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I was once lucky enough to spend a few days in the field with the late John Humphreys. Now John knew a thing or two about fieldsports and the countryside, and on our last meeting in 2005 he gave me an ominous warning about the future of our sport as we picked-up at the end of a productive drive. Basically, John thought that game shooting would go the same way as fox hunting within a decade due to the combined activities of antis and the government imposing a ban

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