Write to: The Editor, The Field, Future Publishing PLC, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London, W2 6JR
Email: field.secretary@futurenet.com
LETTERS MAY BE EDITED FOR CLARITY OR SPACE
BEST GUN FOR GROUSE
The Sporting Chance ‘Size isn’t everything’ cartoon [October issue] brought back memories of the many discussions and arguments about barrel lengths, chokes, shot and load size, and all the rest of the jiggery-pokery appended to game shooting. My sporting days are coming to an end; having spent many happy times on the fields, moors and high tops, I am ready to vacate my peg to the young and hope they have as much enjoyment and pleasure out there as I have had. In passing, I tender the following advice.
First, the most expensive guns or clothes may interest but rarely impress the true sportsmen. Safety and understanding the traditions and etiquette of the sport are more important. Learn, practise and apply. Secondly, safe and consistently good Shots do impress. To achieve this status demands not only the correct tools for the job, but
