gareth Wyn Jones Tweet spat – Twitter + C4PMC Deer number highest for 1,000 years – DEFRA deer consultation Countryside Alliance welcomes hunt sabs conviction – Countryside Alliance Irish hare coursing licence granted – Irish Times Anglers’ victory restores […]
Roe, rainbows and Paul’s tale of a tick 🪲 on his tackle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAqhfTQCpM Paul’s out stalking with Mark Bellamy in Wiltshire. The pair of them start by showing they are not flyfishers. However, they prove they certainly are deerstalkers, achieving a difficult stalk on a buck in the tramlines of a large field. Plus Paul explains the difficulty of removing a tick from an intimate area… For […]
Fieldsports Britain – roebuck rut hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyEIeMs1ys The roebuck rut is at its height. Summer evening sport in the dry, dusty days of July and August in the south of England might see you pigeon-shooting. For Paul Childerley, it’s an afternoon on the rainbow and, of course, a roebuck stalk in the evening. He also talks about the painful and personal […]
What riflescopes do our viewers prefer? Our survey says…
Nearly 700 viewers took part in out centrefire riflescopes survey, out of the massive 3,500 of you who responded to our lockdown surveys in March 2020 – and you reveal that almost all of the scopes you put on your centrefire rifles come from just 16 companies. The survey also shows that you are prepared […]
Win a BestFoxCall fox-caller priced at £195 – Fieldsports Extra #232
You can win a BestFoxCall fox caller priced at £195 in this and next week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Paul Childerley fishing, a shooting clothing ambassador talking about that, a man who found a ferret on a beach, the extraordinary sales of 20-calibre rifles, and Deborah is on a grousemoor.This week’s prizes and other […]
Clay shooting Champion of Champions 2022
youtu.be/_f9QuQeMlUA More than 20 clay shooting county champions gathered at the 2022 Game Fair and battled it out for the title of CPSA Champion of Champions – and the chance to drive an Isuzu pick-up truck for a year. One of the top contenders is Mike Jones, a farmer and gamekeeper from Shropshire. He made […]
Grouse shooting prospects for 2022 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nDMXdrYxo A panel of experts discuss grouse prospects for the 2022 season, plus the political threats facing grouseshooting. They are Mark Osborne from William Powell Sporting, Andrew Fallows from Carter Jonas and Adrian Blackmore from the Countryside Alliance. They talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the 2022 Game Fair […]
GunsOnPegs’ predictions for the 2022 shooting season – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 63
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24FfmiiHgi4 Chris Horne from GunsOnPegs presents the findings of the GunsOnPegs Game Shooting Census 2022/23. It’s going to be a tough year for gameshooting in the UK, with bird flu hitting bird imports, and hard on the heels of two years of lost bookings because of covid. Chris talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter […]
Bluefin tuna are back 🐟 and anglers are keeping it that way
by Deborah Hadfield Anglers are spotting huge numbers of bluefin tuna off the coast of Britain. The magnificent fish swim thousands of miles to British waters from as far away as America. They migrate vast distances in shoals as they follow the food. In recent years they’ve returned to the seas around the British Isles, […]
The Metropolitan Police’s head of firearms licensing – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 62
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCT4_dvQQ4 There are 30,000 legal gun-owners in London. Chris Downs, head of SCO 19 at the Met, and Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert, which provides medical certificates to shooters who need them for shotgun and firearm certificates, explains to Charlie what’s going on with firearms licensing in the capital. Plus Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert talks about […]
Labour’s Daniel Zeichner on countrysports – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 61
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqR-kNYJk9s Shadow food, farming and fisheries minister and Labour MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner makes the case for a Labour government running the countryside and being a force for good for countrysports. It’s an uphill task. He won’t repeal Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban but he says he and his Labour colleagues are happy to work […]
Nigel Farage on big game fishing and more – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 60
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg73ZsLmMgY Nigel Farage may be passionate about Europe but he is fundamentalist about bluefin tuna fishing. He says that, thanks to Brexit, the UK is able to develop its own bluefin sport fishing business. He explains the thrill of catching Britain’s most significant big game fish, which you can now do in a limited number […]
Geoff Garrod shoots pigeons with an umbrella 🙂☂️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3G68EzPHI Gamekeeper Geoff Garrod has a pigeon problem. It’s the hottest day of the year, but he plans to take an umbrella with him. Find out why. For the Browning Maxus 2, visit Bit.ly/maxus2 For Jack Pyke, go to JackPyke.co.uk For Eley’s cartridges, visit Bit.ly/eleyhawk More from Geoff here:
Police want shooters to report mental health issues
by Deborah Hadfield Feeling depressed? A new campaign in Scotland aims to encourage gun owners to report mental health issues and hand in their guns. The message from the Scottish Association of Country Sports (SACS) and others is that public safety is more important than gun ownership. The Scottish Firearms Licensing Practitioners Group is putting […]
Princess Royal backs Game Fair – Fieldsports News, 3 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7BhUeGatc Here are the links: Princess Royal presents awards at the Game Fair – BASC Game Fair thefts – DogLost + Howes & Wayko on Facebook Conservative leader hopeful in trophy ban media claim – Independent + Express Labour shadow environment minister supports shooting – Fieldsports News Police declare critical incident in Northern Ireland – […]
Will bird flu cost gamekeepers’ jobs?
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8cuf3y by Deborah Hadfield Nearly 100 gamekeepers may have already lost their jobs as a result of bird shortages caused by bird flu in France, redundancy figures from the National Gamekeepers Organisation suggest. That figure is disputed by Chris Horne of GunOnPegs, however. He has surveyed 700 shoots and says that, while 13 per cent […]
Hunting wild boar 🐗 on foot at night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJ0Lv5Vbsk Thermal is a game-changer for wild boar hunters. British boar hunter Paul Donegani is out after pigs in Portugal and tries out the latest kit from Infiray. The team are using TH50 thermal scope and TD50L night vision. Find the Infiray Tube TD50L night vision scope on Kitfinder Find the Infiray Tube TH50 thermal […]
Fieldsports Britain – thermal boar hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9AUxIr_aM Wild boar are difficult to hunt at night – until you have the latest thermal and night vision, that is. British boar hunter Paul Donegani heads for Portugal to try out a range of thermal and night vision kit from Infiray. Meanwhile, Geoff Garrod is on the pigeons in the latest in his Gamekeepers’ […]
Win Vario hearing protection priced at £150 – Fieldsports Extra #231
You can win Vario hearing protection priced at £150 from Ian Hodge Fieldsports in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the Princess Royal, quite a lot of Game Fair, a Portuguese sporting agent in a T-shirt, and Deborah is in Cornwall.This week’s prizes and other links:Spypoint trailcams at Baileys: Bit.ly/spypointforce20Ian Hodge Fieldsports Dominic Wightman fundraising […]
What to look for in a hunting rangefinder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdxysB83yY What should you look for when buying a rangefinder? Robbie Shedden from gunshop Cluny Country has sold thousands of them. He explains how people choose between rangefinders currently for sale from Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica and Kahles. For a selection of rangefinding binoculars go to Cluny Country. Rangefinders reviewed by our experts Tim Pilbeam tests […]
Love Island ❤️🏝️ Ollie hunts kudu in Africa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ukUeLDjG4 It’s one of the best ways to spend a year after you leave school. The students at the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School learn to deal with large African animals, and today they are taking a client, Ollie Williams from the hit TV show Love Island, out after kudu. Ollie is a trophy hunter, […]
How to buy wild venison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KeT518v10I by Deborah Hadfield With the cost-of-living crisis starting to bite, is wild deer a solution to eat cheaply? The challenge is to find reasonably-priced, locally-sourced venison. Shooters say that venison is possibly the most under used, misunderstood red meat available in the UK. For most people looking, the first stop is a supermarket. All […]
British government fails to ban kids from using airguns – Fieldsports News, 27 July 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjWYXPWZjY Here are the links: Government rejects airgun age restriction – BASC More than 3,000 respond to Countryfile impartiality survey – Countryside Alliance survey South Notts Hunt staff rescue horses – Countryside Alliance Beaver to get legal protection in England – Farmers’ Weekly Shooting Australia launches Commonwealth Games campaign – Shooting Australia Africa nature strategy […]
Wildlife wonders: the British roebuck rut
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mext6ol5zrk Roy Lupton is stalking roebuck during one of the most magical times of the year: the roebuck rut. He sees animal after animal and explains whether or not he wants to shoot it. More of Roy’s outings here:
Fieldsports Britain – know your roe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Zk1VP0mOo It’s one of Britain’s great nature spectacles. Roy Lupton guides us through the roebuck rut in Hampshire, with commentary on which deer to shoot and which to leave for a future season. And what happens to all that lovely venison? News correspondent Deborah Hadfield finds out, as she sets herself the challenge of buying […]
Win a Spypoint trailcam priced at £120 – Fieldsports Extra #230
You can win a Spypoint Force 20 trailcam from Baileys Shooting in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Roy Lupton on superstition, Deborah Hadfield on venison, and a disastrous attempt at a game drive in Africa.This week’s prizes and other links:Meopta Optika 8×42 HD on KitfinderSpypoint trailcams at Baileys: Bit.ly/spypointforce20Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre […]
Police delay firearms licensing as livestock and wildlife suffer
by Deborah Hadfield Daniel Holmes from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall submitted his gun certificates renewal applications on January 2022. His firearms and shotguns certificates were due to expire on 13 March 2022. He put in his renewals seven weeks before his certificates’ expiries. Devon & Cornwall police firearms licensing department told him that, had he […]
Four-fox night with a thermal riflescope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1r00vFQqIWith the silage cut, it’s the perfect time to go foxshooting. Youngsters are appearing and are easy to target. Tom Davies explains his strategy and shoots foxes. Tom runs Dartmoor Deer Services Find the Pulsar Thermion 2 LRF XP50 Pro scope on Kitfinder More on foxes:
Vinnie Jones’ massive charity shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1R0KsyuZ4 Vinnie Jones raises more than £50k by holding a charity shoot. The Hollywood star and former footballer wants to give back to the English countryside. The shoot at Six Mile Bottom benefits CALM, the GWT and the NGO. The son of a gamekeeper, Vinnie spends as much time as he can shooting and fishing, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Vinnie v Crowie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEcOAA8-EKU Vinnie Jones brings together shooters from all over the country for his charity shoot at Six Mile Bottom. Among them is Andy Crow, and also there is Helen Tinner and Katie Hargreaves. It’s quite the Fieldsports Channel get-together. Thanks to Vinnie stardust, it raises £50,000+ for charity, and it answers a crucial question: who […]
Zac Goldsmith’s last days as Minister for Animal Rights – Fieldsports News, 20 July 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhcOJz7tAlM Here are the links: Zac Goldsmith makes dog law by letter – Fieldsports News Former MFH Mark Hankinson wins webinar appeal – Fieldsports News Complaints spark BBC investigation into Countryfile show – The National + Daily Express Amber Hill breaks Richard Faulds’ record – Claysports Loch’s David v Goliath fish farm victory – Insider […]
Former MFH Mark Hankinson wins webinar appeal
The former director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association did not break the law when he told other hunts how to avoid being beaten up by hunt sabs. Mark Hankinson was found guilty in October 2021 of using two training webinars hosted by hunting’s governing body to explain how to stay away from antis. Now […]
Win Meopta binos priced at £320 – Fieldsports Extra #229
Win Meopta binos priced at £320 – Fieldsports Extra #229 You can win a Meopta Optika 8×42 HD binos in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Vinnie Jones, more on Kitfinder, Tom Davies on roe identification, an angry dog trainer and Charlie’s Dad.This week’s prizes and other links:Game Fair tickets Bit.ly/gamefair2022Meopta Optika 8×42 HD
‘Animal sentience’: how Michael Gove and George Eustice get it wrong
BBC radio wants Charlie to debate sentience, consciousness, empathy and, if animals display these, should we be banned from shooting them? So Charlie goes to see his dad. Martin Jacoby says the first problem that most people face in this debate is a failure to understand the language.
Zac Goldsmith makes dog law by letter
A government minister is trying to make law by letter. In what’s likely to be his last days in office, DEFRA minister Lord Zac Goldsmith
BBC celebrates Amber Hill’s shooting success
The BBC, not noted for its shooting sports coverage, is hailing Amber Hill’s achievement in Changwon, South Korea. The 24-year-old Olympic Skeet shooter won silver
How to buy guns at sealed bids auctions
Gun expert Diggory Hadoke from VintageGuns.co.uk talks to Charlie Jacoby about what some serious collectors consider to be the arse end of the auctions market
