Fieldsports Britain – Zander, barbel, rats (with a digger), trout and game cookery
Zander fishing, rat shooting (you liked it so much last week we’re back with more) and why Cornwall is the must-shoot must-fish county in the UK. Dom Holtam takes us out after zander and barbel, two of coarsefishing’s best-kept secrets. Roy Lupton has put away the airguns and is moving on the rat-holes with diggers […]
Fieldsports Britain – The Warrener + driven rats + driven partridge
The Warrener, driven partridges, driven rats, and our competition to find Britain’s biggest rat. Roy Lupton uses everything from chainsaw smoke to Chinese takeaways to bring rats to his shotguns, airguns, terriers and blokes with spades. Meanwhile, a viewer from Hartlepool has sent in a picture of a rat that measures 18in from head to […]
Happy Birthday To You
For a shooter or hunter on your birthday, Browning offers this unusual version of ‘Happy Birthday To You’: bang-de-bang-bang, bang-bang! This first appeared as an item on Fieldsports Britain, episode 96. Music thanks to Al Mobbs at MobbsMusic. Venue thanks to the Oxford Gun Company.
Fox shooting and rabbiting with a Harris hawk
We pile on to Roy Lupton’s Argocat and head off with a rifle and Harris hawk. Both prove deadly this evening with foxes responding to the call and the birds hitting their targets time and time again. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 64. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain64
Stalking muntjac in Oxfordshire
We’re out in the early morning with top stalking agent Owen Beardsmore of Cervus UK and his client Mark Broadhurst. We are looking for muntjac on an estate in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire. Owen explains how he looks after the deer in his care with salt and mineral licks. Keith Watson turns up to […]
Hunting Hares with a Golden Eagle
Roy Lupton is on the Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire with his golden eagle ‘Baby’ on the look out for brown hares. We work hard for our quarry but there is an awesome flight showing just how incredible these birds and this style of hunting can be. This item first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 62. […]
Shooting British wild boar in the snow + Ford Ranger test
We are shooting wild boar and testing the Ford Thunder pick-up. Editor of Sporting Shooter magazine Dom Holtam is also ex editor of Performance Car magazine and also a deer warden in Sussex. We attend a roadside casualty before going onto Dom’s high seat to feed in the boar with apple pulp. We return later […]
Maritime Media’s big screens for shows and events
Maritime Media was formed in 2009 and is an independent digital outdoor media owner, specialising in the supply, installation and management of large-format digital screens, monetised by advertising. With more and more ad spend being pumped in to digital, the sector is growing at an unprecedented rate and it isn’t hard to see why — […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeonshooting, gundog pups and how to be a better person
Pigeons, gundogs, and how to get qualified as a hunter and a shooter this week. – Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is shooting pigeons with a Winchester SX3. – The Fieldsports Channel cocker spaniel is having puppies (here’s a blow-by-blow account of how to do it AND how not to do it). You can be better through […]
NVQ for hunt staff
Hunt staff are taking an NVQ1 in animal care and health & Safety, backed by the Countryside Alliance and run by Haddon Training from Wiltshire. So what can a Government-sponsored course do for hunting folk? We join a lad from the Kimblewick Hunt who is on it. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode […]
How to pass your DSC1 Deer Stalking Certificate
We pick up tips from a group of deer stalkers on the National Gamekeepers Organisation DSC1 course. They get to learn about gun safety, rifle accuracy, deer habits and the law, a quarry identification test and questions about meat hygiene. For the last part, they visit a £3 million game processing unit on a private […]
Partridge shooting with tanks
As a thank you to the forces serving in Afghanistan, the shoot at Sedgeford Hall on the Norfolk coast invite the locally based soldiers as guests on a driven day. In return light dragoons arrive with a machine that’ll certainly put some birds up. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 64. To watch […]
How to cook sea bass on a barbecue
Game chef Mark Gilchrist cooks bass on an open fire in the British countryside. Also on the menu are homemade venison burgers and pigeon kebabs, all served with homemade tomato sauce. Meanwhile, Dom Holtam tests a pie iron from Bushwear to ensure the sausages are done to perfection. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, […]
Wildfowling in Scotland
We’re with the Wigtown Bay Wildfowlers Club learning about how they acquired land with help from the Wildlife Habitat Trust. Then we’re sharing a muddy hole with a young wildfowler and his father’s hammer gun. With a 40mph wind he makes the best shot of his life bringing down a pinkfooted goose that’s going like […]
Air rifle review S410 vs old BSA
Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam compares the old with the new, testing the power of the Air Arms S410F with that of an old BSA – a tool many of us would of started shooting with as kids. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 86. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain86
Hunting big cats in the UK
Using sheep as bait, Peter Carr goes in search of one of the big myths of the British countryside: are there leopards or lynx, beasts of Exmoor or Surrey panthers, roaming our wild places? He heads for Pembrokeshire where there have been more than a dozen sightings. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode […]
Fox charity dumps doxes in countryside
The Fox Project in Kent is letting foxes go next to a chicken run. It’s incredible how cruel animal welfare groups and animal rights people can be. Local foxshooter Roy Lupton is infuriated and imagine how the chicken owner feels. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 84. To watch the whole show go […]
Shooting rabbits from a combine harvester
Game chef Mark Gilchrist rides shotgun on Andy “Crowman” Crow’s combine harvester on the look-out for bolting rabbits. This new style of ‘driven game’ gives Mark and his Browning Maxus a good dusting. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 88. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain88
Fieldsports Britain – Birr Castle Game Fair + hawking rabbits
To Co Offaly in Ireland for the Birr Castle Game Fair, to Kent in the UK to take a variety of birds hawking after rabbits, and to Oxford where they are giving away prizes galore for shooting. Come with us to Ireland to see hawking, horses, shooting, and all the fieldsports at which Irish excel. […]
CENS ProFlex Digital ear protection
Shooters try out the CENS ProFlex digital ear protection system by Puretone. Commonwealth Games silver medallist Abbey Burton and Sporting Shooter gamechef Mark Gilchrist both give the technology a go. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 92. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain92
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbits, fallow deer and a fairytale Scottish castle
Rabbits, fallow deer, a fairytale Scottish castle, pigeons, clays, and social responsibility for rioters: what a mixture. Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is out after fallow bucks in Kent. He’s not had much luck with Fieldsports Channel in the highseat recently. Will it go right this time? Meanwhile, Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow is on the same […]
The Flurry Launcher
It looks like a flying saucer. In reality, it is a revolution in simulated game shooting. The Flurry Launcher is capable of firing up to 4 clays per second with a range of more than 200 yards. It really is the only credible alternative to driven game. Find out more at FlurryLauncher.com. This film first […]
Fieldsports Britain – Bernard Cribbins fishes and Roy Lupton shoots fallow
Actor and fieldsports enthusiast Bernard Cribbins is pushing a boat out for a good cause at a trout fishery in Oxfordshire. Roy Lupton is stressing about whether or not to shoot a fallow buck in the head. We reveal the high prices people will pay to shoot white or weird deer. And Helena Neraal explains […]
First and fastest Scottish grouse of 2011
It’s the fastest grouse off the moor in 2011. On the Glorious 12th August, we are on the Atholl Estates with chef and shooter Neil McGowan of East Haugh House Hotel. He has to get a grouse back into the kitchen in time for elevenses so it can become part of lunch. All he has […]
Fieldsports Britain – First grouse of 2011, 30lb salmon, 21 foxes
First grouse of the season, a 30lb salmon, 21 foxes in a night, antis behaving badly and Countryside Alliance Foundation bringing game cookery to urban England – it is again the best of British sport in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. With the help of a speedy Subaru Outback, we’re putting grouse, venison and salmon on […]
Anti-hunting ‘investigators’ caught on hidden camera
This is the moment two employees of the League Against Cruel Sports, a charity which campaigns against hunting, shooting and other activities, were caught trespassing in a wood in the South of England while trying to spy on someone. The bungling pair were caught on their own covert surveillance equipment that had been discovered and […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects and roebuck calling, episode 89
Just two days away from the grouse season, we have the prospects for shooting in Scotland and England. We talk to Lindsay Waddell and Ed Bromet. It’s also the height of the roebuck rut. We’re out calling them in Somerset with Dirk Waltmann of German hunting magazine Pirsch and stalker Leo Naylor. Meanwhile, the legend […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cricketer Rob Key and George Digweed on the pigeons
Kent county cricket captain Rob Key goes pigeon shooting with world champion shooter George Digweed. Game chef Mark Gilchrist is riding shotgun (literally) with Andy ‘Crow Man’ Crow on a combine harvester looking out for rabbits. And Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam is having a hard time finding a fallow buck amid a sea of […]
James Haskell learns shooting from John Bidwell
James Haskell has a shooting lesson from world champion shooter John Bidwell at the CLA Game Fair 2011. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 87. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain87
Fieldsports Britain – Mantrap, cannon and who is stealing peregrines?
In this week’s Fieldsports Britain, we have a mantrap, a cannon, an England rugby star, a German with a riflescope, a look behind the scenes of the guntrade, the illegal trade in birds of prey and Bernard Cribbins (not the illegal trade in Bernard Cribbins – that’s quite different). It can only be our review […]
Fieldsports Britain – Exploding Coke cans, foxes, airguns and big cats
So much stuff for you this week on Fieldsports Britain: foxes, airguns, big cats and blowing up Coke cans with an extraordinary new clay pigeon trap. * Planning to replace your old airgun? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam shows off a great new airrifle, the Air Arms S410F, to try out on rats and rabbits. […]
Triple Classic and World English Sporting 2011
Thanks to Blaser shotguns and Promatic traps, we cross the pond to the USA to see how well the British shooting contingent did at the Triple Classic 2011 clay shoot in Texas. Answer? Yee-blooming-haa! This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 80, 8th June 2011. To watch the whole programme go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNrYK0F8M2E Sign […]
Chatsworth wins Countryside Alliance award
HG The Duke of Devonshire explains why his home, Chatsworth, has won the 2011 Countryside Alliance lifetime achievement award. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 89. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain89
On Test: FLIR Scout
At last! An affordable (sort of) thermal imaging system. Now you can look beyond the trees to count your deer. Now you can see you fox coming long before it sees you. Sporting Shooter magazine editor Dom Holtam tries it out. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain episode 76. To watch the whole show […]
Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons over wheat and a nice double rifle
To shoot or not to shoot – that is the question. If you are Andy ‘Crowman’ Crow, made famous by Sporting Shooter magazine, and birds are devastating your mate’s wheatfields, it’s an easy one to answer. And he has a number of tips and tricks up his camouflaged sleeves to deceive those pesky pigeons. If […]
Beretta World 2011
Held at Meon Springs in Hampshire, the Beretta World Sporting Championships is now officially the UK’s biggest sporting clay shooting competition attracting nearly 1,000 entries. The competition has been running for more than 20 years and is a must for every serious Beretta sporting shooter. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 84. To […]
Benelli Sp’Auto 2011
Held at the West London Shooting School, the Benelli Sp’Auto is the only Sporting shoot aimed exclusively at semi-automatic shotgun users. Specifically designed around the semi-auto, the event allows full use of the auto’s three shot facility. Stands are presented as either (a) three targets on the call of “pull” or (b) two targets on […]
Oxford Gun Company award-winning clay ground
The Oxford Gun Company won the 2011 Shooting Industry Awards for best clay-shooting ground. Doug and David Florent explain what makes the ground unique. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Animal charity releases foxes next to chicken run
They are dumping foxes in the countryside near you. In this week’s programme, we uncover how one British animal welfare charity feeds foxes on dogfood and lets them go near a free-range chicken run. Duh! Meanwhile, back in the more enlightened world of shooting sports, we’re at the Beretta World shooting competition in Hampshire. We’re […]
Fieldsports Britain – Irish lurchers and Sutherland trout
Sport in Northern Ireland and Scotland this week – looking for the fastest longdogs and gundogs on land and water (lurchers competing for the Master McGrath), picking up tips about shooting straight from Mike Yardley and knocking down Finn McCool-sized bags of crows with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist. That’s all at the Shane’s Castle […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with schools, foxing and pheasants
We have fishing, foxing, pheasants, the Clay Classic and an IPC award-winning clay ground in this week’s programme. We are with fishing expert Charles Jardine looking at his special love, the Fishing With Schools initiative, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. We are at the Marlston Shoot on the Berkshire Downs admiring their superb […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing with Miss Switzerland
It’s international jetset week on Fieldsports Britain. Swiss supermodel Xenia Tchoumitcheva takes us trout fishing on Alpine streams, we are taking a tricky shot on a roebuck in Hampshire with Roy Lupton, and we are shooting at the Newick Park Hotel & Country Estate which offers a friendly driven shoot over 250 acres of glorious […]
Fishing for Schools
Top flyfisher Charles Jardine explains the UK’s Fishing For Schools project, which is backed by the Countryside Alliance. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 82. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain82
Fieldsports Britain – Ear defenders + pigeons over peas + partridges
What’s this ‘ear? Here is how to protect your hearing with our Big Friendly Test of ear defenders for shooters. And for those of you who didn’t wear hearing protection when you were younger I said WE’RE TESTING EAR DEFENDERS!! That’s not all. In this week’s Fieldsports Britain programme, we’re out on a traditional pheasant […]
Fishing for Heroes meets Project Healing Waters
In May 2011, UK charity Fishing For Heroes hosted the guys from American charity Project Healing Waters on a fishing trip around the south of England. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 78. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain78 Fishing for Heroes is a unique charity which specialises in the support […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hypnotise a bird and avoid a charging lion
How to hypnotise a bird, how to tell when a charging lion is going to kill you (or just scare you), how to set up your quad bike for rabbiting – all these vital ‘life skills’ and more are revealed in this week’s Fieldsports Britain. The much-admired Roy Lupton dizzies doves in order to train […]
Ian Coley Shooting School
We review Ian Coley Shooting School, one of the finest instruction, guns and game shooting resources in the West of England. Located just outside Cheltenham it has a shooting ground, gunshop and sporting agency all on one site with easy access and parking. It is the only shooting business in Cheltenham to offer a full […]
Fieldsports Britain – Project Healing Waters for Iraq war veterans
Watch Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans catch trout, talk about what they went through and explain how flyfishing helps them get over post traumatic stress disorder. Watch Browning owners get together and celebrate owning Brownings. Watch Benelli owners do the same with Benellis. And see all shooters enjoy coming together for a day at the […]
Mark Gilchrist shoots pigeons in Oxfordshire from an Idleback chair
Shooting magazine celebrity chef Mark Gilchrist tries out the Idleback pigeonshooting chair on a spring day pigeon shooting with Shoot Warehouse in Oxfordshire. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
Abbey Burton hunts rabbits with night vision
Abbey Burton and Ed Ling try out rabbit shooting with the new N550 Pulsar digi-sight and an Ideback chair. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 68. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain68
