Only boys allowed
Looking at my game book, I see our bag for the season was seven cocks after our walk-round on 9 October. The total is now 55. This is an average of a bird each for the five of us on every day we have been out so far — we have only missed one Saturday.
It does not sound much, but the shoot, comprising some 1,000 acres, has not been looked after properly for several years and we are not shooting any hens this year. In any case, the bag also includes a number of woodcock, teal and pigeon, and the odd mallard or two. Myxomatosis has
