sin. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING (PART /), ' WALK -/NO' 2 1 1 



enough to attack the birds, or to expect to find them in 

 r, and just as many can usually be killed after that 

 hour as if the shooters had commenced at daybreak. 



A young shooter should bear in mind that par- 

 tridges are birds which remain near the ground on 

 which they were hatched ; they do not run for miles 

 like pheasants, and cannot be driven, at all events 

 early in the season, far from their favourite haunts. 

 Especially is this the case if we try to force them 

 against the wind. 



Of course, the chief idea when walking up par- 

 tridges is to send them forward into some cover in 

 which it is probable they will lie to be shot at. 



To achieve this end, there are two matters to be 

 kept in view. 



. Walk the birds downwind. 



2nd. Do not try to force them too far. 



The great advantage of walking partridges down- 

 wind is that they will return home against the wind 

 rather than fly to ground that is strange to them, 

 and, as the shooters should walk the birds upwind 

 towards the fields they were first driven from, 

 will then probably lie fairly well to the gun. 



If, for instance, the shooters flush two or three 

 E partridges, and they fly a considerable dis- 

 tance with the wind into a tield of roots or other 



r, avoid forcing the birds still farther, but, instead, 



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