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

Social media – what not to like • Garry Doolan, BASC’s deputy director of communications and public affairs, explains why the extraordinary power of social media should not be underestimated

Art in the field • The buzz of racing provided a backdrop to Tod Ramos’s childhood, with a palette rather than more conventional toys, he tells Janet Menzies

Field Notes

In brief

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

FEBRUARY DIARY

#TheField • MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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

Faces • The GWCT 40th Anniversary London Ball

Letters

Handbrake off for house price rises • It’s sellers to the right, first-time buyers to the left post-election. Perhaps, says Rupert Bates, we should just revel in the personality of our properties

TAKE 3 – EAST SUSSEX PROPERTIES

Country estate of the month • CROSSRIGG HALL, CLIBURN, PENRITH, CUMBRIA

WRECK OF THE MONTH

TAKE 3 – SKI CHALETS

No stomach for coffeehousing • The word might suggest a large latte to younger guns but Editor Jonathan Young knows that too much froth will infuriate the shoot captain

Love is all around • Valentine’s Day – anda leap year – are quite enough to twist a single lady’s knickers, although it’s more Corinthians than catsuits for Eve Jones this year

An Essex shoot that’s certainly no joke • Testing sport and conservation combine at award-winning County Farm in Great Dunmow – and never mind the MacNob

Shooting grey ghosts in winter’s darkening woods • Little tests fieldcraft and shotgun skill as much as making a decent bag of woodpigeon coming into roost

Keeping it clean • A shotgun needs to be in perfect working order or problems could occur. But how often should you get it serviced?

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE

LA CUESTA, LA FIESTA • Waves of high, strong, fast partridges flowed over the wild, rugged La Mancha landscape – it’s no wonder guns keep coming back to this Spanish estate

La dolce vita with a touch of tweed • Tenuta Aiola offers stylish, walked-up days, well-shown gamebirds and wild boar. But don’t offer your hosts sloe gin…

Joining an Anglo-German jubilee • Established by British Army officers, Germany’s Weser Vale Hunt is celebrating 50 seasons – and continued ties with its founders

SIX OF THE WESER VALE’S BEST • According to Joint Master Fiona, Baroness von Elverfeldt

A NEW SPORTING DESTINATION?

Sports’ holy trinity • It’s the ultimate sporting challenge: to bag a brace of grouse, land a salmon and shoot a stag. Let us introduce this year’s Macnabbers

MOST DANGEROUS PLACES TO FISH • Many rods dream of landing monster species but to tick some off the bucketlist means facing more than fierce fish

EL Tigre The great spotted cat of Brazil’s Mato Grosso • Once persecuted by cattle farmers, the jaguars of the Pantanal are now protected – both by law and the tourists’ lenses

REMARKABLE TREES • MAHOGANY (SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND SWIETENIA MAHAGONI)

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