Galloway’s Holy Grail
The traditional Scottish Macnab is probably one of the most famous fieldsports challenges in the world.
Sporting people travel for thousands of miles to try their luck on estates from Berwick to Cape Wrath, and while it’s no great achievement to drop a stag, land a salmon or bag a brace of grouse, doing it all in a single day calls for an edgy twist of sheer good fortune that money cannot buy.
Fifty years ago, Galloway was an excellent place to try for a Macnab. Stags and grouse abounded on the open hill, while a steady supply of salmon ran up the Solway.
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A friend of my father’s attempted a traditional Macnab near Newton Stewart in the 1970s and
