Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: Shooting

  • Captive-bred pheasantsā€”Count down to the shooting season

    Captive-bred pheasantsā€”Count down to the shooting season

    In the world of shooting and the forthcoming hunting season, the hour has arrived for captive-bred pheasants to be released, ready for the grand start on the 1st October. However, in England, new restrictions are in place this year which require licences for the release of game-birds, including Red-legged Partridges, within a 500m radius of…

  • Shooting Butt No. 2 on Warren Moor

    Shooting Butt No. 2 on Warren Moor

    I will call this a ruined grouse butt although I suspect it is still in use. Anyway above the ‘2’ is a stone with a carved grouse dated, I think, 1975. I have it in mind that this was carved by Roland S. Close (1908-1978), the amateur archaeologist and an estate worker at Kildale. If…