The Field Quiz 2023 Shooting 1) Who wrote the famous shooting poem that begins, “Never, never let your gun/ Pointed be at anyone”? 2) Why are plus-fours so named? 3)…

racing

Start your year off right by going to a point-to-point this January. Whatever the weather may be you can still head to the field to claim some fresh air and…

marlin fishing

We all aspire to having an iconic sporting moment. However sadly we rarely achieve them. It might be the red-letter day when you catch a trout on the mayfly, or…

Carols by candlelight

Where would Christmas be without hunting? Bing Crosby dreamt of a white Christmas with every Christmas card he wrote. When that card shows the traditional scene of the hunt on…

cold houses

I can’t exactly claim to have been brought up in cold houses. I realise that this is a distinctly non-U admission, so I need to clarify things a little. I…

Boys playing parlour games

On one cerebral festive occasion in an Irish castle I was invited to join in an incomprehensible word-play game with two Oxford undergraduates, then in full command of their intellectual…

IT can be trying to find the right place to stay in London; too corporate, too poky, too faceless. But there is one place that seems to encourage a head…

The Field’s January issue kicks off our 170th-anniversary year with a bang. It is brimming with brand-new content and sporting articles. From testing steel shot on challenging pheasants on Saddleworth…