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adding 22 + 12 picked up, we have 1,056 killed in 449 minutes, 

 or 2^ per minute in the actual time occupied in shooting in the 

 twenty drives. Once I killed three birds at one shot, the only 

 three in sight at the time, and three times I killed two at one 

 shot, each time intentionally. 



WALSINGHAM. 



September 20, 1888. 



Although the result has been published, I do 

 not think any previous work contains this account of 

 the details. The small pick-up, 34 birds out of a 

 total of 1,056 only about 3 per cent., testifies to clean 

 killing and humane and careful gathering of wounded ; 

 while the hours occupied and proportion of kills to 

 misses are sufficient to show that to produce the 

 performance a man must be a first-rate sportsman and 

 athlete. 



Here is the account of two days at Mr. Rimington 

 Wilson's, on the Broomhead moors near Sheffield, last 

 year (1893). The first constitutes the record bag for 

 one day's grouse shooting : 



T. T . f August 30 ... 2,648 grouse 



Is me guns \ 6 



I September I . . . 1,603 ,, 



Remarks. Six drives each day ; the first at 10. 15 A.M., the 

 last at 5 r.M. 



The second day's driving was over the same batteries and 

 the same ground as the first. 



Both days fine and wir>d favourable. 



1,910 grouse picked up by luncheon on the 3oth. 



