The Last Wild Game Ask a keeper to promise woodcock and watch the evasion begin. They arrive from Scandinavia when weather pushes them south, refuse to be managed, and preserve what most shooting has eliminated: genuine uncertainty.
The Glorious Twelfth: Grouse Season Upon Us There is something rather magical about the twelfth of August. Not merely because it marks the official opening of grouse season across Britain's moorlands, but because it represents one of those moments when the countryside seems to exhale after the long summer months.
