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• Posted on April 30, 2012

  Entertaining weekend for Gollum

  The Hunt-point-retrieving dogs (HPRs) have lots to do all year as we count grouse pairs and run spring pointing tests in February-March whereafter the season goes seamlessly over to Working tests. I took Tippex and Goll..
• Posted on February 23, 2012

  Pointers away from the day job

  Time flies and the shooting season now seems a long way away. Here is Gollum on his last working day of the season; picking up at Glenstriven Estate, West Scotland. It is nice that you can work the HPR breed both on poin..
• Posted on December 5, 2011

  Now we get it!! First prize in Field Trial.

  So, at last, having been to two field trials this winter and seen Gollum being put out for missing the birds, he got a first prize on Saturday at the GSPC Novice Trial at Ashintully. He never missed a thing. He first cam..
• Posted on September 13, 2011

  The problem with the mouth

  It is again with some apprehension that I write about hunting as I know many of you are against. Please read my last blog as I tried to explain why hunting has its place - certainly as wild bird hunting is concerned. In ..