In a place where time has had little impact on the traditional way of life, it was an honour to spend a day with a group of lady Guns. I was on my way to a picturesque family-run shoot called Northumberland Sporting Game (NSG) in Bellingham. Driving in on the foggiest, stillest of days, I feared the birds might not want to play ball. Nonetheless, for an avid deerstalker who rarely participates in driven days, the invitation to watch one was set to be the highlight of my week.
A special let day had been put together at the shoot for a roving all-woman syndicate called The Game Birds. NSG’s father-mother-daughter team — Colin and Michelle Anderson and their daughter Tracy Turner — had worked very hard for The Game Birds to make this day a success. What made
