King of the castle – British Open Sporting Champion 2022
youtu.be/utcky0zq10E Who is the top Sporting clay shot in Britain? James Marchington reports from Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire, where the nation’s top clayshooters are battling to become king of the castle, and win the prestigious British Open English Sporting title. The British Open is a tough one which isn’t won by someone who’s just […]
Fieldsports Britain – Britain’s best sporting shot
youtu.be/BB5kOKDjbDo Who is the top sporting clayshooter in Britain? James Marchington reports from the British Open Sporting Championship at Barbury in Wiltshire, where 1,250 clayshooters compete for the coveted title, in a gruelling three-stage battle. The firearms licensing system is broken, maybe it’s time to scrap it and start again. We look at the options […]
Ollie Williams hunts Mandela’s favourite: blesbok
If it’s good enough for Nelson Mandela, it’s good enough for Ollie Williams. He is stalking blesbok in Africa with the trainee professional hunters from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. For more about the school, visit NCPH.co.za For Ollie’s sporting agency and to book hunting in Africa, go to CornishSportingAgency.com More films from Ollie […]
BASC firearms licensing overhaul
youtu.be/GCi5JQRX0Sc by Deborah Hadfield It’s time to scrap the existing gun certificate system across England and Wales and replace it with another. That’s the conclusion of a BASC review that included a series of Freedom of Information requests to find out the scale of the crisis that firearms licensing faces. In a new report, BASC […]
Caroline Bedell on the value of shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 67
youtu.be/X93ipWbnihU UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation, the Moorland Association and the Gun Trade Association are among those involved in the survey. They are calling on shooters to take part. The independent research […]
Win a foxhooting rifle lamp – Fieldsports Extra #236
Win an Odepro scope lamp priced at £107, ideal for foxing and rabbiting after dark. Plus we have flag trouble at the British Open clay championship, a clever idea for holding up trophy heads and Deborah itroduces this week’s news feature: the disaster that is UK firearms licensing.This week’s prizes and other links:Bug-a-Salt film or […]
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Best airguns for hunting 2022
You don’t have to spend £1,000 on a pre-charged pneumatic airgun – or PCP for short – in order to hunt rabbits, but it helps! That’s the message from West Country gunshop owner Ian Hodge. He picks two of his most popular PCP airguns off the shelf to explain. There’s a BSA R10 with rubberised […]
Borth Zoo: from lions and lynx to dogs and ducks
by Ben O’Rourke This is the story of the British relationship with pets and livestock. In June 2020, Fieldsports News visited Borth Wild Animal Kingdom in Wales. At the time, mounting debts, the escape of a lynx that had to be shot, and the government’s economically punishing lockdowns saw its owners threaten to kill their […]
Fallow buck stalking with the new Pulsar Merger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBM_8ZfvONo Tom Davies has his work cut out. There are fallow in plague proportions on his ground. In the three weeks from the start of the 2022 buck season he processed more than 50 animals. He is out today for more. Find out how he gets on. Tom’s review of the Pulsar Merger For details […]
Fieldsports Britain – buck meat hunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqTOjmHock Are there more deer than ever before? Deerstalker Tom Davies says yes, as he heads out to shoot fallow prickets and sorrels for his game meat business. He is on Dartmoor, where the fallow population is climbing and climbing. We have two news features this week. What’s the future of the Kennel Club’s relationship […]
Dog trainer lams into the Kennel Club
Controversy over force-free approach to gundog training by Deborah Hadfield There’s a growing split at the heart of gundog training, and it centres on the Kennel Club. Steve Moran has been training dogs for more than 30 years. He works with dogs from all over the country at his kennels in Cheshire. Steve, who runs […]
Plan to eradicate deer in England – Fieldsports News, 31 August 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHNih-sctk Here are the links: BASC attacks England’s deer strategy recommendations – BASC Countryside Alliance Packham sabs complaint – Daily Mail Government crackdown on sewage spills – DEFRA MFHA suspends hunt over bag footage – ITV George Digweed wins world title – Shotgun World Two English shooters win European championship medals – BBC British bluefin […]
Pulsar Merger LRF XP50 thermal binos – on test
youtu.be/dhseNtUWUa0 Professional deer manager Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services has swapped his Pulsar Accolade for the new Pulsar Merger LRF XP50 thermal binoculars – and he’s impressed. “It’s the shape of traditional binoculars which makes it easy to use,” he explains. “It has an automatic standby mode, so when it’s hung round your neck […]
Win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun – Fieldsports Extra #235
Trouble with flies? You can win a Bug-A-Salt shotgun and knock them out of the sky in this week’s show. Plus we have Niall Rowantree in the Arctic, a complaining zoo owner and a Tom Davies gets his hands on the latest thermal from Pulsar so he can go fallow buck stalking.This week’s prizes and […]
Scotland snare scare
by Deborah Hadfield The Scottish government is considering the future use of snares. It has approached a range of fieldsports groups for their views. However, the Scottish Countryside Alliance is concerned that the consultation on snaring could be the first step to it being banned. Currently, you need Scottish government ‘accreditation’ to use snares in […]
A car hits a deer every seven minutes in England
youtu.be/zCwrztM7YVU In the UK, in 2022, you are twice as likely to hit a deer than in 1997. That risk has gone up fourfold since 1980. The government-funded Deer Initiative estimates there could be up to 74,000 road accidents involving deer each year. Deer vehicle collisions injure hundreds of people and cause more than 16 million pounds […]
African predator hunting platform
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl8kd6b0pE How do they shoot pesky predators in Africa? The distances can be bigger and the terrain wilder than the south of England. The principal is the same. Where they score is innovative use of a revolving seat mounted in the back of the bakkie. Predator control instructors MF Scheun and Mario Standing from the […]
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 […]