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Contemporary Cotswold clays

Lady’s Wood Shooting School’s honey-stoned, ivy-draped clubhouse suits its Cotswold surroundings perfectly. For millennia this quiet corner of England has been home to the finest hunting lodges and offered a place for country sports enthusiasts to indulge.

However, this school is far more than a pretty façade of times past. Through recent renovations it has firmly entrenched itself in the 21st century.

As general manager Chris Hanks explains, “The school was established by top English shooter Michael Pinker in the early 1980s. Then, in 2013 Ernie Hemmings took the

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