Yukon Photon XT – review
Jaf Jefferson talks about the Yukon Photon XT, its drawbacks and why he likes it, plus what he would like to see improved. Here is our film of the Photon XT in action Click here to go to the Fieldtester night vision and thermal front page
Ballistics tips with Keith Poyser, part seven
Stalking saucepans and paint pots at long ranges: part seven of the series by Keith Poyser of Bangs Bucks & Bullseyes on accurate field rifle shooting. Ideal viewing for deer hunters/stalkers, the film is sponsored by Lilja rifle barrels, BAT Machine Co and HPS ammunition. Keith is an Imperial Meeting medallist, competition winner, “Expert” rated […]
How to catch pike with Jan Porter
We’re after pike at Bishops Bowl Fishery in Warwickshire with Jan Porter, one of the top coarse anglers of today and the face of Shimano angling kit. If you want any particular angler next to you when you go fishing, you can’t do better than Jan. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 26. […]
How vegan ‘terrorists’ wage war on British butchers
Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. In this case, extremist vegans are smashing butchers’ shop windows, spray-painting their properties with foul language and gluing locks shut. Their goal is to spread fear in the meat industry. These terrorists are organised into local […]
RSPB forgets its ‘rigorously neutral’ stance on pheasant shooting, says GWCT
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has criticised RSPB after a sustained attack on pheasant shooting on BBC’s Radio 4. Writing on the trust’s blog, chairman of trustees Jim Paice slammed the charity for ‘focusing almost entirely on the negative views of pheasant releasing’. This comes after RSPB senior policy editor Pat Thompson was speaking […]
Rabbiting with hounds – it’s legal!
Great rabbit hunting action: we’re out in West Somerset after rabbits with a trencher pack of any old dog we can find. Leave your guns behind. The rabbits live under brambles here – and that’s great news for the dogs. They flush them and they get after them – and it’s a great family day […]
SIG Sauer closes in Germany
The German gunmaker SIG Sauer is closing in Germany. SIG Sauer managing director Tim Castagne told employees at the plant in Eckernförde that economic problems means it will close. Reported by Germany online newspaper All4Shooters.com, around 130 employees will ‘be affected’ by the closure. SIG Sauer released this statement: The locational disadvantages in Germany for […]
Lockdown Britain goes on pet-buying spree, dog thefts increase
Demand for dogs during the UK lockdown hit new heights.Prices for mongrels soared, and some working pups have sold for more than £2,000 each. Facebook users have been fuming at the extortionate prices, some claiming breeders are selling Dachshunds for £6,000. Meanwhile, lockdown has not stopped dog thefts. These two male cocker spaniels […]
Kofs vs Yildiz shotgun – a boy’s first .410
by Charlie Jacoby A post on the Lamping Foxes Facebook group got me thinking. It read: ‘My son turned 11 today, and as a dad I made a promise that when he reaches 11 we will get a o/u .410. So if anyone has any tips on what to get or where let me know.’ […]
BBC’s Springwatch slammed over ‘incomplete’ owl report
A moorland group has criticised Chris Packham’s ‘Springwatch’ show over a report about an owl that ignores the role of grousemoor managers. The programme broadcast on 29 May featured a short-eared owl it called ‘Dumyat’ which was tagged in Scotland and flew around Europe. The Tayside and Central Scotland Moorland Group says the BBC’s report […]
Norma Oryx
Used by Fieldsports Channel’s Scandinavian viewers, who hunt deer and moose, the Norma Oryx is designed to knock down animals that have a reputation for being ‘armour-plated’. It is called the Oryx for that reason. The gemsbok is not an easy antelope to kill. Fieldsports Channel surveyed its viewers about rifle ammunition in March 2020 […]
Hornady Precision Hunter
The Precision Hunter cartridge from Hornady is only the delivery vehicle for its ELD-X bullet range. Anything you read about Precision Hunter should dwell on the ELD-X and so that’s what we are going to do here. ELD-X stands for ‘Extremely Low Drag – eXpanding’. It’s Hornady’s all-range plastic-tipped hunting bullet design, and goes into […]
Best rifle ammunition of 2020
Fieldsports Channel’s viewers are loyal to their ammunition brands and we have the proof Once they find a rifle cartridge they like, they stick to it. During the coronavirus lockdown of 2020, we surveyed our viewers about the kit they use. We received more than 3,500 responses. Of these, 616 respondents expressed a preference for […]
Night vision pest control success
Ever wondered how much damage wild rabbits can do and what you can do to control them? We’re with Somerset farmer Richard Payne using N550 night vision and a .22LR in order to clear a 21-acre field of rabbits that have munched their way through 16 acres of rape. The advantage of the digisight is […]
How to get duck flying fit, with George Digweed
20 times world champion shooter George Digweed likes doing things well and that includes presenting the best birds possible on his game shoots. We join George with his gamekeepers as he shows what’s involved in getting ducks flying fit. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 146. To watch the whole show go […]
No backing down in Baildon battle, says BASC
BASC is fighting an attempt by Bradford City Council to silence criticism of its moorland management. The organisation received a letter from the council’s legal department demanding the removal of a blog which questioned why Baildon Moor was being mown by a tractor at a critical time of the year for ground-nesting birds. In addition, […]
Fieldsports Britain – lead-free bullet killability
How good is copper, tin and even bronze at shooting straight and killing animals? Firearms expert Andrew Venables tests out all kinds of lead-free rounds at Tim Pilbeam’s range in Sussex and gives his verdict. Meanwhile, Jaf Jefferson from the South Somerset Ferreters has a nighttime date with a fox – and gets more than […]
On Test: best copper bullets for deer
Firearms expert Andrew Venables has a guilty secret (innocent secret?). He prefers copper bullets to lead bullets. In this film, he puts copper bullets through their paces on a range, showing how they win on both accuracy and fillability. Thanks to Tim Pilbeam for letting us use his range. Have a look at these […]
Copper bullets and meat damage
Meat damage is one of Andrew Venables’ primary reasons to move away from lead bullets. For him, the argument revolves around weight retention. “You’ve seen the x-rays, you’ve seen the ballistic media, the different pictures going around on social media. 40% of that bullet is left in the animal. Copper retain literally 99% of their […]
Copper bullets and clean kills
Like every ethical hunter in the Western World, Andrew Venables wants a clean kill. The firearms expert reckons the bullet that does that best is not made of lead. It’s made of copper – because it’s such a fast bullet. “Having spent a lot of time shooting lead bullets, particularly with boat tails, you […]
What non lead bullets can you buy
In the 1990s, Andrew Venables was at a US gun show where a mini revolution was taking place. He had no idea at the time that the non-lead bullet Barnes was launching there would change his deer stalking. He says it took about two years for the Barnes bullet to be exported to the […]
A fox and her cubs – shoot or don’t shoot?
Jaf Jefferson takes his night vision out shooting. He is protecting a farmers’ lambs from hungry foxes. But when he comes across a vixen and her cubs, what does he do? Find out in this film… The new Yukon Photon RT replaces the old XT. If you are in the UK and want to […]
How I got my confiscated gun back
What do you do when your gun has been confiscated on a stopover in a foreign country while you’re on your way back to the UK? Will Thompson (@waathompson on Instagram) was hunting in New Zealand when the coronavirus lockdown was enforced. He and his girlfriend decided to cut short their trip and head […]
Clayground closure fallout – Fieldsports News, 3 June 2020
Wales shooting club closure bad for the sport – MidWalesShootingCentre.com/ Estate worker and angler attacked by countryside visitors – Royalty video on Facebook – Kent murder on the BBC – Perthshire stabbing in The Courier New wave of wildfires sweeps the countryside – Fieldsports News Lockdown losses massive on Scottish estates – Strathspey Herald Top […]
British wildfire season 2020
From the beginning of April, wildfires rage across the UK’s uplands, burning hardest where there has been either poor management or rewilding. Just days into the month, there was a huge fire on Marsden Moor, just outside Huddersfield. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service sent 10 fire engines at the fire near Deer Hill Reservoir. […]
Red deer stalking in Cumbria
Whilst test-driving the new Subaru Forester we thought it would be rude not to try some hill stalking in the stunning wild Cumbrian countryside. Sporting Shooter Magazine editor Dom Holtam is finding the going hard as we go after a young stag but the plan changes when we spot two unhealthy hinds. This item first […]
Jamie Lee Curtis charity art show bans sporting artist
A UK charity art show promoted by Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has dropped a sporting artist because of her subject matter. And the artist has reacted with a successful fundraiser of her own. Based in Somerset, Teresa Davis’s website makes it clear that she is a sporting and wildlife artist who paints hunting and […]
What’s bothering the world of shooting? – BASC Council candidates 2020 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 36
With battles to be fought including trophy hunting, lead shot and the future of gamekeeping, we ask the candidates for the 2020 BASC Council elections – people who care about their shooting – what their views are. How should BASC and the world of shooting approach these and other topics? Is it even BASC’s job? […]
Scottish government sells trophy hunts – Fieldsports News, 27 May 2020
Here are the links: ‘Hypocrite’ Scottish government sells permits to trophy hunters – Scottish Mail Cumbria gamekeeping college to close – Fieldsports News Vegan extremist website back online after police shutdown – Fieldsports News ‘Forceful’ sabs make golf course scrap fox control – Facebook Men imprisoned for stealing shotgun, car and Doberman from shooting range […]
The Bird Table of Doom 2
Fieldsports Channel shareholder and member Nigel Appleton has got a problem. Corvids (jays, jackdaws and others) are killing the songbird chicks in his garden. Plus they are nicking his chicken feed. He uses military skill and a Weihrauch HW 100 to feed them in and knock them down – and all in accordance with general […]
How to age and measure muntjac
Deer manager Paul Childerley has plenty of muntjac on his ground in Bedfordshire, and takes clients out to stalk them. He is an expert on what makes a good muntie trophy – and he explains it all here. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Sako Sako.fi ▶ Zeiss Zeiss.com ▶ Shooterking Shooterking.co.uk ▶ To go stalking with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk
Fieldsports Britain – Death to Squirrels
Ollie Williams picks up his shotgun to go squirrel shooting. After the success of shooters clearing the island of Anglesey of grey squirrels to make way for the reintroduction of native red squirrels, Ollie is part of a Cornwall-wide effort to do the same in England’s most south-westerly county. Plus he is doing local […]
Ollie Williams’ grey squirrel shoot
That bloke off #LoveIsland is out hunting down squirrels. Ollie Williams shows how knocking over a few greys helps bring back Britain’s native red squirrels. He walks the land around his home in Cornwall. ▶ Red Squirrel Survival Trust RSST.org.uk ▶ Cornwall Red Squirrel Project CornwallRedSquirrels.co.uk ▶ For Ollie’s sporting agency, visit CornishSportingAgency.com ▶ […]
Anti publishes hunting ‘directory of hate’
Antis hate all hunters – but big game hunters they want hunted down and killed. A new self-published ebook by Eduardo Gonçalves of the UK-based Campaign Against Trophy Hunting makes it clear that cyber-bullying is fine as long as long as your victim is a hunting tourist. Trophy Hunters Exposed is a directory of UK […]
Lawbreaking sabs beg for cash to break the law
High-profile sab network Hunt Investigation Team has issued an ‘urgent appeal’ for money. The group recently trespassed on an estate in Derbyshire. Police are investigating allegations that its members tampered with traps and hid trailcams on private land. HIT then organised an online persecution campaign targeting a young gamekeeper it wrongly accused of crimes after […]
What does the British Game Alliance do? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 35
Will coronavirus lead to a game meat ban? Did the BGA sell out to BASC? What about the lead shot ban? Incoming BGA chief executive Liam Stokes talks to Charlie Jacoby about the future of his organisation and what he plans for members, for the public, and for government. Marketing pheasant meat: the British Game […]
Major gamekeeping college to close
One of the UK’s premier gamekeeping colleges is to shut. Newton Rigg in Cumbria is the only college with its own grousemoor. Askham Bryan College has announced a proposal to close its Newton Rigg Campus at the end of the next academic year in summer 2021. The Newton Rigg Gamekeeping Department released a statement saying […]
Irish U-turn on pigeonshooting ban
Ireland has reversed changes to the longstanding derogation on Pigeon shooting. This gives back permission to tillage farmers and cereal growers to protect their crops from pigeon damage. Earlier in May 2020, Ireland banned pigeonshooting from 31 May to 1 September. Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan ordered the end of summer […]
Vegan vandals hit butchers and anglers
Angry vegan vandals are at it again. Last week an angling club in Derbyshire was daubed with paint telling the fishermen to stick hooks in their in own mouths, with some colourful language included for emphasis. Now they’ve done a paint job on a butchers in Nottingham. As well as offensive graffiti, Meat 4 U’s […]
Airgunning rooks to bake in a pie
Paul Childerley and Jonny Muston pack an Air Arms S410 and an S510 to go rook shooting. It’s the time of year when young rooks are easy to shoot on branches as they muster the gumption to fly. These ‘branches’ make excellent eating. Find out how Paul and Jonny get on. ▶ To go […]
When an environmentalist discovers that hunting helps wildlife
Trophy hunting has saved the urial wild sheep. That’s the conclusion of environmentalist Billy Offland, who visited a game reserve in Pakistan to see how regulated hunting works at first hand. Padhri game reserve consists of 25,000 acres of wilderness in the Jehlum district of Punjab, Pakistan. It is the only habitat where the […]
The Falcon Thief – rip-roaring but overblown
Falconers are not impressed. Joshua Hammer wrote The Falcon Thief about Jeffrey Lendrum, who smuggled falcon eggs to middle-eastern clients. Lendrum was jailed in 2018. However, top falconer Nick Fox says why Lendrum’s story is not important when you compare it to the healthy, regulated trade in falcons between the UK and the Middle […]
Hunting with hounds after lockdown
Hound packs all over the UK are preparing to go ahead as normal in the coming season, with some extra social-distancing rules (such as no sharing of hipflasks). Nicky Sadler reports from the Ledbury Hunt, where David Redvers MFH explains how post lockdown trailhunting will work. As he says: “There is no better way of […]
Will Ireland climb down over pigeon-shooting? – Fieldsports News, 20 May 2020
Here are the links: Irish government likely to u-turn on pigeon-shooting ban Fcha.nl Antis persecute Peak District gamekeeper Fcha.nl RSPB tries to mount anti-gamekeeping campaign Fcha.nl Facebook removes offensive sab post after complaints Capercaillie project a ‘waste of cash’ – GWCT PDF Vinnie promotes mental health campaign at clayground – YouTube Clothing company puts […]
Fieldsports Britain – four-and-twenty blackbirds
Paul Childerley is shooting young rooks in Bedfordshire with Jonny Muston from R&K Stockcraft, we visit a private game reserve in Pakistan, a pack of hounds in Herefordshire, and we follow the trail of falcons from the UK to the Middle East. There is plenty to get your teeth into in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. […]
Antis persecute Peak District gamekeeper
Antis are wrongly accusing a gamekeeper of wildlife crimes, when he was carrying out his normal duties. Online persecution of Darcy Smith, who works on the Moscar Estate in Derbyshire, began after a snare on land he managed accidentally caught a badger on 11 May 2020. Instead of releasing it, the antis posted the picture […]
Antis attack democracy: Lithuania bows to pressure, scraps bowhunting law after it’s in effect
Antis have interfered in the Lithuanian legal system by forcing the reversal of a law allowing bowhunting. Authorities ditched legalisation allowing bowhunting just days after it was enforced, in a shocking attack on the country’s democratic process. Deputy environment minister Rasa Vaitkevičiūtė, who supported the new law, resigned over the revision. The U-turn came after […]
Deerhunter Moor Padded Jacket with Knit Timber
It’s been a long day shooting clay or game, you probably want to slip into something more comfortable than your all-weather gear. In our survey, Ryan from the UK calls it a, “nice lightweight jacket easy to move in”. Deerhunter says it is “the perfect after-shoot jacket” and our survey seems to back up that […]
Le Chameau Vierzonord boots
When analysing reams of spreadsheet data for trends, it’s always easier when one name appears nearly twice as often as any other. That was the case with our wellies survey. To the relief of the team trawling through information supplied by hundreds of Fieldsports Britain supporters just like you (thanks for that, by the way). […]
Hunting, shooting and fishing come out of lockdown – Fieldsports News, 13 May 2020
Here are the links: Clayshooters ignored in loosening of lockdown restriction – Fcha.nl/new-lockdown-advice-ignores-shooting-sports Bradford man shoots grouse out of season – Fcha.nl/bradford-man-shoots-grouse-out-of-season Coalition calls for Scottish grousemoor ‘reform’ – Revive.scot Police appeal for help over identity of suspect in trap damage – Facebook Sabs shut down nursery’s social media – Facebook Deer hunting group […]
