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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robin Edwards" data-source="post: 3326125" data-attributes="member: 17885">I found this from 2010 - things can't have got any better??Steer clear of the western Home Counties if you fancy your chances. This season, there were no right-and-lefts recorded in Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire or Hertfordshire. And the Midlands weren’t much good either, with normally strong shooting counties like Shropshire, Cheshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire all drawing a blank. If you want that elusive right-and-left, perhaps you should take the lead from Daniel Kincaid, Jamie Vant-Harrison, Raymond Ongley, Ben Palmer and Paul Nicholls, who all shot theirs within 20 miles of Ashford in Kent this winter, making it another of the season’s hotspots. If you really want to show off, do as Mr Nicholls did and use a .410. Meanwhile, just across the estuary at Steeple, in Essex, 13-year-old Harry Partridge also knocked a pair of woodcock out of the sky. Some wait a lifetime…<a href="http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/features/where-to-shoot-the-elusive-right-and-left-4608" target="_blank">http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/features/where-to-shoot-the-elusive-right-and-left-4608</a>And a call for restraint this winter....<a href="http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/game-shooting/call-for-restraint-in-shooting-woodcock-49237" target="_blank">http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/shooting/game-shooting/call-for-restraint-in-shooting-woodcock-49237</a></blockquote>

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