So what is this Fieldsports Channel anyway? Who are the people behind it? What are they trying to do? And why are they so much better than the sporting press?
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Back in March The Sunday Times showed pictures of a once-in-a-decade British deer - a white roebuck. The newspaper reported that foreign hunters were lining up to pay £1000s to have the opportunity to stalk this deer. Find out what happened to this deer on the 30-minute webTV programme Fieldsports Britain. And that's not all. We are: • Going grouse shooting in Scotland the way it should be done - with a piper • Shooting pigeons over stubble in Kent with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist • Trapping salmon on the River Frome in Dorset • Stalking roebuck in Yorkshire with Sporting Rifle editor Peter Carr • Following two goshawks from egg to hunt • Getting ready for the pheasant season with Canal Game Farm
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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.
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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 in North Somerset. Pour yourself a glass, sit back and enjoy the action...
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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 Fab Abbey Burton who is preparing for Olympic Trap at London 2012, and if that's not enough, an Essex shoot gets together to eat squirrels' nuts (literally).
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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 not all. We're also using part of a Hornby trainset to call in foxes by day and we are previewing the second Schools Challenge at the famous Bredon Fete. Pour yourself a glass, sit back and enjoy the show...
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If you want to know about bullets, this is the film for you. It's the Norma Ammunition special. We go to the Norma factory in Sweden to see how bullets are made and we carry out tests to see what they do. We blow up different explosives and propellants, we try out extraordinary calibres and we even take time to go deerstalking on the Dunan Estate in Scotland with Norma chief executive Torbjorn Lindskog. We look at the difference between plastic-tipped bullets and Norma's 'Oryx' soft points. With unprecedented access to the workings of the Norma factory, R&D officer Don Heath shows us what goes into the best factory ammo in the world.
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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.
It's an x-ray of a fox, as we find out just what different kinds of bullets do, so you can choose the right one. That's not all. Top French gunmaker Chapuis is supplying Roy Lupton with a new double rifle, and he tours the factory to see how his gun is made. And we are on the much-loved Valley Shoot in Kent, where one of the guns has worked out a new relaxation technique to get him in the swing for pheasants and partridges.
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 willing pupil the basics about. shooting. * And we offer our very own Election Special: which candidates go shooting and which would rather not...
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 programme, episode 24, we fight back in the name of shooting sports. That's not all. Did your school win the prize for best shooting team in the country? You can watch all the action from the Schools Challenge at Bredon in Gloucestershire last weekend.
It's our 100th Fieldsports Britain programme! And in it we have George Digweed explaining how to shoot straight, sika stags rutting in Dorset, foxshooting with a £330 new lamp and the blooper reel from our first 100 programmes. George recently shot the world's longest clay pigeon at 130 yards, so he is in great shape to say how you can shoot better. Roy Lupton is calling in sika stags. And Haggis Hartman from West Country Guns is trying out the lamp to protect a shooting estate on the Somerset/Devon border.
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 B25, the B525 and the Maxus to a pretty Belgian chateau with a clay ground. And were we allowed to see what Browning is planning to bring out next year. Sorry sir - access restricted!
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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 the trout fishing is so disastrous this year. Then we find a solution: a beautiful Dorset chalkstream called the Frome, which we visit with fishing writer Clive Graham-Ranger. That's not all. We're looking at the new craze for 'simulated gameshooting' which is knocking spots of the standard-issue corporate clay shoot. We're with Prescott Shooting, which organises these days in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
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 inspired directly by live pigeon shooting from 'traps'. Deer stalkers will be happy - we're out after fallow bucks. And we continue Michael Yardley's series on how to shoot straighter at pheasants. It's another packed programme...
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To Scotland to watch the red stag rut in the Monadhliath Hills with David Taylor of the Countryside Alliance and stalker Jimmy Irvine, star of the Highland Keeper DVDs. Then to the south of England to learn how to play a range of fox calls with Roy Lupton and to watch the definitive airgun safety film with King of Airgunners, Terry Doe. And this is the episode where the mouse is run over by the plane...
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We've got deer, duck and how to shoot straighter on this week's show. Paul Hill of Corinium Rifle Range in Gloucestershire tests Swarovski optics and shows you how to use the turret on your scope to get incredible results. Meanwhile, Countryside Alliance shooting director David Taylor is out with the Walney Island Wildfowlers in Cumbria. Need to shoot straighter at that all-important Boxing Day pheasant shoot? CPSA coach and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Abbey Burton offers her top tips. And Oliver Power of the English Safari Company continues his tests of Norma ammunition on muntjac and roe with a Steyr Mannlicher in .243.
Grouseshooting is not about squandering squillions. We're in Cumbria shooting grouse over pointers in this week's programme -- it's a kind of extreme dogwalking. That's not all. We go to the funeral of Britain's greatest carp, Two Tone at Conningbrook Lake in Kent. We're protecting piglets from foxes with foxshooter Roy Lupton in Norfolk. And in Devon, Mike Yardley continues his series, sponsored by William Evans, on how to shoot pheasants. The expert shot explains the three best birdshooting methods: maintained lead, the swing-through techniques and point-and-push.
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It's a dog and bird episode of our weekly programme. On the bird front, we join ace airgunner Frank Underdown to learn how to bring in pigeons to decoys and shoot them with an airgun. We also have expert Mike Yardley to teach us about the history of pheasant shooting. And for dog lovers everywhere, find out how your highly-trained companion can retrieve you a brand new car worth £20000. That's what happened to one dog handler at the Midland Game Fair. Watch our programme - we're the antidote to BBC Countryfile.
As deerstalker Roy Lupton starts to gralloch a lame buck he has culled, a dog walker shouts that he is a 'cruel b*****d' for 'shooting stags'. Roy, frustrated by the ignorance of some people, decides to show the woman exactly why he was committed to finding this animal. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 7.
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It's the most mysterious piece of kit in shooting and in this week's programme we're on a mission to discover the answer to the big question: how do they make riflescopes? We are the first camera crew to be allowed behind the scenes at the classiest of glass merchants, Zeiss in Germany, to see precisely what it takes. Then we go off to a range to try out the Zeiss scopes. But not just any range. This is a cinema, where you can shoot elephants, wild boar - anything you like - and with real rifles. What fun!
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It's another packed show from Fieldsports Channel. This week we've got the world's greatest shot George Digweed, talking about clayshooting cartridges. We have got the foxhunting season and we are out with the Old Surrey Burstow & West Kent Hunt. We're with Sporting Shooter chef Mark Gilchrist on the roughest day since they invented rough. And if you ever wanted to know how to shoot rifles at long range join Keith Poyser of Bangs Bucks & Bullseyes in his new series, 'Ballistic Tips'. There - so much better than BBC Countryfile.
It's a good-sized day at Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire and we're with a team of guns enjoying not just pheasant and partridge drives but duck and the king of the gamebirds, grouse. From the parkland setting around the castle itself to high Hardcastle Moor via the incredibly challenging 'Landslide' drive, this is some of the best driven game shooting in the UK - and it's available on GunsOnPegs.com. That's not all. We're also learning more tips on long-range shooting from Keith Poyser of rifle training outfit Bangs Bucks & Bullseyes. It all adds up to British shooting at its best.
It's the big royal story - no, not Wills and Kate! HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dominates the world of British shooting this week, speaking in support of the sport during a visit to BASC headquarters. We were there to see the helicopter come and go. We're with another giant of the sport, George Digweed, learning which cartridges to use to shoot pigeons. George recently held the record for the most amount of pigeons shot to one gun in the UK in one day. And we are learning more tips on long-range rifle shooting with Keith Poyser of Bangs Bucks & Bullseyes. It's another packed programme.
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With BBC Countryfile allowing the League Against Cruel Sports to make a case for a ban on deerstalking, we are celebrating this sport with muntjac in Essex and red deer in the Lake District. We're out with Geoff Garrod of the National Gamekeepers' Organisation after Britain's smallest deer and we take take a foreign 'trophy hunter' after hill reds in Cumbria with stalker Jonathan Standing. Our mysterious trophy hunter is American US hunting TV star Pam Zaitz. LACS may be getting all whingey about stalking but we love it.
It's always worth it for duck. We are up to our knees in mud with James Green and Jeffrey Olstead of BASC as we take trip to the Taw Estuary in North Devon and discover the very early morning joys of wildfowling with the Taw & Torridge Wildfowling Club. Meanwhile, Roy Lupton is out in the snow on fox patrol and we continue our Ballistic Tips series with Bangs, Bucks and Bullseyes, learning to shoot rifles straighter.
We're flyfishing with one of the gods of the sport, Oliver Edwards, we're out after sika with one of the mighties of the sport of deerstalking, Paul Taylor, and we are learning to shoot straighter with top rifle shot Keith Poyser. You get all the best advice on Fieldsports Channel. Oliver Edwards's TV producer Mark Gardner talks us through the making of his epic eight-part series on flyfishing. Paul Taylor reveals some of the mysteries of the sika rut. And Keith Poyser shows that, with his methods, even a cameraman can hit a roe target at 300 yards.
Falconry expert Roy Lupton shows some of his falconry buddies how to train their eagles to take a fox lure. So it's out with a John Deere Gator, into the field with a fox skin on a rope - and release the eagles! This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
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Nineteen-times world champion George Digweed has set a new world record for shooting a clay pigeon. In front of the cameras from Fieldsports Channel, and using standard cartridges, he shot one at 130 yards. George pulled off the incredible shot at the Bisley Live shooting show. The record rounds off an incredible year for George, he has won 19 World titles (11 Sporting and 8 Fitasc), 11 European Fitasc title, 2 European Compak titles and 9 World Cups. He was awarded an MBE in 2009. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 97.
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 is aa gun, a gamekeeper, a Subaru Outback and 30000 acres of Scottish wilderness... This item first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 90.