While hare shooting today i bumped into a chap i havent seen for a while , nice cheerfull lad , honest hard working sort whos been keepering since school . Anyway , turns out the shoot he was on , working single handed and doing first class job , closed down and of cause he lost his house and due to this has had to give away dogs aswel . Poor bloke , the spring seems to have gone out of his step and he wasnt full of jokes and having a laugh as usuall . Point is he tells me that last spring he sent off about 50 letters with his CV containing his contact numbers Email address and stamped addressed envelopes , he got 3 replys ! Then he tells me about a headkeeper i know on a large estate we all know , who phoned him and asked him to send all his details for an up coming position , happy days , wrong this headkeeper never replyed either . Just what is wrong with this industry , time was you sent a letter and got a standard reply one way or the other , now it seems times are so hard some estates and shoot owners are steaming off stamps for their own use rather than print off a letter . Dont these people realise the stress involved in loosing a job , your home and everything else then to be left hanging on to hope of a reply at the very least . It sickens me to the bone , what are your thoughts