Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons with airguns and rabbit hunting

Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons with airguns and rabbit hunting

It’s where to shoot a pigeon this week – and how hard to hit a rabbit. Roy Lupton is looking at what it takes to kill pigeons with an airgun – with the aid of tent pegs and his trusty Webley airgun, he is conducting a terminal ballistics test on where to shoot them. As […]

Schools Challenge TV – Bredon Festival of Shooting 2013

Schools Challenge TV – Bredon Festival of Shooting 2013

The annual Bredon Festival of Shooting, held at Bredon School in Gloucestershire, UK, is one of the great expos of shooting sports. Organised by the school in conjunction with the Schools Challenge, it offers a range of attractions including airgun range, muzzloaders, tradestands and, of course, clay pigeon competitions. Enjoy all the fun of the […]

Long range rabbit shooting – graphic images – age restricted

Long range rabbit shooting – graphic images – age restricted

Is there an animal welfare issue with long range shooting? Some believe a miss is a miss and a hit will inevitably kill small quarry like a rabbit. We discus the effectiveness of the wildcat round Tac.20 and show close up slow motion images of rabbits being hit by it and a 22.250 at ranges […]

Driven pheasants – Roy goes on a shoot day in Hampshire

Driven pheasants – Roy goes on a shoot day in Hampshire

He’s good at hunting with his rifle, but what’s Roy like on pheasants with a shotgun? Home to writer Jane Austen, the pretty village of Steventon in Hampshire also has a good pheasant shoot. They ask Roy along to try out a day, and we follow him with a camera. For more about the Steventon […]

Fieldsports Britain : Long range pest control + flyfishing international

Fieldsports Britain : Long range pest control + flyfishing international

Hunting rabbits? We’re remote controlling rabbits — and we want to know what you lot think about long range shooting. Roy Lupton in the red corner says yes, do it. Tim Pilbeam in the blue corner says no. Then we are fishing. Which home nation has the best fly fishing team? – England, Scotland, Wales […]

Fishing Show – Sportfish open day 2013

Fishing Show – Sportfish open day 2013

Fishing tackle technology is the theme of this year’s Sportfish open day in May 2013. The tackle shop that overlooks a trout lake in Theale, Berkshire, UK, opened its doors to international fishing tackle companies including Sage, Loop, Wychwood and Hardy Greys, as well as agents such as Frontiers. It’s a show where anglers can […]

Fly Tying – turkey tail nymph for trout – how to tie it

Fly Tying – turkey tail nymph for trout – how to tie it

Chris Reeves is one of the top UK trout flytiers. He shows how to tie a classic turkey nymph fly for trout looking feeding on mayfly and damselfly nymphs. Chris is tying flies on the Partridge of Redditch stand, so of course uses one of their hooks. For more about Chris’s flytying, visit www.fishingclass.co.uk This […]

Fly Tying – classic saltwater bass fly – how to tie it

Fly Tying – classic saltwater bass fly – how to tie it

Jo Stephenson is one of the top UK sea bass flytiers. She shows how to tie a classic ‘fry’ fly (filmed at the Sportfish open day in May 2013). Jo is tying flies on the Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society (BASS) stand. BASS is both a fishing club and an organisation dedicated to the conservation of […]

Fieldsports Britain – Hunting by Segway

Fieldsports Britain – Hunting by Segway

Roy Lupton is has a new set of wheels and it is revolutionising his deerstalking. He takes an offroad Segway-style vehicle (we still don’t know who makes it) out after muntjac. Meanwhile, Charlie is at the Sportfish open day looking at the latest fishing tackle technology, and we find out whether anglers and shooters/hunters are […]

Schools Challenge TV – British kids go shooting

Schools Challenge TV – British kids go shooting

It’s the Schools Challenge Bredon weekend! The second leg of the Schools Challenge takes place at Bredon School in Gloucestershire, with dozens of schools and hundreds of kids taking part. Watch the highlights in this week’s episode of Schools Challenge TV. The School’s Challenge is a group of events tailored to under 21’s, offering clay, […]

Hunting pheasants and rabbits with a goshawk and a redtail

Hunting pheasants and rabbits with a goshawk and a redtail

Roy Lupton’s goshawk A young female goshawk, a few 100 years ago she was the equivalent of Ocado, the perfect predator to put food on the table. Hares, rabbits, pheasants. She was a vital part of any kitchen’s utensil drawer. So today we are off to God’s larder to see what she can get her […]

Bernard Cribbins launches an anglers’ wheelyboat

Bernard Cribbins launches an anglers’ wheelyboat

A boat that enables disabled anglers to use Farmoor Reservoir in Oxfordshire has been launched by actor Bernard Cribbins. The £12,000 Wheelyboat will give access to wheelchair users wishing to go fishing on the reservoir’s waters. Mr Cribbins, patron of the Wheelyboat Trust, said: “It is of huge importance to give disabled anglers the same […]

Shooting high pheasants, with Andy Crow

Shooting high pheasants, with Andy Crow

Some of you, especially if you are a pigeon, will only have seen Andy Crow from the neck up, but today he is stepping out from the hide for some exceptionally high flying pheasant shooting. He’s a guest here today as a thank you for helping out with the cover crops which, as many you […]

Fun day ferreting rabbits in Somerset

Fun day ferreting rabbits in Somerset

The South Somerset Ferreters are a group of families who get together on a Saturday not to go shopping, not to go to a theme park but to go ferreting. We’ve filmed the South Somerset Ferreters before. They are back and this time they reckon have the ultimate warren. It is a hill not far […]

Hunting Chinese water deer – gold medal buck – Zeiss HT review

Hunting Chinese water deer – gold medal buck – Zeiss HT review

[embedy]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b92RzSyszU[/embedyt] It has already been a successful morning. Ralph Nebe and Stefan Buehring from Zeiss Sports Optics have both bagged a muntjac buck in Bedfordshire. But this is a day of success for both the hunters and Carl Zeiss Sports Optics. This little deer is a particular favourite with German hunters. This visit filmed in […]

How to design a FITASC course, with George Digweed

How to design a FITASC course, with George Digweed

A tennis court is a tennis court, a rugby pitch a rugby pitch but for some sports the design of the course makes all the difference. Golf, motor racing and of course shooting are all affected by the layout, the set-up, and make-up of the ground. For the first time, 20 times world champion, George […]

Calling coyotes in California

Calling coyotes in California

Californian Coyote Calling You might think California is all about roller blading, margaritas and reconstructive surgery, but no! There is normal stuff too, such as heading out on a cold morning with a rifle, a fox pro and some new friends.

Hunting blue wildebeest

Hunting blue wildebeest

It has been a hot busy morning in Namibia in search of game. We are guests of Zeiss Sports Optics who have taken over Blaser’s Sney Rivier ranch in Namibia. As part of the management plan here in Africa and part of Zeiss’s marketing over Europe, Spanish Zeiss dealers have been offered a trip of […]

Budget rifle test: Ruger American vs Savage vs Howa Model 1500

Budget rifle test: Ruger American vs Savage vs Howa Model 1500

Budget rifle review Here we have three bundles of rifle joy. Three UK distributors have put together some super price busting kit in time for Christmas. The cheapest is under £600. The most expensive is under £900 and Sporting Rifle magazine’s rifle reviewer, Tim Pilbeam is going to talk us through them.

Calling in foxes, with Roy Lupton

Calling in foxes, with Roy Lupton

Close call foxes with Roy Lupton Roy is usually a man on a mission, but today there is extra fire burning in those eyes. The reason, he has only got a few days sport left before he goes under the knife for operation number 25 on his hips. It could mean he is out of […]

Fieldsports Britain : How to shoot pigeons + muntjac stalking

Fieldsports Britain : How to shoot pigeons + muntjac stalking

Want to improve your bird hunting, deerstalking and dog work? Learn how shotgun cartridges kill pigeons this week, and how to improve your shooting. Andy Crow is pigeon shooting. His new series CrowHow kicks off with a graphic demonstration of how pellets work to bring down birds. Roy Lupton is trying to find a medal […]

Browning new gun launches 2013

Browning new gun launches 2013

The new A5 semi-auto, the B725 ‘English’, the Maral rifle and the new stock for the X-Bolt GRS are all on show at this review of Browning’s 2013 product launch day. British hunting/sporting journalists gather to see the wares at the Ian Coley Shooting School in Gloucestershire – and pass judgement. This item first appeared […]

Rubbish dump Ratting – They’re everywhere!

Rubbish dump Ratting – They’re everywhere!

We’re hunting rats with airguns. And before that we’re testing which pellet has the most penetrative power – a .177, a .20 or a .22 – on a copy of rude bestseller ’50 Shades of Gray’. It’s Pellet Power & Performance episode 4. Roy Lupton, Mark Gilchrist and Andy Crow are armed with Webleys in […]

Max Hunt – Hunting Ibex in Spain

Max Hunt – Hunting Ibex in Spain

European hunter and journalist Max Hunt is in eastern Spain hunting a medal class Beceite Ibex. A three day trip with Spanish outfitters, Greenatur, turns into a week long adventure as the team try to get close enough for a shot on the perfect trophy animal. The vast hunting area has stunning views and Max […]

Fox plays with terrier – funny animal film

Fox plays with terrier – funny animal film

We’ve got a gamekeeper who’s a bit of an old softie. Although he has ‘dealt with’ lots of foxes in the line of his work, he couldn’t resist this one as a cub, and adopted it. Now, we in the hunting/shooting community use terriers to catch foxes. Judging by the way it’s besting the terrier […]

Fast action ratting with terriers

Fast action ratting with terriers

  Andy Crow is clearing the barn of straw which has become home to lots and lots of rats – and he wants them off the farmyard. As a final effort to get rid of as many as possible Andy has enrolled the help of a couple of terriers, a lurcher and a lab/springer cross. […]

Ferrari FF fun in the UK

Ferrari FF fun in the UK

Ex Performance Car magazine editor Dom Holtam drives from Lands End to John O’Groats in a Ferrari FF as part of a super car inspired sporting challenge. These are some of the driving highlights of that journey. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 154. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain154  

Fieldsports Britain : Hunting ibex, crow control, trout and ferreting

Fieldsports Britain : Hunting ibex, crow control, trout and ferreting

We’re hunting ibex, shooting crows, restocking (and catching) trout, and ferreting rabbits in a packed show this week. * Max Hunt is in Spain after Europe’s most stately game animal, the Spanish or beceite ibex. It turns into a week-long hunt and the animals are keeping him fit. * Roy Lupton has his work cut […]

Hardcore ferreting

Hardcore ferreting

Hardcore ferreting Simon Whitehead is a professional ferreter, that’s part pest controller, part clown, part poet and part transportation engineer. When he’s not sorting out the local rabbit population he’s writing for Shooting Times or keeping us entertained around game fair arenas across the country.

Foxes by lamplight

Foxes by lamplight

Foxing with Mark and Roy Do you ever get that feeling it’s going to be a long night? Tonight we are off lamping foxes with Roy Lupton and Mark Gilchrist and it does not start so well. Low fuel in the Argo means a trip to the nearest petrol station. Then Mark starts talking about […]

Boar and fox shooting in Britain

Boar and fox shooting in Britain

This story starts in September. A few days before the start of the shooting season, George asks us over to film some driven boar shooting… Not in Germany, but Sussex. The reason? Unprecedented boar damage to his cover crops. It’s put him in an impossible situation. George loves to see boar about and thinks they […]

Schools Challenge TV – Becky Bream teaches straight shooting

Schools Challenge TV – Becky Bream teaches straight shooting

World class shooter Becky Bream visits the Oxford Gun Company to tell the Schools Challenge how to be a medal winner this week. She is there on behalf of gun distributor Edgar Brothers. There’s also news, with the latest from the trapshooters in UAE, a look at different cartridge types with David Florent, and what […]

New Subaru Forester UK review 2013

New Subaru Forester UK review 2013

Motoring journalist Dom Holtam takes a drive and talks us through the new model Subaru Forester in the wilds of Cumbria. He looks at how it compares to the original car and assesses whether the latest Subaru has got what it takes to compete in the busy soft-roader market whilst retaining it’s tougher farmer friendly […]

Gundog training – Steadiness

Gundog training – Steadiness

Steadiness is like obedience, but much, much more. Top gundog trainer Ricky Moloney keeps his gundogs steady on a shoot day.

Eco-friendly foxshooting with George Digweed

Eco-friendly foxshooting with George Digweed

George and his mate Steve are in a field in Sussex hitting the stealth mode button. George has taken delivery of a new electric powered Polaris UTV and it will mean the foxes won’t know what’s gliding towards them, let alone what’s hit them. “It is silent,” says George. “The only noise you make is […]

The five-yard fox

The five-yard fox

Calling Foxes in Close Roy Lupton may look like a mild mannered man taking a stroll in the woods but don’t be fooled. With the coast clear, he nips behind a tree and transforms himself into “The Human Leaf”. It’s not the most flamboyant of costumes but he needs to be brown, buff and beige […]

Californian black bear hunt

Californian black bear hunt

Hunting Bear with Hounds When we go down to the woods today we’re in for a big surprise – we hope! … we are going bear hunting.

George Digweed’s wild boar hunt

George Digweed’s wild boar hunt

George Digweed’s boar problem started last autumn but the shooting season put a stop to any control measures. He has tried driving them in the daytime, lamping them at night time and he still hasn’t been able to enjoy that Asterix and Obelix moment of roast wild boar. Tonight he’s feeling confident. The local gamekeeper […]

Big cod angling

Big cod angling

Wreck fishing for record cod We have invited a few friends to join us swapping guns for rods on a sea water fishing trip. We are heading out from Eastbourne Sovereign Harbour with Deep Blue Charters. We have chosen this particular vessel with Steve the skipper, because this is the boat responsible for landing a […]

How to get free hunting – Part 2

How to get free hunting – Part 2

Game chef Mark Gilchrist offers the second in his series of top tips for securing hunting, shooting and stalking ground. Most of it is commonsense – but this film serves as a helpful guide to getting land, enabling you to enjoy your sport for FREE in return for a bit of effort and consideration. For […]

How to get free hunting – Part 1

How to get free hunting  – Part 1

Game chef Mark Gilchrist offers the first of a two-part film on his top tips for securing hunting, shooting and stalking ground. Most of it is commonsense – but this film serves as a helpful guide to getting land, enabling you to enjoy your sport for FREE in return for a bit of effort and […]

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