Turn-up for the books

Peter Theobald tells how he and his shooting partner, Paul, have fared on the pigeon during the past, mostly very strange 12 months

“The man who thinks he knows all there is to know about pigeon shooting is a fool” To say that this has been an unusual year would be an understatement. With a second lockdown imposed on England, it looks as though ‘normality’ in the shooting world is but a dream. As I write, we do not know the details, but it is likely that pest control will be able to continue and ‘recreational’ shooting will be prohibited. As in the first lockdown, nobody can be certain how these measures will be enforced, and I feel that the public will be less inclined to slavishly follow the rules this time round. Try telling an estate owner, who may have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds releasing game on his land, that…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2021

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