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No time for a rain check

Post-lockdown, I’ve had to fit in new stalking bookings that keep coming in as well getting all those clients out who had days deferred due to the pandemic. Needless to say, I’ve been madly playing catch-up. It is hardly surprising that people are desperate to get out with the rifle after what has been almost two years of confinement. The start of the hind and doe season is always busy anyway, particularly so during the first months of the roe doe season.

But a diary as full as this presents me with a dilemma — some might argue it is a nice problem — but being fully engaged in guiding or training means that I can’t get out on my own.

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