How to hunt properly

Patrick Galbraith says a shooting career should start without a gun

I WAS QUITE SURE I WAS GOING TO die out there. We had set off in the smaller of my pal’s two boats and as we left the harbour at Morston, on the North Norfolk coast, heading towards Blakeney Point, we’d run aground. Quite what we’d hit wasn’t clear, but the motor had cut out, the boat had spun round, and we were rolling on the swell. My thigh waders had seen better days and as the water lapped at the hull I realised that if we did end up going over, there was almost no way I would be able to untie the baler twine that was holding them up. Seals swam around us in the blackness and Willie, who’d been promising to take me out fowling for some time,…

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