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Young Shots News

First pheasant down

Robert Mackay with his first pheasant, shot with a 1939 English .410 boxlock ejector, 11 grams of no.7 shot. Robert had six shots on a very windy day, apparently performing much better when his father didn’t try to help!  

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The next generation in every way

After a season’s beating on the Whittington Lodge Farm shoot, as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, Alyssia, 13, cleanly shot her first pheasant on beaters’ day with her dad’s 28 bore. Her younger sister, Charlotte, 11, a junior dog handler, marked and picked the bird with labrador

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