I am feeling really pleased having just a got a new permission over about 700 acres of prime cereal land. Got the new ground through a recommendation from a farmer who's ground I already shoot over. He's had all his OSR destroyed by slugs and has ploughed in what was left and is now going to drill wheat so knew I would be searching for ground over the winter.
The new land has about 150 acres of OSR which is being hit hard and it is only the second time the farmer has grown OSR so he is worried that they will wipe out the crop. He was disappointed that I had not brought my gun with me when he showed me around this afternoon.
I have said that I will check out the fields again tomorrow a couple of times and instead of going beating on Monday may well be able to get out shooting. Trouble is there is so much acreage of OSR it could do with 2 or 3 others guns, will need to get on the phone later to try and persuade friends to come out with me.
The only down side is that there game shoot over the same ground!
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