There’s been a lot of pub muttering over the price of driven game, now steeper than an Exmoor archangel. We all know high energy and food costs haven’t helped but even so, who would have thought we’d be asked to fork out somewhere between £60 to £80 per partridge or pheasant? A neat right-and-left and that’s around £150 leaving the bank account.
Of course, we don’t normally view it like that. The money usually goes out in February so by the time the season comes around you’ve almost forgotten the cost. And anyway, shooting isn’t — or shouldn’t be — tallied by dead birds. The expected bag is a
