Schools Challenge TV – World champion Abbey Burton
Well isn’t she just the girl of the moment, last week winning the Universal Trench world championship in Slovenia with 187, two points ahead of Italy’s Sabrina Panzeri. Abbey Burton is once again confirmed as one of the best shots in the world. She started shooting aged 15. Spotted by a scout, she was asked […]
Fieldsports Britain – We try to destroy €1000 binoculars
Hunting and shooting in this week’s show – we are out after foxes on a golf course and we are testing a pair of Zeiss Conquest HD 8x42s to destruction. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam travels to Germany where he drops, dangles, drags, throws, shoots and eventually blows up the binos to see if they […]
Fieldsports Britain – What they do to foxes in Australia
You can earn AUS$10 per fox protecting sheep farms in Australia. The economics make sense. Each lamb the foxes kill costs the farmers more than AUS$100. Australia has a colossal pest and vermin control problem. We’re out in the state of Victoria with pro foxshooter Mark Reams, who helps run one of Australia’s big outdoor […]
Schools Challenge TV – CLA Game Fair 2013
We’re back behind the scenes at Ragley Hall 2013 to find out what makes a CLA Game Fair tick. For discounted tickets to the 2015 CLA Game Fair at Harewood House in Yorkshire (31 July – 2 August) go to bit.ly/2015gamefair (subject to availability) The intrepid Schools Challenge reporters speak to organisers, standholders and film […]
Fieldsports Britain – Calling in bucks like Lassie
Out hunting bucks? The roe deer rut has been kind to Roy Lupton and here he presents his definitive guide to calling in bucks at this time of year. You really can make them gallop towards you – and Roy puts himself in the thick of the action as he manages deer in southern England. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeon shooting perfection + recipe
Peas means pigeons, both on the farm and on the plate. Mark Gilchrist is out after pigeons that are devastating a farmer’s pea crop – and there is a special poetry in the way the Sporting Shooter chef cooks up pigeon breast on a pea puree. He also gets to have a good rant about […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow on a roe + the CLA Game Fair 2013
Andy Crow is out after roebuck with a rifle, and the rest of us are at the CLA Game Fair 2013 at Ragley Hall. For discounted tickets to the 2015 CLA Game Fair at Harewood House in Yorkshire (31 July – 2 August) go to bit.ly/2015gamefair (subject to availability) We’ve got all that’s new from […]
Schools Challenge TV – CLA Game Fair 2013, a kids-eye view
It’s the CLA Game Fair and the Schools Challenge kids are out to find out about the four major elements of a great shooting outing: leather, walnut, tweed and steel. For discounted tickets to the 2015 CLA Game Fair at Harewood House in Yorkshire (31 July – 2 August) go to bit.ly/2015gamefair (subject to availability) […]
Fieldsports Britain – Colossal crow shoot
It’s shooting skill like you may never have seen it. Crows, rooks and jackdaws are ravaging Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow’s arable farm in the South-East of England. A good breeding season means they are out in plague proportions and, once Andy’s crops are devastated, they will face starvation. The best shot in the world, George Digweed, […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fox burglars
Two foxes have been breaking into the home of a Mystery Celebrity and he’s not happy. Find out more in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. That’s not all – Roy Lupton is out stalking roebuck and foxes, Mark Gilchrist is up early shooting crows to feed to his reluctant girlfriend (she’s asleep in his van). How […]
Schools Challenge TV – Land Rovers, guns and London 2012 gold medallist Peter Wilson
Isn’t this programme supposed to be about shooting? It is – but let’s leave the guns and the clays until later. The Schools Challenge programme is about all kinds of countrysports and outdoor activities. Stratstone, the largest automotive retailer in the UK, sponsors the Schools Challenge, so Schools Challenge events usually have a good supply […]
Fishing
Fieldsports Britain – ‘Hunt Off’ – UK vs The Continentals
Funny foreigner Max Hunt is presenting the programme today. Legend-in-his-own-shooting-jacket Roy Lupton joins him to see how well they shoot and hunt in continental Europe – and can he do any better? In this week’s show, we are tracking and following up an injured roebuck and we are taking part in one of the great […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting in China
China: It’s where pheasants come from – but it’s where hunting sports and guns are banned. That’s not what we found: + We join a bunch of local lads to go roughshooting in the mountains + We visit a paradise island where millionaires go to relax and shoot rabbits and deer + We catch crucian […]
Schools Challenge TV – Top shooters of tomorrow
If you want to meet the shooters of tomorrow who will dominate the Olympics and sporting events, this is the film for you. School Challenge academy members are gearing up for great careers in their sport. That’s not all. learn about shooting glasses and win tickets to the CLA game fair.
Fieldsports Britain – Crowman’s biggest day
Andy Crow gets the corvids coming in this week when he shoots his biggest ever bag – more than 200 birds. In ‘CrowHow’ he talks through the hide, the decoys and the techniques needed to get this cunning birds to cooperate. Also on the show Roy Lupton has a date with a fox – we […]
Fieldsports Britain – YouTube stars go shooting and fishing
ChrisTrout91, Callux, TBJZL, DDot, TWiiNSANE – some of the biggest names in UK YouTubing are trying out fishing and shooting thanks to the old lags of Fieldsports Channel: Andy Crow, Baby Crow, Mark Gilchrist, David and Charlie. Never heard of them? You are so unhip it’s a wonder you’re bottom doesn’t fall off. These are […]
Schools Challenge TV – CLA Game Fair 2013 preview
The CLA Game Fair is just around the corner. The 2013 event will be held at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire on 19-22 July. Watch this wee’s show to find out how to win a family ticket worth £60 + how the Schools Challenge is taking part in the biggest event in the countryside year. Plus […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons with airguns and rabbit hunting
It’s where to shoot a pigeon this week – and how hard to hit a rabbit. Roy Lupton is looking at what it takes to kill pigeons with an airgun – with the aid of tent pegs and his trusty Webley airgun, he is conducting a terminal ballistics test on where to shoot them. As […]
Fieldsports Britain – Australia hunting special
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDUu3phXIzc We’re hunting big game and small in Australia this week. The state of Victoria has recognised that hunting brings in tourism dollars so it is relaxing its laws preventing foreigners from hunting. Mark Reams and Casey Poletti take us out after fallow deer and we look at a kangaroo culling operation. Glenn Falla and […]
Schools Challenge TV – Bredon Festival of Shooting 2013
The annual Bredon Festival of Shooting, held at Bredon School in Gloucestershire, UK, is one of the great expos of shooting sports. Organised by the school in conjunction with the Schools Challenge, it offers a range of attractions including airgun range, muzzloaders, tradestands and, of course, clay pigeon competitions. Enjoy all the fun of the […]
Fieldsports Britain : Long range pest control + flyfishing international
Hunting rabbits? We’re remote controlling rabbits — and we want to know what you lot think about long range shooting. Roy Lupton in the red corner says yes, do it. Tim Pilbeam in the blue corner says no. Then we are fishing. Which home nation has the best fly fishing team? – England, Scotland, Wales […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting by Segway
Roy Lupton is has a new set of wheels and it is revolutionising his deerstalking. He takes an offroad Segway-style vehicle (we still don’t know who makes it) out after muntjac. Meanwhile, Charlie is at the Sportfish open day looking at the latest fishing tackle technology, and we find out whether anglers and shooters/hunters are […]
Schools Challenge TV – British kids go shooting
It’s the Schools Challenge Bredon weekend! The second leg of the Schools Challenge takes place at Bredon School in Gloucestershire, with dozens of schools and hundreds of kids taking part. Watch the highlights in this week’s episode of Schools Challenge TV. The School’s Challenge is a group of events tailored to under 21’s, offering clay, […]
Shooting high pheasants, with Andy Crow
Some of you, especially if you are a pigeon, will only have seen Andy Crow from the neck up, but today he is stepping out from the hide for some exceptionally high flying pheasant shooting. He’s a guest here today as a thank you for helping out with the cover crops which, as many you […]
Fun day ferreting rabbits in Somerset
The South Somerset Ferreters are a group of families who get together on a Saturday not to go shopping, not to go to a theme park but to go ferreting. We’ve filmed the South Somerset Ferreters before. They are back and this time they reckon have the ultimate warren. It is a hill not far […]
Hunting Chinese water deer – gold medal buck – Zeiss HT review
[embedy]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b92RzSyszU[/embedyt] It has already been a successful morning. Ralph Nebe and Stefan Buehring from Zeiss Sports Optics have both bagged a muntjac buck in Bedfordshire. But this is a day of success for both the hunters and Carl Zeiss Sports Optics. This little deer is a particular favourite with German hunters. This visit filmed in […]
How to design a FITASC course, with George Digweed
A tennis court is a tennis court, a rugby pitch a rugby pitch but for some sports the design of the course makes all the difference. Golf, motor racing and of course shooting are all affected by the layout, the set-up, and make-up of the ground. For the first time, 20 times world champion, George […]
Hunting blue wildebeest
It has been a hot busy morning in Namibia in search of game. We are guests of Zeiss Sports Optics who have taken over Blaser’s Sney Rivier ranch in Namibia. As part of the management plan here in Africa and part of Zeiss’s marketing over Europe, Spanish Zeiss dealers have been offered a trip of […]
Fieldsports Britain : How to shoot pigeons + muntjac stalking
Want to improve your bird hunting, deerstalking and dog work? Learn how shotgun cartridges kill pigeons this week, and how to improve your shooting. Andy Crow is pigeon shooting. His new series CrowHow kicks off with a graphic demonstration of how pellets work to bring down birds. Roy Lupton is trying to find a medal […]
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’ lots of foxes in the line of his work, he couldn’t resist this one as a cub, and adopted it. Now, we in the hunting/shooting community use terriers to catch foxes. Judging by the way it’s besting the terrier […]
Fieldsports Britain – Saucy airgun pellet test + fox shooting + new guns
It’s Carry On Ratting this week. First we test which is the best airgun pellet for penetration – the .22, .20 or ,177 – on a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey (and get Roy Lupton, Andy Crow and Mark Gilchrist to read out the passages their pellet hits – fnarr). then we use the […]
Fieldsports Britain : Hunting ibex, crow control, trout and ferreting
We’re hunting ibex, shooting crows, restocking (and catching) trout, and ferreting rabbits in a packed show this week. * Max Hunt is in Spain after Europe’s most stately game animal, the Spanish or beceite ibex. It turns into a week-long hunt and the animals are keeping him fit. * Roy Lupton has his work cut […]
Boar and fox shooting in Britain
This story starts in September. A few days before the start of the shooting season, George asks us over to film some driven boar shooting… Not in Germany, but Sussex. The reason? Unprecedented boar damage to his cover crops. It’s put him in an impossible situation. George loves to see boar about and thinks they […]
Schools Challenge TV – Becky Bream teaches straight shooting
World class shooter Becky Bream visits the Oxford Gun Company to tell the Schools Challenge how to be a medal winner this week. She is there on behalf of gun distributor Edgar Brothers. There’s also news, with the latest from the trapshooters in UAE, a look at different cartridge types with David Florent, and what […]
Fieldsports Britain : Stalking red deer + high-octane ratting with terriers
He’s hunting stags but it’s a mercy killing as Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes out two unhealthy red hinds from the Cumbrian herd in this week’s show. He also takes time to test the new Subaru Forester.. has the farmer’s friend gone soft? Andy Crow’s rat problem comes to an end thanks to a […]
Fieldsports Britain – FerretCam – amazing rabbit-hunting footage
We’re hunting rabbits with ferrets and, for the first time, we have given the little animals movie cameras to record all the underground action. The rabbits are damaging crops and hedgerows, so the farmer wants them removed. Ferrets are the best option, and Shooting Times columnist Simon Whitehead is the UK’s best-known ferreter. He is […]
Schools Challenge TV – University Challenge 2013
It’s the university and college clayshooting cup – the University Challenge 2013. Forget Jeremy Paxman and all that intellectual bobbins. This is the prize that matters. There are plenty of teams in with a chance today. There is a strong showing from the agricultural colleges, but Cambridge University, Aberystwyth and Plymouth are all in with […]
Fieldsports Britain : How to get hunting/shooting ground
It’s a question we’re asked a lot: “How do I get some ground to shoot/hunt over?”. Mark Gilchrist has the answer. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, he shows how to approach landowners, what to say and, more importantly, what not to say. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is out saving twin and triplet baby lambs from horrid […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roy’s rat hunt
Shooting rats in a barn with Roy Lupton, learning how to keep your dog steady, and a preview of the CLA Game Fair. That’s this week’s Fieldsports Britain. We’ve got rats, big as bloomin’ cats, in the crosshairs – and even cats (not in the crosshairs) cleaning up the dead rats. We’re out with Skinner’s […]
Schools Challenge TV – National Clay-Shooting Championships
It’s the event we’ve been waiting for. The first Schools Challenge clay competition of 2013 takes place at the Oxford Gun Company. Kids from schools all over England are here to take part in a festival of clay-smashing designed partly to find out who’s best and mainly to have a fun day they will remember. […]
Fieldsports Britain : Fallow deer cull + grayling on the Kennet
The fallow deer cull is coming to an end. To keep the herd healthy, it’s Roy Lupton’s job to take five animals with the minimum disturbance. That means head-shooting, and headshooting means you have to hit an something the size of an apple at 100 yards ten times out of ten. Miss and you will […]
Schools Challenge TV – Perfect country school
Bredon School in Gloucestershire has a clay pigeon shooting team and its own clay layout. Does that make it the perfect country school? It offers shooting – and plenty of other ways to get your boots muddy. Bredon’s shooting team is one of the main contenders in the Schools Challenge shooting competition. David Florent of […]
Fieldsports Britain – Stalking stars Tom Wood, Ray Mears, John Wilson
We have England rugby player Tom Wood on his love of fieldsports and his road to recovery from injury thanks to his bow. Bushcraft TV star Ray Mears is talking the importance of having a good pair of binos, Northampton Saints’ Scott Armstrong is enjoying long-range shooting this week, and top angling TV presenter John […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbiting with ferrets and lurchers, foxshooting and gundogs
* We’re out with ferrets, lurcher and Shooting Times’s Simon Whitehead in Norfolk after rabbits * The legendary Roy Lupton teams up with Captain Camo himself, Mark Gilchrist, to go foxshooting in Kent * Ricky Moloney is our Skinners gundog training expert, with his tip about how to show displeasure to a dog + We […]
Schools Challenge TV – What are we shooting in 2013?
It’s a big programme this week: there’s a preview of all the Schools Challenge events from March to May, at the Oxford Gun Company and at Bredon School, there’s a review of Bowman’s new range of clay pigeon traps,plus the various clays on offer from CCI, there is News, and there are reviews of the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hare vs eagle + British wild boar + Welsh miners hunting
We are launching eagles on hares in Lincolnshire, George Digweed on wild boar in Sussex and we are out with the Banwen Miners foxhounds pack in the Valleys of South Wales. It’s a packed programme this week, with incredible footage of hares’ tactics when faced with Roy Lupton and friends’ flying eagles. Meanwhile, George Digweed […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cat vs Fox – night vision in action
It’s not just night vision. Roy Lupton and his friends have found a way of turning night into day. As a result they see a lot more wildlife action than they ever have before, and a lot more foxes to shoot, too. Meanwhile, we’re at the Shooting Show with George Digweed and Andy Crow. And […]
Schools Challenge TV – Gorgs Geikie goes for Gold
Special guest this week is London 2012 Olympics pistol shooter Gorgs Geikie. She’s out with Double Trap Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Stevan Walton and David Florent of the Oxford Gun Company to try out the new Range Rover Vogue, to shoot clay pigeons and to fulfil a Top Gear-style challenge. She also gives her […]
Fieldsports Britain : Shooting foxes
We’ve got two kinds of foxshooting this week. First up, twenty times world champion shooter George Digweed has got a wild boar problem on his shoot in Sussex. He is out to get them – and uncovers an even bigger fox problem. The there is Roy Lupton, reinvented this week as The Human Leaf. Just […]
