We’ve gone wild this month in The Field. We’re giving you not one action-packed magazine but two. With every January issue, there’s a free copy of the second The Field Junior: a 36-page, standalone magazine for young readers aged eight to 16.

In the main magazine it’s one big party – a country house-party of course, and a wild one at that. We visit a wet and windy Raby Castle in County Durham reporting on wily, wild birds, while Neil and Serena Cross enjoy an old-fashioned maraud through a woodcock paradise in Cornwall: proof, if ever it were needed, that good sport is all about companionship. We have Liam Bell on why smaller days are a big deal, Alex Jardine explores the varied and exhilarating world of wild fishing, and Octavia Pollock has a mud-splattered day following the fleet-footed Wheatland hounds.

Want to make sure you’re top of the invite list to the best sporting house parties? Rory Knight Bruce talks us through how to be the perfect guest, while David Tomlinson’s gundog column has top tips to make sure your canine companion doesn’t put a paw wrong when staying away from home. Want to ramp up the private house-party stakes? Amanda Morison checks out three very special country houses for hire.

Alec Marsh reveals his soft spot for velvet as he examines why smoking jackets are so hot, and Madeleine Silver peeks behind the curtains of the smartest miniature mansions and talks to those who never grew out of playing with doll’s houses. The heroics of teams of mushers are celebrated by Ettie Neil-Gallacher, 100 years after their heroic journeys across snow and perilous ice saved a remote Alaskan community.

New for 2025, we launch Sir Johnny’s Scott’s walk through the fieldsport hall of fame starting this month with legendary huntsman Jack Champion and introduce The Last Hurrah (find it on the back page). We interview Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart on his love of shooting and a lifetime helping others, plus all your regular favourites and much more.

The Field Junior magazine comes with every copy of the Field’s January issue

And not forgetting The Field Junior: 36 pages of country fun and facts, including how to train your gundog puppy; a hunting masterclass with Harry Meade; how to do your bit to help farmland birds; easy steps to tying a fly; schools that hit the mark with shooting competitions; on the tail of beagles and grey squirrels and much more. Plus there are quizzes galore. Which kind of gundog are you? Can you answer our fiendish Field quiz and how many types of animal poo can you identify.