The Field

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd The Field is a monthly glossy magazine dedicated to those brave souls who shoot, fish and hunt way beyond the call of duty. Since 1853, its staff has selflessly brought its readers the cream of rural life, be it pheasant shooting, dry-fly fishing or the distinct merits of Cheval Blanc. If you love field sports, errant terriers and very foxy friends at hunt balls, The Field is for you.

The Field • ESTABLISHED 1853 VOL 336 NO 7391

Thanking our country custodians • A glorious spring and the riches of the countryside remind Sir Johnny Scott just how lucky we are to live in such a green and pleasant land – and how much we owe those who care for it

Art in the field • Tanja Möderscheim explains how a love for her country’s heritage tulips and the Dutch Masters occasioned a change in career. By Janet Menzies

Field At Home

Ten candidates for BASC council seats

In brief

The Naked, Strewth • A MONTHLY EXPLORATION OF THE BRITISH FONDNESS FOR REMOVING CLOTHES IN A GOOD CAUSE

Raising funds for the RDA at a gallop

Zoom day for Sealyhams

Lockdown suppers

Champions of game

Field-y cocktails

HOMEGROWN PINK STEMS

Kennel or kitchen?

New in the field • Our monthly guide to everything covetable in the coverts, tremendous on the Test and bang on in the butt

Letters

Rural locations – for life or just for lockdown? • A place in the country has never sounded so appealing, finds Rupert Bates. Just so long as it really is keeping the wolf from our doorsteps…

It’s chucking-out time • One of the perils of lockdown, finds Editor Jonathan Young, is that idle hands relabel beloved kit as litter. How best to hang on to threadbare coats and domestic harmony…

Take to one’s wheels • The promise of more ‘couples’ time and a better bottom have persuaded Eve Jones to overcome her dislike of Lycra wearers and hop onto a saddle

Kit and caboodle • Experience distils the necessary from the merely showy and never more so than in the shooting field. With the Twelfth looming, it’s time to consider what to pack

Living off the land • For many of us, putting food on the table now means a trip to the supermarket. But just what is available to the modern hunter-gatherer?

A GOLDEN LESSON IN PIGEON SHOOTING • Olympic gold medallist Richard Faulds is a fiend at Double Trap – but how would he fare when facing pigeon over stubbles…

The personal armoury of Sir Winston Churchill • Military weapons, guns and rifles for fieldsports and presentation pieces make up the remarkable collection of the Army officer turned statesman

Churchill’s armoury

Lead shot vs steel: The Field's guide to the ballistics • Lead has been used for centuries to deliver a clean kill. What must a gun know before deciding on its replacement?

Adapting guns for steel • The lead shot vs steel shot debate continues to rage. But does steel really herald the demise of our beloved old guns – or merely a modification?

Mahseer adventure • At the confluence of two rivers on the border of India and Nepal monster fish can be found – if you can take your eyes off the scenery

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Nimrod vs Surtees: a war of words • The two great Victorian writers put hunting on the page but were pitted against each other in print. Who was the better man?

“Farmers may for years have been dismissed as cornchewing bumpkins but really they are Britain’s best polymaths; part engineer, part agronomist, part vet, meteorologist, business analyst and sales negotiator. Many of them make great teachers, too” • For four decades The Country Trust has been giving inner-city children a taste of country life – with the help of a...