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    Let’s invite the antis

    Aug 10, 2022 4 minutes

    One of the greatest pleasures of owning a grouse moor is being able to invite people. Sometimes I send shooting invites, but there are other invitations I send out that matter far more.

    I have been a keen Shot all my life, starting with a ‘garden gun’ (57 years ago now) and progressing from there. Things have changed a lot since then and not always for the better. Back then, shooting more 100 pheasants on a driven day was considered ‘big’ and, likewise, shooting 50 brace of grouse on a driven day wasn’t to be sniffed at.

    From the mid-1980s and 1990s, things started to change. Shooting was becoming more

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