GROUSE SHOOTING 
Drive 1 . . 
48 grouse 
August 20, 1872. 
„ 2 . . 
76 „ 
Total killed that day, 2,070 grouse. 
,, 3 . . 
92 „ 
Had 8 drives. 
„ 4 . . 
29 „ 
SirF.Millbank used 3 guns, black powder 
„ 5 . . 
140 „ 
and pin-fire cartridges. 
» 6 . . 
190 „ 
No. of guns shooting, 6. 
„ 7 . . 
111 „ 
Total bag for season, 17,074 grouse. 
„ 8 . . 
42 „ 
Total . . . 
728 
The guns shooting were : Sir F. Milbank, Powlett Milbank (son), Mark 
Milbank (brother), Lord Rivers (who came late), Mr T. Preston (Moreby 
Hall), J. Collinson (keeper). 
The record bag for one day’s grouse -driving was made by Mr Rimington 
Wilson’s party of nine guns on August 24, 1904, on Broomhead Moor, 
when 2,743 grouse were killed; and another immense bag was made 
by the same number of guns on August 30, 1893; 2,648 grouse being killed 
on that occasion. During the last season, 1911, a very remarkable bag 
was made by the Duke of Buccleuch’s party at Roan Fell, Langholme, 
for only eight guns took part, of whom one was a lad still at Eton College, 
and who shot with only one gun, though it is stated he shot extremely 
well. On this day Captain Hon. J. Dawnay made a magnificent bag, 
shooting with two guns. No. 6 shot, and 33 grs. E.C. powder. His suc- 
cessive drives were as follows : 
Drive 1 . 
. 31 grouse 
The total bag for the day was 2, 523 grouse 
» 2 . 
. 63 „ 
and it will be noted there were only 7 drives 
» 3 . 
. 120 „ 
during the day. 
„ 4 . 
. 180 „ 
M 5 . 
. 86 „ 
,, 6 . 
. 35 „ 
i 
„ 7 . 
. 35 „ 
Total . . 
. 570 
The party consisted of : Lord Dalkeith, Lord George Scott, Lord Henry 
Scott, Lord Francis Scott, Lord E. Hamilton, Lord Whitchester (at Eton 
College), Hon. D. Cairns, and Hon. J. Dawnay. 
The largest number of grouse killed by one gun in one day is 1,070, by 
Lord Walsingham, on Blubberhouses Moor, on August 30, 1888, in twenty 
drives, shooting by himself alone. He had previously, under the same 
conditions, killed 842 grouse on August 28, 1872, on the same moor, in 
sixteen drives. 
R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON. 
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