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60 Seconds With Robert Churchill

60 Seconds With Robert Churchill

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60 Seconds

60 Seconds With Robert Churchill

 


‍Oct. 31, 2025

 

The partridge shot who knows his business isn’t rapidly refocusing his eyes here, there and everywhere looking for birds in all directions at once. He is gazing steadily into the “blue” at the appropriate point in the air, not where he thinks the birds might appear, but where he would like to kill them if they do.

 

This tip came from the book “Robert Churchill’s Game Shooting” by Macdonald Hastings.

  

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