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CHAPTER VII 



RECORDS AND REMARKS 



ALL the British shooting world now knows that 

 a man can kill 500 brace of grouse to his own gun 

 in one day given the accuracy, the physique, the 

 endurance, and the grouse necessary since the feat 

 has been performed by an Englishman on his own 

 moor in Yorkshire. We also know that 1,000 brace 

 and upwards to a party of well-selected shots is a 

 performance we may always expect to hear of in 

 a good grouse season, and that it has been done 

 already several times in the same county. We 

 further know that 500 brace can be killed in a day 

 in Scotland, since it was done last year (1893) in 

 Inverness-shire ; and in none of these cases are we 

 sure that the limit of possibility has been reached. 



To defend large bags is always a difficult task, 

 since they must generally appear unnatural and un- 

 sportsmanlike to persons who have no experience 

 of well-organised and accurate shooting on strictly 



