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buying cheap, factory-loaded cartridges, 

 in which you can never have implicit 

 confidence. 



Twelve-bores are admittedly the best 

 guns for grouse-driving, if only because 

 they are so generally used that, should you 

 by chance be out of cartridges, you can 

 always borrow from your neighbour at a 

 pinch. Somewhere about seven pounds 

 in weight, with 28 - 30 inch barrels, 

 cylinder for choice, makes the most all- 

 round satisfactory weapon. 



As to clothes, nothing striking in the 

 way of colour can be tolerated on a moor, 

 and the more invisible a shade of Harris 

 tweed or homespun you can choose, the 

 better it will be. Your coat should hang 

 free and easy, giving full play to the 

 arms. It is well to be warmly clad for 

 grouse-driving, and a heavy tweed should 

 always be preferred to the more summery 

 cloth your tailor will seek to supply you 

 with. A butt on the bare hill-side of a 

 Highland moor can be a passing cold 

 abode on a stormy day, even though we 



