Not just for the gentry
It’s just a traditional farm shoot.” I must have heard that description a thousand times during my career as part of the GWCT’s advisory team. We probably all think that we know what it means. But what is a traditional farm shoot? Come to that, how old is the tradition?
I shall no doubt be shot down for saying it — and there may be earlier examples — but as far as I can see, the farm shoot is only about a century old, stemming from changes in land ownership after World War I. Up until then, most of the country was taken up by big estates, most of the farmers were tenants and most of the shooting was reserved for the landowners.
It is true that there were already changes, not least the new money from industry
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