Shooting Times & Country

A return to normality

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN.

Last month you found me looking back to find comfort in the pages of my shooting diaries. I am looking resolutely forward this month in the growing hope that, unless the plague breaks out again with dreadful local or nationwide ferocity, there will be something like normal service at High Park this coming season. I am looking forward to it in both meanings of the phrase and I pray that in doing so, I am not tempting fate to intervene and play havoc with my expectations.

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