Sporting Rifle

Buck to the future

Now I don’t think any of us in our wildest dreams foresaw the situation we were faced with for the opening of the roebucks in 2021 – the world in lockdown.

12 months ago, I spent most of April gardening on lockdown, rather than tending to my usual roe rounds. Anne and I were incredibly fortunate in that we live a fairly isolated lifestyle at Garryloop anyway; notwithstanding the regular group of stalkers that are generally flitting in and about the place.

Stalking, however, was put on the back burner and replaced with a lot of jobs that I had been putting off – so there was some slight benefit from a pretty dire situation. As things started to settle we began to

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