RABBIT SHOOTING 
is then worked a short way into all the holes which can be got at. The good 
sport subsequently obtained in the rough meadows round the woods 
affords the best criterion as to the success of this plan.” From personal 
experience we can vouch for its efficacy. The only drawback is the time 
it takes when a large number of burrows have to be worked. 
In his practical little book on “ Rabbits for Profit and Rabbits for Pow- 
der,” Mr Lloyd Price has shown what extraordinary bags may be made 
of rabbits only, when the ground is laid out specially for their preserva- 
tion, and attention is paid to the proper way of showing them. 
He mentions bags of 1,850, 2,500, and 1,650 rabbits in one day, beating 
only half the ground, and since the publication of his book these figures 
have been considerably exceeded on his own ground at Rhiwlas, North 
Wales. For instance, a party of nine guns shooting there killed 3,684 rabbits 
in a single day, and on another day, two years later, as many as 5,086. Of 
this last number 920 were shot by Lord de Grey. The next best bag of 
rabbits made by a single gun was that of the late Sir Victor Brooke, who, 
shooting in his own park at Colebrooke, Go. Fermanagh, in 1885, killed 
740 rabbits in a day to his own gun. He fired exactly 1,000 cartridges, and 
shot from his right shoulder for one half of the day, and from his left the 
other half. 
With a large party and on a large acreage one of the most celebrated 
days at rabbits was that which happened at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, 
the seat of Lord Stamford, where on one day in December a party of thirteen 
guns accounted for 3,333 rabbits, besides twenty -six head of feathered 
game. The way in which these operations were carried out has been 
described by the park-keeper, Mr J. B. Lucas, who kept an account of the 
game killed, and assisted in the management of the beaters at Bradgate 
for many years, including that in which this celebrated bag was made. 
The principal home of the rabbits was an extent of several hundred 
acres of hills and rocks, rough, poor ground, covered with fern, rushes 
and coarse grass. A small herd of red deer existed in this part of 
the park, which was surrounded by a stone wall six or seven feet 
high, built without mortar in the manner usual in Charnwood Forest. 
The deerpark adjoined it on one side. Three walls, which were built 
at right angles to the main boundary wall and ran out into the deer- 
park, formed two enclosures, one about thirty acres, the other about 
forty acres. Holes were made and fitted with wooden doors at intervals 
along the main wall, so that the rabbits could be allowed to feed in the 
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