Late grouse,better grouse?
Most times I’m asked to bring Shooting Gazette readers news from the grouse moors it’s as the season opens, ideally with blue skies and coveys of birds skimming the purple heather.
As I was talking through my latest trip on a glorious family day in the Highlands that ticked all the boxes, my editor suddenly posed the killer question. “What about later in the year, can you look at that too – get our readers up to speed with the attraction of late-season grouse shooting?”
Well there’s a question, to which the answer was a quick “yes”. And the easiest way to do that was talk to the people who make it work – the moor owners who have to marshal parties of Guns, their gamekeepers who have to predict the stock available and work with their beaters to make the days happen in all conditions,
