Small Game

Fieldsports Britain, episode 48, 27th October 2010 By: fieldsportstv Our Commonwealth Games shooting winners (and we hope our Olympic winners in 2012) get an airing on this week's programme. We ask double gold medal winer Stevan Walton and silver medallist Abbey Burton what was Delhi like? How do you get to be the best shot in the civilised world? And how come Britain swept the board for shooting medals when UK Sport can be so mealymouthed about funding it? These are all the questions you didn't see on the BBC, because the BBC abandoned shooting in Delhi in favou... Tag: huntingukshootingmikeyardleycountrysidealliancefoxingwithlampandriflechloefinch

Fieldsports Britain, episode 46, 13th October 2010 By: fieldsportstv What's cuter: seals or squirrels? In this week's programme we're off to shoot both of them. We're with Center Parcs ranger Jerry Moss in Cumbria, a leading light in the Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group. He's the one who designed that new Daystate airrifle, the Red Ranger, specifically for squirrels. He shows how he goes about his job, trapping and shooting greys so he can maintain his island of reds at the Penrith Center Parcs holiday camp. Then on to Scotland where you cannot now shoot a s... Tag: hunting,shooting,uk

Fieldsports Britain, episode 45, 6th October 2010 By: fieldsportstv Meet Alice Barnard, the new chief executive of the Countryside Alliance. Presenter Charlotte Reather talks to the 33-year-old from Leicestershire about her views on issues ranging from the repeal of the hunting ban to public transport in the countryside. This is Alice's first television interview in her new role. Watch it only on free online TV station Fieldsports Channel. And watch top shooter Mike Yardley on the history of classic English gameshooting. Tag: politics,foxhunting

Fieldsports Britain, episode 44, 29th September 20 By: fieldsportstv 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 £20,000. That's what happened to one dog handler at the Midland Game Fair. Tag: IanHarford,CountrymanFairs,Mornacott

Fieldsports Britain, episode 43, 22nd September 20 By: fieldsportstv We're looking at camouflage this week. Indeed we're looking at 'glamouflage': as fashion at last weekend's Midland Game Fair and in the field, calling in and shooting foxes in daylight, where you have to be very, very invisible. That's not all. We're also at the final of the Mitsubishi Motors World Series clayshooting championship. Last year, top shot George Digweed drove away the richest prize in British clayshooting - a Mitsubishi L200 worth £26,000. This year, the winner was someone who has o... Tag: IanHarfordCountrymanFairsRiversWest

Fieldsports Britain, episode 42, 15th September 20 By: fieldsportstv How to put a scope on a rifle (and then go and shoot a fox with it); how to handle a big-bag partridge day at the mighty Challacombe shoot on Exmoor with just a .410 or 28-bore in your hands (badly); how to shoot pheasants straighter with expert Mike Yardley on the beautiful Mornacott Estate in Devon; and how, if you are an Oxfordshire lady, you can enjoy a lovely day's shooting with your girlfriends. Tag: NickyFlorentDougFlorentLoytonLodgeRobEgginsHenryGreswellTiziMcPhersonGordonRobinsonJonathanRigbyZeissMikeDickinsonCaltonMoorRange

Fieldsports Britain, episode 41, 8th September 201 By: fieldsportstv This week's half-hour programme has us in Ireland, Scotland and England. We're crossing the water to see the lurcher and terrier action at the Birr Castle Game Fair in Co Offaly, we're in the West Country learning how to shoot pheasants straighter with top shot Mike Yardley, and we're in Scotland asking the question: how many deer remain? Last winter's snow saw a colossal death among some of Scotland's deer herds. We're up above Loch Rannoch on the Innerhadden Estate counting the survivors and t... Tag: ukhunting

Fieldsports Britain, episode 39, 25th August 2010 By: fieldsportstv 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 me... Tag: LeeJacksonLizOsborneDonnaClarkAndyRichardsonTonyWilliamsRobertBensonMornacott

Fieldsports Britain, episode 38, 18th August 2010 By: fieldsportstv 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'. Tag: "RobCollins"Woodspring"ChrisPotter""DomHoltam""MichaelYardley"y