Shooting Gazette

WHAT WOULD YOUR PERFECT DAY ON GROUSE BE LIKE?

A small walked-up day with my son

By Ben Samuelson

This is probably going to mess with our poor editor’s carefully laid plan, but I suspect I’m going to agree with Comrade Catchpole this month. The gaffer will have done this because he knows that Giles will write a paean to traditional walked-up shooting, a vision straight out of a Victorian print. There will be a black powder muzzle loader, a pair of pointers,

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