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Thanks for all the memories

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT  SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN

As a shooting man, I have been living on memories. Not distant ones of teenage holidays spent wandering here and there — usually with permission — in search of a rabbit or two. Nor, a little later, of my first encounters with flighting duck and driven or walked-up game, though these memories are all waiting for me to summon them up just as soon as I choose.

I could also relive one or two of the few occasions when I have stood at a peg on the grander sort of shoot, the

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