Shooting Times & Country

Gamekeeper

Mark Fitzer is the head gamekeeper on the famous Holkham Estate in North Norfolk

Well, the clocks are really ticking now. What seemed like weeks away is now only a matter of days away. I refer, of course, to our first shoot day of the season. The grouse boys have been hard at it for weeks and those shoots with early-season partridge will have a full month under

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