Fieldsports Britain – Gamekeeper’s day
He is up before dawn and home after dusk, then there are the long nights of fox shooting: a gamekeeper’s work, at this time of
He is up before dawn and home after dusk, then there are the long nights of fox shooting: a gamekeeper’s work, at this time of
With dramatic red stags and challenging tahr, New Zealand offers a paradise for the both deer management and hunting enthusiasts. Scottish stalker Niall Rowantree is
Professional deer manager Paul Childerley goes outside his comfort zone, stalking kudu in South Africa. He is using the new Sako 85 Carbon Wolf and,
Andy Crow is out to mop up the pigeons on his farm with the help of top clay shot Hannah Gibson. She has not decoyed
Roy’s on a major gooseshooting trip to Sweden with Aimpoint and the amazing Gustaffsons, where 50-bird days are minimum. He hooks up with YouTube channel
This week: the massive stags of New Zealand. We are looking at deer hunting and management all over the world thanks to our sponsors. In
Lots of stuff gets in the way of a deerstalking – but we think this week’s one should get a special award. Cai Ap Bryn
It’s the roe deer rut. Equipped, as he is, with Luptonite, deerstalker Roy Lupton is able to bring in not just roe does and roe
The pheasants have arrived at Paul Childerley’s shoot. He gets busy settling them in to their new home and starting preparations for the pheasant shooting
Just how easy is it to go stalking? Al Khametov shows how, from a standing start in the centre of London, he can end his
Paul Childerley has to deal with pesky squirrels – and they are at such long ranges that he has to use a rifle he normally
Roy Lupton is out on the marshes tidying up foxes before the partridge poults arrive – and all to the accompaniment of Europe’s largest frog.
Becoming a deerstalking guide for Paul Childerley Sporting is tougher than Jedi training. Paul is out after muntjac with his young apprentice Sam, and puts
As the sun beats down on England, Andy Crow is out to protect his spring rape crop from pigeons with decoys and shotgun. Ben Husthwaite
Here’s how to add a few bells and whistles to your rifle (plus some technique) so you can confidently shoot a target out to 1,500
Paul Childerley has to shoot the corvids off his cover crops or there will be nothing for the game birds to eat. He decoys them
Ever wondered what makes pheasants fly so well? Is it the dogs? The beaters? Well, gamekeepers might say it is the feed. In the first
Ben Husthwaite shows how to shoot one of the trickiest targets in shooting: a rat in a hole. The clay emerges from the pipe and
We’re out after a fallow buck for the pot with Cai Ap Bryn in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. The game chef plans a steak supper –
It’s the last episode in our series A Year In the Life of Fallow Deer. We are out with Phis Phizacklea looking not just at
Everyone’s hunting British bucks. Paul Childerley is out on his ground in Gloucestershire, looking for cull roebucks. On the other side of England, Jason Doyle
We’re managing crows and roebuck in this week’s #FieldsportsBritain. In the south of England, Andy Crow is thinning the crow numbers, which are coming in
Where rabbits are on the down, lamb kills are on the up. Roy Lupton is out to shoot the starving foxes that want to feed
Andy Crow is out on the pigeons in the new Crowhow. He is decoying them in over the animal feed crop lucerne, he looks at
Tim Pilbeam is in the Alps after chamois with the new Franchi Horizon rifle. He and Karl Waktare find mountain stalking hard work – and
We’re hunting under the windmills, this week. In the last in this season of Rucksack & Rifle, Tim Pilbeam is hindstalking in and around a
Thirty deer need to be shot. But there are dogwalkers and other visitors to the park in the South-East of England. Phiz, Hugo and their
Paul Childerley takes Jason out after his first Chinese water deer. We film it from Jason and from the deer’s point of view. Plus, Paul
Shooting is the easy bit, compared to cooking, stuffing, and stalking wild boar. Tim Pilbeam is looking at all four at the home of French
It’s the fourth and final part of our popular series, A Year in the Life of Red Deer. It is winter, and Niall Rowantree from
With rifles getting cheaper – and yet remaining as accurate as ever – what can you buy for less than £500? Tim Pilbeam gets together
It’s a week of challenges and a week of new opportunities. Andy Crow has pigeons rocketing in to his Kent farm, looking for food. He
It’s a kit exclusive: we get the first look in the UK at the new Mauser M18 rifle, a workaday gun for deerstalkers and fox
What was the UK like when we hardly had any deer? How did modern deerstalking start? How did New Zealand gets its deer? We answer
Is the DSC1 worth the paper it’s written on? Sim Hay goes through the stresses and tantrums of taking the UK’s deerstalking certificate, and then
Watch eagle acrobatics as they hunt mountain hares in Scotland. The Angus Glens are a winter wonderland and Roy Lupton is there to catch hares
Paul is out after whitetail again, this time with more success. He is trying out new ammunition from the Sako Factory in Finland, and he
We put a camera on red stag’s head so it can record the rut. It does magnificently – fighting other stags, drinking, fraying – but
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgAoMS0lbzw Four wild boar, three shots at foxes (missed), two roe does, a red hind and a mouflon: it turns out to be Paul’s best
British pro stalker Paul Childerley is after the whitetail deer in the Finnish forests. He is visiting the Sako factory with Sporting Shooter editor Dom
Roy Lupton is stalking one of Britain’s smallest deer. He is after muntjac in Bedfordshire, and gets within shooting distance of two. Meanwhile, Charlie is
Among driven pheasant shooters, Brigands is widely named top British shoot. We follow high pheasant specialist Ross Neville as he shoots premier league drives, including
Reach in and touch your inner Obelix. That’s what Tim Pilbeam is doing, stalking wild boar in France. Of course he uses a rifle, not
They are some of the most challenging pheasants that Andy Crow has seen. He is at the Upperwood Estate in Yorkshire, where pheasants and partridges
We are stalking red stags with Niall Rowantree on the Ardnamurchan Estate. A few weeks in the late summer and autumn are almost all the
Roy Lupton is back where he shot a huge buck last year. The fallow buck rut is once again underway, so the perfect time of
We have a challenge. Can Roy shoot redleg partridge, a roebuck and catch a trout all in one day? If he can, he has
It’s everything you need to know about managing one of our most common deer, in this episode of #FieldsportsBritain. Fallow deer were released all over
Where do the world’s top driven pheasant shooters go? The answer is Wales. Shoots such as Brigands and, this week’s feature, Llechweddygarth, are providing birds
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