b'TURN A WALKOn the MoochG oing forth with a catapult, hoping to come back with one for the pot is my now well-worn definition of a mooch. And Mark Clark, a Slingshot World magazine Expert Contributor, has always used the expression that taking a catapult with, like owning a well trained spaniel turns a walk in the countryside into an adventure.We set up our trip and I was taken to the Sussex woods.We saw a squirrel right away as he made his way back to his drey. Yet he was fast and wily and dived into his massive domed nest. I admit we did attempt to persuade him to leave again but this was a demesne impregnable to such persuasion. There was evidence of a squirrel bacchanalia. A wild pig out party in the hazels, as there was a lot of debris beneath them, where the squirrels had sliced o\x1fthe cobnuts, only to know they were empty with a knowing gnaw and discard them. There were many such patches, the hazels would have issues re-seeding.We walked deeper into the woods and I disturbed a high up sitty pigeon that Mark may well have bopped had I not taken that next step behind him.I fell back and allowed my lenses to catch him up. Still just wandering along after him, Mark suddenly spotted something, like a pointer dog. He turned to me and said, Theres a roe buck way 032 SlingshotWorldSSW003.32-33.On The Mooch - Mark Clark.indd 32 05/09/2019 16:19'