Ed Wills

Deputy Editor of The Field

Ed Wills

Ed is currently Deputy Editor of The Field and former Deputy Editor of Shooting Times and Country magazine. Aside from a deep passion for fishing, shooting and stalking, he manages a farm in Hampshire and is a great supporter of regenerative agriculture and conservation projects for the grey partridge of which he is lucky to have a small population.

  • November 9, 2023

The Field’s Christmas Special is filled with carefully curated, exclusive content from the best writers. This month we go to Cumbria for a walked-up day with Clumber spaniels and join…

  • August 7, 2023

Most sporting sorts know what a challenge it is to undertake a proper Macnab, by which we mean the modern classic iteration, inspired by John Buchan and tweaked for the…

  • March 7, 2023

The Field is enormously proud to have started the Macnab Challenge, a sporting endeavour based on John Buchan’s novel John Macnab, which requires skill and tenacity on both hill and…

  • February 21, 2023

Keeping a gamebook was obligatory when you started out shooting in my day,” says Sir Johnny Scott, who made his first entry at the age of nine. “Much of my…

  • February 10, 2023

ONE of the great attractions of fieldsports is that, generally speaking, they are not affected too much by the weather. Bad light never stops play, and rarely does bad weather.…

  • November 10, 2022

There is nothing that celebrates Christmas in the country more than a copy of The Field. We were founded not long after Dickens (one of our first readers) wrote A Christmas Carol,…

  • November 10, 2022

FIRE BELLOWS MORGAN BELLOWS Add initials, dates, crests, logos or a favourite bird or animal for custom bellows. Choose from painted or natural wood, and brass, black or brushed steel…

  • July 25, 2022

This month, The Game Fair returns to Ragley Hall in Alcester, Warwickshire. Around 120,000 visitors are expected to attend from Friday, 29 July to Sunday, 31 July, and the event…

  • December 16, 2021

Walked up days – The joy of January birds This first issue of The Field’s 169th year is packed with our exceptional world-class writing and photography, and all the things The Field values. There…