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Out on the range

While I love my foxing here in the UK, it’s not always easy to do. For example, our early summer was a nightmare with the near-constant wet weather making it either difficult or nigh on impossible. To make it worse, as the farmers had been unable to cut their grass, we couldn’t see enough to shoot when we did get out. My shooting partner, Paul, was ahead of the game, however, as he’d managed to escape all this by taking a hunting holiday in

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