Lamping clampdown by Irish police
See someone lamping in Co Kerry, Ireland, and the Gardai would like you to call them. The Irish constabulary told the Irish Independent that those genuinely trying to catch rabbits have nothing to fear from with Gardai approaching them. Police came up with the initiative following a meeting between senior Gardaí, farmers concerned about interference […]
Headmaster who likes shooting
West Rise is no ordinary primary school. The Sussex school welcomes kids from ages seven to 11, and teaches them the usual math and French – and shooting. Find out why the headmaster of West Rise thinks this is a good idea. Visit www.westrisejunior.co.uk Watch Channel 4’s film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGynHspkos This film was first shown in […]
How a field trial works
Paul Childerley is hosting a field trial – and Andy Crow joins him to help put birds on the ground for the dog handlers. Find out how a field trial works. Paul Childerley’s website is www.childerleysporting.co.uk For more of our films with Paul go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/paul-childerley/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
Warter Priory driven pheasants
They are some of the best pheasants in the country, and Ross Neville is in Yorkshire to see whether he and the Browning B15 are up to the task of tackling them. Find out more about the B15 at www.JohnMBrowningCollection.com For Warter Priory go to www.facebook.com/warterpriory/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain […]
Fieldsports Britain – Super High Birds
The last of the season’s stratospheric pheasants: we are at Warter Priory in Yorkshire with high-bird specialist Ross Neville to enjoy some spectacular shooting. Also, as the pheasant season draws to a close in the UK, we visit a field trial on Paul Childerley’s shoot in Bedfordshire. And we go to the school in Sussex […]
Florida brings in Indians to remove snakes
Florida has a well-known problem with Burmese pythons that now roam wild in the Everglades. Wildlife officials have tried all kinds of different methods of removal, incluing a bounty and a well-publicised public hunt. Now they have recruited tribesmen from India to hunt the snakes. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission believe Irula tribesmen, […]
Recoil film goes viral
A film of a lad facing off the kick from a shotgun has gone viral. Anthony Campbell from Illinois is shooting two-shot from a 12-gauge: a coyote round. And it bites back.
Swedish politician in hunting bribery squabble
The EU’s top finance minister is in trouble over hunting. Anders Borg (pictured), the former centre-right finance minister of Sweden and currently deputy chairman of investment company Kinnevik and a senior adviser to Citigroup, is also being investigated for allegedly accepting a hunt worth £700 (SEK7,000). The hunt took place in October 2014, after Mr […]
Famous Grouse backs grouse shoot ban charity
The Famous Grouse whisky is has a new brand called ‘Black Grouse’ and, to celebrate, it is raising money for black grouse protection. It has raised £600,000 so far and has decided to donate it to the RSPB, the charity that is working to ban grouse shooting. While grouse-shooters take on the hard work of […]
Tasmania gun law confusion
Tasmania is banning guns that the police ‘do not like the look of’. Tasmania Police’s new guidelines will allow them to deem guns illegal if they do not fit the right appearance. Instead of banning a gun type on the basis of its action, a new police document bans guns that ‘resemble’ a ‘machine gun’ […]
Duck decoy expert’s new start
Decoy manufacturer Sillosocks has a new owner. UK ShootWarehouse has acquired the business’s interests outside the USA and Canada. Sillosocks makes pigeon, crow, goose and duck decoys, and UK ShootWarehouse expects to add to these lines. UK ShootWarehouse director Kelda Bassett says: “We have an exciting new line-up of wildfowl decoys that we will be […]
Hunt master’s rude joke goes wrong
The perils of talking to antis: mobile phone footage captures the moment a hunt master tells a female activist he’d ‘quite like to s***’ her after she confronts him. Charles Carter, 33, was filmed telling the 41-year-old mother-of-four she was ‘very pretty’ before asking for her number and saying: ‘Can I take you to bed […]
Chinese Water Deer Double
Paul Childerley, Cai Ap Bryn and Johan ‘Trigger’ Solheim are stalking the field margins of Bedfordshire in search of Chinese water deer, perhaps the UK’s most extraordinary deer species. Find out how they get on. For Sako rifles, go to www.gmk.co.uk For Shooterking clothing, go to www.shooterking.com Paul’s website is www.childerleysporting.co.uk Ben’s work is at […]
Catching Rabbits with Goshawks in Scotland
Roy Lupton is in Scotland flying his goshawk on rabbits over pointers. It is fast-action sport – and a beautiful combination of man, dog and bird working together. For more films with Roy, go to www.fieldsportschannel.tv/category/films-with-some-of-our-best-know-faces/roy-lupton/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 374. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain374
Fieldsports Britain – Fancy a Chinese?
It’s a deerstalking double as Paul Childerley takes Cai Ap Bryn and Johan ‘Trigger’ Solheim out after Chinese water deer. They are stalking these fascinating little deer in the South of England. That’s not all. enjoy the thrills and spills of catching rabbits with a goshawk in Scotland. Roy Lupton is working his bird over […]
Trump increases support for US gun owners
Donald Trump’s ‘Big day’ on national security includes new guidelines on gun control. The good news for the American NRA and most American gun owners is that he is moving to protect the Second Amendment – US citizens’ right to bear arms. A statement on WhiteHouse.gov makes clear the Trump administration’s position: “Supporting law enforcement […]
Bird flu hits game farm
Bird flu has hit a game farm in Lancashire. DEFRA says it will oversee the slaughter of 10,000 pheasants after the H5N8 strain of avian flu was confirmed by the UK’s chief veterinary officer. Some of the birds have already died. DEFRA has put in a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone around the infected […]
Deer killed by bottle
Here’s a new reason to pick up litter in the countryside. A deer that found an empty glass bottle has died. The animal put it’s tongue into the bottle, which stuck there. It smashed most of the bottle off but the remaining neck of the bottle constricted blood flow to its tongue, which started to […]
Olympic coach shoots tops of beer bottles
An Olympic shooting coach has shown off his skills on Chinese TV. Olympic shooting coach Zhou Shibing uses his air rifle to blast lids off bottles of beer in the TV special. Guns are banned but tolerated in China.
Airgun distributor helps Clarkson’s Grand Tour
UK airgun distributor Armex stepped in to help the Grand Tour. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s new series needed a gun rack. Armex put in the hours to provide the UK’s most aspirational airgun rack.
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 […]
