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Great sporting lives

all know about shooting driven grouse, walked-up grouse or over pointers, but how about the horse-and-cart method? It’s all about outmanoeuvring the grouse with a horse and cart, and the technique is described in fascinating detail in Abel Chapman’s Bird-Life of the Borders. First published in 1889, it was written by Chapman when he was 37. It reveals its

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