Shooting hero Rachel Carrie – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 18
Vegetarians and the climate change movement: shouldn’t they be hunting? With climate change at the top of the agenda and vegetarians arguing that meat-based agriculture
Vegetarians and the climate change movement: shouldn’t they be hunting? With climate change at the top of the agenda and vegetarians arguing that meat-based agriculture
The beautiful mountains around Swarovski’s optics factory are alive with chamois. The numbers are large enough that they need to be managed. Albert has worked
Tim Pilbeam is on the hunt of a lifetime. He is after Swedish elk, doing it with some of Sweden’s leading elk experts, a helicopter,
What are the best bullets for roebuck? Paul Childerley tries out Gamehead Pro cartridges from ammunition manufacturer Sako after a roebuck in the south-east
What happens when a load of precision dark-ops fox shooters put on tweed and a tie to go on a driven partridge day? That’s what
Andy Crow takes time off farmwork to shoot a basket of wood pigeon to give to David, who is hosting a woodpigeon barbecue. The wind
Want to learn to fish? Edmund Jacoby heads to the the Arundell Arms in Devon for their polar flyfishing beginners’ course, led by the remarkable
Roy Lupton is setting out to make a deer herd healthy. There’s not enough food for these fallow in the South-East of England, so he
Sako’s secretive ammunition factory in Finland opens its doors to deerstalker and big game hunter Paul Childerley. Paul wants to find out which type of
Here’s how to hunt feral goats in Scotland. Remember goatgate? The politicians who condemned Scottish deerstalkers for shooting goats were the same politicians who ordered
When your hunting season is only six months long what do you do during the summer to keep your skills up to scratch? How
How do you train your falcon? Until recently, it was by experience. Now you can get it to have a go at drones. Roy Lupton
New Zealand has a pest problem. Happily, they are both a sporting shot and delicious. Niall Rowantree goes to a farm to help deal with
For our tenth birthday, we ask some of our best-known faces how Fieldsports Channel has changed their lives – and which are their favourite films.
World champion shot Ben Husthwaite on how to plan the ‘incoming chandelle’. His technique for the incomer is almost the opposite of his technique for
Tim Pilbeam packs rifle and rucksack, and heads out on his own after red hinds. He has the blessing of deer manager Niall Rowantree. He
Top shot Ben Husthwaite takes his Shotkam out after the ‘going-away chandelle’ on the clay ground. He reveals his techniques for shooting one of the
Roy Lupton is out after roe deer. With the bucks rutting at the end of July, he calls them in to cull them. Join him
It’s summertime and that’s bad news for birds feasting on crops near Jason Doyle’s home in southern Ireland. He is out pigeonshooting, and keeping an
Irish deerstalking legend John Fenton takes Paul Childerley, Jason Doyle and a Sako 85 Carbonlight into the Wicklow Hills to stalk sika. In the latest
When the government stopped the general licences, we thought that was it for shooting pigeons over stubble. Not a bit of it. Andy Crow is
Cai Ap Bryn has a roebuck to shoot. Along the way, he is treated to some of the great sights in nature – European brown
Jay Tiernan is a militant vegan, who stamps on badger traps and condones the cutting of wire to release pheasants from game farms. The face
We go simulated stalking and long-distance rifle shooting out to 500 metres with Paul Childerley. It’s all so Zeiss can set out its stall to
Some people look at the new carbon stock material and worry that it will snap. Sako wants to reassure them, so has charged Paul Childerley
It’s the battle for who runs the countryside: Dr Mark Avery is part of the Wild Justice group which successfully stopped the general licences, he
This month Jason Doyle with a birds eye view shows us his secrets on how he sets out his irresistible pigeon pattern while he waits
While waiting for the sun to finish off the crops why not practice your skills at hide building and decoy patterns to see what
John Griffin gives us his recipe for chorizo venison burgers the way butchers do them on a larger scale. Using the trimmings he saves
Paul Childerley gains access to the Sako factory to look at how the company makes its revolutionary new rifle stocks. ▶ For more information about
Charlie Jacoby is at the #huntingsummit2019 in Tuscany, where co-sponsors Swarovski, Steyr Arms, norma ammunition and Sitka clothing have built a rifle range into the
After the general licences debacle, it’s time for Crow to get back to day-to-day pest control on the farm. Today, he has jackdaws on the
Charlie Jacoby heads to Shanxi Province in China, where pheasants come from, and goes shooting on 200 sq km of open country above the Yellow
There’s nothing Cai likes better than a cooking up a game meat feast. That’s why he’s off to Croatia to hunt some of the
Improve your shooting with a top shot. Ben explains the technical aspects of swing-through and how to get the best out of it. ▶ Smokin’
Paul finds out in South Africa. He is out with Nico Els in the Eastern Cape – plus he is guiding a guest, Claes Björksten
Where do you put your gun stock on your shoulder? Top Shot Ben Husthwaite explains the mysteries of gun fit, how fitting the shotgun to
Stephen Dunbar and Jason Doyle are up early to look for foxes and check the larsen traps. When the ewes start lambing in Ireland, it’s
Stephen Dunbar and Jason Doyle go to a dairy farm in Co Wexford to shoot rabbits for the table. Stephen shows a quick way to
For around three months of the year, red deer are off the shooting menu. Well, that doesn’t mean that Scottish deerstalker Niall Rowantree can hang
Top clay shot Ben Husthwaite does the hokey-cokey to explain how to shoot clay pigeons better. He says shooters (right-handed) are too keen to use
Gun reviewer Tim Pilbeam has more than £50,000-worth of rifles to test. He looks at the latest carbon rifles from manufacturers including Blaser, Mauser, Sauer,
Want to shoot super-accurately at more than half a mile? Browning brings the new X-Bolt Pro and Winchester XPR to WMS Firearms Training in West
Andy Crow has one more chance to shoot the jackdaws and keep them off his bean crop. The jackdaws are digging up and eating the
You’d be amazed how many people don’t know the first thing about meat they can shoot for themselves. That’s what makes Cai Ap Bryn’s
Celebrity anti-hunting campaigner Piers Morgan is floored on his own chat show, by a hunter who calmly explains to him how the maths of elephant
Here’s a masterclass on how to skin and butcher a deer. Jason Doyle meets game butcher John Griffin and they talk through the process part
Hooded crows (grey crows in Ireland) are coming into a farmer’s shed and stealing cattle feed – but they are wily. In the latest of
Jason is guiding a friend, Daniel, on his first sika deer. Sika deer were introduced to Co Wicklow in 1860 and quickly became
Jason Doyle grallochs a deer: a sika hind his friend Daniel has just shot. ▶ here to watch Jason and his buddy Daniel stalking and
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