Budget foxing rifle review
Sporting Rifle magazine rifle reviewer Tim Pilbeam looks at three rifle kits designed for the fox shooter who wants something accurate, reliable and has less than a £1,000 to spend. The cheapest is around the £600 mark. They are: The new Ruger American recently launched into the UK in .243 calibre. The Savage package from […]
Ferreting rabbits with every dog we’ve got
The South Somerset Ferreters are back! After their hugely popular first outing on Fieldsports Channel, they are now ferreting the El Dorado of rabbit warrens, on a secluded hillside in Somerset, UK. Join the gang as they use every scrap of net, ferret and dog to rid a farm of the worst of a rabbit […]
Long range daylight fox shooting
Foxes: look sharp! Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam has given Roy Lupton some toys to play with. It is June and foxes are licking their lips and thinking about young birds. With a few bits of ground needing Roy’s attention, including an old quarry, it’s a perfect opportunity to film some foxing without the need […]
Californian Coyote Calling
In January we visited the USA and met up with our friend Jason Bruce who’s hunting show, Headhunter Chronicles, appears on the Sportsman Channel. He offered to take out after a few coyotes. It’s all very familiar and not a million miles away from foxing in the UK but they are a lot bigger and […]
Budget night vision ratting
Andy Crow and friends build a night-vision rifle scope out of parts they find lying around on eBay. He has a rat problem in one of the barns on his farm. Happily, he has a rifle. Will his homemade DIY NV set-up be up to the job? This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
High pheasants – 90 yard screamer from Crowman
As a thank you for salvaging their cover crop Andy “Crowman” Crow has been invited to join a syndicate driven pheasant shoot day in Kent. Many of the birds are beyond the range of any gun, but Andy bags a screamer and confesses it’s one of the best birds of his life. This item first […]
Fieldsports Britain : Fallow deer cull + grayling on the Kennet
The fallow deer cull is coming to an end. To keep the herd healthy, it’s Roy Lupton’s job to take five animals with the minimum disturbance. That means head-shooting, and headshooting means you have to hit an something the size of an apple at 100 yards ten times out of ten. Miss and you will […]
Goshawks on pheasants and rabbits
The goshawk is called ‘the cook’s bird’ because it’s the one you need if you want to fill your freezer. Top austringer (hawker) Roy Lupton is out after pheasants and rabbits – with success! This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 163. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain163 Sign up to our […]
Gundog training tips – how to go into brambles
Some dogs look at brambles and have no fear. But some dogs are shy and say ‘no fear’. Top gundog trainer Ricky Moloney has a dog he wants to encourage. He shows how. Ricky Moloney runs Ribblesdale Labradors. This series on gundog training tips is brought to you by Skinners Petfoods, maker of the Field […]
Roy calls – foxes come
A stalk in the park turns into a wonderful foxing outing. By positioning the camera away from the call we get some great footage of foxes coming right into the Silva fox call which Roy Lupton uses with great success. This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain, episode 148. To watch the whole show […]
How to head shoot deer out hunting
The headshot film. This video is designed to show where to head-shoot deer. It is aimed at deer managers only. You may find this film offensive. Head shooting deer is a tricky subject but some circumstances dictate it. In this film we’re out filming a parkland deer cull. Using a high speed camera we capture […]
Long grass bucks, short grass foxes
It’s Roy’s last chance for a roebuck before the grass is cut for hay and the farm machinery pushes the deer off the ground. But as one door closes another opens. Undoubtedly mice and voles will not escape the cutting blades and once the mower’s gone the foxes come out for an easy meal. We […]
Hunting the Blue Wildebeest
It is one of the best great plains game hunts that Africa has to offer. We are at Blaser Safaris’ hunting area in Namibia looking for blue wildebeest, at the invitation of Carl Zeiss sports optics. This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain, episode 141. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain141
Airgun TV’s Nigel Allen reviews the Daystate Airwolf
We catch up with Nigel Allen of Airgun TV to review the Daystate Airwolf – and he has a go at rabbits with it. This item was first shown in Fieldsports Britain, episode 136. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain136
Crowman: shooting pigeons over mustard and cutting hazel floaters
Pigeons have been hard to come by but when they are in good numbers it pays to pick the right spot. Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow ponders before committing to build a hide – and he shows us how useful a bit of hazel is for blending in, and for making simple floaters to put out among […]
Fancy pheasants and Nepalese Viagra
Want to learn about pheasants in the high Himalaya? You need to go to a charity clayshoot in Hampshire. the World Pheasant Association is dedicated to the conservation of pheasants all over the world – and it looks to pheasant shooters to supply much of the funding for its work on the ground in Nepal […]
Can a gundog learn new tricks?
How do you turn your highly-trained gundog that’s perfect on pheasants into a dog that can track deer? Gundog expert Charlie Thorburn of Mordor Gundogs in Scotland www.mordorgundogs.com gives his tips. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 128. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain128
Catapult King
We visit Joerg Sprave, top slingshot designer, King of the Catapults and all-round brilliant Bavarian at his home in Germany. He shows off some of his most outlandish slingshot designs (the Gatling, the saw-blade thrower) and tells us how he came to be the PR man for the new Hansel & Gretel film (you have […]
Stalking Muntjac in Bedfordshire
We are hunting muntjac – the unusual ‘barking deer’ – in Bedfordshire, UK, with professional guide (and kickboxing champion!) Paul Childerley. These busy little deer with their unusual tusks are now widespread across the south of England. Stefan Buehring of Zeiss Sports Optics is trying out the Conquest HD glass in his binoculars. This item […]
Predator fishing in the UK – Pike and Perch
Top shooters Dom Holtam and Andy the Crowman Crow have put away their guns in order to go take advantage of some any method fishing. Andy is sticking with the fly and Dom is spinning. Local pike expert Rob Dixon is also on hand to offer his advice on catching these amazing fish. This item […]
Gun show IWA 2013 + RUAG range day
Check out the new shooting kit at Europe’s mega invitation-only gun trade show, IWA in Nuremberg. We are looking at: – Webley & Scott’s new cannon – Sauer 101 rifle – Blaser R8 Professional Success rifle – Browning T-Bolt rifle – RWS Evolution Green ammunition – Sauer 202 DownUnder – Zeiss Victory HT – RWS […]
Fieldsports Britain – Slingshot Special + IWA 2013
We’re off to meet the king of the catapults. He is a hilarious Bavarian called Joerg Sprave who has come up with devices to throw spears and saw blades as well as being superbly accurate with ball bearings. He shows how to make and how to fire catapults, and explains his deep fascination for rubber. […]
Ray Mears talks scopes and binos
Television survival expert Ray Mears says he always likes to carry a pair of Zeiss binoculars. He spoke at the opening of the new Carl Zeiss Cambridge Campus. All the UK’s scope and binoculars needs will be handled from here, as Zeiss moves from Welwyn Garden City. Opening duties last week fell to Ray, who […]
Schools Challenge TV – Perfect country school
Bredon School in Gloucestershire has a clay pigeon shooting team and its own clay layout. Does that make it the perfect country school? It offers shooting – and plenty of other ways to get your boots muddy. Bredon’s shooting team is one of the main contenders in the Schools Challenge shooting competition. David Florent of […]
Taylor’s Travels – Fallow deer stalking
Countryside Alliance shooting campaign manager David Taylor is trying to fulfil his fallow doe cull, with just a few weeks of the season still to go. Deer stalking is his passion, as this film shows. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 171. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain171
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking stars Tom Wood, Ray Mears, John Wilson
We have England rugby player Tom Wood on his love of fieldsports and his road to recovery from injury thanks to his bow. Bushcraft TV star Ray Mears is talking the importance of having a good pair of binos, Northampton Saints’ Scott Armstrong is enjoying long-range shooting this week, and top angling TV presenter John […]
Tying the McPhail cascade fly by Davie McPhail
Davie McPhail dresses his classic red, yellow and orange streamer fly, the Cascade, at the Glasgow Angling Centre season opening day. “They are the only colours you need for salmon,” says Davie. You will see lots more great flytying films on Davie’s channel www.youtube.com/user/DavieMcPhail This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 171. To watch […]
England rugby star Tom Wood talks bow hunting
When Tom Wood is not playing for England in the Six Nations he can be found practising his bow-hunting technique. Tom discovered the benefits of shooting the bow when he had a shoulder injury. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam talks to him about his rugby career and his love of the countryside at the Jack […]
Foxing – Brilliant HD night vision fox shooting
Homemade NV: using infra-red lights from a prison security system and a neat little Canon camera we’ve produced some of the best high-definition night vision hunting footage you will have ever seen. By turning night into day, witness incredible animal behaviour including a fox chasing a cat away from the FoxPro call. With the lambing […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbiting with ferrets and lurchers, foxshooting and gundogs
* We’re out with ferrets, lurcher and Shooting Times’s Simon Whitehead in Norfolk after rabbits * The legendary Roy Lupton teams up with Captain Camo himself, Mark Gilchrist, to go foxshooting in Kent * Ricky Moloney is our Skinners gundog training expert, with his tip about how to show displeasure to a dog + We […]
Schools Challenge TV – What are we shooting in 2013?
It’s a big programme this week: there’s a preview of all the Schools Challenge events from March to May, at the Oxford Gun Company and at Bredon School, there’s a review of Bowman’s new range of clay pigeon traps,plus the various clays on offer from CCI, there is News, and there are reviews of the […]
A guide to driven game hunting in Germany
Boar, mouflon, red deer, roe and foxes are all on offer. As guests of Carl Zeiss sports optics, magazine editors from across Europe, including Sporting Shooter’s Dom Holtam, are on a driven hunt in Laubach in Germany. After a spot of practice at a range, we are briefed on the shooting etiquette and taken to […]
World of hunting and fishing – map
A handy Google Map of hunting, shooting and fishing around the world. This interactive map (below) shows the great estates, rivers, forests, hills and seas where Fieldsports Channel has filmed – and where you can book a day’s hunting, shooting or fishing. Click on each blue marker to watch that film.
The Banwen Miners’ Hunt
The season of 2012/2013 is the fiftieth since men first came out of the coal pit in Banwen, South Wales, and founded the Banwen Miners Hunt. Originally, they hunted foxes in and out of the slag heaps. Today’s meet is at an Indian restaurant – and the hunt is thriving. The coal mining may be […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hare vs eagle + British wild boar + Welsh miners hunting
We are launching eagles on hares in Lincolnshire, George Digweed on wild boar in Sussex and we are out with the Banwen Miners foxhounds pack in the Valleys of South Wales. It’s a packed programme this week, with incredible footage of hares’ tactics when faced with Roy Lupton and friends’ flying eagles. Meanwhile, George Digweed […]
Digweed: pigeon shooting with warm cartridges
Twenty-times world shooting champion George Digweed is out on the English North Downs shooting flighting pigeon on maize stubble. 90% of the birds are over 60 yards away, some nearing 100 yards. As well as a lesson in long range shooting George also shows us why it’s important to keep those cartridges warm for the […]
Up close roe triplets – too cute to shoot
Out after a fallow buck Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam witnesses a magical wildlife moment. With fieldcraft and a bit of luck a mature roe doe and her triplets graze to within just a few yards of him and the camera. We get some exceptional footage and nothing for the larder, but it’s not always […]
Taylor’s Travels: Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson
Olympic shooting star Peter Wilson tries out the new Holland & Holland Sporter, enjoys the South Dorset Hunt, talks Olympics and Rio 2016 and hangs out with his girlfriend, Michelle McCullagh. In advance of National Shooting Week 2013, Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor spends a day with Pete at home in Dorset. In this […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cat vs Fox – night vision in action
It’s not just night vision. Roy Lupton and his friends have found a way of turning night into day. As a result they see a lot more wildlife action than they ever have before, and a lot more foxes to shoot, too. Meanwhile, we’re at the Shooting Show with George Digweed and Andy Crow. And […]
Schools Challenge TV – Gorgs Geikie goes for Gold
Special guest this week is London 2012 Olympics pistol shooter Gorgs Geikie. She’s out with Double Trap Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Stevan Walton and David Florent of the Oxford Gun Company to try out the new Range Rover Vogue, to shoot clay pigeons and to fulfil a Top Gear-style challenge. She also gives her […]
Fieldsports Britain : Shooting foxes
We’ve got two kinds of foxshooting this week. First up, twenty times world champion shooter George Digweed has got a wild boar problem on his shoot in Sussex. He is out to get them – and uncovers an even bigger fox problem. The there is Roy Lupton, reinvented this week as The Human Leaf. Just […]
Unluckiest Fox in the Quarry
Cats famously have nine lives. Foxes are not so lucky, especially not this one, who is ignoring the advice of his friends the crows. This must be the unluckiest fox there was. Not a pleasant way to go – poor animal. This first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 166. To watch the whole show go […]
SHOTShow 2013 – the inside story
We’re at SHOT in Las Vegas talking to TV and YouTube stars Jim Shockey, Greg Quinn from GunBlast.com, Destinee from FateOfDestinee and Peter Carr from Sporting Rifle about the latest and the best hunting/shooting kit on the market this year. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 165. To watch the whole show go […]
Fieldsports Britain : Driven pheasant shooting + gundog training
We’ve got birds, birds and bird dogs this week. Roy Lupton is on a driven shoot in Hampshire. We’re so used to see him shooting foxes and deer, can he handle a shotgun on birds too? And when a disabled clay shooter said he wanted to go on a driven pheasant day, we stepped up […]
Hunting squirrels with a shotgun in Sussex
Roy Lupton is taking advantage of the bare trees to reduce the grey squirrel population on his shooting ground in Sussex. Ideally this is a job for two – one concentrating on the drey, the other gun on the runners. It’s an efficient way to keep these American invaders under control. This film first appeared […]
Rabbiting Rolls Royce – ultimate Texan hunting vehicle
We are in Texas where they take ‘shoot transport’ to a whole different level. The Rolls Royce Silver Spur shooting vehicle looks like it’s been taken off the set of Thunderbirds. This exquisite British-made machine is owned by Fausto and Sandra Yturria. They use it for everything from vermin control on their longhorn cattle ranch […]
Bolting rabbits to shotguns
With the rabbits destroying an ancient hedgerow, the farmer calls in Roy Lupton. It’s a form of rabbit control that requires quick reactions. Roy and his friend Ian are using ferrets to send those rabbits running. The blackthorn hedge makes it impractical to use nets to cover the rabbit holes so it has to be […]
Crowman gets a face full of pigeon
Andy Crow is out with Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam, protecting his young crops by keeping the birds in the air using bangers and his smoke stick. However, he leaves one a little late and he needs to take evasive action to prevent a wood pigeon in the chops. This film first appeared in Fieldsports […]
Hunting Oryx in Namibia with Blaser Safaris
We are hunting oryx in Namibia, with Zeiss sports optics, enjoying the best that Blaser Safaris has to offer. We find out that big game hunting in Africa is surprisingly cheap and highly exciting. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 130. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain130
Hunting jackals in Namibia
It’s the night of the jackal. We are lamping these varmints in Namibia, similar to the European sport of fox lamping and the American sport of coyote hunting. We have a FoxPro, a Blaser R8 rifle mounted with a Zeiss Duralyt scope and a big torch. We set up next to a rotting giraffe… This […]
