Capreolus Club - info request

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Generally I find deer stalking manages to cater to a pretty broad church.....there's room for one and all!

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Duleep Singh no less! Three Purdeys, two loaders and a cartridge boy.

Bonhams : A fine 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector gun by J. Purdey & Sons, No. 15212 Made for Prince Frederick Duleep Singh

On his much written about special wicker shooting seat.

Here's two fowlers outside the hotel that my great grandmother once ran. The Marine Hotel at Frieston Shore.

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Below my father, second from right and no gun with his hand in his coat pocket, at either Woburn or Kedleston (he had a gun in both and shot two days a week in his "pomp") in the 1960s.

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You've only got to watch the latest YouTube video of the club to get a better understanding of the nuts behind the but. Think it's titled 21 sika in 21hours - shooting sika at 30 yards off a tossed up range rover, just the image us hunters need.. just my view.
 
Duleep Singh no less! Three Purdeys, two loaders and a cartridge boy.

Bonhams : A fine 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector gun by J. Purdey & Sons, No. 15212 Made for Prince Frederick Duleep Singh

On his much written about special wicker shooting seat.

Here's two fowlers outside the hotel that my great grandmother once ran. The Marine Hotel at Frieston Shore.

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Below my father, second from right and no gun with his hand in his coat pocket, at either Woburn or Kedleston (he had a gun in both and shot two days a week in his "pomp") in the 1960s.

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Those are wonderful photos the pair of them :tiphat: I had to look up on a map to see where Frieston Shore is - clearly good fowling country.

I love the spats being worn by the chap to the furthest right. That kind of group photo always brings to mind the painting of "A Shoot in a Swede Field" by Sir Alfred Munnings, which we have on a place mat chez Gunn

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Those are wonderful photos the pair of them :tiphat: I had to look up on a map to see where Frieston Shore is - clearly good fowling country.
Thank you. My grandmother well recalled that parties of fowlers would stay at The Marine specifically for the shooting. In its day it was very well known for that.
 
Thank you. My grandmother well recalled that parties of fowlers would stay at The Marine specifically for the shooting. In its day it was very well known for that.

I wouldn't be surprised to find it mentioned in "The History of the Fens", by the great countryside author and wildfowler Jimmy Wentworth-Day.

I'll try to dig out a copy and have a look.
 
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