LETTEK XI 



PHEASANT SHOOTING (PART II) 



WITH DIRECTIONS IN DRIVING COVERTS 



THAT CONTAIN PHEASANTS. 



EXAMPLE No. 1. (FiG. 28) 



ON MANAGING THE COVERTS SO AS TO SHOW GOOD SPOET 



ON the opposite page we have a simple example of 

 how to drive a series of coverts that hold pheasants. 

 The shooters (two of the latter forward, it will be seen, 

 one on either side in the open) and beaters commence 

 by walking in line the large wood (A) (see small arrows 

 in sketch), killing the ground game only as they do 

 so. The birds belonging to (A) will run and fly 

 forward to the wood (B) ; the line of men and guns 

 still walk on and enter (B). The pheasants in (B) 

 will for the most part be forced into (c), though some 

 of those which belong to (A) will rise and turn back 

 with the wind, and give the shooters fine overhead 

 shots among the tree tops. When (B) is walked 

 through, the guns stand facing towards (c) (ride seven 

 small circles in sketch), and the beaters go round to the 

 farther end of the wood (c), and joining line with the 

 men who have been standing there acting as stops (see 

 flags), drive (c) downwind towards the shooters. 



