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Dream holidays that are right on target

Remember the days when we could travel in search of our sport? When we could hop on a plane or drive through the Tunnel? When we could wave a European firearms pass at a customs officer and shoot wherever we liked in the EU? Now, while we languish in lockdown, those are the special memories that keep our sporting spirits alive. Here are five of my most unforgettable shooting holidays.

Blissful Baltic

“The Baltic coast is one of the main migration routes for wildfowl”

It was not long after Lithuania had ceased being part of the Soviet Union that I first travelled there to hunt wild boar. Chatting with a lovely pair of local hunters, I realised that the Baltic coast is one of the main migration routes for the wildfowl we see here in winter, so I hatched a plan to revisit the coastal marshes of the Curonian Lagoon with two great wildfowling friends, Nigel and

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