How to hit a tricky target through trees, with Sam Green
FITASC world champion shot Sam Green explains how to hit a tricky quartering-away target that’s flying through trees, and below the shooter’s feet. “There’s a lot going on with this one,” he says – but following his advice on hold point and line, it can be killed consistently.
How to shoot down on a clay target, with Sam Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6olDCU-JU The clay is flying fast, between trees and shrubs, and below your feet. You are on a platform above it. How do you approach a target like that? FITASC world champion shot Sam Green explains. For Browning, go to Browning.eu Sam shoots a B525 Ultra XS Read our review on Fieldtester For lessons with […]
Pine martens: good or bad for the countryside?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7H6sdawWk by Ben O’Rourke “If I were going to choose somewhere to radio track pine martens, I wouldn’t have chosen this,” says Craig Shuttleworth, who’s researching pine martens for Bangor University. “This terrain is a nightmare. The animal can go underground. Sometimes I come in and it takes me ages and I could have found […]
Dark Scottish buck stalking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cuDAomm3yo Home counties deer manager Paul Childerley is on his first roestalking trip north of the Border. He is in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto of SerCout Wild Harvest, looking for bucks. Not much deerstalking last year means they are thick on the ground. Find out how they get on. This item is sponsored by […]
Fieldsports Britain – Childerley’s Highland adventure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k65krscCcU It’s the 600th episode of Fieldsports Britain, so we have made it a good one. Paul Childerley is stalking roebucks in Aberdeenshire with Sergio Couto – and it’s roe deer soup on Sergio’s ground – lots of animals. News ed Ben O’Rourke tells the story of the pine marten and its reintroduction across the […]
Blair hunting ban ‘a failure’
Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban didn’t help the fox. That’s the conclusion of a new book, which shows up the failure of Blair’s 2004 Hunting Act. Two decades after Blair announced his bill to ban foxhunting, writer Charlie Pye-Smith and animal welfare campaigner Jim Barrington set out to find out whether the law met its animal […]
Sea eagles grab lambs – Fieldsports News, 26 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSj1N61ZvU Here are the links:Scotland drags feet on sea eagles – Scottish Farmer + Press & JournalAnimal rights extremists block McDonald’s distribution centres – Instgram + BBCVandals take down high seats in Norfolk – InstagramHen harriers missing from RSPB reserve – FieldsportsChannel.tv/geltsdaleBrown bears shot dead after escaping zoo – BBCLapwings lost after badger attack – […]
Antis and phones – Fieldsports Extra #170
You can win hearing protection from Peltor if you fill out our form, plus I talk to the former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, David has a plan, and one of our clients gets a phone call. For the Leupold rangefinder, go to Bit.ly/rx1400 Click here for the Peltor LEP-200 ear plugs For […]
English Open Sporting Championships 2021 – Claysports, episode 18
youtu.be/ogCCNsn3KUk Claysports TV is back. We report from the first major championship of 2021, the CPSA English Open Sporting at Barbury, where Richard Faulds fights in horrendous conditions for a title he hasn’t held for 13 years. It’s a thrilling head-to-head battle with Richard Bunning. Here are the links to the event, day by day:
Another gold for Matt Coward-Holley!
GB’s Matt Coward-Holley has done it again! Hot off the back of winning gold in mixed trap pairs at the Lonato World Cup, the Tokyo Olympian has won gold at the Italian Open Green Cup. After shooting 121 in qualification, a score in the final of 47 was enough to put him on top of […]
Richard Faulds wins English Open Sporting Championship
Richard Faulds (above right) is the new English Open Sporting champion after winning a gripping super-final battle in atrocious conditions at Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire today, Sunday 23 May. Faulds made his intentions clear from the start, shooting as no.1 in the first squad to tackle the testing course, and posting a tremendous 112 […]
English Open Sporting day 4 – new names on the leaderboard
Big scores were posted at the English Open Sporting Championship today, Saturday 22 May, putting several new names on the leaderboard. The weather was much better than the previous two days, no doubt contributing to impressive performances from top shots like Jamie Gutteridge, Chris Orrin, Tim Webster, Sam Upton and Jason Turner. Top score of […]
English Open Sporting day 3 – Winser makes the top six
Defending champion Mark Winser shot the English Open Sporting Championship today, Friday 21 May – and scraped into the top six despite shooting in horrible wind and rain. With the weather due to improve, and some big names still to compete, he’s unlikely to make it into the six-man super final on Sunday afternoon, however. […]
Blowing up barrels – Fieldtester, episode 8
youtu.be/S9NUs580-j0 In this episode of Fieldtester we push shotguns barrels to the limit. Using real ‘in the field’ scenarios, we stuff the barrels with soil, sand, cartridge wads, ice, water and one of the most commonly discussed issues, a 20-bore shell accidentally inserted in front of a 12-bore shell. We also get a little carried […]
iRay Rico RH50 thermal riflescope
youtu.be/Bx8E3eUZCzg When you’re serious about pest control, only the best will do – and iRay’s flagship Rico RH50 riflescope offers outstanding quality. “I’ve used just about every unit that’s available, and this is the best image I’ve seen on a thermal riflescope so far,” says Ryan Charlton from distributors Highland Outdoors. It has a 640 […]
Faulds still leads after day 2 of English Open Sporting
Richard Faulds’ score of 112 ex 120 still leads the field at the English Open Sporting Championship, under way at Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire. Faulds made his score on Wednesday 19 May, shooting in the first squad of the competition. Day 2 of the event brought challenging conditions, with a stiff wind and plenty […]
iRay E3n thermal spotter
youtu.be/x0EJjq02hOU iRay UK offer a range of thermal spotters and scopes – their E3n featured here is an entry level spotter, priced at £1,169.95. It’s pocket sized with a compact and handy design, and offers serious performance with a typical battery life of around seven hours. “This model has a 384×288 pixel sensor, a 50Hz […]
iRay TL35 thermal rifle scope
youtu.be/YE7ZtKUx3Dk The iRay TL35 might look and handle like a regular daylight rifle scope – but inside is cutting edge thermal technology, allowing you to shoot day or night even in bad weather conditions such as heavy fog and rain. “It’s super simple, lightweight and easy handling,” says Ryan Charlton of UK distributors Highland Outdoors. […]
Scottish dead red deer horror – Fieldsports News, 19 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGZbocMX8 Here are the links:Scottish unborn red calf massacre – Facebook + Twitter + Evening StandardDEFRA plans minimum numbers of animals – DEFRAVine & Craven hit in online leak – Hunting LeaksGovernment restricts gamebird release sites – DEFRAPackham turns attentions to game meat – FacebookAfrican community leaders talk up trophies – Resource AfricaTeam GB confirms […]
Semi-auto fast shooting – Fieldsports Channel record
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiDAu2CnRWc Do you want to set a Fieldsports Channel record? How many shells can you load into a standard two-shot magazine semi-auto and shoot down range in under ten seconds? If you can do more than 12, send us a video and we will feature you in our show. Imagine the glory 🙂 Send your […]
Deerskulker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egm1ezPFcbY Cai Ap Bryn heads in to Essex woodland after muntjac – but it’s a wood that offers more questions than answers. Why so many fallow? Where are the munties? How do you cook hare? and what’s nipping the twigs off oak trees. Find out the answers – and answer some of these yourself – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cai’s deerstalking mooch
Cai’s looking for muntjac in a wood in Essex. There’s plenty of wildilfe, from squirrels via hares to fallow, but he’s struggling to find the animal he came for. Still – plenty of opportunity to ‘read’ the wood and see what’s going on. Meanwhile, Charlie gos out with a team of practical shotgunners to try […]
Richard Faulds sets the pace at the English Open Sporting
Shooting is under way at the English Open Sporting Championships at Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire – and Richard Faulds set the pace from the start with an impressive 112 ex 120. Faulds was the first shooter in the first squad of the event. The championship runs from today, Wednesday 19 May, until Sunday 23 […]
Win a Leupold rangefinder – Fieldsports Extra #169
You can win a Leupold rangefinder, plus I talk to an author who has brought out a book of shooting short stories, and to Fieldsports Channel plc shareholder Andy Norris. For the Weschenfelder sausage stuffer, go to Bit.ly/weschenfeldersausage For the Leupold rangefinder, go to Bit.ly/rx1400 For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris For the […]
Interview: Francis Ray Hoff, author of Fur, Feathers & Fish
youtu.be/tFmTp6WmSHU Charlie Jacoby talks to Francis Ray Hoff, author of Fur, Feathers & Fish. Click here to buy the book on Amazon:
Matt and Kirsty win World Cup gold for Team GB
Matt Coward-Holley and Kirsty Hegarty won gold in the Mixed Trap Pairs event at the ISSF Lonato World Cup. Both shooters will be representing Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics in July. The duo qualified in top place for the final, with a combined score of 145 ex 150. Matt, from Chelmsford, shot a phenomenal […]
Mossberg MVP Light Chassis rifle
youtu.be/yhSUwgxHjV8 The Mossberg MVP LC is a great little compact rifle that would be ideal for a gamekeeper working out of a pick-up truck. A bolt-action, it borrows some of the features of a tactical AR type rifle, such as the extending stock which can be shortened in an instant with the press of a […]
Mossberg Patriot – the gamekeeper’s rifle
youtu.be/MPNcd9Rk1DU The Mossberg Patriot is a good honest rifle built to get the job done. “It’s what I’d class as a gamekeeper’s gun,” says Andy Norris from distributors Viking Arms. “It does what it says on the tin, and for a terrific price of under £600.” This is the Patriot Predator model, which comes in […]
World Gunmakers’ Evening sells to the Game Fair
The Game Fair has bought the World Gunmakers’ Evening from its founder, ITAP Group, which runs GunsOnPegs.com. The Game Fair paid an undisclosed sum for the event, which attracts low hundreds of high net worth attendees to a tabletop event at a London hotel each year, where they can look at the latest guns from […]
Ruger American Ranch Rifle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAiOyY–OzM If you’re after a basic, working rifle with no frills, the Ruger American Ranch could be exactly what you’re looking for. “It’s a Ruger – so it’s rugged, it’s reliable, and it does what it’s supposed to do,” says Andy Norris of distributors Viking Arms. “It’s a great little all-round performer.” Andy Norris says […]
Sentience, trophies and a government muddle over animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDT0MhTP_I The government in England wants to bring in laws making it illegal to cause distress to various animals in a range of different circumstances. These are all covered by existing animal welfare laws, especially the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Nothing daunted, a new, glossy, embargoed brochure from DEFRA called Our Action Plan for Animal […]
How to get started on bouncing rabbits, with Sam Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5_YpQb-7k Ellie is new to clayshooting. FITASC world champion Sam Green talks and walks her through the first stage of her shooting career, starting with bouncing rabbit basics. For Browning, go to Browning.eu Sam shoots a B525 Ultra XS Read our review on Fieldtester For lessons with Sam Green, visit Facebook.com/samgreenshooting More of our films […]
Cosmic Cornish crow shoot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4bK0rGaog Fieldsports Nation member Jon Reed is a shooting sportsman from West Cornwall. Charlie risks falling off the edge of the world by driving down to see him for a day’s crow, rook and jackdaw shooting, not far from RNAS Culdrose, which explains the helicopters. Crow calls: Jon’s choice from Primos and Nordik Barrborn
Fieldsports Britain – how to call in crows, rooks and jackdaws
Look out Cornish crows. Charlie is off to the Lizard this week to meet Fieldsports Nation member Jon Reed, who is decoying crows over newly-drilled barley. Jon gives Charlie a masterclass in calling corvids. Meanwhile, FITASC world champion Sam Green is back to improve your shooting, this week helping a novice shot with her first […]
Queen’s Speech plans for hunting and shooting – Fieldsports News, 12 May 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqVD02TVfo Here are the links:Boris plans animal rights laws – Fieldsports News English Heritage attacks local wildlife management – TwitterRSPB gets its talons into Invercauld Estate – Police Scotland and West Mercia PoliceBritain’s biggest bird of prey to be reintroduced in Norfolk – Roy DennisNada Farhoud’s hare out of place Twitter and TwitterNorthern Irish anti speaks […]
Ruger Precision Rimfire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjs69fmY5A8 Following on from the huge success of Ruger’s Precision Centrefire rifle, the gunmaker has produced a Rimfire version – and that’s gone down a storm too. The Ruger Precision Rimfire is a faithfully downsized version of the centrefire rifle, and comes in .22LR, .22WMR and .17HMR. Conceived as a training aid for fullbore shooters, […]
Breda Zenith L – a game o/u with a difference
youtu.be/NqZ1DH6Ymi8 Italian gunmaker Breda has made some cracking semi-autos over the past 100 years or so. More recently they’ve turned their skills to making over-and-unders – and the Zenith is going down well with clay and game shooters alike. This one is the game model, the Zenith L. It’s steel proofed of course, and comes […]
Win a sausage stuffer – Fieldsports Extra #168
Win a sausage stuffer – Fieldsports Extra #168 You can win a sausage stuffer (yes, really), plus we talk animal sentience, social media networks and hedgehog poo. For the Weschenfelder sausage stuffer, go to Bit.ly/weschenfeldersausage For the ISOTunes Sport Advance, visit Bit.ly/isotunesadvance For the Tonne of Letters campaign, visit Fcha.nl/writetoboris How to enter Fieldsports Nation
Gunbuck.co.uk – the relaxed social media network that’s (slowly) taking on Facebook
Mark Heath from Staffordshire is a fieldsports photographer-turned-Zuckerberg. Back in the 1990s he worked as a photographer specialising in hunting and shooting sports for titles
Industry insight: how to build a gun factory in India
John Bright from Highlander Outdoors talks about his adventures building a Webley gun factory in India.
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GB’s Amber Hill wins World Cup silver
Amber Hill won the silver medal in Women’s Skeet at the ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy today, 10 May 2021. Amber, from Bracknell, won
Trans K9 drawer – secure gun storage in your vehicle
youtu.be/Cc-bV_-f4h4 Jason Gibson of Vario Hearables travels many miles to shoots up and down the country, so he needs to keep his guns and cartridges
Becky McKenzie’s essential kit checklist for clay shooting
youtu.be/bmfc7LrYynA Becky McKenzie is one of Britain’s top lady Sporting shots, and a clay shooting coach – so who better to run through the essential
British Open Sporting fills up in under a week
The CPSA British Open Sporting Championship has all but sold out, less than a week after entries opened on 1 May. By the morning of
Roebuck stalking prize
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ7E9IYSTOg Nigel Appleton won a stalking outing with Tom Davies in a competition on Fieldsports Extra. Tom runs Dartmoor Deer Services and takes Nigel to
Fieldsports Britain – a buck in your sights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIjVXJ47MkI We get close to the action as deerstalker Nigel Appleton goes out with Tom Davies from Dartmoor Deer Services after a roebuck. Nigel won
Traps and rifles: how to bring back the grey partridge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2u7yZkaHXI “There’s a pair of grey partridges that like this particular feeder. Whether we shall see them or whether they’ll keep a low profile…” shrugs
Big night rabbit-shooting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzfq5ESvqU Jaf Jefferson and the South Somerset Ferreters go out after rabbits with lamps, night vision and rifle from the back of a truck. Plus
Wind farm cuts off eagle’s wing – Fieldsports News, 5 May 2021
Here are the links: Sea eagle dies after collision with wind turbine – Facebook National Trust’s ban on muirburn ‘worsened Marsden Moor blaze’ – The
