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GREY AREA AROUND RAISING PARTRIDGES
Reading your correspondent’s letter ‘Not just for greys’ [Letters, December issue], I note that grey partridges he has reared have obviously disappeared over the far horizon. I have always understood that the only successful way to rear greys – assuming the land is right – is to do it the old-fashioned way with eggs under a broody. The broody is let loose with her ‘chicks’, creating a covey with a ‘head girl’, and the instruction to all guns is not to shoot the first bird over the hedge.
Thomas Blake, by email
SMALL MENTION
We hear little about the use and making of quality .410s. I am referring to them as adults’ guns rather than just dismissing them as being for children. A few beautiful bespoke ones are currently being made for their sheer elegance and serious use in the field. They have the
