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Art In The Field

Landseer’s famous portrait of a stag has been secured for the nation but, finds Janet Menzies, this famous 12-pointer is still being shot at.

Foraging And Foul Play

The Midsomer Murderers are missing a few tricks, thinks Jonathan Young, with nature’s bounty offering potential both on and off the dinner table

A Wild Adventure In The Orkneys

Wildfowling in the Orkneys offers thrilling sport – and helps the island’s beleaguered farmers control the over-abundant geese

Spanish Style At Challacombe

How would French redlegs, bred and reared in Spain, perform during a Westcountry southwester?

The Best Of Muck

As well as providing a giant breakfast bowl to sustain birds during winter, the muck heap is a valuable tool in the battle against soil depletion

Guerini Invictus High Pheasant

With relatively light barrels and good pointing qualities, Michael Yardley finds this gun an attractive proposition for rangy work – with, perhaps, a slight tweak to the stock.

The Gun Terrier

At 14 months old, it was time for Betsy, Editor Jonathan Young’s Sealyham x Jack Russell, to venture into the field. How would she perform?

Playing The Tubers

With a bit of help from her dad, Eve Jones has transformed her roof garden into a little patch of Oxfordshire. But how can she explain the absence of the begonias?

Pike And Pancakes

While he might not have got the better of the batter, Editor Jonathan Young finds tossing a large fly at a huge hen the perfect antidote to abstinence

Employing Citizen Science

Through initiatives such as the GWCT’s Partridge Count, farmers are starting to measure their own environmental impact.

Building British Guns A Different Way

Does the revolutionary design of the Longthorne shotgun, including barrels made from a single billet, mark James Longthorne Stewart as genius or maverick?

Should We Still Be Shooting Woodcock?

As the resident population of this gamebird declines, should it remain on the quarry list?

There's More To Shooting Than Shooting

A growing obsession with continual large bags is destroying the quality of the shooting experience, says Editor Jonathan Young, and damaging the reputation of the sport in the process

Art In The Field

Bruce Little’s latest sculpture is now greeting visitors to Longleat after a tortuous journey from South Africa, as he explains to Janet Menzies

Tricky Cocks At Willey's

Difficult conditions make for testing birds to be added to the Foresters’ gamebook, kept meticulously since 1825

Out For A Duck

The foreshore fowling season ends on 20 February. Here are nine species that may feature in the bag and on the table

And They Call It Puppy Love

There’s no better way for a man to perk up his dating profi le than by posing with a puppy. It gives a whole new meaning to picking-up…

A Black Beak But Beautiful Mid Winter

Cold and barren it may be but colourful traditions around the Solstice – expertly adopted by the Christian Church – make this a time of hope and glory, says Sir Johnny Scott

Getting A Taste For The Salt

For the third year running, rods headed to St Mawes in Cornwall to compete in the Kilchoman UK Saltwater Fly Fishing Festival for The Field Cup – and the chance to land a wide range of species

The Name Game

With human monikers, makes of gun or even gamebirds used to identify gundogs, David Tomlinson prefers the simplicity of the hunt system for naming foxhounds

Art In The Field

Raoul Millais came from a family adept at capturing the spirit of the age on canvas. It is time his work was re-evaluated, suggests Janet Menzies

Bloat And The Need To Act Quickly

Gastric dilation torsion, or bloat, is not common in dogs – but it is often fatal, as the winner of our Best Family Gundog award discovered, sadly. David Tomlinson describes the symptoms