324 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



LETTER XX 



GEOUSE SHOOTING (PAET 7), 

 DRIVING continued 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS IN DRIVING GROUSE 



THE DRIVERS are the men who, as they walk in line 

 across the moor, flush the grouse out of the heather, 

 and drive them forward in the direction of the shelters 

 in which the shooters are concealed. The drivers 

 should march from twenty to thirty yards apart, 

 according to whether the drive taken is a broad or a 

 narrow one, and the ground bare or well provided 

 with cover. 



The FLANKERS assist the drivers to keep the grouse 

 when on wing forward to the shelters. The part the 

 flankers take in the drive is to walk ahead on each 

 flank of the line of drivers, about seventy yards one 

 before the other, and to vigorously wave their flags 

 at any birds that approach them and are inclined to 

 wheel out of the drive rather than to fly on to the guns 

 (fig. 64, page 326). 



