The remarkable power of field to fork
It's not just sustenance and satisfaction that we get out of eating together...
Marcus Janssen
Country boy with South African and Scottish roots. An ex professional hunter and magazine editor with 20+ years' experience writing for country sports publications in the UK, Europe, USA, South…
Cold, spotted and beautiful
If fly fishing is art, then surely no medium has more delicate brush strokes, more subtle nuance and greater mastery of light than trout fishing, and it is surely the trout that takes pride of place above the mantelpiece in the great fishing gallery.
The ultimate sporting quarry
Shooting people tend to be pretty divided over what the ultimate feathered quarry is, which is probably because they've never been to South Africa before.
The joy and the drama. But mainly the drama
Taking your kids shooting and fishing isn’t always the blissful experience you might have imagined
Much more than just a pastime
There are moments in fieldsports that resonate so deeply within us, because they awaken our hunter-gatherer gene, a part of us that is integral to who we are.
I thought shooting was doomed
There have been occasions when I have genuinely considered giving up shooting for good. But I'm glad to say that my faith has been restored.