Fishing Britain News – Record Tuna
A packed news programme this week: a woman has landed a new possible world record tuna off New Zealand, anglers are fishing their way across both the USA and the UK, the Wild Trout Trust has announced its charity auction lots, and ‘The Big One’ fishing show has taken place in the south of England. […]
Fishing Britain – How to catch 20 pike in one session
In this week’s show, Ant Glascoe Jr gets together with Aaron Jones to catch 20 pike on the same day using surface lures. We explain why Jan Porter was cooking up snacks last week, Richard Chapman sniffs out some monk delivered wild carp and Hywel Morgan is joined by both daughters to prove that learning […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting Muddy Rats & Tree Rats
We’re hunting under the hen houses and shooting up in the branches this week, bringing you two vital culling operations with Roy Lupton. The chickens in a friend’s back garden are being plagued by rats. Roy brings along his airgun and a variety of coloured lights and night vision to sort them out. Find out […]
Smelly Flies Work Better for Trout
We set up an experiment to see if smelly flies had an effect on Trout but we didn’t expect what we saw! Have a look for yourself. This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 5. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain5 Sign up for our weekly email news FieldsportsChannel.tv/register
Kids test the new Range Rover Sport (uh-oh)
Schools Challenge TV goes all Top Gear (in its own funny way). Stratstone lends a Range Rover Sports to David Florent and two of the Schools Challenge Academy members, Heather Dunmall and Tom Scott. Heather and Tom’s review is a classic. Jeremy Clarkson – be nervous. We have Schools Challenge News with the Stratsone Super […]
Underwater Winter Pike Fishing
Amazing film of pike taking bait underwater. Top angler Jan Porter takes Hywel Morgan out on his punt to pull in a pike or two. They are at Bishops Bowl in Warwickshire. This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 5. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain5 Sign up for our weekly email […]
Fieldsports Britain – White Goshawk vs Pheasant – fast action
Some say don’t let falconers on to pheasant shoots. Happily, Roy Lupton is a popular guy so he and his hawks are welcome. He shows how to find and flush the birds with his Hungarian viszla, and how to bring them down with his white goshawk. That’s not all. We are at the British Shooting […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow shoots crows
With the shooting season over, the legend that is Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is out after roe deer, pigeons, crows and other corvids. The numbers have built up feeding on his delicious cover crops, and he means to make a dent in the population, using all the tricks he knows. Let him help improve your corvid […]
How to choose the best gun
Go into a gunshop and there is a dazzling array of shotguns – but which one do you choose? Here is the definitive guide, with the help of gun trade doyen Doug Florent and Commonwealth Games double trap gold medallist Stevan Walton. That’s not all. News reveals details of the £45,000-worth of prizes up for […]
Fishing Britain – Winter Pike Methods
This week we test if trout can smell in crystal clear water and if it makes a difference to your fishing. We announce the winner of the huge HM Fly Fishing Bundle and Jan Porter takes Hywel Morgan out on his punt to lure a killer up from the depths. They are pike fishing at […]
Great Bustards of Salisbury Plain
Meet the man who runs the Great Bustard Group – and see his bustards. Great bustard enthusiast David Waters talks to Charlie Jacoby about how it works and how to release these magnificent birds into the wild. For more about the Great Bustard Group, visit greatbustard.org Read Charlie’s article about the project in The Guardian […]
Fieldsports Britain – Final Pheasant Day of the Season with Andy Crow
It’s the last shoot day of the season (everyone say ‘Aaaaaaaah!’). The legend that is Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is out on the Beaters’ Day and he is shooting like a god. Plus his highly competitive son, Baby Crow, is there to remind him he is mortal. That’s not all. Charlie is off to see one […]
Should I buy a Spring Air Rifle or PCP?
Technical editor of Airgunner and Airgun World magazines, Phill Price, explains the pros and cons of buying a spring powered air rifle or a pre-charged. Phill has years of experience shooting many guns from many manufacturers. He offers some sound advice to anyone considering buying an air rifle. This item first appeared in AirHeads episode […]
Fishing Britain – Fly Fishing and Pole fishing
There is so much in this week’s Fishing Britain: * Win Hywel Morgan DVDs and fishing kit worth more than £180. Details in the show. * Fancy taking up flyfishing? Hywel’s off to a local tackle shop and then a nearby trout fishery to see how little he has to spend to catch a trout […]
Fieldsports Britain – Flight lines and one liners with George Digweed
George Digweed is pushing his skills to the limit this week by shooting pigeons on a flight line. He’s set-up his hide inside the woodland next to a maize field and the birds are “up-there”. There are plenty of tips and jokes as George once again proves to be simply an amazing shot. On a […]
Fishing Britain – Catch Dee Grayling
Put an Englishman, a Welshman and a Czech in the Dee and see the grayling fly out, and one fall in. Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here Sign up for our weekly email newsletter Fcha.nl/register We’re proud to promote enjoyment of fieldsports and the countryside. There are three […]
Fishing Britain – Dee Grayling, Cliff Diving and Pike fishing
An Englishman, a Welshman and a Czech walk in to the Dee. It may sound like the start of a bad joke and it did have one of them rolling around … but without much laughter. ROVTV watches a successful dead bait pike strike. You are actually underwater with the pike when it takes the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Why shooting rare animals can make sense
In this week’s programme, we are mainly shooting antelopes and pythons. Want to see Africa and Asia’s rarest antelope? You need to go to Texas. That’s where Americans with vision are quietly bringing on large herds of scimitar oryx, addax and dama gazelle. And they make it pay by letting people come and hunt them. […]
Fishing Britain – the 120-minute angling challenge
Hywel Morgan Has 120 minutes to tie as many flies as he needs to go a catch a fish. In this programme he is at Bigwell Fly Fishery in Monmouth. This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 2. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain2 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month […]
Fishing Britain – Fast Fly Tying and Canal Pike hunting
OK – could you arrive at a water, work it out, tie a fly and catch a trout in under two hours? That’s the challenge we set top flyfisherman Hywel Morgan. He is on a water in Monmouthshire in the depths of winter to do just that. Does he succeed? Find out in this week’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shot Show 2014 review – and squirrel hunting…
Tricky chaps squirrels. Here is Roy Lupton’s epic hunt for squirrels to put on his barbecue. They seem to know he’s after them… He employs every trick in his considerable armoury of tricks. Meanwhile, Charlie is out in the Nevada desert looking at machine guns, among other guns and ammo. He sends his report about […]
Schools Challenge TV – What’s on in 2014 for the UK’s top young shots programme
It’s a packed year of activities at The Schools Challenge. 2014 will see hundreds if not thousands of kids discover shooting, thanks to a programme of clay competitions and training days. And for some of the more dedicated, it’s the ideal way to get into competitive shooting. Do you want to be the next Olympic […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed’s pigeon-shooting tips
George Digweed is looking forward to a better year’s pigeon shooting than last year. Where did those birds go? The 22-times world champion clay shooter is talking about his pigeon shooting techniques – and his shooting is out of this world. Meanwhile, we’re off to a much-loved pheasant and partridge shoot on chalky downland in […]
Fishing Britain – Pike on chocolate trout
Fish, fishing and more fishing – it’s episode 1 of Fishing Britain, the new weekly show for coarse, game and sea anglers, with Welsh flyfishing ace Hywel Morgan. Want to know what fishing to do in January? In this week’s show: Sweet tooth: Ant Glascoe Jr is trying to tempt pike with different tastes – […]
African BBQ Hunter – how to make an ostrich egg omelette
This week, the African BBQ Hunter is in Namibia with Keerweder Safaris. He finds an ostrich nest. Here’s his recipe for how to cook ostrich eggs. This clip comes from the African BBQ Hunter series. Visit www.bbqhunter.tv Here are the links to the sponsors: Film your African safari www.ratracemedia.com Keerweder Safaris www.keerwedersafaris.com/ Musgrave Rifles www.musgraverifles.co.za/ […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting, shooting, fishing awards
The motion picture world has The Oscars. We bring you The Charlies – our awards for our best films of the last year. Revisit great moments such as the deer head-shot, the bare-bottom boar, pellet power and performance, and Chris de Margary’s salmon. That’s not all. We are enjoying a day’s driven game shooting at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Festive Foxing
Roy Lupton is out after potential lamb-killers. He is shooting foxes ahead of the lambing season in some fairly Christmassy weather. The shooting vehicle is armed with voice calls, electronic calls, lamps and night vision, which helps give him the edge. That’s not all. Its our traditional Christmas blooper reel, featuring all the foul-ups and […]
Schools Challenge TV – Christmas shoot out
It’s Christmas and some of the stars of TSC’s Academy have come to the Oxford Gun Company for festive fun. Izzy, James and Tom are heading out with David for a shooting competition with a Christmas twist. They’re shooting clays and baubles. That’s not all. The School Challenge kids are among the first to have […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven game in Christmassy weather
Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam is facing everything the ‘storm chamber’ at the Gore-Tex facility in Munich has to offer. He’s then off to field-trial some of the best hunting kit on offer. He’s on a driven hunt in Germany after boar, red deer and mouflon. Closer to home and we’re giving bankers some […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mixed sport with Roy Lupton
It’s a day out with Roy Lupton. He is meant to be decoying pigeons to his airgun, but he can’t resist catching the attention of a fox, then there’s the matter of another fox that nearly did for his goshawk, then there are some distracting rabbits, then a rat, and finally he makes the mistake […]
Schools Challenge TV – The big shoot-off
It’s the final of the Schools Challenge Winter Series – a series of four 50-bird Sporting shoots for under-21s through October and November, with prizes worth a massive £3000 to be won. Two young shooters have been battling it out neck and neck over the series – but there can only be one winner who […]
Fieldsports Britain – The pigeons are back
Two of Britain’s most sporting birds are in the frame this week. After months of waiting, Andy Crow has thousands of pigeons on his farm, and he has some of the best pigeon shooters in the South-East of England to go and shoot them. We are dove-hunting British style. Meanwhile, a team of guns in […]
Fieldsports Britain – High speed birds
From driven pheasants to falconry, it’s high-speed action on this week’s Fieldsports Britain. Roy Lupton is out with his speedy young goshawk and his mate Phil is flying a Harris hawk at rabbits. Meanwhile Andy Crow is getting all bashful at a driven pheasant shoot in the South of England. He is there to model […]
Schools Challenge TV – Land Rover art
The G4 Challenge Land Rover Club comes to the Oxford Gun Company, the home of the Schools Challenge, to paint the field orange with some Land Rover art and, of course, to go shooting as well as driving the off-road course. The G4 Challenge was an off-road driving competition run in 2003 and 2006. The […]
Driven partridge shooting in Scotland
A party of guns is enjoying the partridge shooting at the spectacular Ralia Estate in the Cairngorm National Park on the banks of the famous River Spey. Find out all about the kind of shooting you can enjoy here. This film is brought to you by Hull Cartridge, cartridge manufacturer producing shotgun cartridges for game […]
Fieldsports Britain – Thermal fox shooting
Roy Lupton has some educated foxes on his hands. He has to go down to Hampshire with every piece of foxshooting tech he has – thermal imaging, night vision and Fieldsports Channel’s very own Q Branch, Darren. That’s not all. We’re out with the South Somerset Ferreters, in Rabbitopia – or that’s what they claim… […]
Headhunter Chronicles’ Macnab – behind the scenes
Here’s a “behind the scenes” look at the making of Jason Bruce’s Headhunter Chronicles series, out in 2014, much of it set in the UK. In Scotland Jason attempts the famous Macnab sporting challenge – to shoot a red stag, catch a salmon and shoot a grouse, all in one day. Jason was out with […]
Fieldsports Britain : Duck shoot on Boris Island
We’re wildfowling on Boris Island in the Thames Estuary and we’re partridge shooting in the Highlands of Scotland this week. Mark Gilchrist takes a boat out on to the Thames Estuary to visit an island that’s a paradise for duck shooters. Meanwhile, Charlie is off up to the Ralia Estate in Scotland to join a […]
Fieldsports Britain : Digweed on foxes
How can you resist? World champion clay shot George Digweed has a big night fox shooting. The pheasants are out of the pens and vulnerable to attack by these crafty predators. George is craftier – and he gets 10 foxes in his sights at ranges of up to 250 yards. Meanwhile, it’s Roy Lupton’s last […]
Fieldsports Britain : Supercharged driven partridge
A new kind of superfast partridge, grouse, salmon, a red stag, plus News Stump, Hunting YouTube, ‘Hallo Charlie!’ and Calendar. We’re hunting/shooting/fishing the lot this week. A Spanish partridge farm reckons his birds are the best-flying in Europe. He has given a load of them to a Suffolk shoot, and we are there with our […]
Schools Challenge TV – Shoot open day fun
It’s all the fun of a mini game fair at the Oxford Gun Company open day. The Schools Challenge regulars are shooting it out on the Sporting layout, they are trying airgunning, archery, falconry and looking at some of the many trade stands that come to this popular autumn event. And they are getting advice […]
Fieldsports Britain : secrets of a bullet factory
Roy needs a bullet for a deer – and we know just where to get one. We visit the RWS ammunition factory in southern Germany to look at the extraordinary processes that go into the RWS Evolution .30-06. At the end of it, Roy gets to take the cartridge out after cull deer. Here are […]
Fieldsports Britain – Max Hunt’s black roebuck + Andy Crow on the pigeons
It’s a bit of management hunting and a bit of trophy hunting this week. Max Hunt is in Germany after an unusual roebuck – a black one. Max finds out what makes these animals so dark – and so special. Meanwhile, Kent farm manager Andy Crow has a day on the pigeons that are ravaging […]
Schools Challenge TV – How to join Team GB
Remember Peter Wilson’s gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics? Well this week on Schools Challenge TV, it’s the British Double Trap grand prix AND it’s where the top shooters of tomorrow are picked. We are joining top shooters including Richard Faulds and Charlotte Kerwood – and the gang of contenders from the Schools Challenge […]
GWCT salmon research
It is widely accepted that a global decline has occurred in Atlantic salmon since the 1970s and the Trust’s fascinating catchment-based ‘natural laboratory’ on the River Frome will enable researchers to answer many of the really important questions relating to salmon and sea trout populations. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 2. To […]
Fieldsports Britain – Luck of the Irish: Simply Red’s salmon, grouse and stag
We are top of the hunting/shooting’/fishing pops this week. Chris De Margary and Mick Hucknall of Simply Red own the fabulous Glenmore Estate in Donegal, a paradise for salmon, a haven for deer and – if your as lucky as an Irishman – you might find a grouse. Chris reckons that with the help of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bare-bottom boar hunting
We’re stalking wild boar without trousers! ‘But boar don’t wear trousers!’ you say. No – WE are the ones without trousers. Stalking in your socks gets you up close and personal to Europe’s dangerous game, and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is persuaded to drop his caks to go out with German hoghunter Max Goetfried. […]
Schools Challenge TV – Novice Schools Challenge + Nuthampstead Shooting Ground
This week Schools Challenge TV has the final of the Novice Schools Challenge plus a review of Nuthampstead Shooting Ground. The August Schools Challenge events are aimed at novice shooters and a dozen of them are through to the final at the end of the month. Here they are at the Oxford Gun Company, shooting […]
Fieldsports Britain – Foxes with airguns
We are trying out airguns on foxes this week, and stalking deer in Suffolk. Roy Lupton joins Phill Price from Airgun World to see whether one of the new big-calibre airguns can shoot a fox at 50 yards. They are using the FX Boss .30 calibre. Meanwhile, a new deerstalker has much to thank popular […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse virgins
Badger cull, stalkers’ breakfast, Brownings, Bentleys, Aston Martins and a team of guns who have never shot grouse before: it’s all in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. We are out with Shooting Times editor Alastair Balmain and BASC’s Huw Lloyd at the invitation of Newton Rigg gamekeeping college. There are six guns who have never shot […]
