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JOTTINGS FOR WILDFOWLERS

ildfowlers are philosophers at heart. We know that fowling, like life, is a complicated equation. The sum is a tricky combination of weather plus tide multiplied by marksmanship over dog-handling and fieldcraft. Add a hefty dose of luck. Quite often the outcome is zero, but we leave the marsh perfectly satisfied all the same. We don’t always get what we are after, and we quite

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