No grouse-shooting ban says Werritty report
The Scottish government is not minded to ban grouse-shooting, says a source, following publication of a government report [PDF] into grouse-shooting by Professor Alan Werritty. It is undecided about licensing grouse-moors. Delayed for publication since the summer, the Werritty report recommends a licensing system for the use of medicated grit, for mountain hare culls and […]
Packham protest – Fieldsports News, 18 December 2019
Anti Packham protest – News & Star Carrie Symonds in badger court case – The Times Scottish government dodges general licences bullet – anti-shooting website Nicola Sturgeon doubles down on deer cull – Press & Journal Assynt estate buyout in the spotlight – Mail on Sunday Hunt sab sprays repellent up hound’s nose – […]
Boris’s big plans for hunting and shooting
It’s a big year for shooting sports in the UK parliament. Newly-elected prime minister Boris Johnson will rule on whether we can go pigeon shooting, deer stalking and shooting overseas – and that’s just the start. It was a good election for hunting and shooting – but will it be a good 2020? We talk […]
Muntjac hunting secret weapon
Paul Childerley has a special call he has not revealed on Fieldsports Channel before. All of his deerstalking friends have their secret techniques, but Paul’s closely-guarded muntjac call is the best of them all, he reckons. He tries it out on a management hunt in Gloucestershire. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Zeiss ▶ Shooterking ▶ […]
Fieldsports Britain – deer manager at work
Nothing glamorous about this: Paul is doing his rounds with his rifle, looking for cull deer. On this ground in Gloucestershire, he might see muntjac, roe deer and fallow deer. In the end, he gets close to a muntjac and unleashes his special call to bring it closer. Meanwhile, the general election puts all shooting […]
UK General Election 2019 – pro-hunt MPs in, antis out
The 12 December 2019 election night was an excellent night for hunting and shooting, as three out of four target antis lost their seats, and five top countrysports supporters kept theirs. The night also saw grouseshooting defender Rishi Sunak hold his Richmond (Yorkshire) seat and Mark Spencer his Sherwood seat. Former Labour MP and ex […]
Grouseshooting in the balance – Fieldsports News, 11 Dec 2019
Fieldsports News Fcha.nl/news Grouseshooting in the balance – Fieldsports News Dog discipline legal battle – Fieldsports News Woodcock geo-locator reveals 6,000 air miles – Facebook Airlines crack down on guns – Fieldsports News BBC promotes vegan Christmas – Daily Mail Ferret bites Labour candidate: Met this young man taking his pet ferret for a walk. […]
How to butcher a small deer – quickly, cleanly and easily
How do you get the most from a small deer in the shortest possible time? Paul Childerley shows how to butcher a Chinese water deer, one of the world’s smaller deer. The result: tasty loin, backstrap and haunch. Paul is sponsored by: ▶ Zeiss ▶ Shooterking ▶ To go stalking with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk
Aimpoint gun sights: how they build them
Roy Lupton and Andy Crow go behind the scenes at the Aimpoint factory in Sweden to see how those ingenious Swedes build their gun sights, and how those gun sights work. Some of it is secret. Roy and Andy reveal the basics, plus they prepare for an outing shooting driven roe. ▶ For more from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy and Crow go to the Aimpoint factory
How do Aimpoint gun sights work? We send Roy Lupton and Andy Crow to the factory in Sweden to find out. Shooting’s answer to Eric & Ernie tries out the latest kit and learns the basics behind the most revolutionary advance in optics in the last 50 years. That’s not all. Paul Childerley gets a […]
Packham raises the grouse-shooting temperature
Animal rights campaigners are making a big push on the Scottish government ahead of a report into the sport of grouseshooting. BBC TV’s Chris Packham and the RSPB are among those who want a ban. However, sources at Holyrood say that Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is sitting on the ‘Werritty report’ into grouseshooting until […]
Can you discipline your dog?
A seven-year legal battle between two gundog trainers has come to an end. At its heart is the question whether you can physically discipline your dog when training it, or if you should only be allowed to use reward-based training. The final court case, on Friday 6 December 2019, was an appeal at Plymouth Law […]
New launch: Merkel K5 break-barrel rifle
by Charlie Jacoby Generally, I like the sleek, new single-shot break-barrel rifle from Merkel. The company lent it to me for a week of red hind stalking in Argyllshire (my film is at the bottom of this review). It is designed as a ‘mountain’ rifle: lightweight and with the break-barrel rifle’s reputation for greater accuracy […]
Farmer dumps slurry on sabs – Fieldsports News, 4 Dec 2019
▶ Fieldsports News Fcha.nl/news Tractor driver sprays sabs with slurry – Facebook Government promises increased trespass laws against sabs – Fieldsports News Bank closes gunshop account – Fieldsports News DEFRA general licences consultation – DEFRA Bird-ringers ‘trophy’ pictures – Facebook Soil Association Scotland backs game meat – Press & Journal Waitrose says demand for game is up – The Grocer River Test incinerator scare […]
Carly stalks deer in Scotland
Carly Coates promised herself she would go back to stalk deer at Glen Etive in Scotland. The estate that featured in the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows films and the James Bond film Skyfall is also a dramatic backdrop to some of the most challenging and rewarding deerstalking in Scotland. It is the red hind season […]
Driven wild boar: a beginner’s guide
Andy Crow shows what an amazing sport driven wild boar shooting is. He is not a complete newbie, but he knows what he needs. As well as a fabulous day hunting in the forests of Germany, he starts out at the Holland & Holland shooting cinema in West London, honing his target practice skills. Then […]
Fieldsports Britain – King Crow’s big boar hunt
Let’s get everyone out of their comfort zone and see how they get on 😄😄😄 – first up, Andy Crow leaves behind his pigeon gun and picks up his driven boar rifle. He goes on a driven hunt in Germany and, first, learns how to shoot boar at the Holland & Holland shooting cinema in […]
Jason’s close encounter with a stag – Fieldsports Ireland episode 16
Jason is after his first Irish red stag. He has stalked many Scottish red stags and many Irish sika stags, but this is the real red Irish deal. He is in the west of the country, at the height of the rut, guided by a friend, Daniel. Then he is back to Wexford to walk-up […]
Roaring Irish red stag hunt with a rifle
The red stags are roaring in Ireland. Jason Doyle is after one – and he is in line for a close encounter. Find out what happens when guide Daniel takes Jason out for the king of beasts in the west of Ireland Show sponsors are: Hornady Hornady.com Savage SavageArms.com Leupold Leupold.com
Fieldsports Nation Weekly News Bulletin
🤓 David rounds up the top stories from around the fieldsports world: ➡️Animal rights protesters bully the The British Shooting Show and disrupt Taste of Game evening in Derby. ➡️ Conservatives drop their commitment to repeal Tony Blair’s hunt ban, and plan a new rural police force, the Office for Environmental protection, to crack down […]
Fieldsports Britain – the great British pheasant
We’re celebrating British Game Week with a pheasant shoot and a spot of pheasant cookery. Paul Childerley runs his shoot in Bedfordshire with the consumer in mind, so who along to see hw he does it. That’s on the positive side. On the negative, we tell the story of a how antis in the North-West […]
Pheasants – from flying to fork
Paul Childerley’s shoot in Bedfordshire takes pride in it birds, both in the air for its guests to shoot, and in plastic wrapping, to sell to people who want to eat them. Here’s how he does it. ▶ If you would like to go shooting with Paul, email paul@childerleysporting.co.uk ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation and […]
Armed antis step up war on hunting
Update: the Government briefed the Daily Telegraph that its new anti-trespass law will crack down on antis like the ones shown in this film. The Telegraph says the government took action following our film Imagine being confronted by the antis shown in this film. How can the authorities ignore it? How can the police turn […]
Scotland plans huge deer reduction programme
The Scottish Government’s desire to ‘rewild’ the Highlands could lead to the biggest deer cull in UK history. Documents seen by Fieldsports Channel viewers suggest that the Forestry Commission for Scotland is considering a reduction of deer numbers to just 5 per sq km. The idea is thought to come from experiments at the Corrour […]
Fox, Fox and Badger Lamping
Roy Lupton and his mate Chris take an American out foxshooting for the first time. The foxes have been killing lambs locally, and it is up to Roy to call them in while the American shoots. He successfully calls foxes and even a badger. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 283. To […]
Swarovski Z8i
by Charlie Jacoby This is the scope offer from one of the big three optics companies. The Z8i is the scope to have if you don’t want the Zeiss V8 or the Leica Magnus. With an 8x magnification, this scope takes your target from 1.7x to 13.3x. It is aimed at both short range driven […]
Swarovski modular ATX spotting scope
by Charlie Jacoby For the big game hunter who likes to see their distant game up close, this is the Swarovski spotting scope to choose. Zoom is from 30x to 70x. This one has the 95mm objective lens. Modular means you can take the headpiece off and replace it. As you would expect from Swaro, […]
Merkel HLX suppressor
Merkel has gone into partnership with military moderator manufacturer B&T to make a moderator for the hunting market. Message from the manufacturer: 200mm long, it has steel baffles, which allows up to 30 consecutive shots without waiting for it to cool. It fits on every barrel with a M15x1 muzzle thread. Merkel claims its moderators […]
Plainsgame Five: nyala, wildebeest, sable, warthog and bushpig – African Hunter, episode 4
We are hunting all over South Africa after five (some) of the country’s most appealing game animals. Eugene Etsabeth of Nonya Safaris in the Limpopo Province is bowhunting a young bull blue wildebeest for the braai. He goes on to guide Swedish hunter Alexandra Hellstrom after nyala with a rifle in a thick, bush hunt. […]
UKDTR – the deer tracking service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklVQTZ2U40The UK Deer Track & Recovery Group specialise in just that – from CSI-style investigation of a shot site, to tracking a deer through the undergrowth, to humane dispatch of the animal once found. They offer a free service to stalkers, and will also follow up deer injured on the road. James Marchington joins the […]
Hunting the Scottish hills: Ardnamurchan hind cull
Charlie is out enjoying the Scottish hind cull. German ammunition company RWS, optics manufacturer Swarovski and gunmaker Merkel invite six hunting ‘influencers’ from across Europe to shoot 30 hinds at Ardnamurchan. Niall Rowantree is headstalker on the estate and he explains how management like this keeps the estate going. ▶ To go hillstalking with Niall […]
Fieldsports Britain – Scottish deer cull crisis
We’re hunting red hinds in the hills of Ardnamurchan in Scotland with stalkers from all over Europe. It’s exactly what Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson hate. This week we look at the two-pronged political attack on deerstalking from the SNP and the Tory party. Nicola wants all the deer shot so she can grow trees […]
Scope wars: Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica, Blaser – top riflescope price comparison
Over the £2,000 mark, it gets tribal. Are you red (Leica), green (Swarovski), blue (Zeiss) or brown (Blaser)? All of these are great scopes. If you miss, it’s not their fault. So let’s have a look at that other great divider: price. Best of all scopes with their prices Zeiss Swarovski […]
Boris widens trophy hunting attack to include UK deer
The UK government has widened out its ‘trophy hunting’ consultation to include UK deer. It looks like Boris Johnson now plans to stop overseas stalkers from coming to the UK, as well as Britons going overseas to hunt. A spokesman for UK environment department DEFRA confirms that the new consultation will include deerstalking in the […]
Decoying pigeons over November maize – Crowhow
Andy Crow is on a neighbour’s farm helping to keep wood pigeons off a maize crop. He is sharing a hide with Frederic Hanner, who provides him with Blaser shotguns. It’s a day to build a bag slowly as the pigeons come in. Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or Blaser.de ▶ Gamebore Gamebore.com […]
What’s the best slingshot ammo for squirrels and pigeons?
Do you shoot lead or steel? 11mm or one of the smaller diameters? We get techie and bring out the ballistic gel, so Wayne Martin can solve the problem of the best ammo for birds and animals. For Wayne’s catapults, go to CattyShack.co.uk Click here for Phill Price’s airgun pellet test on this ballistic gel
Fieldsports Britain – A Mouth full of Meatloaf
Andy Crow is out to stop pigeons hitting a maize crop – and sometimes that means there’s nowhere to put the meatloaf. He is decoying and shooting pigeons with Frederic Hanner on a farm in Kent. Meanwhile, we ask the question: what’s the most effective catapult ammunition for shooting birds and animals? Wayne Martin tests […]
How to buy a gun for shooting pheasants
Gunsmith and gunshop owner Dennis Stepney explains how to choose the right gun to go pheasant and partridge shooting. He shows how to select stock length, which barrel lengths are popular and why, and whether it is necessary to go for a single trigger and an ejector. He explains the pricing of good secondhand […]
Fieldsports Britain – all about shotguns for gameshooting
It’s everything (we reckon) you want to know about shotguns for pheasants, in this week’s show. Jason Doyle takes up Rizzini’s invitation to go shooting in Wiltshire, and finds out about the Italian gunmaker’s spectacular range of sporting guns. Meanwhile, gunsmith and Gunshop owner Dennis Stepney gives his honest appraisal on what to look […]
What the UK election means for hunting and shooting – Fieldsports Channel News, 6 November 2019
Here are the links UK general election and MPs’ lies – Facebook DEFRA hunting tourism consultation – press release – consultation – call for evidence How antis twist the truth about hunting – Facebook DEFRA general licences consultation Cheshire hunt sabs act angry Another ‘missing’ hen harrier turns up The sat tag on one […]
My dog Tawny, by Simon Whitehead – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 21
Top ferreter Simon Whitehead talks about his lurcher Tawny and friends, including ferrets and some hawk action. ‘She is a honest stamp of a dog and that is all can ask of her,’ he says at the Game Fair Theatre 2019. Simon’s website is pakefieldferrets.co.uk For more of our films with Simon, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/simon-whitehead/ […]
Precision Rifle Series part 2 – Fieldsports Ireland episode 15
The Americans come to Ireland to go shooting. Jason Doyle and his shooting partner Daniel O’Flaherty are back at the 1,000-yard range at Midland National Shooting Centre of Ireland (MNSCI) to take part in an international PRS match, the Guardian Copmpetition, against competitors from across the Atlantic. Plus Jason has had a pair custom […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s rattling in the woods
Roy Lupton is out to thin the fallow bucks this week, and Paul Childerley has new thermal kit for shooting wild boar. It is big game management as Roy takes to the woods of Sussex and weaves his way through clever does and a bobtail fox before finding the rutting stand. Meanwhile, Paul is […]
Fabulous fallow buck cull
Like hunting bucks? Managing a herd of deer requires subtlety and the ability to make quick decisions – decisions that can have long-lasting effects (as well as filling your freezer). Roy Lupton is stalking a fallow buck in the woods of the South of England. It’s the rut and he gets to use techniques including […]
Nightshooting wild boar with thermal
Paul Childerley is in Hungary using thermal imaging kit to track down wild boar at night. He is using the Pulsar Helion to protect blueberries. ▶ For more about Sako, visit Sako.fi ▶ For Sako rifle accessories on Amazon, visit Amzn.to/2ltJeyd ▶ For Sako’s UK distributor, go to GMK.co.uk ▶ Paul wears Shooterking clothing Shooterking.co.uk, […]
Gamekeeper John and the Catapult Show – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 20
Catapults are going global. Presenter of The Catapult show on YouTube, Gamekeeper John, talks about the growth of the sport of slingshots, and shows off his tips and tricks at the Game Fair Theatre 2019. For Gamekeeper John on YouTube, go to www.youtube.com/channel/UCAU8t1RCBuep9KVLb1MxtAg ▶ Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports […]
Hunters ride to the rescue of YouTube’s #TeamTrees
YouTubers from hunting and shooting channels are lending their support to top YouTubers’ efforts to plant 20 million trees. A group of 600 YouTubers including Pewdiepie and Mr Beast have launched an initiative to plant trees under the hashtag #teamtrees. Read the story on The Verge, Mashable and Wired. As well as donations to the […]
The RSPB – Britain’s new gamekeeper?
The RSPB wants to get a job as the nation’s gamekeeper. It looks like it wants to get rid of all the other gamekeepers, too. At its AGM on Saturday 26 October 2019, Kevin Cox, chair ofthe RSPB Council announced that the organisation would be reviewing its policy on game bird shooting and ‘associated […]
Jack Pyke’s driven game day – it’s Crowhow
Andy Crow is on form for his pheasant shoot day in Bedfordshire – and he is joined by Jason Doyle, David Wright, and Charlie Jacoby among others. Above all, pheasant shooting has to be fun, and Crow makes it fun. Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com or Blaser.de ▶ Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ Vario Ear […]
Fieldsports Britain – fabulous pheasants among friends
You can’t beat the banter on a shoot day. Andy Crow, Jason Doyle and Charlie Jacoby head to Bedfordshire for the Jack Pyke pheasant shoot at Paul Childerley’s place. Expect laughter, tears, and watch David shoot (with commentary from Crow). That’s the fun part of this week’s show. David is on the News Stump and […]
