Shooting Times & Country

The greatest tool we have

“Your ferret may be bottled up with a rabbit, or trapped by the warren’s design”

In a world packed full of technology, ferreting’s simplicity is one of the best things about it. The essential techniques haven’t changed much since its inception. In fact, the only real change in ferreting is one piece of technology that we should not operate without — the ferret-finder.

One of ferreting’s attractions is that even though the kit and the theory have remained the same, every day in the field is different. I could ferret the same rabbit holes with the same ferrets in the same fashion, and I would always end up with a different outcome and experience. This

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