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Hedge Bashing at Middleton
Saturday was the the best sort of day’s shooting; short shoot, small bag, great food and a long afternoon talking rubbish with a few friends.
The day was spectacular, I was in two minds camera or shotgun, I can’t do both. I opted for the gun for an hour or so by which time we had five pheasant (one white), a good haul for our lunch, and some roe deer that Charlie had shot the day before and marinaded in salt. At this point it was decided that a “various” would just finish it off, started so Charlie, Charlie, John & Justin went to look for a snipe while I (the other Charlie) fired up Old smokie.
As ever the food was delicious, even old pheasants smoked for 20 minutes are delicious. there is no better way that I know of to eat this bird. And the Roe was sublime, Charlie had salted it for two hours, and we chopped it into medallions and served it on fresh bread with green tomato and onion chutney and a slice of red pepper, oh so so so so good.
As the afternoon wore on and the temperature dropped the wine got a bit chilly so we had a bit of fun improvising as you will see from the photos, as lads days go it doesn’t get much better than this.
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