It’s the most profound lesson I’ve learned on my fieldsports voyage of discovery. And yet, now I come to write about it, I wonder how profound it actually is. Perhaps it’s blindingly self-evident; banal, even, in its universal obviousness. But you don’t come to this page for insight, so here it is: you can’t expect an animal to cooperate while you’re trying to kill it.
This thought struck me on the M3, as I was driving back to London following an unsuccessful roe stalk in Hampshire. Although I was disappointed it had ended in a blank, I’d still found the experience instructive. I was turning over the events of the morning as I
