Shooting Times & Country

Twenty minutes of madness

You can’t help but look forward to those first fresh stubbles. It’s the perfect opportunity to get a handle on pigeon numbers, especially on farms that have struggled with damage through the winter months. Of course, you have to be dedicated to know when a farm has struggled through the winter. It’s a real bugbear that the fair-weather pigeon shooters only start to emerge with the longer summer days.

I wonder if this is becoming a problem in all areas of shooting. Do those who fish and stalk have the same problems? My phone never seems to ring through the cold winter months with friends desperate to come out for a shot. I only shoot with a handful of people, all dedicated pigeon shooters. There’s no room

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