Why do we wear ties in the shooting field? Ironically, when I put the question to the occupants of a Gun bus the other day it was our resident American who was the first to respond.
“Oh, you guys,” he said, “with your old school ties. And your regimental ties. And your club ties. The main reason that I wear this old thing is so I don’t get mistaken for one of you lot!” The ‘old thing’ in question was, obviously, a Yale university tie. Pot calling kettle black, or what?
But he was kind of right. There are still people who both give and receive social signals via their neckwear and some of them shoot or beat or pick up. The GWCT, Countryside Alliance
