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other wood near for the birds to fly on to, you can 

 show your friends some of the prettiest and highest 

 shots at pheasants imaginable. Here is an instance 

 of the above (Example No. 3, opposite page). 



Walk your beaters in line, without any guns with 

 them, quietly through the covert (A), place neither guns 

 nor men as stops at its extremity, and gently urge the 

 pheasants to run from the wood (A) into the gorse or 

 turnips outside, as represented by (B). When the 

 beaters have reached the extremity of the wood (A), 

 stand the guns along its end with their backs to it 

 (see small circles in sketch), and direct the beaters, 

 as indicated by the line of small arrows, to walk 

 against the wind forward from the shooters very 

 slowly through the field of gorse, fern, or roots (B). 

 The pheasants as they are put up by the beaters will 

 rise one by one and fly back high over the heads of 

 the latter, and return home to the wood (A) they ran 

 out of, -affording very sporting shots to the guns as 

 they pass overhead. 



When this experiment is tried, the wind should 

 (ilirai/x blow with the pheasants (the stronger the 

 better) on their homeward flight, and men should 

 without fail be placed before the wood (A) is beaten 

 through to act as stops at the farther end of the field 

 (B) (see flags in sketch), to check the pheasants from 

 running out of (B) on being first driven into it, as well as 

 by their presence assisting to turn the birds back over 

 the heads of the beaters downwind towards the guns. 



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