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ArticleGuns and the law
How gun licensing has evolved and where it is headed next. By Michael Yardley IT PROBABLY dates me to note that I can remember when you used to be able to obtain your ‘gun licence’ for a shotgun from the Post Office, where you also acquired your...
ArticleTo the moor
Guns gather for a superlative grouse day in Midlothian. By Sir Johnny Scott AFTER THE catastrophic grouse season in 2024, when a long, sodden winter meant hen birds were in poor condition at nesting, followed by bitterly cold, wet weather...
ArticleHeading to the Highlands
Graham Downing explores the origins of the annual Scottish sporting pilgrimage Stranger with the pile of luggage proudly labelled for Portree: how I wish, this night of August, I were you and you were me!’ The opening lines of AM Harbord’s...
ArticleCowes Week bicentenary
Ed Gorman looks at how the world’s oldest regatta became a summer staple IT’S HARD to think of sailing in Britain without Cowes Week. That’s because for 200 years – it celebrates its bicentenary this year – the world’s oldest and often...
ArticleThe 2026 Field Macnab Challenge
Entries are open for The Field ’s ultimate challenge. By Felix Petit AMACNAB IS a singular sporting achievement and, for estates that can support such a feat, a badge of honour. It requires an Atlantic salmon caught on the fly, a brace of red...