This is one time you shouldve followed your own advice.

I don't look up or down on people that did it a 100 years ago to make a living to feed their family.

One thing for sure no Sportsman would "look up" to a nimrod in modern times that does it so he can go to the local pub at night and brag about the great shots with his punt gun on sitting ducks while the rest of you sit around and goggle over it.

Sometimes I wonder about you English chaps.