Where do we go from here?

With the ever-tightening COVID-19 restrictions in operation in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, there is little hope for those of us longing for a return to driven shooting. It seems pretty certain that most of us will have more birds on the ground at the end of this season than at the end of any other that we can remember.

Fitting in an extra day or two, or upping the bag on the days already in the diary for December, was quite doable after the November lockdowns. Trying to fit all the newly cancelled and postponed days into an already busy