While we cannot improve your natural shooting abilities (although you might like to read George Digweed’s grouse shooting tips here), we CAN advise you on what to wear grouse shooting…
The Field
The Field’s 12 top tips for grouse shooting
Twelve top tips for grouse shooting, with essential advice on what to wear how to shoot and how to look like a seasoned pro on the moor
Early season shoot days
My enjoyment of early-season shoot days remains as strong as ever. But there is more to this appreciation of an August day on a moor, a September day in fields…
What you need to know about guinea fowl
What you need to know about guinea fowl Hardy and disease-free, guinea fowl live for 10 to 15 years. They can grow up to 48cm (19in) long and weigh 1.8kg…
Trout in a bag
Trout in a bag may not sound glamorous (say trout à la vapeur if you prefer) but it is one of the most simple of our best trout recipes. It…
How to make raspberry vinegar
Summer is here and for those of us with soft fruit in the vegetable garden, that probably means raspberries. Whilst raspberry jam is delicious, raspberry vinegar is a useful standby…
The City of London’s livery companies
The Lord Mayor’s Show, an 800-year-old pageant chronicled by Pepys, painted by Canaletto and the first outdoor event ever to be televised live, is a fixture of English life. So…
How to make lavender sugar
A reader writes: Last year I dusted my mince pies with vanilla sugar, which I had made myself. Earlier this year I read an article saying that lavender sugar was…
Risk assessments for your shoot
Risk assessments are now a vital part of any shoot, and it is incumbent upon us all to make what we do as safe as possible. Kevin Wissett-Warner, an independent…
D-Day: 81st 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…