n last month’s magazine I told how the Essex Boys Goose Shooting Club had enjoyed a fantastic first goose flight in Orkney ( December 2022). This was in no small measure down to Raymond Shearer, the premier goose guide on the islands. Things had gone really well, despite the fact my Browning had a seemingly broken firing pin, but, on closer inspection, it was only chipped, meaning the gun would fire on some occasions but not on others, so I
