Picking the king of gamebirds
Aug 18, 2022
3 minutes
AST season, a friend realised a lifetime’s ambition when he took his spaniel picking up on a Highland grouse moor. I saw him not long after the trip, and asked him whether he and his dog had had a good time. “Well,” he replied, struggling a little to explain this experience. “We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, but we didn’t pick up many birds, which was disappointing. I hadn’t appreciated just how different working on a grouse moor would be to a lowland shoot. The beaters’ and Guns’ dogs did most
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