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MAJOR TO MINOR

I was interested to read Sir Johnny Scott’s letter to his nephew, Freddie [Letters to Young Shooters, January issue], but while doing so I could not help but think that he must possess copies of Major Kenneth Dawson’s classics From Major to Minor and Son of a Gun. In the latter, published in 1929, Dawson writes 24 letters to his nephew, John, in exactly the same vein as Sir Johnny advises his nephew. I was brought up with these two invaluable books, as was my son.

On another tack, I am now on my third gamebook, the first dating from 1966 (I should have started earlier) when stationed in Oman during the Dhofar War.

My game shooting in the Falkland Islands, pre-1982, resulted in just one entry for the upland geese are so tame that there was no sport; indeed, they

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