I 4 6 SHOOTING THE GROUSE 



it should be your invariable object to kill if possible, 

 and instead of coming along under the ridge as in 

 the first instance suggested, take a wide circuit round 

 from E to F and approach the guns in a direction 

 about from F to G. By this means the drivers will rake 

 in all the birds on the upper ground, and as they will be 

 far enough over the shoulder not to show on the sky 

 line, they will not turn back birds flushed below on 

 the face. They must go warily, and the burn-side 

 flank and centre must go slowly, to give them time 

 to get cleverly round. 



Again, if on the lower side there is no stone wall 

 or boundary to the moorland, but an expanse of 

 equally good ground across the burn, it will be ne- 

 cessary to extend the lower flank and sweep some 

 of this ground in, always, however, keeping the flank 

 extremely forward, practically joining on to the 

 pointsman, on account of the wind. In this case the 

 lower butts should get better shooting, and it may be 

 well to have an extra butt across the burn in a line 

 with where I have shown the ponies. 



In this diagram I have made curved lines showing 

 the probable direction and curve of flight birds would 

 take from where they are flushed to the alighting 

 ground, those flushed very early in the drive in some 

 instances settling at the points x. On rising again 



