While we cannot improve your natural shooting abilities (although you might like to read George Digweed’s grouse shooting tips here), we CAN advise you on what to wear grouse shooting and how to blend in seamlessly on the grouse moor. Driven grouse shoots are more formal than walked-up shoots. Follow…
Shooting can attract the flashier type: those who arrive by helicopter, who shoot with a Fabbri Titanium gun and wear £350 alpaca socks. But if you really want to impress your host – or indeed your guests – there’s a classier way of showing off: turn up wearing your own…
Pigeon shoooting kit: 12 items to keep in the car A pair of binoculars for checking out the flightlines before you set up shop. A score of flock-covered shell decoys with the white neckband accentuated. Pigeon see in ultra violet and this makes the decoys really stand out. A…
The choice between over and under or side by side shotgun will be forever open for debate. While tradition has favoured side by sides, an over and under will not receive the snide comments on a shoot as it once did thirty years ago. In fact, many guns find they…
The featured gun this month is a Chapuis Armes Super Orion Artisan C140 sideplate, a fairly recent model from the firm and the sideplated version of the C135 (also an extra-finish gun). Chapuis has been owned by Beretta since 2019 and its guns are distributed here by GMK. The C140…
The last thing anyone needs on a day in the field is for their kit to let them down. Fortunately there’s the ever-reliable, quietly stylish accessories range from Parker-Hale, a firm whose expertise was forged in the late 19th century heyday of Birmingham’s gun-making quarter and continues to burn bright. Today…
The best caps for shooting are well-cut and never out of place. The big decision is deciding which style to go for. “Peaky Blinders started a penchant for the eight-piece cap that is gaining on popularity on the traditional, close-fitting tweed,” says Alexandra Henton, Editor of The Field. “It’s a…
So the pheasant season has started and one’s mind turns to the best shooting ties. (Read our pheasant shooting tips here.) Patterned or plain is a personal choice. Most likely this is driven by how sartorially conservative one is. However, it is always best to avoid anything too shiny that…
We’re all more than capable of turning up and looking the part for a day in the field but it is what lies beneath that counts. Are your underpinnings less Bear Grylls and more threadbare and chills? Are your thermals, in fact, pants? Done correctly, layering can keep you as…
I wonder how many of you reading this are wearing a gilet? A fair few, I’ll wager. From modest, practical origins in the 15th century it has become quite the status symbol, subtly, or not so subtly, announcing one’s social and professional persuasions with its form, fabric and the likely…
