Fieldsports Britain – Pigeons, helice, pheasants and fallow
It’s all about pigeons – and a bit about pheasants and fallow deer. In this episode of our half-hour weekly show Fieldsports Britain, we’re in the West Country shooting pigeons with guns who got together on Facebook and we’re at the British Helice Grand Prix at the West Kent Shooting School – a shooting sport […]
Fieldsports Britain – Grouse prospects
Grouse grouse grouse: are there lots to shoot? why can you only move them at night? what makes the king of gamebirds so magical? In this week’s show we talk to John Duncan of sporting agent Roxtons and Mark Merison of Strutt & Parker about prospects for the 2010 season; with the BBC rumoured to […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed goes foxing + Mike Yardley shoots pheasants
Sporting hero George Digweed returned from Italy a fortnight ago confirmed as probably the best British clay shot who has ever lived. He won his 17th world championships – the World Sporting. His first was in the 1980’s, so that means he has been a world champion across four decades. But clays are not all […]
Fieldsports Britain – All the fun of the CLA Game Fair 2010
We covered the CLA Game Fair from top to bottom and 144,000 of you were there. And what a show we have for you: * What’s new at this year’s CLA Game Fair: shoot VAT, sound moderators, our big screen, JCB quad bikes… * What’s best at the show, with the soaraway Simes triplets from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Shooting cartoon and CLA Game Fair preview
The triplets are back – and now they’re armed! The fabulous foxhunting Simes girls from Leicestershire go out and enjoy a shooting lesson – and we go with them. The identical 13-year-olds and their long-suffering elder sister show what fun shooting sports are. That’s not all: * We’re with top shooting writer Mike Yardley as […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbit recipes and long distance rifleshooting
Fancy shooting a fox at 1,000 yards? We learn how at an incredible long-distance range thanks to riflescope manufacturer Zeiss. Planning a romantic weekend break? We review a new package from the Oxford Gun Company that combines shooting with love. Maybe it should be the Oxford ‘Fun’ Company (!) – And for the latest rabbit […]
How to be a Pigeon Shooting Expert with James Marchington
It’s the preview film for our fabulous new DVD “Pigeons, the Experts’ Way”. Sporting Shooter editor James Marchington learns the art of decoying pigeons from gamekeeper and expert shot Andy Pye. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 15. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain15
Fieldsports Britain – River Test in crisis
We’ve got shooting and fishing this week. First fishing: the River Test is meant to be a world-class angling destination. In this week’s half-hour show on Fieldsports Channel, we’re talking to Hampshire chalkstream luminaries such as Mick Lunn to find out why the gin clear waters are running a murky brown colour – and why […]
Fieldsports Britain – Crow Shooting, Shane’s Castle game fair and how to run a charity clay
Crows at short range, an Irish game fair and how to put on a charity shoot: this week’s programme has it all for the discerning summer shooter. Learn how to hide out for corvids with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist (don’t worry – he’s not going to give you any crow recipes), join us at […]
Fieldsports Britain – Northern Irish sportsmen and sportswomen go to Stormont
British foxhunters went to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster with their grievances and got beaten up. Presented by Irish Countrysports & Country Life editor Paul Pringle, we join Irish sportsmen and sportswomen at Parliament Buildings, Stormont – the seat of power in Northern Ireland – where fieldsports supporters are welcomed with open arms by […]
The King’s Ginger and the Edwardian Shots
A cartoon guide to the Edwardian shooting party, brought to your screens by our friends at Berry Brothers & Rudd, makers of that superb shooting restorative, The King’s Ginger.
Fieldsports Britain – Trout, pigeons and politics
Trout, pigeons and politics. In this week’s show we are in the spectacular wilderness that is the North-West tip of Scotland (thanks to the Kinlochbervie Hotel) looking for trout in the multitude of hill lochs: small black fish which show up black on a peaty black background, so not easy. We’re there with Rob Gray, […]
Fieldsports Britain – British wild boar, goshawk chicks and Cumbria shooting politics
What will the future hold for firearms law following the Cumbria shooting tragedy? In this week’s half-hour Fieldsports Britain show, we’re talking to top experts and lobbyists about whether the Government will ban any guns. Bill Harriman and Mike Eveleigh of BASC and Rob Gray of the Countryside Alliance give their predictions. But it’s not […]
Fieldsports Britain – Cumbria fishing festival and survival with Jonny Crockett
What a show we’ve got for you…! + We’re at the Cumbria Fishing Festival learning top tips about river flyfishing for trout and grayling with Jeremy Lucas. + We’re out with survival expert Jonny Crockett dining off the bushes. + Love your lurchers and terriers? We’re racing them at the Highclere Country Fair and learning […]
Fieldsports Britain – Carp and pike with Jan Porter
We’re after pike and carp at Bishops Bowl Fishery in Warwickshire with Jan Porter, one of the top coarse anglers of today and the face of Shimano angling kit. if you want any particular angler next to you when you go fishing, you can’t do better than Jan.
Fieldsports Britain – Inside the Browning factory + hunting in Belgium
This week we visit the secret military installation that is Browning’s factory in Belgium where, alongside the automatic rifles, the craftsmen of the Browning Custom Shop make some of the most sought-after shotguns in the world. We go stalking roebuck and foxshooting with Browning in Belgium, using the latest X-Bolt rifles, and we take the […]
Polaris RZR quadbike review
Is this the ultimate gamekeeper transport? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes the Polaris range for a burn round the fields. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 15. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain15
How to call foxes in daylight
We’re out calling in foxes at night and lamping them – but that’s easy. We’re also out with an expert calling and shooting them by day, and for that you need the wheel from an old Hornby train. This film first appeared on Fieldsports Britain, episode 22. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain22 […]
Hunting British wild boar
There are thousands of feral and wild boar roaming the British countryside’s darker woods, and shooting them has become an established sport. We review the state of British wild boar in Britain today – in Kent’s Ashdown Forest and in the Galloway Forest in Scotland, where one boar gets a bit too close for comfort! […]
Canal Game Farm
A thriving game farm that takes great pride in producing pheasant poults, partridge poults (chicks) and mallard growers. Situated five miles south of Ashford in Kent, it is able to supply birds all over Great Britain from Perth, Scotland to Exmoor, Devon. Specialising in Reeves and white pheasants, it sources all its day-old poults from […]
Fieldsports Britain – Keiron Cunningham in The Sun plus the Schools’ Challenge clay comp
Incredible. The Sun newspaper ran a full page article saying how awful it was that we showed a film of Rugby League superstar Keiron Cunningham going deerstalking. ITV used a similar piece. What has happened to British journalism? Have they sent all the good ones to cover the General Election? In this week’s Fieldsports Britain […]
Fieldsports Britain – Abbey Burton + Browning Owners’ Club + Lake District trout
In this programme, we’ve got shotguns, fish and politicians: * What makes you like one gunmaker over another? We’re at the Browning Owners Club day to find out. * Trout are rising all over the Lake District. We’re there to preview the Cumbria Fishing Festival. * London 2012 OlympicTrap hopeful Abbey Burton is teaching a […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rugby league legend Keiron Cunningham goes deerstalking
St Helens rugby league team captain Keiron Cunningham is one of the great ambassadors of fieldsports. In this week’s half-hour programme we follow him out deerstalking. He’s after red hinds on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border with top stalker Mike Dickinson and he’s trying out a new Zeiss FL scope. Find out if he gets lucky. That’s […]
Fieldsports Britain – Kelmarsh game and country fair
Your local game fair will be bigger and better than ever before this year – and this week our half-hour weekly programme tells you why. We’re at Kelmarsh Game & Countrysports Fair, a showcase for what game fairs are offering this year.- See how you can win a Mitsubishi car on the clay line – […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing for Heroes, Crufts-winning gundog and goshawks
It’s the best countryside show on telly. Half an hour a week, and this week Fieldsports Britain has for you: + The winner of Crufts working gundogs, Melvyn Hobbs and his world-beating English springer spaniel Moley and, of course, how they won + A nasty dose of shell shock: Here’s how a group of flyfishers […]
Fieldsports Britain – Fishing for Heroes, Crufts-winning gundog and goshawks
It’s the best countryside show on telly. Half an hour a week, and this week Fieldsports Britain has for you: The winner of Crufts working gundogs, Melvyn Hobbs and his world-beating English springer spaniel Moley and, of course, how they won A nasty dose of shell shock: Here’s how a group of flyfishers have set […]
Fieldsports Britain – George Digweed pigeon shooting
Probably the best shot in the world, George Digweed has won seven World FITASC Championships, nine World Sporting Championships, thirteen European Championships and fourteen World Cups. He runs pheasant shoots and you wouldn’t want to be a pigeon in his home county of Kent at this time of year. Just as the pigeons are hammering […]
Fieldsports Britain – New shooting kit at the IWA gun trade show 2010
Want to know the latest and greatest kit from gunshops this year? It’s the European hunting show IWA, held each March in Germany, and we’re there to see what the Brits are buying and selling. You will see the last word in sporting rifles, shotguns, camo gear – and a lot of stuff that would […]
Fieldsports Britain – New shooting kit at the IWA gun trade show 2010
Want to know the latest and greatest kit from gunshops this year? It’s the European hunting show IWA, held each March in Germany, and we’re there to see what the Brits are buying and selling. You will see the last word in sporting rifles, shotguns, camo gear – and a lot of stuff that would […]
Fieldsports Britain – Lamping with hawks + Olympic shooting + cooking squirrels
There’s so much to see in this week’s Fieldsports Britain, episode 16. We’ show amazing footage of lamping rabbits with a hawk, we’re at the launch of a new scheme that will deliver gold medals for British shooters at the next Olympics, we’re learning to shoot straighter with three national shots, including our own Ab […]
Fieldsports Britain Crufts 2010 preview
Crufts 2010 – it is the greatest dogshow on earth and Sunday 14th March 2010 is gundog day. All over the country, gundog owners are preparing to take their best friends to the NEC at Birmingham. All of them are aiming to end the day in the big hall on the lefthand side – the […]
Fieldsports Britain – Triplet girls who hunt with the Quorn
Amy, Harriet and Laura Simes are the kind of gang you’d expect to find at St Trinians. They are noisy 13-year-old identical triplets who love hunting and shooting – and on the half-hour Fieldsports Britain show available to watch from tonight you will see how we tried to keep up with them. That’s not all. […]
Shooting Politics, episode 13, 17th February 2010
The British Association for Shooting & Conservation is past its 100th birthday and has come a long way since it was a loose association of wildfowlers headed by Stanley Duncan. Now Graham Downing has written “A Sporting Century”, a book telling the history of the UK’s biggest shooting organisation and its forerunner, the Wildfowlers’ Association […]
Fieldsports Britain – Rabbitting vehicle you can drive from the roof
Just because the pheasant season is over, don’t be glum. We’re out rabbiting on a Land Rover you can drive from the roof, we’re providing rehabilitation for troublesome kids by shooting pigeons with Woodspring Pigeon Shooting & Wildfowling Club, we’re flying golden eagles after hares in Berkshire and we’re reviewing the Brook Bank shooting ground […]
Fieldsports Britain – Gundogs Special
In his time Chris Burns has been the gundog training expert for Shooting Times and Sporting Shooter. He runs Breezeleaf Kennels in the south of England and he has invited Sporting Shooter editor James Marchington to one of his regular shoots at Penshurst Place in Kent to show him just what topnotch gundogs can do […]
Fieldsports Britain – Hunting British wild boar, woodcock bonanza, wildfowling and Quex Museum
With the bulk of the shooting season coming to a close, we’re after so much in this half-hour Fieldsports Britain show. How do you shoot British wild boar? What do you do when there is a huge fall of woodcock? What’s it like wildfowling on the Humber estuary? And, as if that’s not enough, we’re […]
Abbey Burton masterclass: how to mount the gun
Part of the battle to get your shooting right is to get yourself prepared to shoot. London 2012 Olympic Trap hopeful Abbey Burton explains how to stand so you have the best possible chance of bringing down the screaming pheasant. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 10. To watch the whole show go […]
How to shoot walked-up birds
It’s all very well going roughshooting but the birds never quite do what you expect, bursting from your feet and going away at any angle they choose. West London Shooting School expert Alan Rose explains how even the odds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 9. To watch the whole show go to […]
Help for Heroes – how shooters started it
The story so far… *Help For Heroes* is the brainchild of shooting cartoonist-turned-campaigner Bryn Parry. We interview Bryn about how he, his co-founder and his team have raised £38 million in just two-and-a-half years to help rehabilitate injured soldiers. We hear the stories of bravery on the frontline – and we even learn what makes […]
Fieldsports Britain – Sport in the snow, shooting lesson plus eagles on hares
It’s that Fieldsports Britain time of the week again and we are culling roe does, avoiding crashing our cars into deer (not very successfully) and floundering through the snow to go pheasant shooting. As if that weren’t enough, we’re training golden eagles to hunt hares and learning to shoot better with London 2012 Olympic Trap […]
Shooting Politics, episode 11, 6 January 2010
In 1995, Jim Barrington was director of the League Against Cruel Sports. Today he works for the Countryside Alliance. Where did it all go right? In this week’s half-hour Shooting Politics (episode 11) on Fieldsports Channel www.fieldsportschannel.tv, Jim explains how he changed and also how the arguments changed. Now heavily involved in the political process […]
George Digweed wins Mitsubishi L200
Christmas came early for George as he signed on the dotted line to get his hands on his festive looking L200 Trojan. George won the Mitsubishi Motors World Series this year after seven attempts. The great thing about this competition is that it encourages new talent as well as world champions. Last year the title […]
Fieldsports Britain – Gundog thefts, stalking, Boxing Day meets and blooper reel
My we’ve had a busy week. It’s the episode with the hindstalking in Galloway, the Boxing Day meet with the Surrey & Old Burstow, another Abbey Burton shooting masterclass, and the scandal of the people who are stealing dogs, some of them for ransom, including Shooting Times news editor Selena Masson’s cocker spaniel and our […]
Shooting Politics, episode 10, 23rd December 2009
Take two famous shooters – Robert Bucknall, author of Foxing with Lamp & Rifle, and Michael Yardley, author of any number of books about shooting, take them out shooting, and you will get views on the subject aplenty. We give them a day in Suffolk if they will come up with a manifesto for gameshooting […]
Shooting Politics, episode 9, 9th December 2009
Just what has Boris Johnson and Sebastian Coe got against shooting sports? We’re at the Sportsman Gun Centre in Exeter with London 2012 Olympic Skeet hopeful and team GB member Rory Warlow, BASC South-West director Jamie Stewart and David Stapley of Browning International and we’re devoting this programme to shooting sports at London 2012. Why […]
Pheasant shooting in Kent
The proof of the pudding is in the eating or, in this case, the shooting. Canal Game Farm’s birds are on shoots all over the country. We’re at one of those shoots in Kent to see how they fly. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 8. To watch the whole show go to […]
Wildfowling in Cumbria
We’re in the North-West of England on the big, bleak sands of Morecambe Bay (where the Chinese cocklers died) to go wildfowling with Tom Fell of Grange Wildfowlers and to walk up the marshed for snipe. You can shoot more than 10 miles of coastline here for just £10 a day. This film first appeared […]
Fieldsports Britain – British bowhunting, world record catfish and Christmas present ideas
Let’s get festive. This half-hour Fieldsports Britain programme has got: * Stuck for a gift for the shooter in your life? We have dozens of Christmas prezzie ideas. * How did a 16-year-old girl from Kent catch a world record catfish. We ask her. * Looking for sport in South-West Scotland? We’re on the hill […]
Shooting Politics, episode 8, 25th November 2009
We’re at the Sportsman Gun Centre in Exeter with London 2012 Olympic Skeet hopeful and team GB member Rory Warlow, BASC South-West director Jamie Stewart and David Stapley of Browning International and, among subjects we’re covering are: Health & Safety Britain – are we going too far with shoot risk assessments? What’s wrong with teaching […]
Snipe shooting on a wild wet Welsh bog
The Vaughan family owns most of the great Bog of Tregaron near Aberystwyth. John Vaughan hosts a party of guns out to shoot snipe there – and it’s a lot harder than they thought it was going to be. This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 5. To watch the whole show go to […]
