Fieldsports Britain - Colossal crow shoot (episode 190)

[Music] Welcome to Fieldsports Britain. Coming up we're looking at where to go for a world class stuffing. How to get a bird in the hand worth the same as one in the bush.We've got dog training tips from Skinners. Hunting YouTube, Kit Special and News Stump is looking at this weekend's CLA Game Fair. First, bring out the big guns - we're crow shooting with Digweed and Crow. When the crows kept coming Andy decided the best way to make a dent in the population was to release the Digweed. George is often offered "big" days but 99 percent of them don't materialise as �big' on the day. Andy is putting his reputation on the line here. Happily, Team Digweed plus Crow and already building a serious bag. It's going swimmingly. We have had a hell of a morning. All these crows and young jackdaws are coming to some wheat which is on the turn and because there was no wild food last year and this year up until now everything has been backward. So the corn is only just starting to turn and where it is just going milky all of these are coming to some wheat which is just the other side of the hedge if you look through the gap you will see them going to the wheat now. We are shooting on this bit of *** here that didn't really come in the winter and we are able to decoy them on here and we have had a hell of a morning so far. I have probably killed 220, 230 in just under two hours so it has gone pretty well. But I think there was so many here that the Crowman likes to do a job for himself with a few, but when it comes to a really big day he has to call in the A team. And that's pretty much how the rest of the day carries on - See how I was protecting your decoys here. I did I was impressed. I had to protect his crow decoys because apparently they don't work as well when ... he did offer to put some carpet in here today but I said as it wasn't red I didn't fancy it. A one way ticket to not a very good future. They are not liking it. I was hoping to get a few shots, but when this old boy is shooting there is no point. He is a legend he is. Some real shots this morning. Some of these have been overloaded with ... some of these crows he has shot. If he ... I would be pushing him out the way and showing him how to do it. But I don't need to yet. I am hoping he will get tired later on and give me a shot. But I don't think he will some how. George may be accurate but Andy is getting impatient The eagle eyed Crowman spots opportunities for George to unlease the Perazzi and Gamebore combo. Don't worry about it they will come back. George. Hang on. He doesn't half get panicky. I thought he was ... I am but I want to make a big *** of that job. So with birds coming from every direction and at different heights and speeds how can George tell where he'*** them? When you hit something in the head when it is flying it will always put its feet out. Body shot obviously you can tell when the feather damage is quite a lot. Broken wing they tend to come down spiralling with their head up may even call, but a definite head shot is both feet out and the other is lung shot which you have quite a few lung shot which are right in the centre of the pattern and the body will penetrate the body and lungs and the heart and it will fly on for a little bit, then collapse stone dead, but when it flies on it is only flying on dead. But you can tell that and you should always mark that to pick them up. That is exactly the one. That one there look. That is exactly what we are talking about. Now you would call that towering. George has had an incredible year and we're filming this just before he heads off to Madrid to try and claim his 21st world title. So how many competitions has he entered this year? Started the year in South Africa. I won the African English Sporting Championships. The African 5-Stand Sporting Championship, South African Fitasc Championships, the African Compaq. The one on the right and that one. The African Fitasx Sporting, I went to France and was third in the French Grand Prix. I hope you got that in, two with one barrel. Then we had the Essex Masters which I won. I have won in Romania, I won the French Grand Prix for Compaq. I won the European Championships, Fitasc Sporting and the European cup, the European Compaq Championships in Italy last weekend and won the European Championships. With a score of 198 shooting the last 150 straight and won the European cup there as well so all in all I have had, well I think a pretty good year. What do you say now, perfect? Which is why George hasn't really been out pest controlling much in 2013. I haven't shot anything at all apart from a few foxes and a few rabbits for weeks and weeks and weeks and when Andy suggested this it appealed to me greatly. For us to kill 300 in a morning and we have got three or four hours to go this afternoon if you kill four or five hundred in an area like this you are going to do some real good. The birds keep falling and Crow man is under fire too for shooting birds too close to the hide. I have seen you come out of the hide after he has had a day's pigeon shooting and you look as though you have just walked out of a turkey plucking shed. That lense has never worked so hard as this afternoon has it? Normally they are all in here like dustbin lids. How you could get them that close that you could film the feathers coming out God only knows. We all know Andy is no stranger to a high bird. His raised eyes are getting higher by the minute too. Then Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam arrives, which doesn't help matters for Crow. Your Father has brought your gun. The hide is getting pretty full now, so Crow sorts out a grain pick-up and Dom asks George about his cartridges... The Black Golden I am shooting today, these are in a plastic *** of five. It is the new design of the case and the box and everything else and they are a really good competitive fast cartridge. There, there is the diamond shot. Identical to a cricket ball scenario. Polished side one side that goes through the air fast. That is why a heavy new ball comes onto the bat quicker. On the shot you are looking at as you are looking at it to the right hand side that is standard lead shot and on the left hand side it is diamond shot. George has had an exceptional day and is happy for Andy and Dom have a shot with the Perazzi. The trouble is George's unconventional coaching technique is not helping Andy... Any one, any one you like - the easiest one. Oh he has missed that one, oh he has just managed to wing one with the second shot. I have had a lot of fun. We have had some good banter in the hide as well and he has taught me how to shoot which I am very grateful for. Luckily Dom turned up half way through the afternoon and whereas Andy had got me to the raw stage, Dom has managed to fine tune it. So I feel going into the world cup final next week, I certainly stand a chance coming in in the top 50. We call it a day and judging by the time it takes us to collect all the birds we know it's going to be a big day. It is 585 birds. George's best day ever and he's grateful that Andy gave him a call. I would just like to thank Andy very much for a fantastic day's shooting. He has done a very good job here in setting this up in this corner so that we can kill a few and I thank him very much. Sometimes, everything just falls into place. The birds are there, and it just so happens that the best shot in the world is there too. Great shooting there by George. We expect nothing else. And good fieldcraft by Andy and if you entered our Facebook competition to count up the number of crows, rooks and jackdaws they shot, the answer is 585. Well done Jason Pegg from Nottinghamshire. A signed copy of George's DVD Digging for Gold going out to you. Now let's see what everybody else has been up to. It's Hallo Charlie. [Music] Here is what the world is up to this week. Hallo Charlie. Callum and John here from East Yorkshire just has a morning on the crows. Haven't had too bad a day. Hallo Charlie. It's Stew and Aaron. We are out in Peterstow we have just had a wander out in one of the woods and this is what we have got. Hallo Charlie. Ryan coming out of ... Las Vegas playing with my airgun in the heat and the wind but I have got my shades so I am good what more could I ask for. 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, Yousendit, Younameit to Charlie@fieldsportschannel.tv Right we interrupt David's intensive CLA training to bring you this. [Music] This is Fieldsports Britain News. In a career spanning four decades, George Digweed has won his 21st world championship. He dropped just three clays out of 150 over three days at Castillo de Robledo in Spain. There has surely never been a shot as good as George, which is why his sponsor Gamebore has started a campaign to get that man a knighthood. Visit bit.ly/digweedkcmg and share or like the page The BBC cameraman and wildlife presenter Fergus Beeley has asked Fieldsports Channel to take down a film we made with him about falconry. A number of viewers noticed that Fieldsports Britain episode 21 has been switched from �public' to �unlisted'. Although happy with the film at the time, Fergus Beeley says he is now receiving criticism for working with Fieldsports Channel from groups including the RSPB. If you would like to watch the film, please click on the link on the screen. The Australian state of New South Wales has abolished its Game Council because, it says, its position as regulator, promoter and operator of hunting activities is a conflict of interest. However, this is being read as a political punch at the Shooters & Fishers Party of New South Wales, which had been supporting some of premier Barry O'Farrell's policies. Now it's war. There is plenty to see at this year's CLA Game Fair this weekend. Here's our special preview. If you find yourself on Gunmakers' Row, please stop at the Gunmaker's Pub where you can enjoy films on our big screen. If you are after new clothing, have a look at the Rovince stand. It is Rovince's first year at the CLA Game Fair. It makes a range of clothing worn by professionals all over the EU for five years, including the uniform of the Belgian forestry ranger service. It is designed to reduce tick bites and has a patented treatment that lasts for more than 80 washes. Lightweight and designed for warm summertime use, you can meet the designer and see the full range for the first time in the UK on stand number E443B at the clay line end of Gunmakers' Row. Another new clothing company with a stand at the CLA is ShooterKing, which is another clothing company with a Belgian connection. It is based in Belgium and makes a range fo good-quality shooting clothing, especially designed for deerstalkers. You can visit it at stand E0491. And if you are a young shot, go and meet the people behind the Schools Challenge. In the most recent episode of Schools Challenge TV, the kids had a go on all kinds of countrysports and outdoor activities at the Oxford Gun Company open day. And there is an interview with Olympic Double Trap gold medallist Peter Wilson. Click on the screen for more. You are now up to date with Fielsports Britain News. Stalking the stories. Fishing for facts. [Music] Thank you David - and he will be easy to miss at the game fair as he normally looks like an asylum seeker. Now in the UK we're not really into our mounts - but if you want one of the best stuffing in the world you need to visit Jacob in Denmark. Pity the wall-eyed fox, the hump-necked wildebeest and the lopsided hare - they're stiffs and their proud owners were stiffed. As a result, taxidermy is an underrated art form. There aren't many deerstalkers out there who haven't shelled out for a shoulder mount only to be stitched up in one way or another by someone who either lacks talent or scruples, leaving you wondering if that really is your roebuck. Max Hunt gets his mounts done by Jacob Strunge, a Danish taxidermist with a client list that is most definitely out of bounds. This is actually the latest work Jacob did for me. It is one of the sheep I shot in New Zealand when I was down testing the new Sauer 101. And if you take a close look at the eyes that is actually where you see the big difference in the way taxidermists work. It is not like the shape of the form or anything it is the details like the nose and the eyes and everything which makes the difference. But I think the biggest work Jacob has ever done for me is the turning stag. Some of them have already seen it in the video we did for EVA. This stag is totally made from nothing. Jacob did the shape because you can't order a foam form like that so he built it up from scratch and did everything on its own. Jacob is the real deal. His apprenticeship lasted years and he travelled the world being taught by the best. For him it's all in the detail and adding a little bit of flare. It is all about passion and creativity, the design and skills doing something very different from what we will see if you have something standing on all fours and stand up mannequins and things like that. Everybody can do that but we try to change and make everything unique. Your hunters have been hunting with you in Kurdistan and we had a lot of nice things out there. What is your dream, where do you dream about going. My dream hunt would be central Africa right now. For some of the giant antelopes out there. That would be really brilliant. We ask Jacob to show us what goes into transforming a boar skin into a life-long hunting memory. So what's the difference between a good mount and an average mount? For me it is very important to use an eye that looks realistic to save 15 Euros is not worth it because you can't compare good eyes and cheap ones. Jacob is a talented man but the more the hunter thinks about skin preparation, it the easier it is for him. If you are somewhere in the mountains in ... or somewhere else in the world it is a good idea before you go and consult with your taxidermist to know how do you skin, what are the basics of skinning and salting and taking care of your field preparation of your skin. Max's red deer from New Zealand was a first for Jacob it involved taking a standard mount and slicing and dicing it to give it sense of movement. The stag we did for you was basically built on a standard mannequin standing on all four which we chopped up into 30, 35 pieces and then we added the different twists that I have not seen anywhere before, the turning of the whole mount and I think that put even more motion into the motion of running even though it is just circling around. It adds something to the mount I think. For more from Jacob, visit TrophyArt.dk. And if you want a trophy that is a talking point for all the right reasons, talk to your taxidermist and ask him not to save money on the eyes! Taxidermy - when it's good it's really good when it's bad it's really bad. Now you don't get trophies without guns. Let's have a look at a few on Kit Special. Kit special this week looks at the most expensive shotguns on the GunsDirect.co.uk website -ranging in price up to �4,000. Everyone is in danger of loosening their wallet at Game Fair time. If you have �1,350 burning a hole in your pocket, then you might consider this Caeser Guerini 28-gauge multichoke. Some call Guerinis glorified Fabarms at a premium price, others point to how a company that comes from the same turf as Beretta is coming up fast on the rails behind the Italian gun giant. For about the same price, you can buy a Beretta Silver Pigeon I Sporter. Not to be confused with the Japanese moped of the same name, the Silver Pigeon is a staple of the UK market among many others that now comes in numbers 1 to 5, a C, and S, a Gold Pigeon and even a Diamond Pigeon. �1,850 secures a Silver Pigeon III Game with fixed chokes Improved Cylinder and quart and 28in barrels. It's quite a leap to the next most expensive guns on GunsDirect. They are both Browning B25s, priced at �3,400 for a B2 and �4,000 for a B4 sporter. Browning's classic, top-end shotgun from its Custom Shop at Liege, the B25 or �Superposed' was the last gun to be designed by John Moses Browning, who was still working on it when he died in 1926. That is it. Feast your eyes, fish into your pockets. Thanks for watching. This is Kit Special. From guns to dogs. It is our expert gundog training tips from Skinners. [Music] The birds are raining down. It's a red-letter shoot day. Now your dog has to remember where one of them has landed so that, after the drive, he or she can go and fetch it. How do you teach that? A young dog when he is sat in the shooting field may see multiple birds shot and he has got to mark them store them in his brain, I saw a bird shot over by that tree, oh I have seen one shot over by the pond, I have seen one shot over there. If he can remember them it is easier for him to go out later and find them. Particularly when he is a peg dog and he is sat waiting maybe for half an hour before he does it. What we are doing is we are developing his memory. Some dogs have brilliant memories, some dogs are like young men, useless memories, hopeless memories as soon as they turn away and look away they have forgotten. So you develop the dog's memory by putting something down you walk him away about ten yards then turn around and send him straight back. You will see if you have a problem because if you send him straight back and he goes oh I don't know where it is you need to work really hard with him. Some dogs you can walk ... a well trained dog he will store in his memory for several days, there is a bird shot by that tree and I know it is there. It is a gradual build up. We build the distances, we build the duration. So it is distance and time that the dog has to remember. You are presumably quite far down your training regime by this stage. You are past all the basic stuff. Is that right? No that is not quite true because all of these things are going on alongside eachother. So we are developing a memory retrieve in a six month old dog we are developing his game carrying ability. It is all being done in almost all areas including jumping. Pop, Pop, pop are being covered at six months, but by the time we are doing it with a 12 month dog everything is bigger, longer, faster. Howard Kirby runs Mullenscote Gundogs from Lains Shooting School near Andover in Hampshire. Visit Mullenscote.co.uk. This series on gundog training tips is brought to you by Skinners Petfoods, maker of the Field & Trial range of gundog feeds. Visit SkinnersPetfoods.co.uk We have got a whole series of training tips with Skinners. If you would like to you can click on the screen above me in the sky there and watch them. Now let's look at what the whole world has been up to. Hunting, shooting and fishing on Youtube it is Hunting Youtube. This is Hunting YouTube, which aims to show the best hunting, shooting and fishing videos that YouTube has to offer. Bunny Hunter is the hunting, shooting, fishing serious chaps' channel's worst nightmare: a capable hunter who tells a good story in a bra, pants and only a little imagination. Country girl hog hunting with Bunny Hunter has her in the woods after feral boar with an AR-15 and a handgun. It will be popular. Another channel that sensibly chooses to be the first to tread a well-worn path in video is FPSoutback which is devoted to the overlap between GCSE chemistry and going out shooting. So its latest video is called 'How to Burn Palladium', which follows a film called �Outback Pig Shooting'. I have chosen Hunting with Airgun Pellets from a Centrefire, which shows a pest bird hunt with a .25-06 firing .25 calibre airgun pellets. MrDaveRatz is buikding up a nice following. In this film, �Airgun hunting Rabbits + extras', he is doing exactly that, out for a walkabout on a sunny afternoon, looking for rabbits. Time for English-speakers to learn a bit about carp fishing Benelux-style. It is from Belgian-based tackle company Korda but it is useful nonetheless as two unpronounceable anglers discuss rigs and set-ups for long distance casting and fishing, and they do it in English. Now here's a silly clip from the International Game Fish Association YouTube channel. IGFA Trustee Stewart Campbell hooks a large blue marlin off the island of Madeira and, well, this is what happens next. GetDucks (motto: 'It's duck season somewhere') brings out �Argentina duck hunt Muchos Patos Argentina Ep10351' Don't be put off by the episode number. Terry Denmon of Mojo TV and Ramsey Russell from GetDucks.com share a great time in the blind picking off teal and rosy-bills. ChassePeche66 shows a roebuck stalk from start to finish. There's not much audio to go on apart from grunts and groans, which is lucky, because it's in French. You will be glad to hear that nobody's head explodes despite Huck758 giving his video the desperate title 'Pissed Off Hog's Head Explodes with a Bullet to its Brain! Wild Hog Hunting! Uncut Version'. But it is a good film showing dogs bringing a pig to bay and then the hunter waiting for the safe moment to shoot it. You can click on any of these films to watch them. 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 Well we are back next week when we will be bringing you all the action from the CLA Game Fair which we are going to this weekend at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire and we will have our big screen there playing our films at the Gunmakers Pub on Gunmakers Row. Please drop by and have a watch. Also this week we will be handing out 30 of these fox calls from Steve Larsson in Australia. Thank you Steve and thank you to everybody who entered that draw emails will be going out shortly. Well if you are watching this on Youtube don't hesitate to subscribe. The subscribe button is as ever somewhere on the outside of the screen. 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