Red Stag Hunt in Portugal
Ever wondered what kind of animals you can hunt in the hilly heart of Portugal? Tim Pilbeam’s Rucksack & Rifle series takes us to the centre of the country, where is out after stags in the rut – and learns to cal them in Portuguese-style. ▶ If you want to hunt with Sergio and Tiago […]
Fieldsports Britain – Calling Red Stags
Tim Pilbeam tries out a new kind of red stag stalking. He travels to Portugal with Sergio Couto to see what kind of deer hunting they do away from the beaches. The animals are a lot faster than he expected. Back in Somerset, the South Somerset Ferreters are dealing with an unusual day, to say […]
Guns on a plane! – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 5
Tim Pilbeam’s Rucksack & Rifle series sees him travel all over the world. David Wright and Tim Pilbeam talk about their experiences wandering the world with firearms and cameras. Who would have thought it was so difficult to get guns on a plane? The hours spent in airports wondering, wandering and hoping, Tim now sees […]
Keeping Your Pheasants Under Control – Modern Gamekeeper #5
Paul Childerley shows what it takes to be a modern gamekeeper. He is working on his shoot in Bedfordshire, bringing on young birds and getting them ready for the shooting season in a few weeks time. Modern Gamekeeper’s sponsors are: ▶ Marsdens MarsdensFeeds.co.uk ▶ Remington RaytradeUK.co.uk ▶ Shooterking Shooterking.co.uk ▶ Barnes VOR-TX ammunition RaytradeUK.co.uk ▶ To go shooting on Paul’s […]
How to shoot a right and a left – Smokin’ Targets Game Flavoured with Mark Winser
Two shots – two birds – and you don’t want to shoot it going away. Top shot Mark Winser explains the process, the timing and the sight picture to take the perfect ‘double’ at pheasants. The film is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com We filmed it at Royal Berkshire Shooting School RBSS.co.uk For Mark Winser Coaching, […]
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 year, is never done. Paul Childerley introduces us to the work that goes into producing the shoot days we will start to enjoy in a month’s time. Meanwhile, top shot […]
The partridges arrive – Modern Gamekeeper #4
It is early September and gamekeeper Paul Childerley will be shooting in a few weeks time. He takes delivery of a second tranche of partridges on his Bedfordshire shoot. He has to settle them in as quickly as possible, with the correct pens for partridges. Modern Gamekeeper’s sponsors are: ▶ Marsdens MarsdensFeeds.co.uk ▶ Remington RaytradeUK.co.uk […]
Tahr Hunt and Huge Red Stags
Deer manager Niall Rowantree is travelling Planet Deer again, looking at how New Zealand produces monster red stag heads, and going hunting for Tahr in the South Island mountain country. This film is supported by: ▶ Magic Safari Lodges MagicSafariLodges.com ▶ Leica Sports Optics Leica-Camera.com/Sport-Optics ▶ Blaser Blaser.de ▶ Spartan JavelinBipod.co.uk ▶ Nomad UK UK-Nomad.MyShopify.com […]
Fieldsports Britain – High Country Big Game Hunting
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 both and he enjoys telling the story of both tahr stalking in the mountains and the New Zealand red deer farming industry. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Paul Childerley is […]
How to Shoot Straight-flying Pheasants – Smokin Targets Game Flavoured with Mark Winser
Top shot Mark Winser explains how to shoot pheasants flying straight over you. He recommends the swing-through technique. ▶ The film is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ We filmed it at Royal Berkshire Shooting School RBSS.co.uk ▶ For Mark Winser Coaching, visit MarkWinser.co.uk ▶ Click here for all of Mark’s films on Fieldsports Channel This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wolf after a Kudu
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, guided by local PH Nico Els, he learns how different the Eastern Cape bush is from Bedfordshire. This is the first in his Barrels & Brass series. Meanwhile, with the […]
On Test: Sako 85 Carbon Wolf
Professional wildlife manager Paul Childerley puts the Sako 85 Carbon Wolf in 6.5 Creedmoor through its paces on kudu in South Africa. He is hunting with PH Nico Els in the Eastern Cape. ▶ For more information about Sako rifles and bullets including the Sako 85 Carbon Wolf, go to Sako.fi ▶ The East Cape […]
Hannah Gibson hits the pigeons – Crowhow
Top clay shot Hannah Gibson has never been pigeon shooting. Thanks to Andy Crow, that problem has now been solved – and she turns out to be an excellent pigeon shot. But then she is a British Open Sporting ladies champion, so what do you expect? Andy is sponsored by: ▶ Blaser Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ Gamebore […]
Somerset Simulated Game Shooting Day
A party of guns is getting ready for the game season – and how better to do that than on a ‘simulated’ shoot? – clay pigeons launched off the steep hills of Exmoor where a couple of months later real pheasants and partridges will be flying. ▶ To go shooting with Rich, go to Facebook.com/SomersetDrivenClays […]
How to Shoot Crossing Partridges – Smokin Targets Game Flavoured with Mark Winser
Top shot Mark Winser says keep your barrel tidy. That’s the advantage you need to get on to partridges as they fly right-to-left or left-to-right. ▶ The film is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ We filmed it at Royal Berkshire Shooting School RBSS.co.uk ▶ For Mark Winser Coaching, visit MarkWinser.co.uk ▶ Click here for all of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Late Summer Pigeon Shooting
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 pigeons before – so does a background shooting the clay variety help? Find out here. Mark Winser is convinced that clay pigeon shooting will help your partridge shooting, as he […]
It’s raining fish
An American state has a fast way of filling up mountain lakes with fish. They drop them by plane. Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources, which released footage of a drop, said that the practice was less stressful for the fish and that 95 per cent survive the fall. These trout are being dropped to populate […]
Shooting Cabbage Whites
Charlie’s off with his dad to sort out the scourge of the cabbages with a shotgun. Yes – he is shooting butterflies Unlike most butterflies, which are in serious decline caused mainly by insecticides, the cabbage white has no large natural predators – apart from Charlie. ▶ To find out about Albert Meek’s butterfly shooting, […]
Massive Swedish Goose Hunt
Roy is in Sweden in the capable hands of one of the country’s top goose guiding outfits. It’s a couple of huge goose shooting days on the country’s west coast, with farmers keen to rid the land of the devastating numbers of Canadas and greylags. ▶ This item is sponsored by Aimpoint. For the Micro […]
Fieldsports Britain – Start of the Gooseshooting Season
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 Feliew. They burst out of hides hidden in the stubble to build amazing bags, using a Micro S1 Aimpoint site. Meanwhile, Charlie is off with his dad, shooting butterflies with […]
Antis, grouse, deer and gators – Fieldsports News
▶ Grouse moor sabs in Swaledale ▶ Badger cull farmers get death threats ▶ Baileys Shooting and Country Wear opens shop ▶ Jamaica calls on bird shooters to cull deer ▶ South Africa puts leopard back on the quarry list ▶ Illinois hunters can wear pink ▶ US alligator season on Twitter and Facebook Impressive 12 […]
How Aaron came up with ‘Planet Deer’
On a regular basis our production editor Aaron Jones has to rattle the logo tree and see if he can get another sweet logo to fall on to his head, bounce off and land on the screen for clients. See it’s not just all about making great films. This logo was for FieldsportsChannel.tv, who wanted […]
Fieldsports Britain – Planet Deer
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 the first of our series Planet Deer, Scottish deer expert Niall Rowantree visits South Island, which has turned the red deer from a pest into a major industry. He meets […]
Deer heart wraps – recipe
Deer don’t just yield roast haunch and tender venison backstraps. Here is Cai Ap Bryn’s recipe for delicious deer heart wraps. Ingredients: ▶ 1 deer heart ▶ 6 tortilla wraps ▶ Mexican rub – any or all of paprika, garlic salt, ground cumin, ground coriander, black pepper, cayenne, onion powder and a pinch of salt […]
The biggest red stags on the planet
How did New Zealand produce the largest red deer the world has ever seen? In the first in our series Planet Deer, Scottish deer expert Niall Rowantree goes to the other side of the world to find out and tell the story of New Zealand’s remarkable animals, how they are managed, hunted and farmed. He […]
Fieldsports Britain – Musical Fallow Buck Stalking
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 is trying to thin out the fallow bucks on his ground… but someone else is using his fields for something else. It’s never easy but you have to play the […]
Roy’s Talon Knife from Emberleaf
Falconer Roy Lupton wants to commemorate one of his favourite birds. He does it by commissioning Emberleaf Knives to create one of their masterpieces, using the birds’ talons. In this film, he goes to Emberleaf’s workshop to unbox and get a first look at the result. ▶ What is Emberleaf? ▶ For more from Emberleaf, go […]
Cai’s long-winded buck hunt
You’ll get the joke in the title when you watch the film. It took Cai Ap Bryn longer than usual to find a suitable fallow buck to shoot, thanks to ‘noises off’. Happily, his new rifle in .30-06 – a new bigger calibre in case he comes across wild boar – does the job. ▶ […]
Clouds of Irish Pigeons
It’s a hot day on standing barley and pigeons are coming in thick and fast. Jason Doyle sets up in the middle of the field – a position that has its own challenges. Find out how he gets on. ▶ Gamebore supplies the cartridges Gamebore.com ▶ Benelli M2 came from GMK GMK.co.uk ▶ Clothing from […]
Sligo Trout Fishing during Mayfly
The mayfly hatch in Ireland like nowhere else. Jason Doyle is fishing for trout with Brendan Sharkey in Sligo during the mayfly season, and looks at the single day of life this extraordinary insect has in fresh air. ▶ Contact Brendan Sharkey at Predator FishingIreland PredatorFishingIreland.com This item appears in Fieldsports Ireland, episode 1 Bit.ly/fieldsportsireland1 […]
Practise your Shooting on a Drone
What’s your lead when you are shooting different cartridges? You can find out by shooting a drone trailing balloons. Jason Doyle tries it out… just don’t shoot the drone. ▶ Gamebore supplies the cartridges Gamebore.com ▶ Benelli M2 came from GMK GMK.co.uk ▶ Clothing from Jack Pyke JackPyke.co.uk ▶ Enforcer Pigeon Decoys EnforcerDecoys.co.uk This item […]
Save Whiskey: Shoot Pigeons – Fieldsports Ireland, episode 1
It’s the first episode of our new show Fieldsports Ireland. Jason Doyle is out decoying pigeons over barley that’s destined for the Irish whiskey industry. Every pigeon he shoots saves someone somewhere a glass of malt. Unlike the UK, setting up in the middle of a crop is not a good way to shoot Irish […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roe Deer Calling Spectacular
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 bucks but a surprised stoat with his buttolo call. Roy is being a ‘goldilocks’ stalker. He doesn’t want to shoot a buck that’s too small or one that’s going to […]
Roy calls bucks… and vermin
Want to see Britain’s prettiest deer? Go out with a deer stalker at the end of July and you will be treated to the sight of the roe rut, the time of year when roebucks show themselves and chase each other around as they compete for the attentions of roe does. Roy Lupton is able […]
How to shoot grouse – Smokin’ Targets Game Flavoured with Mark Winser
Champion shot Mark Winser explains how to shoot driven grouse, using the excellent grouse layout at Royal Berkshire Shooting School. ▶ The film is sponsored by Gamebore Gamebore.com ▶ We filmed it at Royal Berkshire Shooting School RBSS.co.uk ▶ For Mark Winser Coaching, visit MarkWinser.co.uk ▶ Click here for all of Mark’s films on Fieldsports […]
Pigeons over Rape Stubble
Jaf Jefferson is out on rape stubble that’s about to be redrilled. The farmer wants the pigeon numbers knocked back and Jaf’s the man for the job. Plus he has his own top tips for pigeon shooters. ▶ Jaf’s own YouTube channel ▶ Click here for all of Jaf’s films on Fieldsports Channel This film […]
Big Bag Days: are shooters being too greedy? – Fieldsports Channel Podcast episode 4
Charlie Jacoby chairs a panel at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2018 on driven pheasant and grouse shooting. On the panel are: Patrick Galbraith, editor, Shooting Times Simon Hart MP Mark Osborne, sporting agent and gunmaker, William Powell Sir Jim Paice, chairman, GWCT Questions and clarifications from the audience come from: Tim Bonner, Countryside […]
How to introduce pheasant poults to a shoot – Modern Gamekeeper #3
It’s started. Gamekeeper Paul Childerley has taken delivery of his pheasants on the shoot in Bedfordshire. Now he has to be Pheasant Supernanny and keep them happy and healthy. Modern Gamekeeper’s sponsors are: ▶ Marsdens MarsdensFeeds.co.uk ▶ Remington RaytradeUK.co.uk ▶ Shooterking Shooterking.co.uk ▶ Barnes VOR-TX ammunition RaytradeUK.co.uk ▶ To go shooting on Paul’s shoot, visit […]
Top tips on dog security
Thieves are targeting trained gundogs, says the organisation that helps put people back together with their kidnapped dogs. Doglost’s Jayne Hayes says what you can do to avoid being a victim of this crime. ▶ Visit DogLost.co.uk This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 453. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain453
Going deaf from shooting?
It’s Roy’s warning to young hunters. Shooting has had a terrible effect on his hearing. Here’s what he is doing about it. ▶ To get in touch with Mumtaz Nakyi of Essex Hearing Care, email enquiries@essexhearingcare.co.uk ▶ Click here for all of Roy’s films on Fieldsports Channel This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Pheasants Arrive
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 season in a couple of months time. Meanwhile, Roy is going deaf – and it’s shooting that’s to blame. He looks into what to do about it – and how […]
Fieldsports Britain – After-Work Bucks
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 day with a bumper evening of three roebucks. Meanwhile, Cai Ap Bryn is on pest control duty with the help of BSA, trying out the Defiant Bullpup. And Charlie previews […]
Get Started in Deerstalking
Are you in a city? Do you know that you are less than an hour from guided deerstalking? – one of the best fieldsports around. Al Khametov works in London. He heads home to Surrey in the evening and then goes out to stalk deer. In the long evenings of high summer, the roebucks are […]
On Test: BSA Defiant Bullpup
Cai Ap Bryn tries out the BSA Defiant Bullpup for accuracy (he shoots up a Fieldsports Channel share certificate) and for pest control. It’s a compact PCP designed to be discrete yet keep you on target. ▶ For from BSA, go to BSAGuns.co.uk ▶ Cai’s website is GameAndFlames.com ▶ Click here for all of Cai’s films […]
Niall Rowantree and all things deer – FieldsportsChannel Podcast ep03
Niall Rowantree is the subject of episode 3 of the Fieldsports Podcast. Niall is the man behind our successful series A Year in the Life of Red Deer, and he and David are now filming The Scottish Sporting Year, a new series that covers all kind of wildlife management in Scotland and takes Niall as […]
How to shoot on-report pairs – Smokin’ Targets with Ben Husthwaite
You get the first shot right, but you are already keyed up for the second, which you know is going to appear on report. Champion shot Ben Husthwaite gives his tips on how to remain cool and give that second clay everything you gave the first. ▶ Ben Husthwaite is sponsored by Gamebore cartridges ▶ […]
How to use a walking stick as a shooting stick
A good stick and long pockets is all you need – not because you need to pay for anything, but because Niall Rowantree has a technique for putting your stick in your pocket to make the ideal rifle rest for a standing shot. ▶ For more about Blaser in the UK, visit Blaser-Sporting.com ▶ For […]
Squirrels with a .22-250
Can you have too much gun when you’re shooting squirrels. Gamekeeper Paul Childerley says he has to use a .22-250 because he cannot get close enough to them to use a rimfire or 17HMR. He takes us on squirrel shooting outing on his ground in Bedfordshire, UK. Paul Childerley is an ambassador for: ▶ Zeiss ▶ […]
Fieldsports Britain – Drive-by Squirrel Shooting
Paul Childerley has to deal with pesky squirrels – and they are at such long ranges that he has to use a rifle he normally reserves for small deer. It’s a problem many gamekeepers will know. Meanwhile, Niall Rowantree has a top tip for anyone wanting to shoot off a crook. And Ben Husthwaite has […]
Fieldsports Britain – Foxing Amongst Frogs
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. Happily, it’s not just the frogs that croak. Cai Ap Bryn is doing his bit for game meat, showing how to cook whole roe deer on a barbecue. He has […]
