Poachers .
I hadn't been on a farm shooting long but knew the neighboring farms had a shoot.
My new farm had a pond and of an evening it would fill up with mallard, teal and geese.
So I arranged to ambush it with a lad using air rifles. For two nights we filled our game bags!
Then well into October I walked the farm in the fog one day and nearly walked into the neighboring shoot pushing the duck off the same pool. They just started the drive just before the fog stopped concealing me.....I made a hasty retreat!
I never twigged they were feeding it! Woops ??.
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