Readers’ letters
Be proud not apologetic
have just read Simon Peniston-Bird’s interview with Tim Maddams and others, which seeks to justify our sport of shooting on the grounds of eating what we shoot. I started shooting in my teens and I am now well into my eighties. I have never felt the need to excuse my totally legal sport on any grounds whatsoever. The meat we produce is excellent and should, of course, be eaten whenever possible, but it is not the reason for shooting. It is, so far as I am concerned, for the sheer pleasure of
