Shooting Times has long been a magazine that airs differing opinions. The shooting world, after all — despite what some of our detractors might think — is a pretty varied place. A recent piece by Gethin Jones, a fellow Welshman, aired an opinion that stuck in my craw — it wasn’t just ‘differing’ but, to my mind, it was flat-out wrong (Are people starting to over-duck their days?, 21 September). Rarely, Gethin wrote, do Guns look forward to “that duck drive” with the same enthusiasm as the partridges or pheasants. Poor Gethin might have experienced what the Editor referred to a couple of years ago as “flaccid quackers”.
There are plenty of people out there,
