A wing and a prayer

I love eating woodcock but in recent years I have, like most Guns, reined in my enthusiasm for this wonderfully tasty bird. I have my own set of rules that work in terms of aiming to be sustainable and very careful with woodcock.

I never shoot the inspiring waders on driven pheasant days, with the exception of one shoot where I am told there are no resident birds and the migrants have yet to offer me a shot in six years of shooting there. I will shoot woodcock in the far north if rough shooting and