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LETTEK XIX 



GEOUSE SHOOTING (PAET IV) 

 DRIVING continued 



OX SELECTING A SUITABLE POSITION FOR THE SHELTERS J 

 WITH NOTES ON THEIR CONSTRUCTION 



THE shelters (sometimes rather absurdly called boxes 

 or batteries) for tbe shooters to hide in when grouse 

 are being driven require to be judiciously placed, in 

 order that their occupants may be out of sight of 

 the birds till the latter are within killing range, or 

 nearly so. For this reason the shelters should be 

 erected, if possible, 40 or 50 yards behind a small 

 elevation in the ground (fig. 53, next page), so that 

 the grouse may not realise their danger till it is too 

 late for them to alter their flight to avoid passing 

 over the guns. 



If the line of shelters can be positioned in a small 

 hollow that is, with a slight ridge to their front as 

 well as rear it is still better, as, in the event of a 

 return drive,* the grouse may then be driven back 



* A return drive is when the grouse are driven back over the 

 same range of shelters, in an opposite direction to the previous drive, 



