Unluckiest Fox in the Quarry
Cats famously have nine lives. Foxes are not so lucky, especially not this one, who is ignoring the advice of his friends the crows. This must be the unluckiest fox there was. Not a pleasant way to go – poor animal. This first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 166. To watch the whole show go […]
Fieldsports Britain : Driven pheasant shooting + gundog training
We’ve got birds, birds and bird dogs this week. Roy Lupton is on a driven shoot in Hampshire. We’re so used to see him shooting foxes and deer, can he handle a shotgun on birds too? And when a disabled clay shooter said he wanted to go on a driven pheasant day, we stepped up […]
Fieldsports Britain : Rolls Royce rabbiting + black bear hunting
We’re in the USA this week. We’ve got a Rolls Royce converted for rabbiting in Texas, the last of the black bear hunts with hounds in California, and all the latest kit from the Shot Show in Las Vegas. Texas ranch owner Fausto Yturria could not bear to part with his late father-in-law’s Rolls Royce, […]
Schools Challenge TV – CPSA registered shoots
Find out how to enter CPSA registered shoots. We join Schools Challenge competitor Will Ford for a day at the challenging Wylye Valley ground. He is a regular at CPSA registered shoots. What’s more, he has joined the Schools Challenge Academy, which gives him additional benefits, such as subsidised cartridges. That’s not all. There is […]
Fieldsports Britain – Wily coyotes, Shot Show kit and record big game hunting
On this week’s show, we’ve come to America for coyote hunting, world record big game hunting, and the Shot Show 2013, the greatest gun show on the planet. Charlie Jacoby is after coyotes in California, the varmint of choice for the self-respecting American rifleman. We talk to Jason Bruce, star of Headhunter Chronicles on Sportsman […]
On Test: Daystate Wolverine .303 – hot air or hot stuff?
The Daystate Wolverine .303 has got people talking – Some say ‘it’s awesome’. Others point out that, in order to own this work of Dr Frankenstein the UK you need to have a firearm certificate – and if you have an FAC why on earth would you bother about air when you can have powder? […]
Fieldsports Britain – DIY night vision + flying hawks on pheasants
Roy Lupton is out with his goshawk after rabbits and pheasants, and he has an apprentice with a red-tailed hawk. It’s a great spectator sport. Meanwhile, Andy Crow was appalled at Roy’s homemade attempts at night vision last week, he has brought a rat-shooting mate who has made a much better version for less money. […]
Schools Challenge TV – learning new shooting skills
It’s episode 1 of Schools Challenge TV. Backed by organisations and companies involved in the shooting industry and outside it, the School’s Challenge is a group of events tailored to under-21s from across the UK. In this film, kids learn to shoot, and Andrew Crawford of the CLA Game Fair and Nick Fellowes of the […]
Fieldsports Britain News – 2nd January 2013
In News this week, record numbers unbox on Boxing Day, it’s the OO-ER-S-P-C-A, airgun action you can take, a challenging TV launch, and a bogus eagle takes the biscuit. This item first appeared in episode 162.
Fieldsports Britain – Screaming pheasants + build your own night vision
Pigeon-shooting fanatic Andy Crow is out on a spectacular south-of-England driven pheasant shoot, where he shoots his best bird of the season. He offers his tips for pheasant shooting and how to behave. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is playing with a homemade night-vision kit. The parts only cost a few quid. He tries the DIY set-up […]
Bloopers 2012
It may come as a bit of a surprise but sometimes our well oiled production team and presenters don’t always get it right – here are some of our favourite outtakes of 2012. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 161. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain161
Fieldsports Britain – Best of 2012
It’s our review of 2012 – from the UK to the USA, to Africa, Hungary, Germany and hunting, shooting and fishing several thousand birds, fish and animals, with shotguns, rifles, bows, rods, ferrets – the best kit, and both the oldest and the newest tricks. We also have the 2012 blooper reel – where we […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven deer + boar, and decoying crows
We’re off to Germany for a 50-gun driven hunt, courtesy of Zeiss Sports Optics. It’s fast-moving sport, shooting game on the move with rifles. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is in the hotspot highseat. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is after his namesake,crows, protecting his crops on his farm in Kent, south-east England. And survival expert Jonny […]
Fieldsports Britain – Mark Gilchrist on camouflage + George Digweed on long shots
Are you mad about Mossy Oak? Do you rave about Realtree? Does Jack Pyke make you joyful? Well, this is the programme for you. It’s Camo Man, as you have never seen him before: manly Mark Gilchrist is trying new ways of blending in as he shoots pigeons. If you are a pigeon, be afraid. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Training goshawks to catch partridges + shooting pigeons, episode 158
Our top falconer Roy Lupton has his goshawks and eagle out on a training exercise. He has a 45mph lure he is trying out on them, to get them ‘match fit’ for partridges and pheasants. Meanwhile, Andy Crow is decorating a tree (it’s that time of year) with pigeon decoys in order to bring the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit shooting pellets and how to forage for food
Round pellets, flat pellets and pointed pellets – which is better when you are after rabbits? Roy Lupton conducts an almost scientific test to show which of them do the most damage to a rabbit. It’s a test that will lead to higher standards in shooting. That’s not all. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is after […]
Fieldsports Britain – Vinnie Jones’s Russian Macnab + ferreting + deerstalking
Vinnie Jones is after fox, salmon and raccoondog – the South Somerset Ferreters are after rabbits – Roy Lupton is looking for roe deer – and we’ve even got some scientists whingeing about the perils of lead shot. It’s a dangerous week to be wildlife on Fieldsports Britain. We lead on the news that Vinnie […]
Wildlife Diseases and Conservation – a one day symposium
We are in London for a one day symposium on Wildlife Diseases and Conservation, run by the Veterinary Association for Wildlife Management and held at The Royal Society of Medicine in London. This film is brought to you by the Countryside Alliance Film Unit. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL420A6E1F70009222 Timetable – and links to individual speakers Session 1, chairman […]
Fieldsports Britain – Partridges in Paris and calling foxes in Scandinavia
We are going continental this week. We are on a shooting estate near Paris enjoying a day’s driven partridges with the research & development team from Browning shotguns. We take a look at the latest foxcalling techniques to come from Sweden. Back at home in the UK, we are out with the Countryside Alliance, taking […]
Advertise on Fieldsports Channel TV part 2 – Talk To James
Advertising on Fieldsports Channel part two — being the further adventures of James. For part one, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrc87ETB50 Brave Sir James is dashing round, seeking advertisers, From gunmakers, to engineers, to game fair organisers. He’s galloping forth globally, and nobly persuading The gun trade and the tackle trade that Fieldsports is worth aiding. James puts […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Ferrari Macnab
‘The Macnab’: grouse, stag and salmon, all in a day. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam presents the ‘Ferrari Macnab’: a stag in Cornwall, a grouse in Yorkshire and a salmon in the North of Scotland, all thanks to the new 208mph Ferrari FF. But does he make it? Find out in this film, which is […]
Grouseshooting + great grouse recipe
Game chef Lee Maycock is on his first ever day on the moor in search of red grouse. He wants to find out why this bird isn’t used more often in British cooking. He joins the Hancock family in Yorkshire where they’re hosting a walked up grouse shooting day. And he finds out about the […]
Fieldsports Britain – How to call in great big bucks
Roy Lupton has an appointment with some fallow bucks in Sussex, and he has the right instruments to call them to him. You can learn some tips on how to call male fallow yourself. Meanwhile, a viewer called Keith from Middlesex near London has devised a new trap for catching urban foxes in order to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Violent poachers, Tackle & Gun Show, rifle/scope combos
Farm manager Andy Crow went to talk to some lads on his farm who looked like they were shooting pheasants out of the trees with a .22, and they turned the rifle on him and started firing. Andy tells the story – and the poor response by local police. Meanwhile, Sporting Rifle’s Tim Pilbeam has […]
Hunting YouTube – deer hunting, fishing and wingshooting
Hunting YouTube is a weekly item which aims to show the best hunting, shooting and fishing videos that YouTube has to offer. This week, we are in England’s New Forest on a red stag hunt, we are in Ireland, shooting birds, and fishing from British chalkstreams to Kazakh catfish. We are ferreting, wildfowling in Germany […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting badgers and wheelchair guns
As animal rights activists bring fear to farms in the South-West of England, Fieldsports Britain widens the debate. We have been sent a film of what looks like illegal badger-shooting in the East of England, and with it a statement that doesn’t mention bovine tuberculosis. Instead, it talks about the damage that badgers do to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Close encounters with deer and mapping rabbits
We are sneaking up on deer when a group of roe sneak up on us; we are looking at a new hunting app you may find useful; and we are on the coast of Cornwall, ferreting rabbits. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after a fallow buck but he is taken by surprise when […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting foxes, rabbits and how Italians run estates
Roy Lupton is calling foxes, Andy Crow is lamping rabbits and Charlie Jacoby is swanning off to Italy. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, Andy is catching up on his rabbiting with a .17HMR, accompanied by his son and Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam. Meanwhile, Roy is out fallow stalking and has a go at the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Driven grouse, Birr Castle game fair and foxing
We’re off to Yorkshire, to Ireland and to the South-East of England this week. Yorkshire is home of Bransdale Moor, where William Powell Sporting is showing excellent driven grouse with guns including Mark Osborne and Simon Ward. We’re at Birr Castle, Co Offaly, where the Great Game Fairs of Ireland are doing what they do […]
Fieldsports Britain – Teaching ducks to fly + fox and pigeon shooting
We’re out with George Digweed putting ducks in the air; we’re using a new torch to find foxes (to protect those ducks); and Realtree Pro Staff are saving a farm from attack by pigeons. We’re stuffed with September sporting activities and new ideas on how to shoot pests and vermin in the air and on […]
Fieldsports Britain – Airguns vs shotguns on pigeons + big-bore air rifle
What’s best for pigeons – airguns or shotguns? Roy Lupton is armed with an Air Arms airgun and Mark Gilchrist has his trusty Browning Maxus as they try to rid a farmyard of ferals. The farmer has got a feral pigeon crisis. Meanwhile, our tame gun geek Tim Pilbeam has his hands on the new […]
Slo mo shotgun impact – Pigeons
Understanding the concept of “lead” when shooting a shotgun can be difficult to grasp. In this film we slow the action down. It allows the viewer to see the shot being thrown out in front of a fast moving wood pigeon…the bird then flies through the cloud of pellets. Often the shot can fall behind […]
Shooting pigeons in city centres
We’re in central London where the feral pigeons are a real menace. The birds have found all sorts of places to roost around a busy shopping centre. They’re next to the shops, in the car park and on the roof. Roy Lupton is going in with his Air Arms sub 12ft lb air rifle to […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouseshooting, rabbits with Roy Lupton and pigeons
We are off to Yorkshire with Lee Maycock walking up grouse, we are defending a garden centre from pesky rabbits with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting pigeons with Realtree UK Pro Staffer Simon Barr. Game chef and champion of the Countryside Alliance’s Game-to-Eat campaign Lee is shooting grouse at the invitation of the Moorland […]
National Shooting Week
Pupils from the Durand Academy, a large primary school in south london, are on a trip to the country to try some clay shooting. The day has been arranged by the Countryside Alliance to promote National Shooting week (25 May to 2 June 2013). Under the watchful eye of the West Kent Shooting School instructors […]
Peter Wilson, Olympic Double Trap Gold Medallist, London 2012 – interview
How did Pete Wilson get into shooting? What was his training regime like? Why doesn’t he shoot other disciplines? And which is his favourite gun? We’ll tell you that one now – it’s a Perazzi. Find out the answers to the rest in this full and frank interview with the star of TeamGB’s shooters. This […]
Fieldsports Britain – Big night foxshooting with George Digweed
Shooting champions George Digweed and Olympic gold medallist Peter Wilson star in this week’s show. George is using a rifle to protect his pheasant poults from foxes. Pete is telling how he got started in shooting. And we are in Africa shooting gamebirds – francolin or spurfowl. Then there are our regulars: News Stump, Calendar, […]
Irish Game Fair 2012, Shane’s Castle
Review of the Irish Game Fair & Country Lifestyle Festival 2012, Shane’s Castle, Co Antrim. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 137.
African animal quiz
Do you know your African animals? You get a few seconds of film of an African animal – and you have to to name it. Then its name pops up on the screen (you need to have YouTube Annotations switched on, bottom right of the screen). Planning an African safari? Play this with your friends […]
Kit Special – Pulsar Digisight N750 Night Vision Riflescope from Scott Country
The brand new Pulsar Digisight N750 Night Vision Riflescope is designed for long range nightvision observation and hunting at night out to extended ranges of up to 600metres, giving performance that exceeds comparable Gen 2+ Nightvision devices. Resistant to bright light exposure, the N750 Digisight can be zeroed during the day, and even used for […]
African bird quiz
Do you know your African bird species? You get a few seconds of film of an African bird – and you have to to name it. Then its name pops up on the screen (you need to have YouTube Annotations switched on, bottom right of the screen). Planning an African safari? Play this with your […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting pigeons in Essex, and the fallow buck season starts
Mark Gilchrist is after a big bag of birds in Essex, Dom Holtam wants his first fallow buck of the season, we are filming Andy Crow with a new camera effect called Crow-Mo, and we are in Africa hunting blue wildebeest. Our mission this week is to do the farmers a favour. With the harvest […]
Olympics shooting news from London 2012
Get the inside track on the London2012 Olympic shooting events with world Cup gold medallist Abbey Burton. As the USA and China share the medals halfway through the games, we review performances by Kim Rhode, Vincent Hancock, Yi Siling, Yu Dan, Guo Wenjun and TeamGB shooters James Huckle, Rory Warlow, Richard Brickell and Elena Allen. […]
Fieldsports Britain – Roebuck stalking and hunting special
It’s the roebuck rut and this is our roebuck special with no less than four outings after Britain’s best-looking deer. Roy Lupton is off to the roebuck heartland of Hampshire, where he hopes that muggy weather will be enough to get the bucks into the open. Simon Barr from Realtree is not far away with […]
Fieldsports Britain’s Calendar – 25th July 2012
To ensure you don’t miss that important Game Fair, Clay Shoot, Open Day, DSC1 course, hunting, shooting or fishing season, check out our new series “Calendar UK”. And if you’re arranging an event that you want to go with a bang, Talk to James – james@fieldsportschannel.tv This week’s events Saturday 4th August. Stead Hall Firearms […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shopping centre pigeons + bucket-and-spade prawning
We’re shooting pigeons in a London shopping centre and we are prawning – the summer sport of choice for anyone on a bucket-and-spade holiday. We’re also at the Oxford Gun company’s ‘alternative’ game fair on what would have been the CLA Game Fair weekend. And we bring you regulars including News Stump, Calendar and Hunting […]
Oxford Gun Company – Novice Schools Challenge August 2012
Two school girls visit the Oxford Gun Company for some expert tuition from GB shot Stevan Walton. The sixteen year olds are interested in being part of the Novice Schools Challenge, which is for under-21s who have not shot before — or not shot much. They get a day’s tuition at the Oxford Gun Company’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Game Fair alternatives, wild boar and George Digweed
Wild boar under the moon in Croatia, how to set a clayshooting Grand Prix course with world champion George Digweed, all the latest shooting kit from Scandinavia: we have lots of new stuff for you this week. We’re also comparing shooting to tennis and bicycling as a sport for anyone to take up with the […]
CLA Game Fair 2012 – report from site
We speak to the man who made the decision to cancel this year’s Game Fair. We’re also counting the cost, speaking to the traders such as York Guns. There’s comment from shooting champion George Digweed and Sporting Rifle editor Peter Carr. Plus lots of shots of the very very wet site. Do you think it […]
CLA Game Fair 2012 – Cancelled
Constant rain forces ‘heartbreak’ cancellation of CLA Game Fair
