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    Art In The Field
    Sporting artist Under the hammer Royal Armouries Sporting dog The boot room Gun review Country queries Gardening Farm shop Cookery Wine Travel Books Field testers From the archives Find Graham Stevenson on Instagram @offthefly or visit: offthefly.com
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    Letters To The Editor
    Letters may be edited for clarity or space Over recent years, I have had the privilege of shooting in Germany and have been greatly impressed with a traditional ceremony conducted at the end of each day. In German this is called the strecke. Der stre
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    The Reel Deal
    THERE is a sound that all fishermen long to hear: the music of a screaming reel after a slight tug from the fish on the line followed by a long run. The purpose of a reel is simple: to store line and to help play the fish. Nowadays we view it as an e
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    Growing Up In Hunt Kennels
    “D’YOU WANT to see a lion?” This thrilling question was asked of my brother and me, aged probably about four and six, by West Norfolk huntsman Ian Higgs when we’d dropped into kennels with our father. We nodded frantically, our eyes wide. Higgs opene
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    The Painswick
    THE MONTH of May often heralds a sporting pilgrimage, whether it is towards Gloucestershire for Badminton or south for the trout. However, finding somewhere decent to stay on route can be a challenge. I’m a great believer in trying to make the journe
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    Darts Farm
    IF THE ROADSIDE farm shed in Devon’s Clyst Valley in which Ronald Dart started his pick-your-own business in 1971 was a small acorn, Darts Farm Shop is the mighty oak that grew from it. While still a family business, run by Dart’s three sons, it has
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    Ireland Announces Extension To Deerstalking Season
    The Irish government has extended the stalking season by three months for mature male deer (now ending on 30 April) and by one month for female deer and antlerless males (now ending 31 March) in a bid to tackle overgrazing. Ministers also announced t
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    The Rosé Revolution
    IT’S THAT time of year again. You know: rosé time. Hang on, all year round is rosé time these days. I should know. We get through enough of it in our house, even when I’m not at home. Mrs Ray is like that. Once she starts, she can’t stop. And when sh
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    Uncancelling The Countryside
    DESPITE ITS development as a place of innovation, Cambridge maintains a rural feel with cattle grazing lush pastures beside the flowing Cam still. The Fitzwilliam Museum looks out across the Peterhouse deer park to observe this timeless pastoral scen
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    Top Shots And Flintlocks
    AS GUNMAKERS concentrated on the practical efficiency of the flintlock shotgun at the close of the 18th century, it became a much-improved creature to that of 100 years before. Although basically fitted with the same mechanism, the gun had a swifter,
    The Field1 min readInternet & Web
    Taking Digital Steps To Drive Positive Change
    Women Who Work in Fieldsports (WWWF) has been extremely busy over the past few months and is on the cusp of a big milestone as it prepares to unveil its eagerly anticipated website and membership programme. WWWF’s website is designed to connect women
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    All Change On The First Of May
    Dear Freddie, THE BEGINNING of this month marks the start of the new hunting year and, although no physical hunting takes place until autumn, it is also the date that Masters are appointed or reappointed by the hunt committee and new kennel staff – h
    The Field1 min readCrime & Violence
    Holyrood Backs Grouse Licensing
    Scottish sporting estates wishing to shoot grouse will now require a licence following the passing of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill at Holyrood on 21 March. The licences will be valid for up to five years. Muirburn and certain
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    Reclaiming The Walk
    THERE are few, if any, better people to take advice from than John Buchan. In fact there is a good argument that The Complete Richard Hannay contains more and better lessons in life than all the self-help books ever written. The whole premise of John
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    News In Brief
    This year’s Eat Game Awards took place on board the Dixie Queen on the River Thames. Nine winners were crowned with Joe Mann, a cookery teacher from Taunton, Somerset, taking home the coveted Champion of Champions title for the work he is doing to ed
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    General Licence For Gamebird Release On SPAs
    Defra has announced a new general licence (GL45) for the release of common pheasants and red-legged partridges on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. The licence ensures that these gamebirds can now be released over a number o
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    One Good Deed…
    The Angling Trust has been awarded a new National Angling Strategic Services contract by the Environment Agency following a competitive procurement process. It started on 1 April 2024 and will run for four years, during which the Trust will concentra
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    May Diary
    Newmarket, Suffolk Tel: 0344 579 3010 thejockeyclub.co.uk Badminton estate, Gloucestershire Tel: 01454 218375 badminton-horse.co.uk Worcestershire Tel: 0344 338 5400 rhsmalvern.co.uk Roxburghe Golf Club, Roxburghshire Email: events@atlanticsalmontrus
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    Horse Trials And High Society
    Dafydd Jones made his name photographing Oxbridge swells and debutante balls in the 1980s. Looking back, their fresh faces seem strangely dated, their taffeta and askew bow ties as distant as 1920s Flapper parties. Yet this celebrated lensman with im
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    Fieldy Festivals
    BREEZILY drop into conversation at an early July dinner party that you’ve spent the previous weekend festivaling in the West Country, and let your host imagine you jostling to the Arctic Monkeys at Worthy Farm, warm cider in hand and face bedecked in
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    What The Future Holds For Water
    ANY PROPERTY with water, be it a chalkstream to fish in or a riverbank to walk along, commands a premium, both commercial and emotional. Young Harry Britton, aged five, might not measure the water in monetary terms yet but he has already caught a bag
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    The Field’s Almanac
    Did you know? May is named after the Roman goddess Maia, who oversaw the growth of plants. ♦ Among the many superstitions associated with May Day was the belief that washing one’s face with the dew on the morning of 1 May would beautify the skin and
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    Lessons From The Riverbank
    NDC LAST DECEMBER when I asked our three-year-old daughter what she would like Father Christmas to bring her, the instant response was “a fishing rod”. I immediately donned my ‘worker elf’ hat and retired to my workshop, both delighted and relieved t
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    Claire Mercer Nairne
    THE CHATELAINE of the Meikleour estate, north of Perth, is an irrepressible force of nature. She’s a woman of nature too and has just been pushing my rental car out of a rut and found herself dripping Tayside mud as a result, laughing all the while.
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    Perfection In A Pinch
    The brown crab can be found all around the British Isles and is by far our biggest species. The female is impressively productive, laying between 250,000 and three million eggs a year. Pot-caught crab is the most sustainable choice, as it is species
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    Six Months For £23.99*
    Save up to 33% Offer closes 31 October 2024. Offer open to new subscribers only. Direct Debit offer is available to UK subscribers only. *£23.99 payable every six months by Direct Debit. Please allow up to six weeks for delivery of your first subscri
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    Floral Fireworks
    I SOMETIMES WISH we had called our daughter Iris, although she might not have thanked us for it. For me, it is a name of infinite romance, since Iris was the Greek goddess whose task it was to carry messages between heaven and earth, crossing between
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    Country Queries
    Send queries to Rosie Macdonald, Country Queries Editor, The Field, Future Publishing PLC, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR. For more, visit: thefield.co.uk Email country-queries@hectareshouse.co.uk Follow Rosie on Instagram @dizzy_m Q I hav
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    Country Estate Of The Month
    THIS MODERN mansion house in Shropshire comes with nearly 50 acres of land, including a mix of gardens, parkland, a lake, three ponds, a tennis court and a helicopter landing pad. The main property has seven bedrooms as well as a two-bedroom flat, an
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    Where There’s A Weir…
    IN 2018 THE first call from the Wild Trout Trust (WTT) came through to the Derbyshire Angling Federation (DAF) about Snake Lane weir. Located above the village of Duffield, close to where the River Ecclesbourne meets the River Derwent, the 1970s cons

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