DOES ANYONE remember a magazine called The Working Gundog that flourished in the late 1980s? Published quarterly, priced at £1 including postage, it was aimed directly at the field trialling community, with reports of trials and publication of results. It also included a variety of articles that, 30 years later, make interesting reading. I had never seen the magazine until recently, when a shooting friend, Martin, passed a few copies on to me.
Thirty years is a long time, but you won’t be surprised to know that there are quite a few gundog handlers who were active then who are still around. Several of the main topics of discussion from then are being debated today with equal passion.
In issue number 10, for example — not dated, but as it…
