If red stag stalking typifies the Highlands, partridge shooting is a quintessentially lowland pursuit. Yet every once in a while, something comes along that rewrites the sporting rule book.
Half a mile off the west coast of Scotland in the Firth of Lorn, the 1,400-hectare Isle of Luing is a thriving Hebridean island. Down the decades, the small community, which now stands at 170, has made a living out of quarrying slate, fishing for lobsters and farming the notoriously hardy Luing cattle. Recognised by the government in 1966, the beef shorthorn-Highland cross, which was established by the Cadzow family, is Britain’s youngest breed. A little over two years ago, after a brief stint in London, Archie Cadzow moved back to the island to help on the farm.
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