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It’s not all in the bag

A few weeks ago, my rough shooting syndicate had just finished shooting at one of our favourite estates and we got talking to the gamekeeper about shot-to-kill ratios and the difference between walked-up and driven shooting.

The keeper expressed his view that on a walked-up day he would expect a ratio of two to one. I must admit we all burst out laughing – surely he was having a joke or we were just really awful shots… which, in any event, may have been a

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