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Etiquette tips you need to know before setting off for the grouse moors
If you’re lucky enough to be heading off to the grouse moors this season then you’ll want to make sure you behave correctly and following the right etiquette for grouse shooting. However, this isn’t...
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The man-made idyll of grouse moors
Coming from the soft south, I didn’t see a live grouse until I was 19. That was in the summer of 1974, when I took off to the Cairngorms for a couple of weeks to go youth hostelling with a friend....
View Article12 GLORIOUS photographs that will make you wish you were out on the grouse...
Sorry, but not sorry if these Glorious Twelfth photographs give you serious field envy. We’ve also thrown in 10 tips for better grouse shooting by Adam Calvert. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDyKAUynSSQ/...
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A dog handler’s view of shooting grouse over HPRs
I have worked dogs on walked-up grouse shoots for over 20 years and in that time I’ve been able to watch and think about the habits of the various visiting Guns. Watching the grouse shooters is as...
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Grouse moors: who buys them and are they still a sound investment?
Some 200 years ago, the moorlands of northern England and Scotland were most likely much as they are now. Local farmers would use the inhospitable landscape to graze their sheep and cattle in order to...
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Your essential guide to walked-up grouse shooting
If you are ever lucky enough to be invited to shoot walked-up grouse, look forward to your day because there are few experiences to touch it. Top tips for walked-up grouse shooting Safety first. Be...
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Grouse shooting abroad – David Tomlinson goes on a world tour
There’s a common fallacy in the fieldsports world that grouse shooting is a British speciality and that nowhere else in the world can you pursue these most extraordinary gamebirds. It’s true that the...
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A day on the moor for walked-up grouse
It was a fine, fresh morning when Simon Philips and his sons, Ben and Ollie, met their friends in the village for a walked-up grouse day. Although it was pleasant in the shelter of their home, I had a...
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Get ready for the Glorious Twelfth
The expectation starts when the date is confirmed, sometime in the spring. Then comes the wait. Grouse shooting tends to create excitement like no other sport, perhaps because of the scarcity of...
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Picking up problems on grouse moors
Some years ago, a pal of mine achieved a lifetime’s ambition: he took his dogs picking up on a grouse moor. His trio of black labradors – a mother and two daughters – were accomplished workers on...
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