Where have all the rabbits gone? – Andy Crow and Jaf Jefferson – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 28
Andy Crow, Jaf Jefferson from the South Somerset Ferrets discuss the UK’s rabbit problem: there aren’t enough rabbits. Click here for Jaf’s YouTube channel. For more on disappearing rabbits, read this article in The Sun. For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Crow, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/andy-crow/ For more […]
Sporting gun technology with Blaser – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 27
For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Blaser, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/gun-and-tackle-trade/blaser/ Here is the film on our website: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast27 For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/charlie-jacoby/ How to listen to our podcasts:
Tim Pilbeam talks moose – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 26
Tim and David chat about the behind the scenes while on their moose hunt in Northern Sweden. Here’s the moose film For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For more of our films with Tim, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/tim-pilbeam/ For all of David films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/david-wright/ Sign up for our […]
Top comedy instagrammer #brucesshooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 25
He’s the man behind Drop Bear, the L.E.S.B.I.A.N shooting device and almost naked shotgun techniques. Now he’s here to tell the naked truth. He’s @BrucesShooting Visit Instagram.com/brucesshooting For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/charlie-jacoby/ How to listen to our podcasts:
Gun magazine editor Peter Moore talks guns in the UK – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 24
Peter Moore edits Shooting Sports magazine, one of the UK’s top gun magazines. The British Shooting Show is a gun show. But surely the UK banned all guns? Not at all. Guns and shooting are thriving. For more from Pete, visit Gunmart TV For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s […]
Airgunning doyen Terry Doe – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 23
You know Terry Doe – Airgun World editor, pundit, punner and practically a strawberry punnet in his own right – talks carp, the Romany life, wordplay and the meaning of life. For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk For all of Charlie’s films on Fieldsports Channel, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/charlie-jacoby/ How to listen to our […]
Ollie Williams from Love Island spills the beans – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 22
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Wild boar montería driven hunt – part 2
It is part two of Paul’s Portuguese driven hunt. He is on farmland in the heart of the country where he is protecting farms from both wild boar and red deer. The Portuguese like to do their annual pest control in a single day’s driven hunting, lots of guns and dogs, and keeping the animals […]
Lead shot: behind the ban
If you are giving up lead, the three contenders for your shotshells are steel, tungsten and bismuth. All these materials have their advantages and disadvantages. If you are giving up plastic wads or ‘cups’, you can only use bismuth. Both tungsten and steel are delivered in plastic cups. There are other disadvantages, too, including the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Lead’s Dead, Baby. Lead’s Dead
In the week the shooting organisations call for a five-year phase-out of lead shot + plastic wads + plastic cartridge cases, Charlie Jacoby goes behind the headlines to find out what shooters are thinking, what the evidence is, and how the organisations are reacting to the pummelling they are getting online. It’s also the week […]
Royal gundog trainer tragedy – Fieldsports News, 26 February 2020
Here are the links: Royal gun dog trainer tragedy – Daily Mail Daily Star attacks top deerstalker – Daily Star Top deerstalker hits back – blog Packham badger blowback – Twitter Storm-battered badgers stand their ground – Daily Mail and Twitter Veggie company bans claims for meat meals – BBC Deer harass Highlanders – Press […]
New Sako S20 Rifle – First Look
Finnish rifle and cartridge maker Sako says it has come up with a ‘new category’ in bolt-action rifles: Sako S20 is the first true hybrid rifle. Designed with the active outdoorsperson in mind, the modular structure adapts to changing lifestyles which, says Sako, will future-proof the S20. One of the features of S20 is the […]
Lead shot ban shock
If you are giving up lead, the three contenders for your shotshells are steel, tungsten and bismuth. All these materials have their advantages and disadvantages. If you are giving up plastic wads or ‘cups’, you can only use bismuth. Both tungsten and steel are delivered in plastic cups. There are other disadvantages, too, including the […]
DEFRA kicks general licences down the road – Fieldsports News, 19 February 2020
Here are the links: General licences reissued on temporary basis Fcha.nl/generallicences Boris Johnson renews promise for ban on hunting trophy imports – Mirror Defra holds firm on releasing game birds – BASC Hunt monitor launches stone at rider’s face – Twitter Sea eagles ‘destroy livelihoods’ in Scotland – Herald Scotland League Against Cruel Sports targets […]
Wild boar montería driven hunt – fast action
Paul Childerley travels to Portugal for a traditional montería. We are in the rural heart of the country, and wild boar are causing problems for farmers, ploughing up fields and crops. The let go large numbers of dogs and set the boar running. See how he gets on. ▶ To go hunting with Sergio, visit […]
Fieldsports Britain – Paul’s Pesky Portuguese Pigs
How do we deal with a pig problem in Portugal? Release the hounds and shoot the pigs. That’s what Paul Childerley is doing as he joins a wild boar montería driven hunt on farmland in the centre of the country. That’s not all. We are at the British Shooting Show at the NEC, talking to […]
Countryfile goes pro-shooting – Fieldsports News, 12 February 2020
Here are the links: Countryfile backs countrysports – BBC RSPCA supports unsustainable salmon farming – The Times and YouTube Charity Commission slams National Rifle Association – press release Eagle suffers from satellite tag – Facebook Guinea fowl slow Lyme disease – news story Social media site for shooters RackNLoad.com Livestock farmers face rise in theft […]
Shooter arrested, threatened, abused
Barry Swain is a pest controller from Yorkshire who has paying clients who help him shoot. He had a job for a farmer to clear out a large number of Canada geese. They shot some geese and he posted the photo of the result on Facebook. It had lots of ‘likes’ from his friends. Imagine […]
Carly and Paul stalk Chinese water deer
As she learns the ways of deer hunting, Carly Coates joins Paul Childerley. They are out after a Chinese water deer buck, a tiny deer found in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Her last outing was after Scottish red stags, so this is a much tighter shot and needs practise. Paul puts her through her paces […]
Fieldsports Britain – Small Deer Hunt
We have hunting and hunting harassment in this week’s show. Carly Coates continues her deerstalking education as she tries for a Chinese water deer with Paul. They are stalking in Bedfordshire. Meanwhile Barry Swain, a goose shooter from Yorkshire, finds himself and his family bullied and attacked by anti-hunters, the BBC and even his […]
More legal threats to general licences – Fieldsports News, 5 February 2020
Here are the links: General licences trouble Fcha.nl/generallicences Scottish deer massacre Fcha.nl/deer-are-dead-long-live-trees ‘Unsafe’ shooting range allegation – Evening Standard Huntsmen found not guilty – press release Country Food Trust smashes fundraising target – fundraiser page Countryfile Live northern show canned – BBC Avery slams BBC for promoting game meat – Twitter Coronavirus is an excuse […]
How to sell 30 million pheasants
Every gameshooting season in the UK, around 30 million pheasants are shot. Many go to supermarkets and the catering trade, and some go home with the shooters, but it can be hard to find a market for the birds. Animal rights activists from the League Against Cruel Sports call the whole world of shooting a […]
Deerstalking and donating venison
Cai Ap Bryn is following in the footsteps of William the Conqueror. He is shooting deer in the New Forest, set up by King William as a hunting forest in 1079, and he is donating some of that venison to Dom’s Food Mission on the streets of Hastings, not far from the famous 1066 battle. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Game Meat Special
It’s healthy, locally-sourced and delicious, and it is coming to a town near you. Cai Ap Bryn is shooting deer to feed the hungry, and Aimee Blakey looks at how the Country Food Trust is able to put 30 million pheasants on the nation’s plates. There’s a game meat revolution underway, and it is led […]
‘Safari guide will wound big cat so I can shoot it,’ claims journalist
Bild magazine in Germany says it has uncovered the dark side of canned hunting. A Bild magazine journalist wrote this story after visiting the Jagd & Hund hunting show in Dortmund this week. The story claims that professional hunters are offering to injure big cats in order to make them ‘safe’ for hunting tourists to […]
DEFRA faces general licences + trophy hunting perfect storm, Fieldsports News, 29 January 2020
Here are the links: DEFRA general licences and trophy hunting chaos – trophy hunting consultation Kids try for schools pistol championships Issy Bailey’s Instagram British Shooting Show tickets Pheasant ready meals firm launches in Yorkshire – Daily Mail Wildlife activist tribute act sparks hunt anger – Daily Mail and Mark Avery blog Sabs spray huntsman’s […]
Out shooting with BASC chairman Eoghan Cameron
What’s the future of lead ammunition? Is hen harrier persecution everything the antis say it is? BASC chairman Eoghan Cameron explains where BASC stands on these issues, all on a family pheasant shoot day in Scotland’s Angus Glens. ▶ For the full interview with Eoghan, watch it on the BASCfilms channel on Youtube ▶ For […]
Gameshooting with a world champion: Sam Green
FITASC world champion James Green is out shooting pheasants near Peterborough in the English Fens. He is sharing a peg with a friend, James, and shows how he coaches guns while they are on shoot days. ▶ For the Browning B15 that Sam is using, go to JohnMBrowningCollection.com ▶ To go shooting with Sam, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pheasant Shoot Coach
Sam Green has gone from kid with an airgun to FTASC world champion. We join him on a shoot day outside Peterborough where he joins an old friend, James, coaching and shooting. See how he does that by keeping the message simple. Plus we’re off to Scotland for another chatty shooter. Eoghan Cameron is BASC […]
British Shooting Show, 14-16 February 2020, at the NEC Birmingham
Buy your tickets online, or call the ticket hotline on 0844 8737 332 Show dates: 14, 15 and 16 February 2020 Show opens 9am-4.30pm on all three days Car parking is free at the NEC for all British Shooting Show visitors All accompanied children ages 15 and under visit free of charge (at organisers’ discretion) […]
Deer reaction to being shot
Some fall over. Some run – even though they may both have been shot in the same place. Roy Lupton is out stalking fallow for the freezer. He looks at why deer react differently to shots. Roy uses this kit Ammunition: .20-06 Sako Gamehead Pro, 117-grain softpoint Scope: Leica 6.5-26×56 Rifle: Sako 85
Deer are dead, long live trees
The Scottish Government is putting public safety at risk, and wasting tens of thousands of taxpayers’ pounds littering the countryside with fencing. It has shown it is incapable of managing Scotland’s deer herds. Now it is doubling down, with tens of millions of pounds-worth of contracts to shoot the deer, and a report from its […]
Fieldsports Britain – Demonising Deer
The Scottish government wants to wipe out half of Scotland’s deer species and most of the animals left after that. Its advisors are calling for state control of wildlife, and Nicola Sturgeon is ready to listen. Niall Rowantree, deer manager on the Ardnamurchan Estate, explains how the government has got it wrong – plus where […]
Wild Justice attacks pheasant shooting – Fieldsports News, 22 January 2020
Here are the links: Wild Justice tries to close down game-shooting – press release Anti claims to be convicted murderer – Twitter Male sab says “I’ve just come out of prison for murder & I’ll go in again” as he touches a female steward’s breast whilst calling her a “Fucking Bastard” You can also […]
British bowhunters abroad
Gary Rawlings takes his sport to South Africa. He is a British bowhunter – which is a banned sport in the UK, so he goes out after kudu and warthog. Find out how he gets on. ▶ To go hunting with Guy Swart, visit WildHorizon.co.za ▶ For the British Bowhunters Association, visit BritishBowhunterAssociation.co.uk
Operation Squirrel
They destroy trees, they eat eggs and chicks in the nest, and they carry a virus that kills our native red squirrels. What kind of monsters are they? They are grey squirrels, and Roy Lupton is on mission to make a dent in their population. If you haven’t already, it’s time to dust off the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s crackdown on greys
Save a red – shoot a grey. Is this Manchester United vs Norwich City? Nope – it’s Roy Lupton’s conservation call to the nation and it’s all about squirrels. The airgunners of Anglesey did it. They successfully shot all the grey squirrels on the island and made it safe for red squirrels, which are doing […]
Antis hunt down Love Island star – Fieldsports News, 15 January 2020
Love Island contestant axed over trophy hunting snaps – The Independent Masked antis arrested – Countryside Alliance Swedish and English join Irish – Limerick Leader Judge cleared of attacking hunt protestors – Daily Mail Muntjac symposium – British Deer Society Forestry Commission takes deer management in-house – job ads here and here Environmentalists threaten […]
Veganism protected by law – Fieldsports News, 08 January 2020
Here are the links: Veganism protected by law – Daily Telegraph Has Veganuary gone too far? – Manchester Evening News Capgen#2: Veggie hunters show off their shoots – website Sab scares little girl off pony – Twitter ‘Lancashire animal save’ have attacked the Holcombe Hunt NY day meet. A woman with a megaphone screamed ‘shame […]
Crow’s big Essex driven day
The partridges are flying – and so is Andy Crow. He changes over his Blaser F16 12-bore for a 20-bore and keeps up with the best of them at Badnocks Farm Shoot in Essex. Click here for shooting availability at Badnocks Farm Shoot Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or Blaser.de ▶ Gamebore […]
Quick-draw Paul culls three deer in seconds
Paul Childerley is looking after his ground in Gloucestershire. He was there the other day to shoot roe and ran into muntjac. This time he is back for roe and roe alone. ▶ To go stalking with Paul, contact paul@childerleysporting.co.uk▶ Click here for all our films with Paul Paul is sponsored by▶ Shooterking▶ Sako▶ Zeiss
RSPCA’s dog grabbing fundraiser
By Ben O’Rourke Dog lover Julie Wright has spent the last five years without her healthy, well-kept and loving dogs, Jack and Homer. In 2014, after reviewing her activity on Facebook, RSPCA workers and police raided Mrs Wright’s Berkshire house. The RSPCA told police they suspected Mrs Wright trained the dogs for dogfighting and […]
Fieldsports Britain – super 20-bore partridge shoot
Andy Crow goes the whole partridge. He is in Essex, swapping his trusty 12-bore for a 20-bore and enjoying a driven day of these fast-flying birds. It’s all about speed for Paul Childerley, too. He has to make a culling decision about three roe deer on his ground in Gloucestershire. Find out how he gets […]
The dangers of mixing shotgun shells
Accidentally put a 20-bore cartridge down a 12-bore barrel and the result could be tragic. Andy Crow explains the risks.
Hunting channels Down Under – YouTube rankings
A paradise for sportsmen and women awaits down under – and local YouTubers have been good at taking advanatage of it. From South Island’s mountain hunting for chaois and tahr to the buffalo of Northern Queensland, these are the hunting YouTube channels to watch, ranked in order. Hogs Dogs Quads is putting on weight. Its […]
Pheasant shooting with a world champion
World champion Amy Easeman is pheasant shooting. We join her for a day on her dad’s shooting Buckinghamshire. Find out how she gets on – and what the other guns think of shooting with a top shot. ▶ Click here for more about Amy’s Browning B725 Sporter Black Edition shotgun ▶ Click here for […]
Boxing Day hunt bashing – Fieldsports News, 01 January 2020
Here are the links: Boxing Day hunt bashing – Metro newspaper Lottie Lion backs hunting – Sun newspaper East Essex Foxhounds Boxing Day meet – Facebook Packham lines his pockets – website Lawyer kills fox with baseball bat – Metro newspaper RSPCA pulls four deer from river – Facebook Wolves scare shooter – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Andy Crow’s Gun Giveaway
We are giving away Andy Crow’s Blaser F16 shotgun to one lucky winner. Find out who it is in this week’s episode of #FieldsportsBritain. Plus we are out pheasant shooting with world champion Amy Easeman. Find out what makes her tick, what makes her a great shot, and join her on an evening’s deerstalking, […]
European hunting channels YouTube ranking
Europe’s hunting channels were quicker than the Americans to see the potential in YouTube. Perhaps that is because Europe has always found it hard to sustain specialist interest hunting channels on cable and satellite TV. Now there is a distribution platform that provides the audience of TV for a specialist magazine advertising market. The problem […]
Bowhunting business YouTube channel ranking
No change in the ranking for bowhunting businesses. Hoyt and Bear have lost some ground on the Socialblade ranking overall, but stay in first and third place. Mathews has gained ground and stays in second. Muzzy Broadheads has slipped two places up from bottom of the table past Martin and Rexpid. Back to Gun & […]
