Shooting Times & Country

Gamekeeper

I feel it would be wrong of me to write about something else when the vast majority of us are quite rightly concerned about the very worrying increase in cases of COVID-19 and the associated local and national lockdowns.

National lockdowns, such as those we have seen in Wales, Northern Ireland and England, prohibit most forms of shooting. There are very few exceptions. The difference this time is that

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