i 2 8 BROADLAND SPORT 



To touch upon the most essential requirements of evening 

 flighting. 



First, and most important, a would-be flighter must have 

 a well-trained, hardy, courageous retriever, not necessarily too 

 steady, but rather inclined to the contrary i.e., not to leave 

 the heel until told, but, when permitted, to range wide. The 

 dog requires a different training to that of the ordinary 

 fielder, and it should be regulated more or less according to 

 the requirements of the locality. It must be taught to 

 instantly drop at a sign here, there or anywhere, and to 

 remain steadfast until released by its trainer. 



The clothes worn for flighting should be assimilated as 

 much as possible to the surroundings of the neighbourhood 

 intended to be worked, and in texture according to season ; 

 with boots strong, high and impervious, even to the far- 

 reaching snow slush. A gun sling will be found a valuable 

 addition, although it is not generally used, to which (besides 

 a mackintosh) the more luxuriously inclined can string a 

 light, revolving cane seat. 



Moonlight nights are not auspicious, because fowl are then 

 most irregular and erratic in their movements, whilst fine, 

 still nights (not moonlight) have also their disadvantages, as 

 at that time birds fly high and out of range. Most 

 auspicious are strong winds, dark nights, and lowering 

 weather, when the birds fly low and come early. But the 

 weather does not apply so much to tidal flighting, and perhaps 

 it would be more comprehensible were the subject divided 

 into two headings, " Flighting Inland," and " Flighting on 

 Tidal or Salt Waters." 



Flighting Inland. 



This class of flight shooting commences in August, when 

 young ducks resort to the cornfields and ponds, later to 

 the stubbles and stacks or mosses, according to the locality. 

 They may be intercepted either at morning or evening flight- 

 ing towards or, perhaps better still, on the actual feeding 



