Goosebumps!

Peter Theobald and his friends have an eventful opening to their adventure on Orkney

Should you find yourself in the quaint town of Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands and wander down one of the many cobbled side streets, you will come across an unpretentious shopfront with the name of William Shearer above the door. If you live on Orkney you will almost certainly frequent this shop as it sells everything from drawing pins to garden furniture, plus everything else in between. For the shooting man, the real gem lies at the back of the shop in the shape of a tiny room stuffed with guns, cartridges and all the gear any wildfowler could ask for. Pictures of bags of geese adorn the walls, for this is the home of Orkney Island Goose Shooting, run by Raymond Shearer, professional goose guide. Raymond is the sixth-generation Shearer…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2022

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