424 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



remained at your post, she would have been a long 

 way out of shot. 



When walking outside a wood that is being beaten 

 for hares and you are in line with the beaters, walk 

 dose to its fence, or the hares will not break covert 

 near you ; for the same reason, when posted at the 

 end of a wood from which hares are expected to run 

 out, stand right up to the fence with your back to it, 

 and take them on either hand as they emerge. If 

 you stand in the open you will only act as a ' stop,' 

 and are not then likely to obtain many shots. 



SOME FINAL NOTES ABOUT HARES 



To induce hares to run out of a wood to guns 

 posted to intercept their course, there should be no 

 shouting whatever on the part of the beaters. The 

 men should not even tap the trees with their sticks. 



Of all animals, except perhaps deer, hares are the 

 most easily startled, and once hares in a wood are 

 really alarmed they become so confused that they will 

 scurry in all directions but the right one, and are 

 just as ready to bolt back past the beaters as run 

 on to the guns. All the beaters need do to drive 

 hares out of a covert, is to walk quietly and slowly 

 towards the shooters, and the latter should always 

 allow the animals to 2 )ass by before they are fired at, 

 else they are likely to turn any that have not yet 

 come forward in quite a wrong direction. 



