374 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



the positions of your different assistants, or regulate 

 their movements. 



SHOOTING SLEEVES 



In wet, windy weather (it has to be very bad to 

 stop a grouse drive when all its numerous and costly 

 accessories are gathered together) you will find 

 macintosh sleeves, of thin material, made water- 

 tight by a small strap at the wrist, the greatest 



FIG. 75. SHOOTING SI^EVES TO KEEP THE ARMS DRY WHEN* GROUSE DRIVING 

 (OR IS ANY OTHER FORM OF SHOOTING) IN WET WEATHER.* 



comfort, as they will prevent your shirt and coat-sleeve 

 being soaked with rain driven up along the arm as you 

 constantly hold your gun in a forward position to aim 

 and fire (fig. 75). f 



* These sleeves are to be had of Messrs. Cording, 19 Piccadilly, W. 



f You may drive grouse in all weathers, except in fog ! In a fog 

 the birds never fly well, but will rise just out of shot of the drivers, 

 and then pitch at a short distance, and so on till they come within 

 view of the shelters, when they will either turn back over the men's 

 heads, or else wheel off the ground. Nor are the flankers and points- 

 men of much use in a fog, as the birds cannot be seen till they are 

 too close to turn with flags. The clearer the weather, the better for 

 grouse driving, as the birds then rise far in front of the drivers, and 

 are likely to fly straight from them in one long flight over the guns. 



