ON GROUSE-DRIVING 185 



green may clearly be seen, so in shooting 

 a crooked face to a butt may lead any one 

 to the far more serious matter of shooting 

 down the line. 



It makes for better shooting if the butts 

 are placed in hollows and gullies, and not 

 on the knolls ; and if one butt is out of 

 sight of the next, a good strong post 

 should be put up in line between them, 

 and visible from both. A strip, some 50 

 yards wide, should be kept closely burnt 

 the whole length of the line, to facilitate 

 picking up after the drive. 



The old principle, when birds were 

 driven backwards and forwards over the 

 same place, was to make the same line of 

 butts serve for both drives. This may be 

 done with success on dead flat ground, 

 but wherever the ground is undulating, 

 and more especially on long hill faces, the 

 usual conformation of moors in Scotland, 

 there should nearly always be a second 

 line of butts for the return drive. The 

 grouse, coming from a different direction, 

 change their flight to conform to the 



