Shooting Times & Country

Play the long game with cover crops

Most of the keepers and shoot owners I have spoken to have already made up their minds about what they are going to be doing this coming season.

Some have closed their shoots and decided to have a year off, while others are carrying on as normal. But the vast majority appear to be hedging their bets and planning to shoot, while at the same time scaling things back a bit to allow for a late start and the possibility of an extension to the rules relating to social gatherings.

The truth of the matter, though, is that there

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