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The missing piece of the (game) pie

I feel compelled to reply to the letters recently published in Shooting Times about the commercial viability of shot game. Mr Gough (Letters, 15 February) is correct, the masses do not want the product — at least not in the way it is currently presented.

I feel that there are various reasons for this. Namely, if supplied in the feather, most of the public could not and would not want to prepare said birds for the oven, or have the know-how. The product is just too expensive, and even if the supermarkets prepare it for

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