Well, I thought I had better dust off my blog seeing as it’s had no attention since Oct last year, at which point I was considering closing down my
ladies shooting events…. but guess whose back and is expanding for 2024 🙂
One of my fabulous ladies, who has been with me since I started running
events under the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club, asked if she could step in and
run events for me ‘Up North’. I was hesitant at first; as Girls & Guns is
my ‘baby’ and I have worked hard to get to where we are with events, but I have
put my trust in her and it’s already paying off; she has 2 events booked in
with 2 new grounds, and has 7 never shot before ladies booked in for one of the
events- so she’s ‘smashing’ it and has a list of other grounds she is in the process
of setting events up with.
I have decided there will be no Shani Boswell memorial shoot this year,
instead we will celebrate Girls & Guns 2nd birthday and my ‘big’ birthday
this year with a SIM day. I have also decided to go back down to just the one
ground for my events, as well as keeping the rifle shooting and the ladies game
day at the shoot we have previously linked in with.
I managed 2 days out in the beating this past season, as I have been out as
a whipper in with the beagles; a role i am loving and have certainly fallen in
love with the little furry ‘asbo’s’, so much so i ended up re-homing one (and
have a list of others i want!). It has not been easy; but then with a name like
‘Carnage’ (yes, really!) i should have expected it. 4mths in and she’s now
crate trained, house trained, had a season, been out in the beating line with
me, been out to the clay ground, been on a game day, been on holiday to Norfolk
and has a fan club of her own; we shall just gloss over the sleepless nights
and the amount of dog beds/books/household items she wrecked in her first few
weeks of being home with me….
I don’t want to think about how many miles I have run/walked/scrambled
whilst being out with the beagles. I know I have gone through one pair of
wellies this season! And amazingly only fallen over once and only been ‘nipped’
once (and that was by a foxhound, who i’m not keen on anyway!, not a beagle)
Shooting wise; I have not shot on any game days this last season; that’s a
first for me since I started shooting and I have hardly been out on the clays.
My licence is up for renewal this summer (where has 5 years gone?!) and I am
dragging my heels slightly about renewing it….I don’t need it to run my events
and with the lack of shooting I am doing, I am trying to weigh up if to renew
or not. On the flip side, 3 of my ladies have just gained their licences after
a waiting period of under a year, so I am still bringing ladies into this sport
and they are not relaying on just these ladies events to shoot on, which I’m so
proud of them for.
With the Countryman’s Weekly being no more, that has put an end to me
writing anymore articles for them, which is shame as a had planned to write
about my amazing weekend in North Norfolk, watching Golden Eagles hunt, and although
I could squeeze about it all in this post, I feel they certainly deserve a blog
post of their own; so watch this space 🙂
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