JOHN BUCHAN · 1925

Three Establishment men, bored to death.

In Buchan's 1925 novel, three eminent middle-aged men — a barrister, a Cabinet minister and a City banker — suffer from the curse of overwork and respectability. To shake it off they invent a shared alias, John Macnab, and challenge three Highland estates: take a stag or a salmon within a set window, return it to its owner, or pay £100 to charity.

The novel turned the feat into a thing. The Highlands have been chasing it ever since.

THE FEAT

Three quarries. One day. One estate.

A red stag, taken with a rifle. A brace of red grouse, taken on the wing. A wild Atlantic salmon, taken on the fly. By one person, in one day, on the same ground, between sunrise and sunset.

The seasons only overlap from mid-August to mid-October — a narrow window when stag, salmon and grouse can all legally be in pursuit at once. The Field tracks notable Macnabs every season. Variants exist: the Royal adds a right-and-left at grouse; the Imperial adds extra species; the Solo is done without a ghillie. But the classic three are the ones that count.

WHY US

Boden made these once. We're making them again.

For thirty years Boden cut printed cotton boxers in pheasant, lobster and dachshund prints. They stopped. Nobody picked it up.

So we did. Woven poplin, pattern-matched seams, corozo buttons. A small line, named for the things that matter. The Silver Bar is here. The Glorious and the Royal are coming.