Sporting Gun

The straight and narrow

“Birds will take advantage of a wobbly line and run back”

year, but it just didn’t feel right. The local shoot I helped on last season didn’t survive the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic but, as they say, “every cloud has a silver lining” – another local shoot has been resurrected. I have been dogging-in and helping out the keeper and a week or so ago they held their first day. Like so many others, I have been itching to get this season under way. I did manage to get a few days’ shooting and beating in last

As we lined up to blank-in a small plantation, I got chatting to

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