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Drake expectations

We have made our first trip to our new piece of Wash land. We had high hopes. Two other members of the syndicate had been the previous week and caught the thaw. To catch the thaw after four or five days of really hard weather is about the luckiest thing that can happen in duck shooting.

The two who had scooped the jackpot found an insane pack of mallard waiting to hurl themselves over the Guns like kamikaze pilots. One of the duo, who is a well-known warden of a nature reserve as well as a wildfowler from boyhood, said that he had only once before experienced a flight like it. The numbers

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