The Field’s Christmas Special is filled with carefully curated, exclusive content from the best writers. This month we go to Cumbria for a walked-up day with Clumber spaniels and join…
Ed Wills
Deputy Editor of The Field
Macnab mentors and their stories
Most sporting sorts know what a challenge it is to undertake a proper Macnab, by which we mean the modern classic iteration, inspired by John Buchan and tweaked for the…
The successful Macnabbers of 2022
The Field is enormously proud to have started the Macnab Challenge, a sporting endeavour based on John Buchan’s novel John Macnab, which requires skill and tenacity on both hill and…
The importance of the gamebook
Keeping a gamebook was obligatory when you started out shooting in my day,” says Sir Johnny Scott, who made his first entry at the age of nine. “Much of my…
How to keep your dogs suffering from the cold
ONE of the great attractions of fieldsports is that, generally speaking, they are not affected too much by the weather. Bad light never stops play, and rarely does bad weather.…
Six of the best countryside properties in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex
The properties currently on the market in the Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex countryside are wonderfully varied. From cosy cottages to grand Elizabethan manor houses there is much to look at…
December 2022 – Christmas Number
There is nothing that celebrates Christmas in the country more than a copy of The Field. We were founded not long after Dickens (one of our first readers) wrote A Christmas Carol,…
The Field’s festive product wish list
FIRE BELLOWS MORGAN BELLOWS Add initials, dates, crests, logos or a favourite bird or animal for custom bellows. Choose from painted or natural wood, and brass, black or brushed steel…
Your guide to The Game Fair 2022
This month, The Game Fair returns to Ragley Hall in Alcester, Warwickshire. Around 120,000 visitors are expected to attend from Friday, 29 July to Sunday, 31 July, and the event…
January 2022
Walked up days – The joy of January birds This first issue of The Field’s 169th year is packed with our exceptional world-class writing and photography, and all the things The Field values. There…