Shooting Times & Country Magazine 23rd August 2017 Back Issue

GROUSE AND MIDGES
During the 1950s, Gleneagles was the Mecca of Scotland’s grouse shooting scene, after splendid romps with side-by-sides under their arms, blokes in breeks would have crowded round the bar and Gordon setters would have snoozed by the fire. As the years went by things changed; the hotel turned to golf, and moustachioed men in moth-eaten garb were slowly replaced by hordes of Americans in synthetic sportswear. That was until this year, when the
hotel decided to rediscover its past by inviting a bunch of fieldsports editors up for a couple of nights and a day on a local moor.