This modern role is no walk in the park
Mar 30, 2022
4 minutes
I have a confession: wandering with the beaters is one of my favourite places to be on a game shoot. I say that even as a member of the gun trade who, when asked to go with the beaters, invariably ends up with a performance review committee of customers past and present scrutinising my every miss. It is at times like these that the ability to turn electric ear defenders off and mute the inevitable abuse is a godsend.
Yet filling the role of walking Gun remains an opportunity to remember the early days of my game shooting. My father would be asked by some kindly host to “bring along the boy
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