Fieldsports Britain – Top Clay Shot’s Biggest Pigeon Day
The pigeons are flocking on to Kent farmland and it is time for Mark Winser (he won the Range Rover at Royal Berks this year) and Andy Crow to get together to deal with them. They get more than 200 between them. That’s not all. Gamekeepers are trying out shiny new rifles on a Derbyshire […]
Tidying up around the Shoot
George Digweed is a busy man. He has just won his 25th world title in a domination of shooting sports that began in the 1980’s. He also runs pheasant shoots in Kent and Sussex, near where he lives and, at this time of year, there is plenty of foxshooting to be done before they start […]
Mouflon Hunt, Croatia
It’s part two of Rucksack & Rifle, and this time Tim Pilbeam is after mouflon on the craggy Croatian coast. With the Mediterranean as a backdrop, he stalks in to this wild European sheep… This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 295. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain295 For more about Sauer go […]
Are the Roe Rutting?
Has the roe rut started yet? Deerstalkers in the UK are getting excited about the annual roe rut at the end of July, when the best bucks in the country show themselves during their efforts to find a mate. Roy Lupton goes out to see whether the rut has started near him. This film was […]
Greatest Prize in Rifleshooting
It’s the Queen’s Prize at Bisley, the culmination of the Imperial Meeting 2015 and the greatest prize any targetshooter can hope to win. Full report here. For more information, visit www.nra.org.uk This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 295. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain295
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting on your Mediterranean Holiday
You know those hills you can see from the coast? They are full of game. We answer the burning questions of the moment: ☆ How do you sneak away from your Mediterranean beach holiday to go shooting? ☆ Are the roebuck rutting yet? ☆ Who won the biggest prize in rifleshooting? ☆ Which Master of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Where’s Our Hunt Ban Repeal?
Nicola Sturgeon and David Cameron are kicking the foxhunters around like two kids with a ball. Are we happy about that? Charlie gauges feeling from hunters and coursers at the Great Yorkshire Show. Plus we are at the premier schools rifleshooting event, Ashburton Day at Bisley, plus deerstalker Roy Lupton has adopted a fallow deer […]
More Pellet Power & Performance: Roy on Rabbits
Roy Lupton is out after rabbits with an FAC airgun. There’s a huge warren close to his house and it is the perfect place to try out an FX Royale with March scope. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 39. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads39
AirHeads – Rabbiting with Airguns
It’s a tough week for rabbits on your airgunning TV show AirHeads. Roy Lupton is out with night vision and his new FAC-rated FX Airgun. Cai Ap Bryn has a lamp to protect local vegetable box supplier Jack’s Veg. News leads on the crazy Scottish airgun licensing system and Airstreaming showcases the best airgun videos […]
Win a Dacia Duster!
Do you want to win a car that’s all pimed up for shooting? Here is how. Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam shows us round the Dacia Duster he has on offer in a free prize draw. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 294 bit.ly/fieldsportsbritain-294 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter bit.ly/weeklyemail
Deerhunter Adopts Baby Deer
Has Roy Lupton gone soft? The noted deerstalker has adopted a fallow fawn. He says why, and how he hopes to train the deer to help him shoot more deer. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain episode 294. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain294
Fox Bounties – Fieldsports Channel News
The headlines this week: Farmers start their own fox bounty World Bank supports elephant hunting SNP starts break up of Scottish estates CLA Game Fair ticket offer bit.ly/2015gamefair Martin Salter wins BASC award Stalking the stories – fishing for facts! Fieldsports Channel News is sponsored by Browning Mitsubishi bit.ly/browningcars This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, […]
Shooting the Ashburton Shield, Bisley
More than 600 teenagers armed with rifles came to a field in Surrey to shoot for the Ahsburton Shield, as they have done for more than 150 years. It is Ahsburton Day at Bisley. See what it’s all about, which schools have the best shots, and how you can get involved in school shooting. For […]
Fieldsports Britain – Summer Foxing
Two of the world’s most popular foxshooters – George Digweed and Michaelka – are doing their thing this in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. George is making sure his pheasant shoot in the South-East of England is ready, and not over-run with foxes. Michaelka is out on farmland near her home in the Czech Republic. Plus […]
Michaelka: Foxshooter
Foxshooting is as popular in Eastern Europe as it is in the UK. The fabulous Michaela Fialová – Michaelka to her buddies – is out after foxes on a warm summer evening in the beautiful Czech countryside. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 293. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain293
Girls’ Gun Day
Abbey Ling is holding one of the many ladies’ shooting days organised by the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club to raise money for the British women’s shooting team. This item appears in Claysports, episode 3. To watch the whole show on YouTube, go to bit.ly/claysports3 Sign up for our weekly email newsletter Fieldsportschannel.tv/register
Crow shoots the clay pigeon high tower
Andy Crow is shooting the high tower at Sporting Targets’ clayground in Bedfordshire. He is there with the guys from Jack Pyke (on the day of the Jack Pyke Open Sporting), plus Brody Woollard, James Westbrook and Brody’s dad. Find out how Crowman gets on. This item appears in Claysports, episode 3. To watch the […]
More fun than golf, cheaper than tennis, let’s go shooting
Jamie Chandler, the shooter with no hands, has a day out at EJ Churchill shooting ground, where we come across Sir Jackie Stewart, F1 racing driver Valtteri Bottas, top shooter Amber Hill, Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam and, from Italy, Franco Beretta. They make the case for taking up shooting – but the real star […]
Roebuck hunting in Croatia
Tim Pilbeam is off on his first outing in our new series Rucksack & Rifle. He is stalking roebuck in Croatia. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 292. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain292 For more about Sauer go to www.sauer.de For Harkila go to www.harkila.com Tim went hunting in […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rucksack & Rifle
This week’s show is full of eastern promise. Tim Pilbeam is off to Croatia after roebuck, the fabulous Czech model Michaelka is doing the same in her home country, and even the falling plate competition at Pirbright, near Bisley, has a middle eastern side to it. There is news and there is Hunting YouTube. It […]
Run and shoot: Falling Plate targets
It’s the competition for only the fittest target shooters. They have to run 100 yards in the fastest time, then shoot a target as quickly as they can. Pirbright hosted one of the top international competitions, where Canada slugged it out with Oman. But it is target shooting anyone can do. Meet the students who […]
Michaelka: Czech Roebuck
She’s the Czech Republic’s best know shooting star. Michaela Fialová, known as Michaelka, specialises in annoying anti hunters with her exploits all over the world. Here she is out with TopJagd after a roebuck in the forests of her home country. For more about Michaelka, go to www.MichaelkasHunting.com – and to go hunting in this […]
Protecting Jack’s Veg with Airguns
You get the veggie boxes you order thanks to pest controllers. Cai Ap Bryn is protecting the radishes at Jack’s Veg from the local Peter Rabbit population. For more about Air Arms’ range of airguns, go to www.air-arms.co.uk/ For more about Jack’s Veg, go to www.jacksveg.co.uk This item appears in AirHeads, episode 39. To watch […]
How to Protect Buffalo from Rabbits
You might think a big animal like a buffalo would not have much problem with a rabbit. Well, if you think that, Jamie Chandler says you are wrong. But as he goes out after rabbits on a buffalo farm, the reason he goes rabbit shooting is so the pub can cook them afterwards. This item […]
AirHeads – Peculiar Airgun Permissions
We have Jamie Chandler out after rabbits on a buffalo farm, Cai Ap Bryn is trying to shoot ferals nesting under solar panels (without smashing the panels), Roger Lait shows the benefit of weighing pellets before you shoot, and there is HotAir News and the best airgunning on YouTube in Airstreaming. It’s all in AirHeads, […]
Summer Shooting: foxes, deer (not ponies)
We’re out with the dancing fox-shooter Anthony Champ, looking for foxes deeding on worms. And Charlie comes up with a brainy idea for catching them at their worming – using fishing tackle. Charlie is using a Browning AB3 and Winchester Varmint X ammunition www.browning.eu Charlie’s lanyard kindly provided by PG Lanyards www.ebay.co.uk/sch/paulbasc/m.html This film was […]
First Look: Sauer 404
We go up to a long-distance range in West Wales to look at the new Sauer 404. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam and Chris Chapman from Swillington Shooting Supplies give it the once over. For more about Sauer go to Sauer.de Thanks to Minox, Garlands, and WMS Firearms Training for the day. This item appears […]
Fieldsports Britain – Worming for Foxes
If you can catch fish with worms, and foxes eat worms, why can’t you use fishing techniques to shoot foxes? Charlie Jacoby sets out to do just that – with the help of a dancing foxshooter and kid who has it in for squirrels – and comes up with a world-class invention: the poor man’s […]
Schools Challenge TV – How a Browning Shooter Shoots the Browning Open
Meet Sam Green, a Browning sponsored shooter. It is the Browning Open, a 100-bird sporting open to any Browning, Winchester or Miroku shooter. And surely it is his bounden duty to win it? Find out how he gets on at the Open, which took place at the Oxford Gun Company. For more about the Schools […]
How to shoot 1,000 yards with no scope
Stickledown Range at Bisley plays host to a match between dozens of shooters capable of hitting a target 1,000 yards away – and they don’t use rifle scopes. It is the Inter-Counties match. Meet the best rifle shots in the world and find out about long distance target shooting. This film was first shown in […]
William Powell – Beautiful Guns
William Powell makes some of the loveliest guns in England. We go behind the scenes to find out more. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain episode 290. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain190
How They Choose Olympic Shooters
Britain’s Olympic shooters are roaming the international trap and skeet scene like a pack of slavering wolves. they are on the hunt for quota places to Rio 2016 and, with the deadline looming in September, they haven’t got long. GB has only won two quota places to next years Olympics. The European Games at Baku […]
Hot flush: how to shoot a flurry
Andy Crow breaks down tactics and strategy for that all important flush – the centrepiece of any charity clay shoot. This item appears in Claysports, episode 2. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/claysports2
Buck Fever
Thomas Lindy Nissen is out with a hunter in Denmark. They are after a roebuck… and buck fever sets in when he takes the shot. Find out what happens in Thomas’s film. This item appears in Fieldsports Britain, episode 289. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain289
Hunting in Israel
Do they hunt in Israel? Charlie Jacoby goes to Tel Aviv to find out… According to the Palestinians, Israelis in the West Bank release pigs with the aim of forcing Palestinian residents to leave their homes! You couldn’t make it up: www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/israeli-palestinian-conflict-intensifies-wild-boars-enter-fray-889982 If you know about hunting in Israel, if you want to advertise your […]
Pigeons over Lupins
Andy Crow has an unusual pest problem. The pigeons are landing on a field of lupins. He breaks out the Gamebore steel cartridges to deter them – and provide useful pigeon meat for Roy. Gamebore’s website is www.gamebore.com/ This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 289. To watch the whole show go to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Flower Power Pigeon Hunt
What attracts woodpigeons to pretty lupins? Andy Crow doesn’t know – but he knows they are flying in and damaging this crop, so he is out to shoot them. Here’s how to decoy a flower field. That’s not all. Fieldsports Britain goes all international this week. Thomas Lindy Nissen looks at hunters who get buck […]
Schools Challenge TV – £5,000-worth of prizes
That’s what’s on offer in the Rizzini Classic, a clay competition lasting most of this year. We cover the Gloucestershire leg of the competition, hosted by Bredon School, which has been pushing shooting as a sport for its pupils. Bredon has won many £1,000s-worth of prizes in clay competitions i the last two years. We […]
AirHeads – Airgun Rook Hunt
It’s a busy week for our airgun crew. Pellet Power & Performance is back with Roy Lupton using big-bore airguns. Roger Lait is looking at airgun zero in the ABC of HFT. There is HotAir news, Airstreaming featuring the best of airgunning on YouTube, and Darren Rogers takes a gang out after brancher rooks. Here […]
More Pellet Power and Performance #1 – Top Kit
Pellet Power & Performance is back. Roy Lupton is using bigger, better and dare we say it badder airguns then ever before, taking them to the limits, testing them to the extremes… all right, loving it. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 37. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads37
Rooks with Rifles
Darren Rogers is shooting ‘brancher’ rooks with airguns. He and a couple of friends are out after the rooks in May, when the young birds are at their most delicious. This item appears in AirHeads, episode 37. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/airheads37
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeon Raspberry Ripple
He shoots three pigeons in one go! The pressure is on Andy Crow to shoot woodpigeons. Roy Lupton wants lead-free pigeon meat to feed to his growing brood of goshawk and peregrine chicks. It’s a busy week for the Fieldsports Britain crew: the shooter with no hands Jamie Chandler is organising a clay day and […]
Shooting pigeons with steel
Andy Crow tests Gamebore steel cartridges on pest pigeons. Roy Lupton’s goshawk and peregrine eyasses need meat with no lead in it. So, Andy puts away his usual lead cartridges and goes for the non-lead alternative. It’s a great day on the pigeons, and Andy rules on whether steel works or not. Gamebore’s website is […]
What about the fox cubs?
Sporting Rifle foxshooting expert Mike Powell answers one of the big questions of foxshooting: what about the cubs? He has got a litter of cubs he is watching plus a poultry-munching fox he needs to shoot. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 287. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain287
How to butcher a boar with George Digweed
World Champion shot George Digweed knows his way around a butchers block. He learned the trade as a young man in the family shop in Hastings. In this film he shows us how to cut up and present the best bits of a Sussex wild boar.
Rook shooting
Paul Childerley and Darren Rodgers are rook shooting. It’s the time of year when the young branchers are traditionally shot to make rook pie. This is the test of whether shotguns or airguns are the best tool for the job. In this film, we follow Paul with his shotgun. This film was first shown in […]
Porky pooch? Here’s how much to feed your dog
Here is how to find out whether your dog is eating enough or too much. Skinner’s Petfoods’ feeding guide helps you find out the ideal type and amount of food you dog should be receiving. Go to www.skinnerspetfoods.co.uk/feeding-guide/ Plus Skinner’s will recommend the perfect Skinner’s product based on your choices! (Of course they will)
AirHeads – Airgun Man vs Rabbit
We have rabbit hunting, new airgun launches, top tips for airgun competition and the best pellet gun material on YouTube in AirHeads this week. Cai Ap Bryn is out after rabbits on a new permission in Kent. HotAir news leads on new airguns from Daystate and Benjamin. Roger Lait has another top tip from the […]
Fishing Britain – How to catch Mahseer
The mighty mahseer, the salmon of the Raj, and one of the most desirable sport angling fish in the world, can be found across India from the big rivers of the south to the high Himalayas. Martin Salter – known to the world for his work with the Angling Trust – travels to the Subansiri […]
How to zero your airgun scope – the ABC of HFT
Roger Lait shows an easy way to zero a scope. He uses a plumbline and a technique of opening and closing his eyes. Plus which screw to do up first. Find out more in this film… This item is sponsored by BSA www.bsaguns.co.uk It appears in AirHeads, episode 36. To watch the whole show go […]
