Fieldsports magazine... for game shooting & fishing field sports enthusiasts the essential quarterly magazine. Fans of field sports such as shooting and fishing will love it. Field sports for all.
Leading field sports artists, known for shooting and fishing pictures, featuring shooting and fishing scenes, are featured. Along with the best shoots and fishings and the great sporting estates where field sports abound.
Field sports fans love eating the fruits of shooting and fishing adventures, so game cookery is big in Fieldsports magazine. And Fieldsports also features top restaurants which offer pheasants and salmon in their menus.
Lots of fishing too. Salmon, trout and sea-trout - fishing all around the UK will appeal to field sports enthusiasts. Fieldsports magazine is for them too. A very high percentage of game shooters also fish in the summer.
Not forgetting field sports, both shooting and fishing, around the world. Partridge shooting in Spain, pheasants in Hungary, elephants in Tanzania and game bird shooting in Tanzania. Again Fieldsports magazine has it all.
Shooting instruction with invaluable shooting tips, and experts on new and old guns. A full guide to shotguns is included. Side-by-side-shotguns and over-under shotguns. Fieldsports looks at all the recommended makers.
Wild pheasants and partridges always appeal to field sports enthusiasts. Fieldsports magazine has shoots that have grown from practically nothing.
In other words every field sports enthusiast will love Fieldsports magazine. Fieldsports is a must.
Fieldsports magazine is the essential quarterly title for all who enjoy game shooting and fishing.
Features include field sport grouse shooting, partridge shooting, pheasant shooting and shoot conservation, It is an essential read for shooting enthusiasts, with much more editorial than any other shooting magazine.
Leading sporting artists who focus on game species such as woodcock and snipe are also featured. There are articles on the best shoots around the country and also the great sporting estates.
Game cookery is also a key element in Fieldsports, along with restaurants serving game dishes.
For the fisherman there are authoritative articles on salmon, trout and sea-trout, with fishing in all parts of the UK and overseas. A very high percentage of game shots enjoy to fish in he summer and Fieldsports is for them.
Not forgetting sport abroad in our fist issue there is partridge shooting in Spain, pheasants in Hungary, elephants in Tanzania, and game birds in Zululand.
Leading authorities talk about shooting instruction with invaluable shooting tips, and there are experts on new and old guns. The new issue has a comprehensive guide to buying an over-under gun. Many side-by-side shotgun users are now thinking about the over-under 12 bore and 20 bore, and the Fieldsports guide looks at all the recommended gunmakers.
Developing a shoot for wild pheasants and partridges is another key subject area with two stories of partridge shoots that have been established from virtually nothing.
In other words, a big, entertaining and informative read for the shooting and fishing sportsman. Fieldsports is a must.
Winter 2011
'We seem to have quite a bit of game about - would you like to come to shoot?'
Do emails spell it out any better than that? Not really.
It does indeed seem to be a good year for wild game. And it has certainly been an exceptional grouse season (Lord James Percy on page 94 of our Winter 2011-12 issue), but partridges and pheasants have faired well too.
Happily, there seems to be a growing number of grey partridge projects, one of which is a joint winner of the 2011 Purdey Award for Game & Conservation, announced just as we went to press with this issue of Fieldsports.
Simon Maudlin has, on his family farm in Bedfordshire, shown how it is possible to have a reared bird shoot and flourishing population of grey partridges, lots of wildlife and good shooting. See page 46.
The joint winner is a project which has seen the transformation of a derelict industrial site in Essex. Gary Wilson and Steven Wallis acquired Berwick Marshes in Rainham, just eight miles from London Bridge, and under their nurture it has become a haven for wildlife. There will be more about this in our next issue - Spring 2012.
Conservationist and TV personality Phil Spencer presented the Gold Award certificates and cheques for £3,500 to the winners at the Purdey Awards ceremony held in the Long Room at Purdey HQ in London's Mayfair. He also presented Awards certificates and Laurent-Perrier champagne to eight further shortlisted conservation projects across the UK.
The Purdey Silver Award went to the Camddwr Shooting Society, based near Aberystwyth. And bronze to the Irish Grouse Conservation Trust, Glenwherry Moor, Co. Antrim.
Dr. Stephen Marsh Smith, Wayne Richards and Ted Filmer of Ireland Moor, near Builth Wells, received a Highly Commended certificate for ongoing efforts in restoring red grouse to central Wales.
There was a wide variety of entries this year. Richard Purdey said: 'Without game shooting there would be very little motivation or money to undertake conservation work, and as a result our countryside's carefully managed and balanced eco system would soon unravel and become barren.'
It is at this time of year that our thoughts turn to pheasants and though there were fears that the recession would have an effect, bookings seem to be holding up well, particularly for the well-proven shoots. And syndicates were already committed.
If you would like to make the most of your day in the field and shoot a few more of those high flying cocks, then look no further than Simon Ward's High Pheasants Made Easy on page 80. Or how about our pheasant 1st XI on page 72?
Perhaps simply enjoy Sir Henry Rider Haggard's tale on page 54. And win fabulous leather accessories by Daniels & Wood, with bespoke engraving (page 133).
Good shooting and best season's greetings.
Mike Barnes
Editor