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Playing catch up with Covid

Trying to fit a quart into an pint pot is an adage, but worth remembering as we think about the practicalities of squeezing three months’ shooting into two.

In most cases, as in that idiom, they simply won’t fit. We can try and shove the missing days into the weeks we have left, but unless we have huge acreages at our disposal and enough drives to spread the shooting — and, importantly, allow others to rest between days — it won’t work.

Resting a drive is really important because it gives the birds time to

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