Hunting apparel business YouTube channel ranking
Realtree remains in top position – but for how much longer? US company KUIU more than doubled its views in 2019. Meanwhile, UK clothing company Barbour is making a fast ascent, from sixth place last year to second this year, despite its low subscriber count. Barbour has been investing in films promoting its collections, including […]
Ammunition manufacturer YouTube channel ranking
Ammunition manufacturers ranking remains mainly unchanged. Hornady is more than double the size of its nearest competitor on YouTube, so hard to catch. Nosler has now overtaken RWS to reach third place, putting US companies in the top three positions. The list hides the investment that several companies have made in other, consumer channels, such […]
Airgun manufacturer/distributor YouTube channel ranking
The retailers dominate the airgun company YouTube channel list. Replica Airguns continues its dominance of the airgun manufacturing/distribution sector. The hybrid editorial/shop channel is a long way ahead of the competition. In second, third and fourth places, Airguns of Arizona, Pyramydair and Airgun Depot continue to vie for places, with the latter moving up a […]
North American hunting channels YouTube ranking
This is the list of top North American hunting channels on YouTube. European hunting channels’ domination of YouTube is over. The Americans are late to the party but are capturing swathes of audience on YouTube. You want to be a popular hunter in the US? Start by being a young, cute boy. Cute girls need […]
Shooting/gun accessories companies YouTube channel ranking
FoxPro takes the top slot, moving up the Socialblade rank from third place, where it is replaced by previous winner Primos Hunting. Televisually, bird and animal calling companies have an advantage over other accessories companies, because their products lend themselves to popular films on YouTube. Foxpro has almost doubled its subscriber count on YouTube in […]
Hunting/shooting retailer YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. Brownells from the US keeps its number one position for the second year running. It takes its TV seriously – as does the Gun Shop, Botley, from the UK, which is moving into second place. The major climber is Cabela’s, recently […]
Optics company YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. There was little change in the rankings of the optics companies on YouTube in 2019. Ultimate Night Vision dominates the scene, with ATN and Aimpoint in second and third. ATN has almost doubled its YouTube subscriber count in a year. Aimpoint […]
YouTube gun channel ranking
This is the list of top gun channels on YouTube. If you take YouTube to be a marker for general cultural popularity, gun channels are holding their own. Guns as TV entertainment saw a huge surge from 2018 to 2019, almost doubling in viewing popularity against other non-gun channels on YouTube. The index slipped back […]
Knifemaker YouTube channel ranking
These is the list of top knifemaker channels on YouTube. From knife-sharpening how-to videos to films about using knives in the field, they are vying with each other to be the top YouTube channel out there. YouTube’s knifemakers are holding their own. The major change in 2020 is Victorinox’s disappearance from the top three. Cold […]
Airgun YouTube channel ranking
There was a time when airgun channels had the highest views of all the shooting sports channels on YouTube. Some of the gloss has come off that in recent years but the accessibility of airguns makes this a sport for a wide public. Little movement in the top five airgun channels during 2019: Matt Dubber’s […]
Firearms manufacturers/distributors YouTube channel ranking
Here are the firearms companies’ rankings on YouTube. 2019 was a good year for European gun manufacturers on YouTube – thanks to a little help from across their US subsidiaries and partner companies. Sig Sauer, which won the lucrative US military handgun contract, is now reaping the benefits of its marketing spend, taking the top […]
Survivalist/Prepper/Bushcraft YouTube channel ranking
Bushcrafters, survivalists and preppers are marginally attached to the hunting/shooting industry. They are included here because they tend to have much larger audiences than pure hunting channels, putting them not far behind the gun channels for sheer weight of viewership. They offer a ‘lifestyle’ version of the hunting story, embedded in the countryside. Wranglerstar has […]
Great Irish pheasant shooting in Co Offaly
How do birds fly in Ireland? Jason Doyle has a day with the Castle Fieldsports Syndicate in Co Offaly. See how he gets on. For more from Castle Fieldsports, email Liam Kenehan at castlefieldsports@gmail.com For more about Rizzini, go to A-S-I.co.uk For Jason’s Gamebore cartridges, go to Gamebore.com Jason wears Jack Pyke clothing. Visit JackPyke.co.uk
Jason’s new pheasant gun – Fieldsports Ireland episode 17
Jason Doyle has a day with the Castle Fieldsports syndicate in Co Offaly, where guns, beaters, pickers-up and even the pheasants muck in to make a great driven day. He is trying out his new Rizzini – and the plan comes together. That’s not all. Jason also completes his PRS series by taking a look […]
Antis’ anger at foxhunting popularity
More than a quarter of a million people braved wet weather to support their local hunt up and down the country this Boxing Day. Those against the sport reacted angrily in the media, calling for a strengthening of the ban they brought in with the 2004 Hunting Act. Speaking at the Tiverton Foxhounds’ Boxing Day […]
Boxing Day and New Year’s Day hunt meets under sustained attack – Fieldsports News, 25 December 2019
David rounds up the top stories from around the fieldsports world 🌎 Watch the show in full here Boxing Day meet: Blackmore Vale – petition Boxing Day meet: Southdown and Bridge – Daily Telegraph Boxing Day meet: East Kent – local newspaper Huntsman cleared of hunting – local newspaper Hunt sabs encourage hounds to kill […]
Bloopers 2019
You’ve seen the ups. Here are the downs. These are all the outtakes from a year of making films on Fieldsports Channel. No animals were harmed…
Fieldsports Britain – Roy and Crow’s Swanky Swedish Hunt
Roy Lupton and Andy Crow are on a driven day, thanks to Aimpoint in Sweden. They are shooting deer and boar – and they are using shotguns on the deer, which they have not done before. The hunt protects farmland and local golf courses. There’s a competition, too, to win an Aimpoint Micro H-2, priced […]
High-speed driven deer hunt with shotguns
How good is the Aimpoint Micro H-2? Let’s find out on a driven hunt, using shotguns on close-range deer and rifles on boar. Aimpoint takes Andy Crow and Roy Lupton into the woods of Sweden to find out. They have seen the factory, now they get to use the kit. Find out how they get […]
Buff and bear – African Hunter, episode 5
A high-octane buffalo hunt, a blue wildebeest, and even a bear. We are hunting across South Africa and Canada. Eugene Etsabeth of Nonya Safaris in the Limpopo Province is guiding Swedish hunter Alexandra Hellstrom after waterbuck. Riaan Hoffman, of Ryan Hunting Safaris is guiding client Bernie Hunter after a Cape buffalo in Limpopo Province. […]
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 […]
