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The heaviest bag of grouse made by a party in a day was in the 

 extraordinary good season of 1S72, when Mr. Kennington Wilson and 

 his friends shot 1,313 brace. In the same year 1,006 brace of grouse 

 were killed in a day on Lord Ripon's moors in Yorkshire. 



Coming to recent years I find that in 1885 a party of ten guns in four 

 consecutive days in December shot at Holkham 3,392 partridge, being 

 848 a day with 85 birds to each gun. Mr. Gurney Buxton headed this 

 enormous score on each day with 172, 112, 95^ and 96. 



0.1 the property of Mr. J. Price, at Rhiwlas, North Wale?, two 

 weighty bags of rabbits v^rere made in 1883 and 1885, when, with nine 

 guns in one day, they r.^spective]y amounted to 3,684 and 5,086. Of the 

 latter Earl de Grey shot no less than 920, but he is one of the best all- 

 round shots ever known. 



Sir Vici^or Brooke, Bart., is referred to as being one of our best rabbit 

 shots, and that in his own park at Colebrook, Ireland, he in the year 

 1885 killed to his own gun in one day 740 rabbits out of exactly 1,000 

 shots. Moreover that one half of the day he shot from the right 

 shoulder and the other half from the left. 



The largest bag of grouse shot over dogs made by one man in one 

 day was naade at GrantuUy, Perthshire, on 12th August, 1871, by the 

 Maharajah Duleep Singh, who killed 220 brace. He also made the 

 largest bag of partridges on record, killing 390 brace on 8th September, 

 1876, on Hall Farm, Norfolk. 



Elveden in Suffolk, once the estate of this Indian prince, is about the 

 best for partridge in England. Over that property, in 1876, four guns 

 killed in four days in October 2,531 partridge. In 1878 801 birds fell 

 to three guns in a single day. In 1885 that record was beaten by 

 three others shooting in one day the extraordinary number of 856 

 partridge. The Elveden game books show another great shoot in 

 September of the same year when, in fifteen days, the same three 

 guns thot no less than 6,509 birds, giving an average of 72 brace per 

 day to each gun ! 



Those great bags can only be made in the Eastern counties. Forty 

 brace of partridge to six guns, walking up the birds, is a fair day's 

 sport in the north, south, and west of England, or in Scotland. In the 

 north of England there is no partridge-shooting to compare to Lord 

 Londesborough's in Yorkshire. Over it in 1884 a party averaging six 

 guns in four days killed, driving, 1,540 birds, one day's bag being 557. 



The quantity of game killed in the season of 1880 on the Duke of 

 Sutherland's property in Scotland was wonderful : Stags 284, hinds 

 32, roedeer 104, hares 5,940, rabbits 12,543, grouse 52,613, ptarmigan 

 142, blackgame 1,997, pheasants 170, partridge 920, woodcock 713, 

 snipe 661, plover 36, ducks 220, various 99— total 76,474 head. This 

 did not include the game and rabbits killed by keepers. 



In the year 1872, famous for abundance of grouse. Sir Frederick 

 Milbank and his party, averaging six guns, in six days shot, over 

 the Wemmergill moors in Yorkshire, 3,983| brace of grouse, or which 

 Sir Frederick killed 1,099^ brace. One day in eight drives he shot 



