Dear Freddie,
THE NEXT quarry species on your journey as a young shot are partridges. The season for both red-legged partridges and the rarer grey is 1 September to 1 February, although most driven shooting starts in October when young birds are a bit more mature – and what a sporting little bird an October driven partridge can be. The smaller, native greys were the predominant gamebird until the 1960s, when agricultural reclamations removed much of their habitat and modern pesticides destroyed their insect
