give for a time machine, to travel back in time to 1882, when was first published, to see the working gundogs of Victorian Britain. There’s no doubt that dogs played just as important a role in the shooting field as they do now, but just as shooting has changed, so too have the dogs. Driven shooting had scarcely been invented, while Westley Richards had only unveiled his breechloading, double-barrelled 12-bore seven years before. For the great majority of sportsmen (there were few, if any, sportswomen in those days) walked-up game was
Before the labrador
Sep 28, 2022
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