Nicked! The thief at the gun show
A suspect has been caught on camera allegedly stealing a Trijicon scope and American Defense MFG mount at the ShotShow in Last Vegas. Standholder American Defense Manufacturing announced its gratitude to local police for their help in arresting a man suspected of stealing the kit. They sent out a Facebook post on Wednesday asking for […]
Professional hunters welcome China ivory ban
Namibia’s professional hunting association NAPHA welcomes China’s decision to ban ivory trade and processing by the end of 2017. NAPHA vice president Royston Wright says the move will decrease the pressure on the elephant population. Although ivory poaching only plays a small role in the total number of elephant deaths, restricting the trade in ivory […]
Scottish airgun ban makes 400,000 criminals
There are as many as 400,000 new criminals in Scotland. That’s the conclusion of BASC, which warns that BASC is warning that more than 400,000 airguns could be unlicensed in Scotland when the new airgun licensing law came into force on New Year’s Day. Of Scotland’s estimated half a million airgun, 17,000 have been handed […]
Squirrel nicks chocolate
In HotAir airgun news this week: BASC condemns Scottish airgun laws, Armex helps out the Grand Tour, HatsanUSA moving into bigger warehouse, Zhou Shibing blasts lids off bottles of beer, Daystate launches Saxon Limited Edition Wolverine 2, and Toronto store bans squirrels. Watch the whole show here
Beast of Cumbria spotted
Two ramblers claim to have spotted a black panther known as the Beast of Cumbria. Husband and wife Liz and Stuart Wild were walking in the Lake District when they came across the creature (pictured) near the hamlet of Little Langdale. Liz, 54, told The Sun: “There were some sheep in the field and one […]
RSPCA condemns pest control
A video which shows lads and their terriers keeping the streets of Liverpool clean from rats is the new target of animal rights activists at the RSPCA. A film on YouTube, called Liverpool Rats, shows dogs ripping into rats in a deserted Liverpool back street. A group of men can been seen guiding the dogs […]
Headshots: what makes rabbits boing?
Jamie Chandler investigates what makes animals including rabbits and squirrels jump in the air when you shoot them in the head. This item is supported by BSA. For more, go to www.bsaguns.co.uk It appears in AirHeads, episode 63. To watch the show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads63 Sign up for the AirHeads newsletter. Go to […]
Dove hunting with airguns
Rich Leonard is after doves on a farm in Cape Privince, South Africa, armed with his Air Arms S510. This item is supported by Air Arms. For more, go to www.air-arms.co.uk It appears in AirHeads, episode 63. To watch the show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/airheads63 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter www.fieldsportschannel.tv/register
AirHeads – African Dove Control
Rich Leonard has his Air Arms S510 on dove patrol in South Africa. He is controlling these pest birds on a farm in the Cape. Meanwhile, BSA man Jamie Chandler wants to know why rabbits and other animals jump in the air when you shoot them in the head. He gets all scientific on us. […]
Elk test: why not to brake in snow
Dash cam footage shows an impressive near miss with four moose. Canadian James Levesque is driving on Highway 631 in northern Ontario when four moose abruptly appear on the roadside. As he approaches, two of the moose move towards the road, making it nearly impossible for him to avoid a collision. According to The Weather […]
Rhino War: Fieldsports Africa special report
Piet Warren looks at the carcase of his latest dead rhinos and says resignedly: “Live rhinos are worth only a third of dead rhinos. If you are worth more dead than alive, you will die.” This dead iconic African animal is yet another reason why the trade in rhino horn must be legalised. Conservationist and […]
Predator calling comp kills hundreds of coyotes
Around 300 shooters paid US$50 each to take part in the 2017 Eastern US Predator Calling Championship in Virginia. Brown and Mike Burgess from Maryland won the most kills category with 31 foxes. The US$6,000 grand prize for most coyotes went to Alex Poole and Logan Jones of Tennessee with 20. For more go to whackstarhunters.com/predator-calling-championship/
How to Reload Your Own Ammunition
Expert deerstalker Roy Lupton shows the kit and the techniques you need to reload your own rifle ammunition, from start to finish. For more info about the kit Roy is using – Tikka in .25-06, Stalon Mod, Federal Ammo and Steiner Optics – go to http;//www.gmk.co.uk For the RCBS press, go to www.rcbs.com This film […]
Elkhound at Work
The Swedish work their elkhounds on a variety of big game. Tim Pilbeam is out to shoot wild boar flushed by an elkhound in Sweden. For Sauer rifles, go to www.sauer.de For Harkila clothing, go to www.harkila.com For more about Mamima Jakt, go to www.mamimajakt.se This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 373. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting Boar with Hounds
We are flushing wild boar with dogs this week. Tim Pilbeam is in Sweden to find out how they do it. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton uncovers the mysteries of reloading, and Beth Silvester gets an interview with a rhino farmer, who says how to end rhino poaching. Here are the links to the items: ▶ Tim on […]
Antis try to ban ancient bull-taming festival
A bull-taming festival in India where young men try out their strength against a bull is no longer under threat from politicians. Jallikattu is held during the harvest festival of Pongal. The event, which has been practised for thousands of years, was outlawed by the country’s Supreme Court in 2014. Now the Indian federal government […]
Best hunting clip in 2016: vote
Outdoor news website TheMonocular.com is holding a Facebook competition for the best video clip of 2016. It has posted the top five. Leave a comment on their Facebook post with your vote for which is best.
Nine-year-old girl ‘shamed’ for hunting
A girl who put a picture of her first deer on her T-shirt and wore it to school, was ‘shamed’ by her teacher. When 9-year-old Domonique Yatsko from north-east Ohio, USA, displayed the buck she shot on a T-shirt, her teacher said that “killing animals is not what we do”. Domonique was so upset, she […]
Digweed escapes tractor fire
Top game shot and 26-times world champion George Digweed had a lucky escape when his tractor caught fire. George was mowing maize at the shoot when the machine burst into flames. He got out in time before the whole thing went up in flames. Commenting on Facebook, his wife Kate says: “Thank God George is […]
Cornish anti shoots at hunt
Cornish anti shoots at hunt YouTube, Jeremy Clarkson on a shoot – photo, Packham gets his birds in a twist – Twitter, Bird table raider – YouTube, News is sponsored by Baleno
New American whitetail buck record
A 47-point buck is the new world record for a non-typical whitetail deer. Stephen Tucker, 26, hunted the deer with a muzzleloader in Tennessee. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, officials from Boone and Crockett spent several hours scoring the buck, dubbed Tennessee Tucker Buck. The deer rack scored 312 3/8 in the Boone […]
Man survives leopard attack **Graphic Images**
Farm worker, Zwelake Dyan, was lucky to escape with his life when he was attacked by a huge male leopard on a game reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Dyan, was with a small hunting group that were focused on pest control of small predators when he came across the large leopard in dense […]
Beirut bird shoot
Antis are furious with Beirut hunters who are safeguarding the airport from bird strikes by shooting seagulls on a rubbish dump on the flight path. The Lebanon Eco Movement says the government has a duty to protect all birds under environmental laws. Meanwhile, US airports have ramped up bird-killing programmes in response to the 2009 accident […]
Pigeons over January Rape
Mark Winser joins Andy Crow to shoot pigeons on the farm in Kent. The birds are coming in hard on the oilseed rape crop and the two top shots bag 160 of them in a banter-filled morning of shooting. Plus they wreck our drone. Jack Pyke jacket with new camo pattern from www.jackpyke.co.uk Decoying kit […]
On Test: Browning B15 Beauchamp
Top clay shot Josh Bridges tries out the new Browning B15 ‘Beauchamp’ on the Bolton Hall shoot in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. The 2016 World Junior Compak Champion usually uses a Browning 725 Pro Trap for both his competition and game shooting, so this is an unusual departure for him as he takes on high-flying north […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow & Co Pigeon Shooting
What happens when you put two of the UK’s top shooting characters in a pigeon hide? You get a wrecked drone, a bad haircut, a great deal of abuse and 160 dead pigeons. Andy Crow and Mark Winser are protecting oilseed rape crops in Kent, and trying out new kit from Jack Pyke and Gamebore. […]
Find out more about Roger
What a mixture! Roger presents items on our airgun show AirHeads about BSA guns – and lots of other stuff too.
On test: Sako Quad
In the latest ‘Federal on the farm’, Andy Crow takes his Sako Quad and two different cartridges out into the field to see what works best no rabbits in which part of the farm. Crow’s Sako Quad rifle set-up comes from www.gmk.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 371. To watch the […]
Foxshooting in a Football Stadium
Roger Lait is off to an undisclosed fotball stadium to shoot foxes. Happily he has the latest Pulsar kit from Thomas Jacks. Find out how he gets on. Roger uses a Pulsar Apex XD75 on the smaller rifle and he films with a Pulsar Quantum XQ50 recording onto the Yukon MPR. for more, go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fox Between the Goalposts
Roger Lait is off to one of the UK’s top football clubs to shoot the foxes. We all know foxes like football. And we all know football clubs employ foxshooters. This is the first time anyone has been allowed behind the scenes at a premiership ground to see how they control foxes. Meanwhile, out in […]
Find out more about Dom
Sporting Shooter and its sister titles Rifle Shooter and Clay Shooter are all under the editorial control of the extraordinary Dom Holtam.
Hunting at Eriksberg
Hunters and wildlife watchers both love the Eriksberg estate in Southern Sweden. You can go there to drink in nature with a pair of binos, or with the addition of a rifle. Charlie Jacoby finds out how they manage some of Europe’s biggest wildlife. For Norma’s ammunition, visit www.norma.cc For more about Eriksberg, go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting the Scottish Hills
Run an estate in Scotland and it’s not all summer grouse, salmon and stags. In the winter, you have to bring down hind numbers on the hill. That’s what Niall Rowantree is doing at Ardnamurchan, with help from Sporting Shooter editor Rebecca Green, Shooting Gazette editor Will Hetherington and the folk from Blaser Rifles. Find […]
Scottish Stalking
It’s time for the Ardnamurchan hind cull. Niall Rowantree is up the hill with Robert Sajitz and Alexandra Baur of Blaser, Sporting Shooter editor Rebecca Green and Shooting Gazette editor Will Hetherington. For Blaser’s R8 rifle, go to www.blaser-sporting.com To go hindstalking at Ardnamurchan, visit www.westhighland-hunting.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
Bloopers 2016
Work with people like Roy, Crow and the rest, and it’s not all going to go according to plan. And it doesn’t. Here is where we mucked it up in 2016. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 369. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain369
Shooting Rhinos on the Run
Tricky shot, a running rhinoceros. The Southern African Wildlife College is darting them in order to tag them and check their health. it is all part of South Africa’s attempts to conserve dwindling stocks of these cornerstone animals. For more about Aimpoint, go to www.aimpoint.com For the work of the Southern African Wildlife College, visit […]
Fieldsports Britain – Battle for the Rhinos
We are hunting and shooting rhinos from helicopters – not to kill them but to drug them, health-check them and tag them. It is one of the ways the South African Wildlife College – with the help of gun sight manufacturer Aimpoint – keeps the species going against attempts by poachers to kill them all. […]
Fieldsports Africa – Up Close with Big Game
Go bowhunting and you need to get close to animals. In Africa that means many times the excitement. Go bowhunting and you also need to be sure of your shot. That means practice and the best quality bow tech. Richard Leonard goes behind the scenes of a buffalo and lechwe bow hunt to find out […]
Charlie’s Driven Hunt 360
We’ve gone 360! Immerse yourself in a driven big game hunt in Germany. Join Charlie in the stand for the highs and lows of a driven hunting day, in the Zeiss Media Hunt 2016. For more about the Victory V8 scope and SF binos, visit www.zeiss.com/sports-optics For the new Sauer 404 Synchro, go to www.sauer.de/en/products/bolt-action-rifles/sauer-404/sauer-404-synchro-xt […]
Fast Action Wild Boar
It is driven hunting at its finest. Paul Childerley is on the Zeiss Media Hunt on the Laubach estate in Hesse, Germany. he tries out the new Zeiss Victory SF binoculars and the Zeiss Victory V8 scope. If you are thinking of buying binos like Paul’s, we found these prices for the Zeiss Victory SF […]
Scottish Woodcock Shoot
When the rest of Europe freezes in winter, woodcock head for the west coast of the British Islaes where the gulf stream keeps the land warm and allows them to probe in the mud for worms. That makes the west coast – from Cornwall through Wales and Ireland to the Scottish Highlands and Islands – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Woodcock
Three days of fabulous woodcock shooting in the Highlands of Scotland, all packed into our lead item on #FieldsportsBritain this week. Charlie Jacoby is out with Blaser to look at the new F16 shotgun, plus Will Hetherington from Shooting Gazette magazine and Rebecca Green from Sporting Shooter. It’s a bumper year for woodcock on Scotland’s […]
What to Wear out Shooting?
Gameshooting in the UK has a strong sense of fashion, believe it or not. Here is what to wear if you are asked pheasant or grouse shooting. Edward King explains what clothese to wear. It is the latest episode in our ‘Shoot Curious?’ series. This item is sponsored by: Gamebore cartridges www.gamebore.com AYA guns www.a-s-i.co.uk […]
Hunting Model
Crow is looking good as he shoots pheasants with Childerley Sporting in the English Home Counties. The reason? He is modelling the new range of shooting clothing from Jack Pyke. Look out for the catalogue soon. This item is sponsored by: UK Shoot Warehouse www.ukshootwarehouse.co.uk Jack Pyke www.jackpyke.co.uk Gamebore www.gamebore.com Beretta www.gmk.co.uk For more about […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pheasant shooting: Crow puts on a tie
Crow is modelling shooting clothing – and where better to do that than a shoot? He is out with Paul Childerley in Bedfordshire, trying not to out-shoot his neighbours. Meanwhile, Edward King is back (yes, we let him back) to talk about the right clothing to wear on shoots. And Tim Pilbeam is explaining straight-pull […]
Straight-Pull Rifle Test
Top rifle review Tim Pilbeam has a Merkel Helix, a Blaser R8 and a Browning Maral to play with as he runs through the pros and cons of straight-pull rifles generally and these models in particular. Browning recently relaunched its hunting blog here bit.ly/browningblog For Blaser, go to www.blaser-sporting.com For Merkel, visit www.merkel-die-jagd.de This film […]
Media Release: #YouTubeRewind 2016 – a massive year for hunting+shooting sports
It’s a good time to be a hunter on YouTube. While YouTube Rewind – best videos of 2016 showcases the top kids of the YouTube generation, YouTube is making waves across the whole of video entertainment. It’s the go-to place for specialist consumer shows, especially niche sports shows where the sport isn’t tied up with […]
Swiss Ibex Hunt
Mario Theus of Palorma Hunting has come up with a stunning new series on YouTube about hunting ibex in the Swiss Alps. Charlie Jacoby goes to visit him in his mountain home and hear how the film came about. Mario’s website is www.palormahunting.ch/ Mario’s first ibex hunting film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNEZwoMmG4 This film was first shown in […]
‘Furry’ Good Foxshooting
Andy Crow is out after foxes for a local shoot. In the latest in the series ‘Federal on the Farm’, he has some new toys to play with, including ATN night vision binoculars. He shows what makes a good fox pelt, and he highlights the damage caused by people crashing through barriers to go lamping […]
