Shooting: A Season of Discovery

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CONTENTS Foreword by his grace

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

The Duke of Rutland....................... 7

Grey partridge & wild birds.................................. 57

Pheasants.......................................... 99 Caerhays in Cornwall..................................... 101

Chapter 1

The recovery project at Ratcheugh, Alnwick. 59

Will Garfit’s small shoot in Cambridgeshire. 106

The start of my journey................. 9

A 400-acre project in Lincolnshire................ 65

Westwick in Norfolk....................................... 110

The Belvoir Castle Shoot............................... 11

The Somme Shoot in Rutland....................... 66

Stanage Castle, Powys.................................... 112

The history of the Belvoir Shoot................... 12

A wild bird shoot at Raby Castle

‘The Rat Patrol’............................................... 116

The estate’s bio-diversity............................... 26

in County Durham...................................... 72

A family shoot.................................................26

Phil Burtt’s top tips for wild bird shooting.. 75

Phil Burtt’s top tips for pheasant shooting.. 119

Chapter 6

The ladies’ shoot............................................ 31

Chapter 4

Wild duck & geese.................. 121

Chapter 2

Red-leg partridge.................. 77

On the North Norfolk marshes..................... 123

Grouse................................................... 35

A low-ground partridge shoot

Brent Pope’s tips for developing

Glenogil in the Angus Glens......................... 37

in Lincolnshire ............................................ 79

a wild duck pond ........................................ 124

Beacon Moor in the Radnorshire hills.......... 40

A shooting co-operative in Suffolk............... 80

Goose shooting in Caithness........................ 127

The Howden and Derwent moors................42

A gundog field trial........................................ 85

Goose shooting at Belvoir............................. 133

The Langholm moor project......................... 42

A high-ground partridge shoot

Pattie Wilson’s top tips for shooting

Westerdale in North Yorkshire...................... 50

in Wensleydale............................................. 89

Wemmergill.................................................... 52

Good shooting etiquette by Jonathan Young. 97

Phil Burtt’s top tips for grouse shooting...... 55

Phil Burtt’s top tips for partridge shooting.. 97

geese & ducks............................................. 135

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