xi. PHEASANT SHOOTING (PART //) 173 



the birds will rise over a wider front, and hence not 

 so simultaneously as when collected together at a 

 narrow point. 



EXAMPLE Xo. 2. (FiG. 29, NEXT PAGE) 



HOW TO DRIVE A LARGE ISOLATED COVERT 



The more extensive and isolated a covert, the more 

 difficult is it to show sport with the birds it contains. 



Here we have a wood (A) all by itself, with no other 

 woods near to which the pheasants can be driven. 

 Start your guns and beaters, walking at one end as 

 shown by the small arrows in the sketch, with a gun, 

 it will be seen on each side, some fifty yards in front 

 of the line, either to prevent birds breaking out, or to 

 shoot them should they do so. In a wood such as this 

 we always have to guard against birds slipping away 

 at the sides, as if they have no other covert near to 

 tiy to, they may be lost for the day. 



Pheasants will always break out if they can, and 

 especially to the grain fields they feed about by day ; 

 in fact, to any spots they have been wont to frequent 

 outside a wood. 



Now our guns and beaters march steadily forward, 

 killing ground game and those pheasants only which 

 fly high back, as some are sure to do ; finally they 

 reach the ride shown as cut through the wood at its 

 small end. The side guns stand one at each end of the 

 ride and well out in the open, and the other guns (and 



