Fox Calling Masterpiece

[Music] Welcome to Fieldsports Britain. Coming up we are here in Germany for sparkly new bullets and shiny new guns, the European Kit Show. A spot of the old Vorsprüng durch Technik. We have our regulars, we have News Stump, we have Hunting Youtube. First the pigeon punisher, the rat ravisher, the high priest of the home counties, it is Roy Lupton. Ooops shall we try again, that's better - We may mock, but you can't blame the boy, it's been a while since we were out with a centre fire rifle. However, this morning we can dust off the cobwebs and carpe diem - seize the day. What we are looking for this morning, if we can is, if we can find a yearling doe, not overly keen on shooting mature animals at this time of the year just purely and simply for the fact that the foetuses at this time of the year tend to be getting quite large. The other thing that we will be looking for this morning is that we are going to try and account for a few foxes. We have got a lot of foxes back on this ground and again because of the weather we have just not been able to keep up with them Gary and Roy scan for fallow but there's nothing where he'd hoped they might rest up. So, with the coast clear and a few other areas to hit after this one, Roy doesn't mind potentially upsetting the neighbours with some fox calling, once he's changed to a lighter bullet. What I am doing is taking out the 90 grains and putting in, I think they are 55 those ones. With the Norma ammunition it does group quite well. So the 90's at a distance you just to come up a few clicks from the scope, but as long as you know exactly what rounds you have chambered then you know exactly where to shoot with them, but I just prefer a slightly lighter round for the foxes. Just quicker extraction. There is one, there is one. Roy lights the fuse and within a matter of seconds spots a fox charging towards us- unfortuantely David doesn't. Even though it's there...and oh look, there it is in the frame ...What are doing man??? Frustratingly for Roy David just can't make it out. I must just add at this point that things do improve as the morning progresses. As we re-group Gary tells us that he spotted deer during the calling - David's bad eye sight might have actually done us a favour. As we get closer we bounce a young doe. We stalk slowly down the hill. We will go slowly down this way and we will get the other side of this thicket and then we will see if they trickle back out and then we can shoot them in here. Ok? We split up to see if either one of them can get onto her. But, in the meantime, up pops Roy's buck. Nervously he checks Gary remembered it was just young does today. I don't want him getting shot. As we watch the young doe come back into sight, Roy takes his chance. She leaps forward and runs - typical of a heart shot. We just got that young fallow over there and I am pleased that we took her because I think she was actually on her own that one and when you have got a deer like that in an area like this where we have got so many dog walkers, they are the ones that tend to get caught against the fences or pushed up against the fences and attacked. She did run unfortunately, if you can drop them on the stop it is a lot nicer, but obviously she has been quite revved up because we have moved her once or twice. Roy heads to the spot where the deer was shot - he does this as a matter of course to build up a forensic picture. He interprets the signs as it might prove useful the next ttime, when the deer doesn't fall within view. So we have got perfect blood here where the outshot is, so this is where the bullet struck and we have got a nice blood trail leading off there and obviously the disturbance in the leaves is where she ran. 20 yards on from the initial outspot and then all of a sudden the blood really is pumping out. So actually as she is running it is pumping out of her body so the motion of her running is causing compression and causing the heart to pump and so we are really getting some serious outbursts of blood here and if you look further up on this fence line it has sprayed all the way up here and along as if somebody has opened a tap. You can see her tracks here and you can see that she was really struggling and she was running and trying to push out. So the toes have gone in there pushing back where she is struggling here to stand up. So again it is always a good sign to look out for if you have got nothing else to go on and she has just dropped over there. If you look where she was standing she was slightly quartering away. So we have gone in there and should have hit the heart perfectly and out just on the back end of the shoulder there. The young doe looks healthy - and the shot has done exactly as the deer's reaction suggests. So we have completely obliterated and bifurcated the top of the heart and the base of the lungs there. She was a strong little girl and amazingly and when you look at the fat on the internal organs there she was doing incredibly well. All around her kidneys there, an amazing amount of fat. So she hasn't been doing badly. Quite interesting to see what she has been eating. And again mainly grazing, what you would expect. There are a few bits of nuts and whatever else in there. I think that is really why they have done so well this year. There was just so much natural food around this winter. They have been foraging very well on the beech nuts and on the acorns and the chestnuts and what have you. It is not surprising they are doing quite well and carrying that much fat coming out of winter. It hasn't really been that cold either. With some vension for the freezer, it's now over to Gary to try his luck. If you want to shoot off the bipods you are going to have to stalk up there. Yes stalk up there and see what you can do. We spot a group of deer on the other side of the estate - but Gary isn't happy with the shot and, when there's another chance, they're on the neighbours ground. The direction we've come in brings us to a nice area for another fox call... This time Roy sticks Gary with David on the opposite side of the valley. He's going to call from behind a tree stump with the shotgun. If a fox comes and stops Gary is in a better position to get a shot with the rifle. Roy is mic'd up so can flag up if he's sees anything. Fox coming along the top. And off we go - Roy spots a fox ...David picks it up but then loses it. Roy perserveres but after 5 mins is about to give up - he then hears magpies behind Gary and David - so he resumes calling - Incredibly a fox runs straight past Gary and David. Roy has spotted it but can't move. Oh my God. I am still shaking. We heard the magpies kicking off right behind where the camera was so I changed back the call again and went back to a lighter call because it sounded like a fox was coming back through the brambles. Then amazingly the fox passed in between the camera and where I was tucked up here, followed it all the way into here. Then I couldn't shoot and had to wait for it to come across and it was difficult waiting because she was coming, coming, coming and she got to about four or five yards. So she stopped just about there. Then I had to show myself around the log and she went and I just shot her as she went off there. Daylight foxing is fantastic when it works and frustrating when it doesn't but we've never had a case where a fox has been so intent on finding what's making the distress call that she would run straight past two people, one lying down, the other kneeling. And she ran what two yards past you? Maximum. Gary said he felt the whoosh as she ran past. She came tearing past, luckily they were just the right side of the wind otherwise it would have been game over. It is amazing, if the fox is not directly looking in the direction of the squeak what you can get away with. So it has just come tearing past all the way along here as I say initially I couldn't take the shot because she was in direct line of fire of Gary and David. So I had to wait for her to come across here and wait until she was here to take the shot. Superb response very happy with that one. Once again Mr Lupton conjures up some quality fieldsport and fieldcraft. Who mentioned anything about him losing his mojo (cough cough) - first class service every time, signed for, postage paid and slap down on the mat. What a star. Now for something less shiny. It is David on the Fieldsports Channel News Stump. [Music] This is Fieldsports Channel News. David Cameron wants Tony Blair's ban on hunting with dogs amended to allow… hunting with dogs. The British prime minister is to allow a vote in the House of Commons on proposals by Welsh hill farmers to allow them to use hounds to control foxes during the lambing season. The Countryside Alliance is still pushing for a full repeal of the law. And this week the courts are expected to throw out yet another case brought with ‘video evidence' from League Against Cruel Sports vigilantes. This time against two masters of the Devon & Somerset Staghounds. Crufts took place at the weekend - and there are no places for Labradors. A standard poodle wins the overall prize, a rehomed seven-year-old German wirehaired pointer takes the trophy in the BASC Gamekeepers' Classes, and the winner of the whole gundog group is an American cocker spaniel. Here is the winning ***, Pearl, with owner Susan Crummey from Buckinghamshire. A major new clay competition in Dubai with an uber prize pot has been won by an American. The 2014 *** Al Sheba Sporting Clay Shooting Championship saw a good showing from the UK with Sean Bramley and Christopher Broomfield taking fourth and fifth places, and George Digweed in seventh, as this video from English SportingClays.co.uk shows. Gebben Miles of the USA came first. We now know how the $350,000 raised by an auction to shoot a black rhino will be spent. Namibia Ministry of Environment and Tourism officials say the funds from the Dallas Safari Club auction will be used for law enforcement training, patrol vehicles and a national intelligence system crucial for protecting rhino populations from criminal poaching. A petition by anti-hunting groups, however, could block the additional conservation funding. Meanwhile Indonesia has come up with a novel anti-poaching initiative. Its highest Islamic body has issued a fatwa declaring that the hunting and trading of endangered species is immoral. And finally, pity the poor deer in this film from the States. Two whitetail bucks locked while fighting. The larger of the two was eaten by coyotes while the other was alive. A local man had to use a wood saw to cut a few tines off both deer until the live one was free. But all the time he was talking to the live deer thinking that that would calm it down. You are now up to date with Fieldsports Channel News. Stalking the stories. Fishing for facts. [Music] Thank you David. Now let's see what you have been up to. It is Hallo Charlie. [Music] Here is the what the world has been up to this week. Hallo Charlie. Not foxing or deer stalking or even fishing. Out here in the Peak District enjoying the good old mother nature at its finest. Hallo Charlie. We are at IWA 2014 in Nurnberg with Pete Carr. These guys have just subscribed to the Shooting Show, Shooting Show. Hallo Charlie. Jamie here again. Just had a good night lamping in rural Hertfordshire and a fox. A good day. Hallo Charlie. That will really annoy him. Send us your own Hallo Charlie. Film yourself on your mobile phone and just a sentence saying Hallo Charlie, who you are and what you are up to. Then share it or email it via Youtube, Facebook, Dropbox or Yousendit, Younameit to Charlie@fieldsportschannel.tv Thank you for those. Please keep sending them in. Now we are in Nurnberg to look at sparkly new kit from 17's to 416's. Follow me inside. [Music] The show is a chance for the big boys to flex their muscles...either by size or with eye catching one-offs. Sauer didn't let the side down with this industrial Frankenstein 202 plus a Ghengis Khan special. Maybe a certain Mr Putin will open his chequebook for that one. And maybe it's time for the predator version for 2015- not sure if the wife will like that next to the bird table. [Music] Anyway, ....anyone who is anyone is here. Umarex had a very classy stand with shooting range, and if you weren't bowled over by the size of the stand there was always the screens. Once again boar is best and there were plenty of videos - Prince Albrecht, Europe's "hog god" showing all how to rid the world of running boar - thanks to Aimpoint of course. And here's one we prepared earlier.... This is your mimesis. This is a wild boar. This is what you have got to film. Alright? Nod once for yes. Very good. Maybe in 2014 David will finally deliver the boar shooting film he dreams of. Take heart, it doesn't always have to be big game, it could fruit or candles or dinky toys. Here's some slo mo air rifle action from the likes of Gamo and BSA. We'd prefer to see it on the real thing but what's not to like about slow-mo on household objects? We're back at the range facilities where they make the RWS ammunition. It gives the world's journalists a chance to play with new stuff and pick up some freebies - the blaggers. Harkila, Zeiss, Mauser, Sauer, Blaser and English gunmaker John Rigby are supporting the day with, of course, RWS being ‘mine host'. This year was a relaxed affair with more play than work. Hunting clothing catwalks are always an odd affair but this is not about looks - this is about practicallity - or is it, Jennifer? The job start off with what do we need. Do we need a jacket for stalking and then we make sure that everything is for stalking and then at the end of the very last design meeting, at the end we can add on maybe a colourful zip that is hidden, we could make an inner pocket that is a different colour and where men might stop with the functionality and say now it works that is good women they take the next step and say we want it to look good. Let's head to the range and look at the microscopic then the monolithic. First RWS is launching 2 new pellets the heavy weight Power Bolt - and the eco friendly Hypermatch. They are related but oh so different in a Danny deVito / Arnie Schwarzenegger ‘Twins' kind of way. Power Bolt from RWS is definitely the heaviest airgun pellet we ever made and I guess in calibre 5.5 it is definitely the heaviest airgun pellet in the world. So we have 1.6g in calibre 5.5 so this is really, really heavy. It is for hunting, for pest control and of course it can go in the field having fun with it. And shooting on gelatine blocks it goes really deeply to 20cm it is much energy in the target. On hand to help test these pellets are a couple of very nice Steyr air rifles - so do you fancy competing in the Olympics or having pigeon for tea? I imagine we are looking at the Ferrari of airguns is that right. Yes that is right that is the top level air rifle and it is brand new and it is made to win Olympic games and world championships now. The green debate is not going anywhere and the big manufacturers are pushing ahead with all their pellets and cartridges. RWS has a new green hunting round. Well hit sense for high impact technologies. The hit card is a new bullet concept that addresses hunters that want to have a deep penetration even when heavy bones are hit they want to have a clean cavity, no fragments, clean meat 100% clean meat usage and a perfect exit hole. Sounds like a bullet for difficult shots. Yes that is what it is all about. We address our target groups we go the extra mile when it gets difficult then RWS has a perfect solution for it. From the fruit tea drinking Hypermatch to the double espresso - The Rigby "buffalo-flooring" big game rifle - It throws a .416 bullet down range... very loudly. This brand has been reignited thanks to re-establishing a historic British-German relationship. While Rigbys was founded in 1775, third oldest gunmakers in the world, spent 20 years in America, now come back to London. I'm the managing director and we've put together the old Rigby team, we have ten people working for us and we are making beautiful rifles again. How are you making those beautiful rifles. One of the problems Rigbys had was it it was extremely expensive to buy a Rigby rifle. Absolutely, if you look back in the 1924 catalogue the rifles were costing Ł47 which in todays money is onlyŁ7000, so this idea of Ł25000 rifles does not really work. What we have been able to do working again with Mauser as Rigbys did 1oo years ago is to produce this big game rifle which is retailing in the UK for just over Ł7000 which is quite incredible. Back to the show - and Zeiss has a wealth of new kit to talk about. In particular is the replacement for the incredibly successful Duralyt. Duralyt is now called conquest DL so part of the conquest line DL stands for durable and light and it's coming in the new Zeiss design so we step back from the grey of the Duralyt as you know it and we realise the company black design where we low in contour and very elegant in shape and this products got features like lototec for example, so you've got a perfect view even if its snowing or raining. And at a price of Ł1000 to Ł1500 euro we realised a product with a polo drop compensator. The A as you know it from Zeiss so this is an option for the fantastic scope. All in all I would say that with these conquest DL its hard to find something on the market which offers more brand, more design, more features than the Conquest DL rifle scopes. The DL is not the only new launch from Zeiss. There are also new models of the Conquest HD binoculars, the top-end lightweight Victory HT binos and the V8 SuperZoom scope we covered last week. It takes me hours to look as shabby as this. Let's go and talk to a clothing professional. Bent Rasmussen is the chief executive of sister clothing companies Harkila and Seeland. He knows clothes - but does he really? I mean - he says he has taken tweed and made it better - can't be true. So like a tweed jacket made with gortex . Has been sorted out with gortex and the combination of a certain tweed with a certain breathability combined with the laminate from gortex has created for us and for the market a totally new product Techology is re-inventing the old but what does Bent think we will be talking about in two years' time? We know that hunters are moving. They are exploring new hunting markets, new hunting situations and that all creates a demand for gear and for clothing for that type of market. We might see a heavy down jacket like we have for expedition. If we start hunting in very cold areas like Russia which is one of our new markets. We've covered lots of ground - sharing the love. We've had a look at air rifles, scopes, clothes, so we finish with a new shotgun and Browning's new 20 guage. This is probably the biggest launch we've got. It's the 75 now in 20 gauge which has been a long time coming, we've finally now got it and you'll be pleased to know we've now got the 20 gauge in 2 options so the top version you can see is what we call the UK Game version. This features a Prince of Wales stock and a parallel game fore end. Or this standard sort of Browning specification that you would be familiar with the snable for end and the pistol grip. Both fantastic performing guns. We just do the 32 inch version in the UK Game. But it's not just about Brownings, what else? Well we've got a lovely launch again this year in the Miraku range, MK60 grade 5 which in itself is a tremendous game gun, lovely hand finished engraving and we can do these with consecutive numbers, numbered 1 and 2 in a leather case. You can buy all that for around Ł5000 which is very good value for money. There you have it. The European guntrade is alive and kicking with loads of stuff to tempt you. And all for you to enjoy! Right that's the world of hunting kit in Nurnberg, let's look at the wider world of hunting and shooting on YouTube. It is Hunting YouTube. [Music] This is Hunting YouTube, which aims to show the best hunting and shooting videos that YouTube has to offer. We start with America. 'Say Cheese,' says WorldHuntingGroup about this film which shows an unsuspecting coyote on the trail of a deer fawn walking straight into a bowhunter on a highseat. Next up is a quail shoot enjoyed by a team of lady guns. They are on the Double D Quail Preserve outside Lynville, Tennessee. And here's a reminder of the 2013-2014 duck and goose season in the USA which was, American waterfowlers claim, one to remember. Much of the USA has been plagued by above normal temperatures over the past couple years leading to a poor duck migration. This year, numerous arctic cold fronts produced an incredible season for much of the country. Waterfowl made it further south than they have for a number of years. Now driven hunting on the Continent. Big game hunting in a French Castle has Wild French Hunter enjoying roe deer, goat, deer and wild boar with dubious use of English but bags of enthusiasm. Winter hunting in Poland - the direct translation - is another grand day out with not much in the way of foreign language and plenty of shooting. Last three are British. Falconry Edinburgh gets some good flights in this compilation of clips showing their hawks hunting during the season. At the other end of the country, KernowVerminControl is shooting squirrels with fascinating voice-over but it would be nice to see some different camera angles. My eyes started to water after a while, searching for the squirrel I am not sure was there. Still - worth a watch. And finally, if you know or are related to BumblefootFilms, then you should know he has gone mad and may need help. Here is his review of a CZ rifle. It is the first rifle review I have laughed all the way through. However, while he is telling you that there is a thin line between genius and insanity, just grab him and hold him down. You can click on any of these films to watch them. If you are missing the fishing films and the airgun films, watch our new shows, AirHeads and Fishing Britain. If you have a YouTube film you would like us to pop in to the weekly top eight, send it in via YouTube or email me the link charlie@fieldsportschannel.tv And let's not forget our own shows.In the latest Fishing Britain, we are chasing rainbows, urban perch, and landlocked salmon. We join the exciting first day on top reservoir Draycote, working out how to locate some of the 7,000 fresh rainbows that have been stocked. We also get a backstreet view of some of Ant Glascoe's best perch fishing in central Manchester. We top it off with a trip to the UK's only landlocked salmon lake. With News and Hooked on YouTube, it's another programme packed full of angling goodness. Click on the screen to watch it. And do the same for AirHeads. Our own Prince of Darkness Darren Rogers is ratting and rabbiting with both thermal and night vision and of course Airguns. Ted of Ted's Holdover says if he would use a high-powered airgun on big game. Airgun World and Airgunner technical editor Phill Price is out after corvids, Red squirrel ranger Jerry Moss is showing where to park your nuts in order to entice squirrels to a shootable position and Captain Back Garden James Marchington has got trajectile disfunction. Finally, it's Schools Challenge TV week. Excitement is mounting as the first Schools Challenge clay competition comes closer. Schools are in training and one of them - TSC sponsor Bredon School - is fielding a full team of shooters.. We join them in training on Bredon's newly refurbished shooting ground. We are also visiting outdoor clothing supplier Seeland and we are finding out from top double trap shooter Stevan Walton what's so great about his sport. Well we are back next week and officianados of what I look like might like to click on this link up here and see what I look like standing here four years ago. Aged. If you are watching this on Youtube please hit the subscribe button that is somewhere around the outside of the screen or go to our web page where you can click to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter. This has been Fieldsports Britain. Good hunting, good shooting, good fishing and good bye.