Dogging-in goes with a bang

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN

I suppose it was inevitable that, on the day when the second High Park shoot would have happened, if lockdown had not intervened, there were more birds in my drives than I had seen all autumn. As I wandered from place to place with the daily ration of corn, pheasants came rushing or even flying up to me in response to my whistle and in my mind’s eye I saw a different picture.

I saw dogs and their handlers busy in the Rise and among the gorse on North Bank