Many years ago I was asking a very experienced hunter called Albert how I could improve my airgunning skills, and he gave me an interesting answer. He said that after your gun and pellets you need two things, which are good boots and a pair of binoculars. Then he said “use the latter twice as much as the former”, which left me confused. I was too shy and embarrassed to ask what he meant, so I said thank you and changed the subject. Since that moment I’ve thought about his words many times, and once I worked out what he was trying to teach me, I realised that it was the best hunting advice I’d ever been given.
He was trying to get me to slow down, because I was always impatiently looking into the next field or wood in the belief that if I kept racing ahead I’d find my quarry. He would say “the squirrels are
