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Patrick Galbraith bids a fond farewell to the countryman’s bible

HE LOOKED UP AT ME and cocked his head like a Labrador listening to a duck on the wind. “Well”, he said with a faint smile, “this has certainly never happened before.” I told him I wasn’t wholly surprised that I was the first person to drop out of his Masters degree in Modernism at UCL to head up Shooting Times. That afternoon I walked out, through the quad, for the last time and on the Monday I started as the seventeenth editor of the world’s oldest shooting title. My first assignment was an important one — Hull Cartridge, which was established in that great northern city in 1947, was having a party to celebrate the launch of some new loads. We drank, we talked about goose shooting at length,…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023

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