Grouse numbers - how are they looking?

There are hopes that the grouse season should be a good one this year, thanks to the rain coming just in time to break the dry spell

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In recent years, grouse shooting across Britain has been a bit of a mute affair. There have been days here and there and reasonable bags have been shot, but it’s tended to be a far cry from the boom years of the mid-2010s, when 400-brace days were pretty standard on Britain’s premier moors.