Never take it for granted
Oct 28, 2020
4 minutes
Flicking through the dogeared pages of an old shooting diary is a pleasant way to spend a spare half an hour. The further back the stories go, the better. Only recently I found a small, hardback volume from my youth. Its entries, mostly relating to pigeon shooting exploits, are sporadic and vary in detail. The usual points — crop type, location, weather, gun, cartridges, company, bag — are all covered, but most interesting are the nuggets of information that allude to a mindset that is constantly being shaped by experience.
Over time, scribbled observations about my quarry’s behaviour replace or supplement those on bag size and cartridge choice or how well I
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