Shooting Times & Country

Keeper of the month

These days plaudits such as ‘hero’ and ‘legend’ are applied to individuals so patently undeserving of such epithets that the words have become nigh on meaningless. For the writer, in particular, this state of affairs is vexatious. I met a gamekeeper this month called David Carter and I have been forced to scour the thesaurus to find a suitable word that does the man justice.

He has succeeded in reaching the top of his profession while maintaining

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