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.
Spring 2008
IN THIS ISSUE we take a look at the big conservation effort being made by shoots of all sizes, in a year which marks the 10th anniversary of the Purdey Awards for Game & Conservation.
Much is being done and we talk with two past award winners and revisit Hillborough where a grey partridge fostering programme is holding terrific promise for the future of this iconic species, though Ted Streeter fears that the growth of raptor numbers may jeopardize these plans, in a feature on wild game predation.
As ever, there’s lots of shooting to read about from both commercial and private shoots in the UK to quail in Carolina and dove in Argentina. Highlights also include Rupert Godfrey recalling the summer season of 2005, at Wemmergill, in Teesdale. Despite all the rain, this exceeded all expectations and provided the best shooting in 135 years!
Don’t forget that National Shooting Week is coming up and shooting schools and clubs throughout the UK will be inviting newcomers to give the sport a go. It runs from May 3-11 and there’s more information on www.nationalshootingweek.co.uk
In our popular profile section, Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White meets Jane Pruden and talks about his enduring love of the countryside, its sport and its calming influence. Plus, for those with an interest in gun history, Richard Rawlingson examines trends and developments in shotgun engraving from Victorian times to the Modern era.
With spring in the air and summer just around the corner, this issue is a fishing special, including a brilliant article by Hampshire tackle dealer Alistair Robjents, who chooses his seven favourite UK rivers, Henry Gilbey salmon fishing in Canada and Shirley Deterding getting entangled with Brazilian piranhas.