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year, with two guns and a loader, killed 

 229J brace on Tullybardines. 



The best day's driving so far recorded 

 is 402 brace, and in 1888 the total bag 

 amounted to 14,092 grouse. 



Invermark comprises 24,000 acres of 

 grouse ground. On this moor, in 1870, 

 three guns, shooting separately over dogs 

 on August 12th, killed 163i, 120, and 

 118 brace respectively, while in 1872 

 Major Young killed 182 J brace to his 

 own gun in a day. In 1888, during the 

 tenancy of Lord Hindlip, 10,000 grouse 

 were killed in the season. Here the 

 most successful day's driving produced 

 447 brace in 1906. 



On Gannochy, another of the Earl of 

 Dalhousie's moors, driving has been 

 practised for many years. The most 

 interesting figures connected with it are 

 the wonderful bags annually killed on the 

 " Punchbowl." This beat is driven, on 

 an average, six times every season, and 

 though no day of 400 brace has ever been 

 realised, for twelve years, or 72 days' 



