351 



Mixed Bags- 



* Including 440 wild duck. 



i" Best one day's record up to then. 



Individual Shooting. 



I 



1798 

 to . 

 1840. J 



1826. 



1871. 



1872. 

 1876. 

 1885. 



1888. 

 1892. 



Lord Malmesbury 



Mr. J. Sidney Tharp 



]SIaharajah Duleep Singh 



SirF. Milbank 



Maharajah Duleep Singh 



Mr. Gurney Buxton , 



Sir Victor Brooke, Bart. 



Earl de Grey 



Lord Walsingham 



A punts man 



38,475 various game. 



f 99 partridge, with 1 gun 

 \ over 1 dog in 7 hours. 



440 grouse in 1 day. 

 2,199 grouse in 6 days. 



780 partridge in 1 day. 



475 partridge in 4 days. 



740 rabbits in 1 day. 



920 rabbits in 1 day. 

 1,058 grouse in 1 day. 



147 wild fowl in 1 shot. 



From what I have recorded of myself as a fisherman and shooter, 

 it is plain I have not had experience in big fishings or with exten- 

 sive shootings. Moreover, shooting has so changed in its system since 

 I engaged to any extent in it, I confess I do not feel as confident in 

 dealing with it a? I do with hunting, racing and other sports. Of 

 course there are hundreds of men who have seen a vast deal more 

 of hunting and racing than I have, but I think for a considerable 

 number of years I saw in both as high-class sport as most men ; I was 

 therefore able, u'aassisted, to deal with them. Entering, as I am now 

 about to do, upon a treatise on big shootings, and calculating what is 

 spent upon them and upoQ fishing, I have had to get some assistance 

 from others. 



The gentlemen who helped me have had a life-long experience of the 

 very best deer-stalking, game-shooting of all sorts, and salmon-fishing, 

 they therefore know all about them, and having taken a great deal of 

 pains to put me right, I may fearlessly lay the following statement 

 before the public. The undertaking is infinitely more difficult and 

 compliccited than the others, but I shall follow my precedent and keep 

 figures below rather than above the correct amount. 



