Win £124 wellies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 327

Win £124 wellies – Fieldsports Extra, episode 327

You can win pair of Field Master boots from Gateway1 Footgear priced at £124 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a gun-grab story with a happy ending and the latest from Layla the lawyer about the work of our F A B Fieldsports Advice Bureau. This week’s prizes and other links:How to get […]

Election ’24 with Neil Parish – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 91

Election ’24 with Neil Parish – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 91

Election ’24 with Neil Parish FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 91 youtu.be/aPAySfyRhV4 Former MP Neil Parish looks at the likely outcomes from the 2024 UK general election, including which MPs will make it, which won’t, what to expect from a Labour government (if it wins), and what you can do to limit the damage. For Neil’s own […]

4 July election ‘critical’ for shooting – Fieldsports News, 29 May 2024

4 July election ‘critical’ for shooting – Fieldsports News, 29 May 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrU_rYmz-c Here are the links: ‘Biggest election ever’ for fieldsports BASC Countryside Alliance demands recognition Countryside Alliance Curlews and lapwings thrive on grouse moors Peak District Moorland Group on Facebook and RegionalMoorlandGroups.com SGA campaigns against deer number lies ScottishGamekeepers.co.uk  Red squirrels released in Highlands BBC and ScottishSquirrels.org.uk Five-year SGC ‘too long’ says review BBC Labour considers […]

Go large with BBQ venison burgers, with Weschenfelder

Go large with BBQ venison burgers, with Weschenfelder

Cai Ap Bryn shows how to make a BBQ favourite, jumbo sized venison burgers, making use of mixes and equipment from Weschenfelder. Save 15% on Weschenfelder burger presses: use the code FS15 at checkout here: Weschenfelder.co.uk The Leonards game burger mix is available in both single packs or trade packs: Weschenfelder.co.uk/leonards-gluten-free-game-burger-mix-454g.html Weschenfelder.co.uk/leonards-gluten-free-game-burger-mix-trade-pack.html For Cai Ap […]

Simulated game at Halston Hall

Simulated game at Halston Hall

Lucky Fieldsports member Colin French won our draw for a day of simulated game shooting at the lovely Halston Hall estate in Shropshire. We joined him on the day to learn how owners Rupert and Harriet Harvey provide the full game shooting experience without the game, including hospitality, in beautiful surroundings. Find Halston Sporting on […]

Fieldsports Britain – Flash-bang foxing

Fieldsports Britain – Flash-bang foxing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFa5GBHw0AWith the first silage cut in Devon, Tom Davies is hitting the foxes hard, using a clever trick with his IR lamp. We’re off to beautiful Halston Hall in Shropshire for a fabulous simulated game day with our prizewinner. Airgun master Terry Doe is teaching young Reece Chart the importance of trigger technique and follow-through. […]

First cut foxes

First cut foxes

The first silage has been cut, and Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services is taking advantage of the new vistas that have opened up, having a busy few nights on the foxes. He has developed a new technique with his night vision scope, switching on the IR lamp to stop the fox in its tracks […]

Win a £98 squirrel feeder – Fieldsports Extra, episode 326

Win a £98 squirrel feeder – Fieldsports Extra, episode 326

You can win a squirrel feeder from Keith’s High Seats priced at £98 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus James Schneider is out to get a big black boar, Niall Rowantree discusses his forthcoming sika deer filming project and Tim Bonner says how we should approach the UK general election. This week’s prizes and other […]

The countryside kicks off its election campaign

The countryside kicks off its election campaign

One of the UK’s most prestigious game shoots has kicked off the countryside’s general election campaign, with a charity shoot to raise funds for the Countryside Alliance’s lobbying. Warter Priory is one of the most exciting and sumptuous driven game shoots in the country. Once a year they run a charity shoot, where the clays […]

Reloading with Sako – how to save £20 a box on ammo

Reloading with Sako – how to save £20 a box on ammo

Deer manager and gamekeeper Paul Childerley has been reloading his ammunition for years, mainly for the cost savings. With the change to copper bullets Paul wanted a Sako round in .243 for roe, but the factory loads hadn’t arrived in the UK. He asked a friend to develop a load for him, using the copper […]

FAB 1: latest work of the Fieldsports Advice Bureau

FAB 1: latest work of the Fieldsports Advice Bureau

Layla McGuigan from the FAB Fieldsports Advice Bureau says what she has been advising members who are battling police firearms departments against certificate revocations and renewal refusals. To get access to Layla’s advice, join the Fieldsports Nation and fund our fight for fieldsports in the media. Go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membership for full details To join for YouTube […]

Win a £110 steel fox target – Fieldsports Extra, episode 325

Win a £110 steel fox target – Fieldsports Extra, episode 325

You can win a steel fox target and stand from Tom’s Targets priced at £110 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we chat to our Fieldsports Advice Bureau supremo Layla McGuigan on what the police are trying to do to certificate holders, straight-talkingYorkshire keeper Frank Croft says why he doesn’t like Chris Packham, Terry Doe […]

Tier One A-Tac bipod

Tier One A-Tac bipod

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IyjA_z1QNQ The A-Tac bipod from Tier One is supremely adjustable, with interchangeable feet and a variety of mounting options so it’s easy to swap from one rifle to another. It is available with carbon fibre or aluminium legs. Ryan Charlton from the distributors Highland Outdoors runs through the bipod’s features and options. For more about […]

Miners fight to save their hunting culture

Miners fight to save their hunting culture

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFb-8geD6U Labour sided with the miners during their strike in the 1980s, as many miners turned to their rich tradition of hunting with lurchers to feed their families. Then 20 years later the same Labour banned hunting with dogs. Now there’s talk of strengthening the ban further, threatening centuries of those miners’ culture and tradition. […]

New crime commissioners support shooting – Fieldsports News, 15 May 2024

New crime commissioners support shooting – Fieldsports News, 15 May 2024

Here are the links: Crime commissioners in favour of shooting BASC Scottish lynx plan latest ScotlandBigPicture.com Women’s deerstalking event FieldsportsChannel.tv/ladiesdeerstalkinguk Police attend National Shooting Show NationalShootingShow.co.uk Last Keeper film impresses Scottish politicians FieldsportsChannel.tv/tom-opre-the-last-keeper + HeraldScotland.com Behind & Beyond the Trigger book launch BehindAndBeyondTheTrigger.com New website for game shooters GameGuns.com NZ hunters fight for right to […]

Win a deer print – all six species – Fieldsports Extra, episode 324

Win a deer print – all six species – Fieldsports Extra, episode 324

You can win a deer print by Katie Hargeaves priced at £75 in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we chat to Steve McGuigan of Countryside Academy, Ed Swales of Hunting Kind and @skyegamekeeper Scott Mackenzie. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade here Halston Estate simulated […]

Police gun grab – pest controller loses £’000s

Police gun grab – pest controller loses £’000s

Lewis Dedman returned home after an argument with his wife to find a police car in his driveway. Kent police had come for his guns. 12 months on and Lewis, a professional pest controller, is still with his wife – in fact they are expecting a second child – but he is still without his […]

Fieldsports Britain – Dirty crow shoot

Fieldsports Britain – Dirty crow shoot

Corvids are making a mess of George Lawrence’s dairy farm in Essex. Unlucky for them, he’s a bit of a hot shot with his Browning shotgun and Aimpoint Acro S-2 red dot sight. Professional pest controller Lewis Dedman is trapped in a Catch-22 after police grabbed his guns – and he’s losing ££ thousands. There’s […]

Police U-turn on online FAC forms – Fieldsports News, 8 May 2024

Police U-turn on online FAC forms – Fieldsports News, 8 May 2024

Here are the links: West Mercia Police backtrack on online certificate applications BASC Cumbria Police tackle backlog BASC Underwater film reveals pollution horror Twitter and YouTube Facebook lifts British Shooting Show ban Facebook Crackshot fights back against Facebook Facebook Medieval red squirrels carried leprosy Cell.com Young beater raises hospice cash JustGiving.com Conservationists block capercaillie release […]

English Open Sporting Championship 2024 – a mountain to climb

English Open Sporting Championship 2024 – a mountain to climb

There is a mountain to climb at the 2024 English Open Sporting Championships – and that’s not just the slog up the steep valley at Doveridge Shooting Ground to the final stand at the top of the hill. James Bradley-Day has set the bar high early on, shooting a seemingly unbeatable high score of 117 […]

Red dot shotgun sight on crows

Red dot shotgun sight on crows

George Lawrence, a young dairy farmer from Essex, is having trouble with crows, rooks and jackdaws making a mess and eating the cattle feed. Now the birds are trying to nest above his pheasant pen, which could spread disease. Fortunately George is a good shot with his Browning shotgun, as he proved at the Aimpoint […]

Win a £250 simulated game day at Halston Hall – Fieldsports Extra, episode 323

Win a £250 simulated game day at Halston Hall – Fieldsports Extra, episode 323

You can win a peg on a sim day at Halston Hall in Shropshire in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we chat to crow-shooter George Lawrence, gun-grab victim Lewis Dedman and the CPSA chief executive Iain Parker. This week’s prizes and other links:For membership now with insurance go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/membershipAnnual members can upgrade here Discovery […]

Roy of the roebucks

Roy of the roebucks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFjyCPF3tms Roy Lupton is taking time out from breeding his falcons to shoot a roebuck for the freezer. He’s sporting a lustrous new goatee beard – which he can’t shave off or his birds won’t recognise him, and it will upset their breeding. He spots one roe, but doesn’t get set up in time, then […]

Yusaf departure ‘good’ for countryside – Fieldsports News, 1 May 2024

Yusaf departure ‘good’ for countryside – Fieldsports News, 1 May 2024

Here are the links: Scottish political chaos ‘could be good’ for countryside Countryside Alliance Refugee foxhounds head to France Hunting Kind Scottish land management pleas FieldsportsChannel.tv/tom-opre-the-last-keeper/ + YouTube Cartridge recycling success FWI.co.uk + HandMrecycling.co.uk + FieldsportsChannel.tv/how-to-recycle-shotgun-cartridges/ Falconry school takes off Dorset Echo Grey squirrels threaten £1.25 million red protection Daily Post Anglers toast record fish treble […]

Fieldsports Britain – Hairy hunter

Fieldsports Britain –  Hairy hunter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7pl1MxTKDoRoy Lupton is after a roe for the freezer. He’s sporting a new beard, and he can’t shave for fear of putting off the birds – his falcons, that is. The British clayshooting season has started and we’re at the first of the majors: the Essex Masters. Terry Doe is introducing a young shot to […]

Hand pump, bottle or compressor: what’s the best way to fill your PCP?

Hand pump, bottle or compressor: what’s the best way to fill your PCP?

James Head from Devon and online airgun shop Crackshot looks at the different options available for PCPs, and makes his recommendations for hand pump type, bottle size and whether to go cheap or expensive on your own compressor. For more from Crackshot, go to Crackshot.uk More on airguns here

Essex Masters 2024

Essex Masters 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOKjkcYa42g The Essex Masters is seen as ‘the big one’ that kicks off the UK’s Sporting competition circuit each year, attracting well over 1,000 shooters from all over the UK and beyond. The 2024 competition runs for a whole week, at Hepworth Hall near Halstead in Essex, culminating on 28 April. It is shot over […]

Win a £200 Discovery Optics riflescope – Fieldsports Extra, episode 322

Win a £200 Discovery Optics riflescope – Fieldsports Extra, episode 322

You can win a £200 Discovery Optics riflescope in this week’s Fieldsports Extra. Plus we have a labrador retrieving a muntjac, Roy talks about his new beard, Helen Tinner discusses shooting photography and recipes, member Steven Houston says why a ‘predator shadow’ means Natural England won’t let him plant woodland, and there’s the unboxing of […]

Fieldsports insurance top tip – shoot your gun safe

Fieldsports insurance top tip – shoot your gun safe

Do you have cash, gold, jewellery or a Picasso in your gun safe? Well, Ex Met Detective Inspector Ian Jensen has some words of advice to help you if the police arrive at your home to remove your guns. In some cases the officers may have little to no experience dealing with firearms and firearms […]

Can a shotgunner shoot a rifle?

Can a shotgunner shoot a rifle?

Wayne Martin is good with a shotgun – he proved that in our earlier film where he shot bolting rabbits on Gotland in Sweden. Rifle shooting is a whole new experience for him, and now he’s heading out to the Aimpoint Academy in Scandinavia. He visits Tim Pilbeam to learn the basics, and see if […]

Brewdog’s ‘Lost Forest’ flop – Fieldsports News, 24 April 2024

Brewdog’s ‘Lost Forest’ flop – Fieldsports News, 24 April 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYyIGQzXWpY Here are the links: Brewdog’s lost forest Instagram Natural England block tree planting  Fieldsports News Deer return to Gloucestershire park Twitter Facebook censors British Shooting Show Instagram Call to review wildlife law Horse & Hound  New Zealand hunters face legal challenge FWF.net.nz South African poachers poison vultures MukurukuruMedia.co.za Illegal fishing spotted from space BBC […]

Win National Shooting Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 321

Win National Shooting Show tickets – Fieldsports Extra, episode 321

You can win one of five pairs of tickets to the National Shooting Show on 11-12 May 2024 in Harrogate (we’ll be there). Plus we have more on our insurance – legal + public liability. Two hunting pundits, Dries van Coller and Ben Cassidy, say why their continents are best for wildlife, and Niall Rowantree […]

Police prise open gun safe – the full story

Police prise open gun safe – the full story

It was going to be an ordinary day for Phil Waymouth, picking up his son from school, spending time with him. Within 24 hours, he had been arrested and kept in a cell while police went to his house, apparently without paperwork, opened up his gunsafes with hooligan tools and seized his guns. He explains […]

First look – the revolutionary new Skout Epoch air rifle

First look – the revolutionary new Skout Epoch air rifle

Terry Doe is blown away when he gets his hands on the revolutionary new Epoch from Skout Airguns. The gun draws on the company’s 30 years of experience in the paintball market, to create an airgun like no other – it even talks to you. “It makes me happy that this airgun even exists,” says […]

RSPB wriggles over hen harriers – Fieldsports News, 17 April 2024

RSPB wriggles over hen harriers – Fieldsports News, 17 April 2024

Here are the links: CA blasts RSPB over hen harriers Countryside-Alliance.org Hunting’s ‘prisoners of conscience’? BBC.co.uk PCC elections plea BASC.org.uk  + BASC.org.uk/pcc-contact-page/ Wild Justice wins a year too late WildJustice.org.uk Partridge survey appeal GWCT.org.uk Richmond deer antler attack  Twitter.com SCI celebrates return of black bear hunting SafariClub.org White tailed eagle chases red deer TV.vg.no To […]

Fieldsports Britain – Police smash ’n’ grab guns

Fieldsports Britain – Police smash ’n’ grab guns

The police went into his home when they knew he was out and opened his gun safes like tin cans. In the week we launch legal insurance to go with Fieldsports membership, we profile a shooter who had his guns seized in spectacular manner, following allegations against him by his ex wife. Phil Waymouth warns […]

Press release: hunting YouTube channel offers insurance

Press release: hunting YouTube channel offers insurance

It’s a first. A YouTube channel now offers its viewers insurance. FieldsportsChannel  covers its viewers if they have an accident with a gun, or covers their legal battle if the police come to seize their guns. The insurance is available to its supporters’ club, the Fieldsports Nation. FieldsportsChannel, which has 350,000 subscribers on YouTube, specialises […]

Win a sim game day priced at £250 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 320

Win a sim game day priced at £250 – Fieldsports Extra, episode 320

You can win a day on a simulated game shoot on the Dorset/Somerset border. Patson Hill Farm usually charges £252 per gun and we have one up for grabs. Date for you to decide with the organisers of the day., Plus our insurance package is out – legal + public liability – and to introduce […]

Old v new thermal for rabbit shooting

Old v new thermal for rabbit shooting

What do you do with your old thermal kit when you upgrade to the latest gear? You could sell it on – but Essex farmer and foxshooter Robert Bucknell has a better idea. He can still find a use for the old stuff where, even if outdated, it’s still good enough for some jobs. Today, […]

AGN Technology airguns on test at Oakedge Shooting Ground’s airgun range

AGN Technology airguns on test at Oakedge Shooting Ground’s airgun range

Shooting Sports UK has a shop at Oakedge Shooting Ground in Staffordshire, which caters for every type of shooter including airgunners. As well as the clay shooting, there’s a six-lane airgun range which you can hire by the hour or by the day. Matt Clay walks us through the facilities and demonstrates three models from […]

How to make salt venison bagels

How to make salt venison bagels

Cai Ap Bryn of Game & Flames is curing a venison haunch with Weschenfelder’s curing salts, then serving it up in delicious toasted bagels. Use the code FS15 to get 15% off these Weschenfelder products: Salt Beef Me Up Kit – Weschenfelder.co.uk/salt-beef-me-up-kit.html Salt Beef Cure – Weschenfelder.co.uk/salt-beef-cure.html To watch all of #FieldsportsBritain, episode 750, visit […]

New ‘partner surveys’ for gun owners – Fieldsports News, 10 April 2024

New ‘partner surveys’ for gun owners – Fieldsports News, 10 April 2024

Here are the links: Partners to rule on their loved-ones’ guns BBC.co.uk Green minister orders ‘slaughter of innocents’ DailyMail.co.uk + Facebook Hen harrier numbers on the up BBC.co.uk Pesky squirrel killed Twitter Stop releasing seals, say anglers Angling Times + Facebook SCI to sue US government over elephants Instagram South Africa to sell rhino horn to Asia […]

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