A lockdown lifeline

It was inevitable that the country would be plunged into the dark days of a third lockdown. But even though we could see it coming, when it did, I was hit with a sense of lamentation and was thoroughly fed up. There seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel that we’d already been stuck in for almost 10 months.

For some of us in the shooting community, though, the tiniest chink of light did come in the shape of BASC publishing fresh guidance on the exercise rule. This meant we could head out on our own, with our household or one other person, to rough shoot, stalk, wildfowl or undertake pest control. It felt like a little lifeline and, not