SECTION III 

 GAME SHOOTING 



CHAPTER XII 

 GROUSE. PHEASANT. PARTRIDGE 



MODERN gunners in pursuit of the red grouse 

 usually follow one of two clearly defined 

 methods. One is the old-time plan of shooting over 

 dogs, and the other the more recently devised system 

 known as driving. Briefly, there is a vast difference 

 between the two, for in dogging the shooter approaches 

 the concealed game, whilst in driving the game ap- 

 proaches the concealed shooter, a complete reversal of 

 procedure. 



Sportsmen who derive pleasure from the companion- 

 ship and the working of good pointers and setters are, 

 happily, as yet inextinct, and who shall say they are 

 not at heart the truest sportsmen ? In any case they 

 certainly derive more of quiet enjoyment from the quest 

 of their game and in observing the movements of their 

 clever dogs, than falls to the lot of the gunner whose 

 chief pleasure in the shooting of driven game springs 

 from the exercise of that enhanced degree of skill which 

 is called for in that particular branch of sport. In fact, 

 it may be remarked, the pleasures derivable from the 



two forms of sport, the shooting over dogs and the 



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