it's a very strange thrill i guess, you know when your actually killing something. it's a bit tricky one to explain why you get athrill out of that, but i guess it's no different to driving a car while oranything you do well it's a craft and an art in a way. if you are a true countryman you understand these things, therefore there's no stigma to coming out and kill a pheasant. come on harry, get at them boy. it's kind of a primeval thing you know, ifyou go back to africa you see you guys, i come from africa and you see guys therewho hunt traditionally
there's something in this all that says you feel like hunting. that's what makes me be part of this and that draws me closer to the countryside. i was born in the countryside, i've lived in it all of my live. i've been a stalker, i do a lot of game keeping. i've always been apart of the countryside it is part of the countryside, it helps the countryside go forward. without shooting there would be a lot less of the song bird population, a lot less of nature full stop really. we look after a lot of things,weren't just out here shooting pheasants. it's the whole thing that goes on the wholeof the year, it's the whole package if you like, from rearing the pheasants, to the song birds that feed offfederates and feeders that are put down for
the pheasants, but they're there and they help everything else in there and the environment that we work in really. i think the crack is really, the birds are important, if you come to the country you want to good birds then you get good birds. but it's the company really, is the most important to me. so that's more important than the birds. that's better david. it's just been grand, different hospitality same day. the whole package it pretty much the same where ever you go, it's just nice to meet different people. old friends, new friends. it's been a really good day. i've enjoyed myself. last season, a guy was shooting
i was beating and he asked me to go down and stand his peg. i went down and stood his peg, i shoot really well with his gun, when he came back i said if he ever wants to sell it i'll buy it off you. and he said it's yours, take it home with you. and i went seriously? and he said, yep take it home with you. i said no i can't, he said steve take the gun. i took the gun and i've been shooting it ever since. i normally shoot side by side, i'm pleased with the way i've shot with it to be fare. i think the quality of birds is the most important thing here. i also have a fond memory of a old fellow called alastair fellows who
died sadly this year. it was his shoot, his syndicate shoot. he kind of introduced us too it. on every year traditionally, we shoot it on his birthday. that keeps bringing us back. it brings money into the local community, we all stop in the local pub tonight and last night, so he's had a good do out of it. the beaters are here working, the farmer gets the rent for his land for the game crops that he puts in for letting the shooters go on it. it's a been circle, it all goes over. and you get to meet fine gentlemen like these guys,
on my right here. they're grand people. i've been in the birds all morning, it's just a shame that angus can't shoot them. anyway, that's enough of that, we've got to go do something.