The Field April 2015 cover

Change your shooting style – how to make difficult birds seem easy; only girls allowed – ladies-only shooting clubs; garden airguns – 10 of the best for pest control; everybody…

The Merkel 65E is competitively priced, looks good and shoots well.

The Merkel 65E sidelock is a gun in which I must declare an interst. I had some influence on the specification. About a year ago I was invited by Merkel…

Orkeny unseen naked chaity calendar 2015

The Orkney Unseen naked charity calendar 2015 has put the archipelago, just off the north coast of Scotland, in the spotlight. The Orkney inhabitants have laid bare the inner Islander,…

Expert guide to pigeon shooting. Taking aim at the grey grouse.

An expert guide to pigeon shooting is particularly useful when it comes from a team that down the grey grouse in their thousands. But before the advice on telling you…

Early Morning Light in the Cotswolds by sporting artist Jeremy Houghton

Jeremy Houghton’s work is all about the spaces in between, which somehow convey the realities of the sports he depicts more convincingly than any amount of photographic detail. The forbidding…

The oldest fishing book. A Benedictine monk whiled away his hours writing about fishing in the back of his Latin breviary.

The oldest fishing book in the world may have been discovered. Nestling in the back of an ancient mid-fifteenth century prayer book, hand written in obscure dialect, were notes relating…

A snarling man-eater is not the best thing to encounter on the way to the shower block.

Man-eaters are not just a category of monsters consigned to schlock horror films. They are a very real danger, particularly if one finds oneself on safari (for expert advice see…