Win big game hunting kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 356

Win big game hunting kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 356

You can win a fast cartridge loader and a quick-release double-rifle sling in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have interviews with the man who made them, Mynhard Herholdt from the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School. Ollie Williams is shooting pheasants – or not – in Wales, and we go behind the scenes at the […]

Heym 88B/89B double rifles – factory tour

Heym 88B/89B double rifles – factory tour

youtu.be/qxyi7YrwXMg We visit the Heym factory in Germany, talk to Büchsenmachermeister or master gunsmith Rico Stephan about how Heym makes its famous lightweight double, and South African dangerous game specialist Mynhard Herholdt, who runs the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School, explains why he chooses Heym doubles. For more, go to Heym-Manufaktur.de For the Northern Cape […]

Gun certificates may cost £400 – Fieldsports News, 18 December 2024

Gun certificates may cost £400 – Fieldsports News, 18 December 2024

Here are the links: Gun certificates may cost £400 – Telegraph.co.uk Lead ban details revealed – BASC.org.uk Deerstalker in gun-grab limbo – FieldsportsChannel.tv/stumiles Ardgay Game wins £1.5 million contract – ForestryAndLand.gov.scot Pyrenees hunting documentary – YouTube Eric Morecambe’s fishing kit up for sale – The-Saleroom.com Switzerland reopens ibex for foreigners – SwissInfo.ch and YouTube Young […]

Splitting Image Taxidermy’s story – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 103

Splitting Image Taxidermy’s story – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 103

Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa’s most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port Elizabeth and operating all over southern Africa. He tells his story. For more about Splitting Image Taxidermy, visit SplittingImageTaxidermy.co.za Thanks to Safari Club International’s Life Hunter Advocate Society for supporting this film. Visit SafariClub.org Other ways […]

Have a Crackshot Christmas

Have a Crackshot Christmas

Santa’s favourite elf, James Head from Devon and online airgun shop Crackshot, says what he would like to get in his Christmas stocking this year. Check out Crackshot on the web at Crackshot.uk or find them on X @Crackshot1_ and Facebook @Crackshot1 To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode 786, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportsbritain786 More from Crackshot […]

All The Gear with Terry Doe: Precihole Minotaur air rifle

All The Gear with Terry Doe: Precihole Minotaur air rifle

When Fieldsports Channel’s Dan Chart wanted to introduce his young son to airgunning, he enlisted the help of the legend that is Terry Doe. Terry broke with orthodoxy and suggested a PCP, the Precihole Minotaur from Air Arms. He explains why, and how it worked out for Dan’s lad. See the Precihole range at Air-Arms.co.uk/precihole-collection […]

Fieldsports Britain – Hand-thrown birds

Fieldsports Britain – Hand-thrown birds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kohn2hsRvQo Beaters, who needs ’em? Here’s how the continentals put on a driven bird day. Plus, trophy bans are pointless now that modern tech means you can get a plastic replica of your trophy head that is better than the real thing. Our podcast this week goes behind the scenes at the amazing taxidermy operation […]

Deerstalker in gun-grab limbo

Deerstalker in gun-grab limbo

youtu.be/9KtwTRMmxZA Dorset Police seized a deer manager’s firearms and is now declining to let him have them back. Stu Miles’s girlfriend dumped him, may have made an allegation to the police about him, which led to them seizing his guns, and then withdrew that allegation. Now the constabulary is refusing to give back his guns. […]

Win a Katie Hargreaves print – Fieldsports Extra, episode 355

Win a Katie Hargreaves print – Fieldsports Extra, episode 355

You can win a bird print by Katie Hargreaves in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have interviews with a Slovak pheasant shooting host, a South African taxidermy company boss and a professional hunter who is now in a wheelchair. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup […]

Farmers unite in protest – Fieldsports News, 11 December 2024

Farmers unite in protest – Fieldsports News, 11 December 2024

Here are the links: Farmers protest at Downing Street – YouTube Conservation group won’t rule out deerstalking – BBC.co.uk Squirrel numbers on the up – TheGuardian.com Sab on trial for hunt hack – DailyMail.co.uk Wild boar ‘close in’ on Inverness – TheNational.scot New hunting art exhibition – Eventbrite.co.uk Football boss fined for gun photo – […]

Fieldsports Britain – Sika secrets

Fieldsports Britain – Sika secrets

Niall Rowantree delves deeper into the mysteries of the non-native sika deer in part 2 of our series A Year in the Life of Sika, with help from leading deer expert Prof. Rory Putman. Our podcast this week is a deer management masterclass with Niall and the professor. Plus our very own Father Christmas, Ian […]

Win £179-worth of Isotunes hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra, episode 354

Win £179-worth of Isotunes hearing protection – Fieldsports Extra, episode 354

You can win IsoTunes Caliber hearing protection priced at £179 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have the additional prize of a signed copy of Professor Rory Putman’s book, British Deer & Their Management. Ian Hodge says why puts a Fieldsports membership countertop display in his shop, and James Westbrook explains what’s up with […]

Police U-turn on gun licensing – Fieldsports News, 4 December 2024

Police U-turn on gun licensing – Fieldsports News, 4 December 2024

Here are the links: Gloucestershire police climbdown – Facebook.com and Gloucestershire.Police.uk Pest controller gets his guns back – Fieldsportschannel.tv/lewisdedmanupdate Anti-poaching concrete blocks – Wiltshire.Police.uk and X.com/LincsPoliceOps RSPB’s dismal curlew failure – C4PMC.co.uk Capercaillie blame game – TheFerret.scot Purdey pair makes £42,000 at auction – Facebook.com EU paves way for wolf cull – BBC.co.uk, Rovdyr.org and […]

How to get fishing on the NHS – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 101

How to get fishing on the NHS – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 101

youtu.be/7a-YD0HXNCo Podcast this week is from the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, back in July 2024. It’s an interview with David Lyons, an angler who suffered from depression and successfully persuaded the NHS to prescribe him fishing. He runs the charity Tackling Minds, which takes fellow-sufferers fishing. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:​​

Squirrel hunting: quick and easy hide set-up with Terry Doe

Squirrel hunting: quick and easy hide set-up with Terry Doe

Terry Doe is faced with a squirrel conundrum. The pests are chewing electric cables in the attic, which could cause a house fire. He plans to bait them away from the house, and shoot them on the feeder. Setting up a quick and effective hide is a breeze, with poles and camo nets from Jack […]

Fieldsports Britain – Firestarter squirrel shoot

Fieldsports Britain – Firestarter squirrel shoot

Terry Doe is called in to deal with squirrels that are threatening to start a fire in the attic. George Lawrence leads a team of guns out after a variety of waterfowl in Essex. Plus our podcast this week shows how to get fishing prescribed on the NHS, and David has the news on the […]

Nail-biting duck and coot shoot

Nail-biting duck and coot shoot

George Lawrence is hosting a group of friends and paying clients on a duck shoot at a reservoir which feeds the farm he works on outside Clacton on Sea on the south-east coast. It’s his first day of the season, and he’s feeling the pressure. George sets out the guns and we wait for the […]

Win Browning goodies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 353

Win Browning goodies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 353

You can win Browning goodies including its Ars Mechanica coffee-table book in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Terry Doe on his aches and pains, George Lawrence on his favourite duck for the table, Tim Shayle of Countryman Sports in Gloucester on how he and other local shooters forced a U-turn out of local […]

Deerhunter Game Pro Lite jacket and trousers

Deerhunter Game Pro Lite jacket and trousers

Cai ap Bryn has always worn Deerhunter clothing as it is comfortable, durable and affordable. After a morning’s stalk he explains why the Game Pro Lite jacket and trousers are ideal for all sorts of hunting from wildfowling to deer stalking. You can win Deerhunter Game Pro clothing like Cai was wearing on FieldsportsCompetitions.co.uk To […]

All the Gear with Terry Doe: Pixfra Mile 2 thermal spotter

All the Gear with Terry Doe: Pixfra Mile 2 thermal spotter

Airgunning legend Terry Doe continues his All The Gear series with a look at the affordable Pixfra Mile 2 range of thermal monoculars, which he reckons are invaluable for any type of hunting. Find Pixfra on Facebook and Instagram Thomas Jacks are on Facebook, Instagram, and at TJ-Focus.co.uk To watch all of Fieldsports Britain, episode […]

Packham attacks shooting again – Fieldsports News, 27 November 2024

Packham attacks shooting again – Fieldsports News, 27 November 2024

Here are the links: Packham’s latest grouse shooting petition – Countryside-Alliance.org Black grouse relocation project – GWCT.org.uk Snares banned in Scotland – GWCT.org.uk LACS changes tune on hunting with dogs – League.org.uk Scottish boar disease cull – BBC.co.uk Scottish farmers’ rally – NFUS.org.uk Fieldsports women mentor scheme – WomenWhoWorkInFieldsports.co.uk Usk salmon boost – AfonyddCymru.org AI […]

Fieldsports Britain – Fallow in the fog

Fieldsports Britain – Fallow in the fog

Cai Ap Bryn needs venison for the freezer, and there are fallow that need to be culled. It’s a win-win, so long as he can beat the fog. Charlie bumps into Andy Crow at a lovely pheasant shoot by the South Devon coast. Terry Doe is checking out some affordable thermal gear from Pixfra, David […]

Stalking fallow for the freezer

Stalking fallow for the freezer

The fallow doe season is in full swing, and game chef Cai Ap Bryn needs to fill his freezer. The thermal spotter can see through the fog, but it’s going to be difficult getting close enough for a shot. When he does, he can see that one doe has an injured back leg. You can […]

Win gundog training vests – Fieldsports Extra, episode 352

Win gundog training vests – Fieldsports Extra, episode 352

You can win one of two gundog traiing vests in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have Cai Ap Bryn on the grey streak in his hair, and shoot owner Geoff Sayers explains the novel way he funds the Carswell Coastal Shoot in South Devon. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance […]

All the Gear with Terry Doe: Skout Epoch air rifle

All the Gear with Terry Doe: Skout Epoch air rifle

Terry Doe has been testing the gamechanging Skout Epoch air rifle in the latest episode of All The Gear. The gun’s innovative design takes airguns to the next level, offering superb accuracy and features like adjustable regulator pressure, interchangeable barrels, and a groundbreaking new valve system. Terry is hugely impressed, and has some useful advice […]

Gwent police double down on gun grab

Gwent police double down on gun grab

Gareth Davies had a horrific shooting accident while out foxing in January 2024. His shooting buddy Mark Wise saved his life. After we put out a film about the incident – watch it here (age-restricted) – and about their local police firearms licensing department’s slowness in restoring their guns, the police told them it would […]

Hunting in the North of England

Hunting in the North of England

Ed Swales of Hunting Kind visits the opening meet of a hunt in the North of England to find out about hunting’s cultural heritage and hear from the people whose lives would be affected if Labour were to ban trail hunting. Find out more about the campaign to save hunting’s cultural heritage at HuntingKind.com To […]

Win a £250 Jackal Medical kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 351

Win a £250 Jackal Medical kit – Fieldsports Extra, episode 351

You can win a Bleeding Control Kit from Jackal Medical, priced at £250 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have more from a gun grab vicitim in South Wales, Tim Pilbeam explains his deerstalking training and we’re at the London farmer’s protest. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual […]

All the Gear with Terry Doe: RTI Arms P-3 air rifles

All the Gear with Terry Doe: RTI Arms P-3 air rifles

In the latest episode of All The Gear, Terry Doe has thoroughly tested the RTI Arms P-3 air rifle – both the compact and the full-length version. He is very impressed with the rifle’s performance, but suggests you think carefully about which model is best suited to your type of shooting. For more about RTI […]

Fieldsports Britain – Dawn goose flight

Fieldsports Britain – Dawn goose flight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPIiqCLnbNo Cai Ap Bryn is flighting greylags at dawn, and has a mouth-watering recipe for Canada goose jerky. Apparently it tastes as good as beef. Ollie Williams is awestruck by soaring pheasants at the magnificent Ridgeway Shoot in the Welsh Marches. Terry Doe casts an expert eye over the RTI Arms P-3 air rifle, David […]

Ollie Williams at The Ridgeway: “The best pheasant drive I’ve ever shot”

Ollie Williams at The Ridgeway: “The best pheasant drive I’ve ever shot”

Ollie Williams is at The Ridgeway shoot, on the border between England and Wales, near Bishops Castle. The shoot is famous for its steep bracken banks, deep wooded valleys, first class driven pheasants and, on a clear day, outstanding views. Ollie is awestruck by the sheer quality and number of birds on each drive – […]

Shooting geese to make delicious jerky

Shooting geese to make delicious jerky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy22FBc3SzY Award-winning game chef Cai Ap Bryn is flighting geese with his friend Alex on a splash near the Sussex coast. They set up in the dark, to be in position for the greylags that will arrive at first light; the canadas will come later. Cai breaks out his canada goose jerky – and reveals […]

Win a Danum Blades rifle sling – Fieldsports Extra, episode 350

Win a Danum Blades rifle sling – Fieldsports Extra, episode 350

You can win a beautifully handmade rifle sling from Danum Blades in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a buffalo stories, Cai Ap Bryn on cooking geese, Ollie Wiliams on how much lead to give high pheasants, John McLaurin from SCI on the Trump presidential election victory and a load of Kiwis shouting ‘Hello […]

Father v. son at Long Acre charity clay shoot

Father v. son at Long Acre charity clay shoot

Gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and his son Justin pop along to Long Acre Shooting School near Cambridge for a charity clay shoot, raising money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance. It’s a cause that’s close to the heart of Fieldsports member David White, who took over the ground a year ago. There’s fierce competition between father […]

Sim buff: cape buffalo professional hunters’ course

Sim buff: cape buffalo professional hunters’ course

To shoot a charging buffalo needs blood of ice – and enormous amounts of self discipline. That’s what the Northern Cape Professional Hunting School teaches on its ‘simulated’ buffalo PH course. Seven young professional hunters are out to try the simulated stalk, shot, charge and follow-up shot on a range in South Africa – and […]

Man bailed in keeper attack investigation – Fieldsports News, 6 November 2024

Man bailed in keeper attack investigation – Fieldsports News, 6 November 2024

Here are the links: Keeper attack latest– NationalGamekeepers.org.uk Water march success – RiverActionUK.com Inheritance tax advice for shooting estates – CarterJonas.co.uk NGO highlights importance of humane cable restraints – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk Anti-hunting politician sparks social media row – Facebook RSPB claims stoat cull success – OrkneyNativeWildlife.org.uk Hunter killed by bear – DailyDispatch.dps.alaska.gov 4WD thefts increase – […]

Woodcock – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 100

Woodcock – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 100

Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breeding birds, and why they are not actually that endangered at all – despite what the anti-shooters like to claim. Andrew talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. Other ways […]

All The Gear with Terry Doe: DNT ThermNight multispectral scope

All The Gear with Terry Doe: DNT ThermNight multispectral scope

In the first of a new series, All The Gear, Terry Doe demonstrates the amazing new DNT Optics ThermNight riflescope. It’s a multispectral scope, meaning it combines day, night and thermal vision. You can cycle through the different views at the press of a button, and there is picture-in-picture mode so you can see two […]

£1,450 defibrillator week#2 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 349

£1,450 defibrillator week#2 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 349

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade hereGroup membership at £80 per person hereFieldsports Competitions is at FieldsportsCompetitions.co.ukNeed to talk to Layla on our FAB advice line? legal@fieldsportschannel.tv or call/WhatsApp +447902508789Farming Britain on YouTube + Instagram + FacebookHad […]

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