Mark Hanbury Beaufoy famously wrote: “Keep your place and silent be; Game can hear and game can see” in his poem A Father’s Advice. And he was spot on. January pheasants and partridges are sharp and streetwise. They have come to recognise shoot day noises, know the difference between a farmer’s quad bike and a shoot day UTV and are on their toes the moment they hear the banging of car doors, unfamiliar voices and dog whistles.
Fieldcraft is often seen as the preserve of wildfowlers, pigeon shooters and rough shooters but, in actual fact, most of us use it when
