For those of us lucky enough to be involved in game shooting, and for people who live rurally and have farming and shooting contacts, finding somewhere to go beating is fairly straightforward. Knowing what to do is almost second nature, and knowing what to take and what a day’s beating entails is, in most cases, a simple matter of asking a friend.
Fewer people live and work rurally than they did even 25 years ago — never mind 140 years ago, when the first copies of hit the press — and many of the people who want to give beating
