Grouse numbers - how are they looking?
In recent years, grouse shooting across Britain has been a bit of a mute affair. There have been days here and there and reasonable bags have been shot, but it’s tended to be a far cry from the boom years of the mid-2010s, when 400-brace days were pretty standard on Britain’s premier moors. This year, however, keepers and sporting agents are optimistic that things are looking up. Ollie Severn, a sporting agent at William Powell Sporting, told ST: “Relatively speaking it’s going to be a good year, but that is in the context of a few poor years.” He noted that those estates that had go...