358 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



one strives to excel in shooting as in other sports, 

 and rivalry as to who will be the more successful of 

 several guns engaged in grouse driving is a very 

 natural weakness, yet a few dead birds innocently (let us 

 hope) taken from their rightful owner may be the cause 

 of an expression from one shooter to the other sufficient 

 to create a coolness between them. There can be no 

 mistake or chance of piracy if a shooter can only gather 



FIG. 70. NARROW STRIP (ABOUT 3 YDS. BROAD BY 40 YDS. LONG) CUT ix 

 THE HEATHER BEHIND A SHELTER TO AID A SHOOTER TO FIND HIS DEAD 

 BIRDS AFTER A DRIVE. 



(In the case of double drives the strip will be required on both sides of the 

 shelter.) 



dead birds on one side of a certain fixed line ; and if he 

 chooses to fire across this line, he has no business to 

 do so, as he is then killing birds that are nearer to a 

 neighbour in another shelter than to himself. 



There is no doubt it occasionally happens, when 

 grouse are driven with a strong side wind, that some 

 of your dead birds may be carried over the dividing 

 line and fall within the ground of the next shelter to 

 you downwind ; but then, to compensate this, the 



