'Letter of the Week' - Shooting Times

Dear Sir
I thought that the following incident might amuse your readers.
Mr Jeff McCarthy, a member of our syndicate, was shooting the Sweethope Loughs drive at the Hawick and Blackhalls shoot on the Ray Estate in Northumberland, when unbelievably, in Jeff's case, he actually connected with a high pheasant which landed with a splash into the smaller of the two loughs. The fallen pheasant hit a 2lb 12oz rainbow trout, both of which were retrieved by Jeff's black lab Zak.
The bag for the day was as follows.

74 pheasants
3 red-legged partridges
1 jackdaw
1 rainbow trout

Pheasant Partridge Shooting Photographs


Sweethope Loughs


Sweethope Dean & Dean Return		The High Drive


Old Firs, The highest wood of the shoot		A view of guns standing in front of Cushat Wood with the partridge moor in the foreground


Walking off the moor		A back gun in the Garden Drive


Syndicate guns enjoying a welcoming break		One of eight guns on a day using home loaded black powder cartridges with antique guns, also muzzle loading guns


Elevenses at Sweethope Lough		A friendly start to the season for syndicate guns, at the BBQ