. GROUSE SHOOTING (PART ///), ' > DRIVING ' 303 



The consequence is, when a moor cannot be suc- 

 cessfully worked with pointers and setters, or be 

 walked without them, as when the birds are strong 

 and wild, the heather short, and the ground flat and 

 smooth, we are obliged to drive our grouse or else 

 give up all idea of obtaining sport. 



I have alluded to some of these causes and effects 

 before, but, in connection with the subject of grouse 

 driving, think it well to summarise them here. 



THE SELECTION OF A MOOR FOR GROUSE DRIVING 



If you are in search of what is known as a 

 ' driving moor ' that is to say, one on which the 

 birds have for several years been killed by * driving ' 

 only you will have to pay a high rent, as these 

 shootings are nearly all in England, and their accessi- 

 bility adds considerably to their value. 



A first-rate driving moor of some 8,000 acres, 

 yielding about 2,000 brace of grouse, is worth at least 

 1/200Z. per season. 



There are so many wealthy sportsmen, real or 

 professed, and so few T good driving moors, that when 

 one is advertised to be sold or let, it soon finds an 

 owner or tenant. 



If a man can afford to hire a fairly good moor for 

 grouse driving, he certainly has one of the pleasantest 

 resources possible of entertaining himself and a host 



