Hare-brained

Ed Cook looks at the changing face of rural crime, in particular coursing

The poacher is a fabled part of country life. I am sure many country people have known a poacher or, perhaps inadvertently, even indulged in poaching themselves. My father was a poacher turned gamekeeper. He only confessed to this not long before he died. When he did so, he regaled me with tales of taking deer at night without being caught. Back in his day he poached pheasants and trout as much for devilment as for any other reason. Many of the pheasants he took were given to a local nursing home free of charge. All this was before he saw the error of his ways. Change Times change and the modern-day poacher isn’t the loveable rogue the fables of yesteryear would have us believe. While I am sure many poachers still do…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2022

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