Join the Hen Harrier Day thunderclap please

Whether you can or can’t attend Hen Harrier Eve, and whether you can or can’t attend Hen Harrier Day, you can, if you use social media, add your name to a message that will go around the world at 10am on Hen Harrier Day saying: “We’re missing our Hen Harriers – and we want them…

A meal out

I’m planning a meal out with friends and I’m trying to find the restaurant in London that is most aware of the issues surrounding game meat, particularly Red Grouse meat, for this treat. I won’t be eating grouse wherever we go, but I’d like to spend my money on my friends at a restaurant which…

Henry goes to Langholm Moor

Admittedly you can’t see my friend Henry in this photo, but I promise he was here. And ‘here’ is Langholm Moor, the Duke of Buccleuch’s place which hosted the first Langholm study and is hosting the second one (of which more on Thursday). It’s a crow trap in the foreground, and Whita Hill in the…

What a hoot! Or shoot?

This is a screenshot of Amazon taken on Sunday evening and Inglorious is #1 best seller in Target Shooting – despite not being published and not being reviewed except here.   I think what we take from this is that target shooters may not read many books?    

Iceland fail to demonstrate their grasp of the subject

Last week, Iceland foods (prop Malcom Walker – a keen shooter) was reported in the Daily Mail (editor Paul Dacre – grouse moor owner) as being about to stock frozen grouse in their stores. This blog posted the following questions to Iceland (and emailed them to Mr Walker): Iceland says: All Iceland brand products are…