Wheres the fun in hunting?
A lot of it is to do with the work with the dogs. It’s really about the dog in a way. A good hunting dog is an extraordinary. My dog Millie is a Brittany spaniel, a favoured bird dog up here in New England. When it comes to Brittanies you “buy” the nose, but the rest is in the training. Millie was home-schooled in the hunt up till high school then sent her off to dog college, as it were. Now she’s six years old and in her prime. Have you blooded your kids in the art of the hunt? I got Elizabeth, my 11-year-old daughter, her first shotgun recently. It’s a little cut down single shot, the safest possible gun around for a kid. She’s shot her first bird too, but she didn’t like it much. She prefers target shooting clay pigeons. Maybe it was because a friend of mine rushed over after she’d made the kill to blood her with a big bloody thumb print smudge on her forehead. Of course, she squealed like a girl. Do you remember taking your first life, PJ? I was so proud! Did it help prepare you fo
