330 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



to notice them, and perhaps fly off it. If there is a 

 watercourse handy, the men should steal along this ; 

 if a ridge, they should walk behind it till they arrive 

 opposite the spot at which they have to extend across 

 the heather before starting forward to the shooters. 

 If the ground offers no chance of concealment, and 

 the wind is fair for the birds en route to the guns, 

 then the drivers should walk in Indian file, half their 

 number up one side of the drive and half up the other 

 side, dropping their flankers and pointsmen in position 

 as they walk along. This manoeuvre will prevent the 

 grouse from leaving the limits of the new drive before 

 it is commenced. 



If the wind blows across the drive, the men should 

 walk to their places along its downwind side, so as to 

 send any grouse off the boundary of the drive towards 

 its centre. 



Should the drivers walk along the upwind side 

 of a drive to reach their positions, they may easily 

 send a number of birds so far downwind that they 

 may not fly forward to the guns when subsequently 

 driven. 



Every assistant in a grouse drive should carry a 

 flag, but he should only we it just when necessary ! 

 The indiscriminate waving of flags by drivers and 

 flankers may at any moment influence the birds to 

 fly in a wrong direction as in a right one. 



In a downwind drive the grouse will probably fly 



