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youtu.be/4JlI__l-i0g We’re all about shooting sticks for shooting deer, extraction kit for hauling the carcase home, and a beginner’s guide to mounts. David hosts, Tim Pilbeam and Roy Lupton chat, and all three of them try a variety of modern shooting kit. It’s the new episode of Fieldtester – the
youtu.be/uMGxpOal-IYHow much damage can you do to a rifle before it blows up? We take a .243, .270 and a .308, and we do terrible things to them. First up, we shorten the barrel with an angle grinder (no crowning) and see what that does to accuracy. Then we try
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6bKdfx7rA We have seen non-lead ammunition work in a range of fullbore rifles, but does it work in rimfires? Tim Pilbeam tries out lead-free bullets in .22s and .17HMR – and the results for the .22 are disastrous. Unless the ammunition industry can produce workable non-toxic bullets for rimfires, and
It’s all about shooting world records in our new kit-testing show Fieldtester. Wayne Martin attempts to break the world record for shooting a clay pigeon with a catapultl. George Digweed talks about his 130-yard clay, which we filmed 10 years ago, and how that has inspired video after video on
youtu.be/S9NUs580-j0 In this episode of Fieldtester we push shotguns barrels to the limit. Using real ‘in the field’ scenarios, we stuff the barrels with soil, sand, cartridge wads, ice, water and one of the most commonly discussed issues, a 20-bore shell accidentally inserted in front of a 12-bore shell. We
youtu.be/ME9wnU8VKZw Do lead alternative bullets kill deer? Do they ‘pencil’? do they perform at range, do they mushroom? In this experiment, 15 stalkers from Sussex to Scotland shoot more than 350 deer and catalogue the results. It is the biggest single field-test of non-lead ammo in the world. They took
youtu.be/Qy4_YSM0WWE In this month’s Fieldtester show, we talk hearing protection. Tim Pilbeam and Roy Lupton get together with David to test what they can hear – not just how loud but what kinds of noises, from rustling twigs to running moose… to morris dancers’ bells. That’s not all. We also
youtu.be/UQ1Ir0FkNTY In this month’s Fieldtester show, Tim Pilbeam leads a group of 13 stalkers who shoot 100s of deer a year, to find out how good or bad copper bullets are. The aim is to group-test copper bullets and check it’s accurate and it kills. In this month’s show, we
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVqLp-iYAQ In this month’s Fieldtester show, our kit gurus Roy Lupton, Johnny Muston and Tim Pilbeam come together with host David Wright to discuss the evolution of the airgun. That’s not all. Johnny Muston from R&J Stockcraft says how to choose the perfect airgun pellet, and shows off his shooting
Some shotguns are steel-proofed, others aren’t, but what happens to your barrels when you put a lot of steel shells through them? In this episode of Fieldtester, we have 10,000 Eley steel carriages to put through a brand new Yildiz SPZME Black Edition 12ga shotgun. Find out what we
This month we go green and test the shotgun shells with the best eco credentials. Presented by David Wright, Jason Doyle and Tim Pilbeam with help from Jack Clutterbuck from Raytrade they examine the top products the manufacturers and distributors have to offer. Is it about steel is
It’s the first episode of our new monthly Fieldtester kit series, which comes with a whole Fieldtester section of the website devoted to shooting/hunting kit reviews. Visit Fcha.nl/fieldtester In this film, Andrew Venables from WMS Firearms Training and Tim Pilbeam conduct the most comprehensive test of copper bullets they
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