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LETTER XXI 



GEOUSE SHOOTING (PAET VI) 

 DBIVING continued 



HOW TO SHOOT DRIVEN GROUSE 



THE sportsman who is able to kill driven grouse in 

 good style can shoot with success any game that a 

 gun is used on. It is all nonsense to say shooting 

 driven grouse is a ' knack ; ' the only ' knack ' about 

 it is the one that enables you to drop the birds dead 

 at all angles, high, low, right, left, and centre, which 

 simply means that a man is a brilliant shot whether 

 at driven grouse, partridges, rocketing pheasants, 

 woodcock, snipe, or ground game ! 



The shooter who kills with certainty a fairly easy 

 pheasant, or a partridge rising before him in a turnip 

 field, may find, to his dismay, he is quite a third-rate 

 performer at a fast-driven grouse ; he is then wont to 

 affirm, ' Oh, killing driven grouse is only a " knack." 

 He will, perhaps, in time acquire this so-called 

 'knack,' and (/-'he does, he will be astonished how 

 vastly lii> ^hooting is improved at other game, and 

 what a much better all-round shot he has become in 



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