328 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



If the extent of moor comprised in one drive is 

 from five hundred to six hundred yards across an 

 ordinar} 7 width and about three-quarters of a mile 

 in length, you will require at least twenty drivers, six 

 Hankers, and four pointsmen, or thirty men all told. 



If a double set of drivers are employed as is the 



FIG. 65. A POINTSMAN GUARDING THE DOWNWIND EXTREMITY OF THE LINK OF 

 SHELTERS, AND TURNING A PACK OF DRIVEN GROUSE AWAY FROM HIM 

 TOWARDS THE FLANK G-UNS (PAGE 325). 



general custom when a moor is sufficiently level for 

 the grouse to be driven over the same range of 

 shelters several times from alternate directions you 

 will need twice the number of drivers and flankers, 

 though not of pointsmen, as the latter, having only a 

 short distance to move between the drives, can take up 

 their new positions in a few minutes. 



