Shooting Times & Country

The stalker’s best breakfast

Leon Challis-Davies is a chef who loves to cook with wild ingredients in the open air

We are just weeks away from pheasant and partridge poults and ducklings arriving at shoots up and down the country, and every gamekeeper has their foot to the floor. There’s an array of tasks to complete, from pen repairs and gun bus repairs to health and safety audits and predator control.

Everyone knows how busy this time of the year is, and I love nothing better than getting stuck in and helping out. Stuart Eborall of Warwickshire Wild Game called asking for an extra pair of hands for a morning’s estate management.

I arrived pretty early with the intention to help set up a new

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