SCOUTING FOR GAME
For the first few years of my airgun hunting career I worked the same 30 acres – this was ground I’d grown up on and knew every inch of. Before I was even old enough to own my first air rifle I could’ve told you where to find rabbits purely by virtue of familiarity. I shot, ferreted and coursed that land for several years before it even occurred to me to seek ground elsewhere. When I did finally acquire my first proper permission on someone else’s ground I didn’t enjoy anywhere near the same success there as I did on my home turf.
It took me years to realise that the chink in my armour that led to
