Shooting Times & Country

A summer of top-notch sport

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN.

I think I have already told you that, if push came to shove, and if the shove was equivalent to something way up there on the Richter scale, demanding that I should renounce one of the two sports that I so love, I should almost certainly choose to remain a fisher rather than a shooter.

A winter without the opportunity of lifting my gun on to a bird or two would be a grim and cheerless prospect. If, perhaps, I was still allowed to work my spaniels and in this way play my part in shooting days,

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