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    A TRIP TO THROCKMORTON

    Aug 05, 2021 4 minutes

    It has been a good few months since I accompanied my son James to an HFT shoot. At my age I have been enjoying the relative relaxation of numerous shooting sessions sitting at a bench and had forgotten just how physically taxing getting up and down from the deck 30-odd times can be upon ageing bones. The mind is well up for it, but the body continues to let me down these days.

    The venue for my most recent trip was the quaintly named Throckmorton Shooting Ground in Worcestershire. This is a good two-and-a-half-hour drive for us, and despite my son James attempting to emulate the manoeuvring capability of the “Tic Tac” UFO recently described by a US Navy pilot, the

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