Demand for pheasant poults has gone down, supply has gone down, prices have gone up…
Gamekeeping
Guardians of the countryside, wildlife managers, from Mellors to Hagrid, they either keep dragons or sleep with your wife
Chris Packham and the ‘hen harrier 300’
When Chris Packham criticises grouseshooting, the BBC reports what he says. In the absence of balance,…
How hen harriers benefit from grouse moors
Followers of BBC celebrity Chris Packham are probably used to hearing stories of doom and…
How to get duck flying fit, with George Digweed
20 times world champion shooter George Digweed likes doing things well and that includes presenting the…
British wildfire season 2020
From the beginning of April, wildfires rage across the UK’s uplands, burning hardest where there has…
Major gamekeeping college to close
One of the UK’s premier gamekeeping colleges is to shut. Newton Rigg in Cumbria is the…
Lockdown lekking: black grouse in the road
Grouseshooter James Mawle is one of the most passionate grouse conservationists in the UK. He…
‘Shot’ peregrine killed by car
When newspapers reported the death of a peregrine, they copied and pasted the press release from…
The RSPB – Britain’s new gamekeeper?
The RSPB wants to get a job as the nation’s gamekeeper. It looks like it…
Animal Liberation Front kills thousands of pheasants
Last week, activists hit a small family game farm in Kent. They struck in the middle…
Summer deer management – A Year in the Life of Highland Sport part 2
For around three months of the year, red deer are off the shooting menu. Well, that…
Irish keeper’s day
Jason Doyle and his girlfriend Carly join the Shelton Abbey Shoot in Co Wicklow for the…
Life with Lyme disease
Lyme disease leaves you at your wits’ end. For deerstalker Tim Pilbeam, who has been living…
Crow shoot
Paul Childerley becomes ‘The Childernator’. The working gamekeeper is protecting his cover crops from corvids and…
The Beating Line: What’s It All About?
We are out with three generations of beaters from the same family: Jack, Richard and Peter…
High-fiving foxshooters
Two shooters from Somerset are on fox patrol around a shoot when they come across a…
On Test: Sauer Keeper Package
With foxes on the prowl for pheasant poults, it’s time for keepers to get out the…
Best British Driven Bird Shooting
Andy Crow faces some of the most challenging partridge and duck shooting he has ever seen…
Gamekeepers’ rifle day
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation gets its Midlands members on to a hillside in Derbyshire to try…
Tidying up around the Shoot
George Digweed is a busy man. He has just won his 25th world title in a…
Purdey Awards for Conservation 2014
The Purdey Awards for Conservation show some of the work that shoots up and down the…
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’…
Gamekeeper and his JCB WorkMax
It’s July – a busy time of year for keepers – and we’re out with Gary…
Polaris RZR quadbike review
Is this the ultimate gamekeeper transport? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes the Polaris range for…
Pheasant shooting in Kent
The proof of the pudding is in the eating or, in this case, the shooting. Canal…
Pheasant shooting at Plumpton College in Sussex
We join gamekeeping students at Plumpton College in Sussex on their shoot day. This film first…
Foxing in Devon
With the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and Sporting Rifle…
White pheasants
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant…
English grey partridge conservation
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season…
Game farm – chicks arrive
Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of…
Game farm – hut building
It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took…
Shooting Politics, episode 1, 19th August 2009
Panellists on the new countrysports webTV debate programme Shooting Politics lay into the RSPB for its…