Shooting manners and shooting etiquette: tipping the gamekeeper when game shooting
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A glossary of scenting terms
Breast-high: warming air allows scent molecules to rise up through evaporation and convection so that even ground scenters can carry their noses high. Dead ground: lower-lying, colder or wetter patches…
Tracing blue-blooded gundog lineage
The purest of canine lineages have been bred by the bluest bloods in the land, who have continuously fostered the finest lines. This is a Bark's Peerage of aristocratic kennels.
A Sporting Life – Dame Jilly Cooper
Dame Jilly Cooper grew up in the countryside of Yorkshire. Apart from a brief spell in Camberley during the war, where she amused herself feeding “wartime carrots” to the Staff…
Falconry: a most ancient and noble art
Falconry is one of the fastest-growing country pursuits, with 25,000 people (5,000 of whom hunt with hawks) involved, who between them keep about 75,000 birds of prey. There are more…
Back to basics – how the right base layers can be a game changer
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…
How to choose the best gundog for partridges
For wild greys and redlegs, you need a worker that’s keen, thorough and won’t mind the brambles. So which is the best gundog for partridges? Alec Marsh finds out…
A guide to Olympic shooting
The first shot ever fired as part of the modern Olympics was at the inaugural 1896 Games in Athens in the 200-metre military rifle competition. It wasn’t fired by the…
D-Day: 80th anniversary
In the grey dawn of D-Day, 6 June 1944, 20-year-old Trooper Lawrence Burn’s 35-tonne DD (duplex-drive) Sherman tank, its flotation screen raised, edged down the ramp of the landing craft…
Best proposals in the field
See how the Field man plights his troth. Rural romance from sporting swains in the field.