Early doors

I reckon that roost shooting is the best sport. But we always have to remember why we’re out there with our gun – it’s crop protection, just not at the ‘scene of the crime’. My first trip out roost shooting this year was a good case in point.

On the farm here we only had two fields of rape this year because the dreaded flea beetle did for the rest of the crop. That meant that the two remaining fields were getting a lot of attention from the pigeons, and that in turn was annoying the