Tweaking the rules in search of success
My first attempt to achieve a Macnab ended in disaster. Challenged by Shooting Times to tackle the coveted combination of a stag, a brace of grouse and a salmon (Galloway Holy Grail, 2 September), I failed to connect with anything. Embarrassing but, in my defence, it has to be said that the attempt was made on a day of miserable rain and driving gales, where the odds seemed to be permanently tipped against me.
“As I climbed into roebuck country, an adder hissed from his coil in the grass”
My chances were also hampered by the fact that grouse, stags and salmon are hard to come by in this part of the world, and the attempt was always going to be
