SCOTCH DRIVING 



and possibly to rival those of the most famous Eng- 

 lish moors. 



I have often been opposed in this view, and 

 even ridiculed, by men familiar for years with the 

 conditions of what I may call an ordinary Scotch 

 shooting, and even by some whose experience em- 

 braced a large measure of both English and Scotch 

 sport. Yet what are the facts? On many Scotch 

 moors, notably in Ayrshire, where driving has been 

 taken up systematically and scientifically, and where 

 shooting over dogs has been abandoned, such respect- 

 able bags as 250 and even 300 brace in a day have 

 to be recorded ; while even as I write comes the news 

 of a bag of- over 500 brace in one day, made on the 

 moors of the Mackintosh, at Moy, in Inverness-shire. 



There are three principal reasons usually adduced 

 to prove that driving in Scotland cannot be carried 

 out with ordinary success, still less to the point arrived 

 at in England : 



1. The unfavourable nature of the ground. 



2. The opposition or unwillingness of Scotch 

 keepers. 



3. The difficulty of obtaining drivers. 



The last of these is in most instances the only one 

 that constitutes a serious source of trouble, and tin's 

 only applies to sparsely populated districts, where the 



