When John Buchan wrote John Macnab in 1925, he created a seemingly timeless and appealing sporting adventure for daring and ambitious souls. His three protagonists, Sir Edward Leithen, John Palliser-Yeates and Lord Lamancha, write a letter under the name ‘John Macnab’ to a trio of Highland estates, warning that within…
The Macnab Challenge, a fieldsports endeavour based on John Buchan’s famous novel John Macnab, requires skill and perseverance on both hill and river in pursuit of salmon, stag and grouse. This year The Field’s Macnab Challenge is kindly sponsored by Blaser, a company with the requisite kit for the task…
We all aspire to having an iconic sporting moment. However sadly we rarely achieve them. It might be the red-letter day when you catch a trout on the mayfly, or jump that hedge, or shoot a serious January high pheasant. These are the moments that stay with you. And they…
Most sporting sorts know what a challenge it is to undertake a proper Macnab, by which we mean the modern classic iteration, inspired by John Buchan and tweaked for the modern sportsman in the pages of The Field. That is, to catch a salmon, shoot a stag and complete it…
The Field is enormously proud to have started the Macnab Challenge, a sporting endeavour based on John Buchan’s novel John Macnab, which requires skill and tenacity on both hill and river in pursuit of salmon, stag and grouse. The Field’s Macnab Challenge is kindly sponsored this year by Blaser and…
Have you ever bagged a Macnab? 2012 sees the launch of The Field Macnab Club, and we invite applications to join the Macnab Club.
The Macnab Challenge has been part of The Field’s heritage for numerous years. The derring-do, spirit of adventure, sporting skill and camaraderie that comes with taking on the challenge is something every sporting man or woman identifies with. It is the whiff of heather, the luck with the weather and…
The Macnab Challenge is the ultimate sporting test, as The Field and Pol Roger’s Macnab attempt team discovered when they set out to Harris to bag a salmon, a stag and a brace of grouse in 24 hours. Are you one of the bravest sportsmen or women, willing to set…
The Field shows you the best casting technique so you can catch your salmon
Closing date for entries is midnight, 10 November 2013.
