End-of-season grouse provide superlative sport at an affordable price if you can bag a day and shoot straight. Adrian Dangar is blown away by the drama of a gusty day…
THE FIELD
Nuts and holts of pannage
Though we've taken to eating imported cashews, almonds, pecans and peanuts, British men and beasts should cherish our native kernel cache.
Claire Lomas equestrian diary
The Claire Lomas Walk Campaign and Saddle Up for Spinal Research have teamed up to produce an A5 week-to-view equestrian diary to raise funds.
Grayling, the Gallic grail
Charles Rangeley-Wilson's passion for poisson is tested by the "impossible" grayling, the only fish in abundance in French rivers – with good reason.
Red deer stalking in the Highlands
The deer stalking in Fasnakyle at the east end of Glen Affric has changed little and is as exciting as ever, with every nerve on fire in man and beast.
Deer stalking, salmon fishing – be a Laird for the week
The essentially Victorian sporting week of whisky, fireside conversation, a first salmon and a long stalk on the hill still thrives today – along with the chance to have a…
From lough to loch and father to offspring
When Charles Rangeley-Wilson was a boy, he spent his summers fishing the far-flung loughs of Co Kerry for trout. Sneakily, via their stomachs, he’s passed his love of lake-angling to…
Shooting: Westley Richards gunmaker
William Richards set up shop as a gunmaker three years before Waterloo, but it was under his son Westley and his appointees that the family firm became synonymous with all…
Chicken, leek and pearl barley broth
Chicken soup recipe
Rabbit shooting
Jonathan Young goes rabbit shooting, with woodcock and insanely high partridges to keep him busy too.