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Chalk and cheese

Some pigeons turned up on the estate recently and were feeding on a field that I shot over a couple of months ago. The two circumstances couldn’t have been more different.

The day a couple of months ago was delayed by two fallow bucks that had become entangled in netting. They had been running around the estate near the road and I had no option but to cull them. It was not the start I’d wanted and was the precursor to what turned out to be a tricky day’s decoying.

“When I arrived

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