MY COPY OF Shooting Times arrives digitally these days, so first thing on a Wednesday morning, before the pre-breakfast dog walk, I take a quick look at the latest issue on my iPad, invariably starting on the letters page. There was an interesting and thought-provoking letter from Dr Malcolm Berry (Letters, 23 November), bemoaning the fact that “really hard-going, good game-finding dogs are increasingly rare in the shooting field”.
He argued that unless the trialling fraternity takes the lead and makes trials closer to