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Spring lean!

IN THE FIELD

As I’m writing, the rape has grown high enough to be fairly safe from pigeon damage, except for some bare patches that will never come to much. The spring drilling has long since been completed and the wheat and barley are safe at this stage of their growth. So, I’m sitting back and having a review of the shooting so far this year.

And I can tell you, it’s been tough. The most common question I get asked when I’m at shows with the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation is: where have the pigeons gone? I don’t seem to be the only one finding the decoying hard this year. There

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