3 So LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



fire at them on the ground or just as they alight ; 

 they are rarely in shot, and you are more likely to 

 wound than to kill. Another thing, you are sure to 

 turn any birds you shoot at in this fashion back from 

 the shelters towards the drivers, and as they fly away 

 they are very likely to take some more birds off the 

 drive with them that might otherwise have also come 

 on to the guns. 



Whatever your stature or the colour of your 

 clothes, if you remain motionless till you raise your 

 gun previous to firing, driven grouse will not be likely 

 to notice you, or to turn out of shot. 



The actions of stooping and rising are sure, on 

 level ground, to attract the attention of the birds at a 

 long distance, for they will see your head vanishing 

 and reappearing against the horizon, a sufficient 

 warning to them to give your shelter a wide berth. 

 Driven grouse will never come nearer to a man who 

 bobs his head below the top of his shelter with the 

 vain idea of keeping out of sight when he sees birds 

 flying in his direction, for the simple reason that 

 when the shooter sees the grouse, depend upon it the 

 grouse see 1dm \ and his jack-in-the-box antics are 

 much more alarming to the birds than if he remained 

 perfectly quiet at his full height, though his head and 

 shoulders be in view. 



Of course, choose your costume, and especially 

 your cap, to match the heather, for the birds will 



