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"CONFESSIONS OF A SCHOOLBOY POACHER"

Adam Rayner's 'origins story'

How did the editor of Slingshot World magazine get that back-bent thumb-tip?

From pan-fried pheasant breast on the rugby pitch, to poached salmon shot with a speargun in a river on Dartmoor. Plus the odd rabbit, some schooly sea bass and one luckless duck that flew into a hand-flung pebble of flint.

A fat schoolboy, one of over a thousand. A school that sent dozens of sixth formers to Oxford and Cambridge. A hundred acre wood right next door and a school library with wondrous tomes concealed upon its shelves. Distracted career-driven parents paying others to bring up their kids, because they were too busy.

This is the account of the poaching career of one lad, from nine to sixteen years old, with the tribulations of living a double life. Uniform-wearing schoolboy in lesson time, and then disappearing into the woods to become Ghost Poacher, sworn nemesis of the gamekeeper for the rest of the day. Able to steal game with catapult, snare or just with his bare hands.

Read about the methods, the kit, the clobber, the cooking, the people, the emporiums and the passion for the outdoors.

You’ll feel the exultant hunter’s joy and the poacher’s purest fear of capture and get your heart strings given a damn good twang, too.

The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things,

Their colours, lights and shades, these I saw.

Look ye also while life lasts.

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