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    All in good order

    Feb 23, 2022 4 minutes

    Around this time of year I often wonder if those Members of Parliament deliberating in 1831 on the new Game Laws actually intended it to be lawful to shoot game on 1 February. Somehow I doubt it, but by a strange quirk of fate the parliamentary draftsmen of the day produced a text which made it an offence only to kill “any pheasant between the first day of February and the first day of October in any year.” Did the use of the crucial word ‘between’ make it a fortunate accident that the close season starts not on the first, but the second day of February?

    Accident or not, the season’s over now, and we have another seven months before low-ground shooting opens once

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