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last and .the generation before that, and there 
is a semblance of truth in the statement. Fifty 
—-even forty—years ago shooting was the chief | 
recreation and occupation of all country gentle- 
men, almost without exception. The squire 
shot his partridges and his pheasants over his 
well-trained dogs day after day during his resi- 
dence at his country seat, and when shooting 
was no longer possible he went up to his Lon- 
don house for the time being to see the sights 
of the city and his friends at the club, who 
similarly visited the metropolis at a time when 
sport was over in the country. Shooting was 
a great attraction for half the year at every 
country house. The love of the gun was 
fostered in the countryman from his very child- 
hood, all through his boyhood and youth, and 
he loved it in his old age. It was the begin- 
ning and end of sport in the country, and on 
guns and dogs and keepers a good deal of 
money was willingly and cheerfully spent. 
Shooting then afforded continuous daily sport 
for quite six months of every twelve. The pro- 
duce of the gun supplied the dinner tables of 
the shooters, and provided acceptable presents 
for their friends, but not a head of game was 
sold. There was none left over to sell, the sup- 
ply being so well regulated to meet the home 


demand by spreading the shooting over months | 
instead of days. 
All this is now altered, and it is very ques- 
tionable whether it is altered for the better 
from the trade standpoint. Each estate yields 
its owner only a few days’ shooting at the out- 
side, and consequently sees much less of him. 
He is rushing about by his motor car from 
shoot to shoot if keen on shooting; he has no 
dogs to occupy attention, and all his game is 
sold at the best price obtainable in the market. 
When time hangs heavy on his hands at his 
country house he runs up to London on his 
motor car and gets his amusement there in 
seeing and hearing what is to be seen and 
heard. He is infected with the feverish spirit 
of the bustling, hustling twentieth century, and 
gradually loses appetite for the quiet country 
sport of a generation ago. He crams his shoot- 
ing accordingly into a few weeks instead of 
months, and makes it as luxurious as possible 
by the aid of armies of beaters, who save him 
all physical exertion, such as his grandfather 
enjoyed and benefited by in the past. He is 
driven thereto, it may be, by force of circum- 
stances, but the change is there nevertheless. 
Shooting is shunted from the leading position 
it once held at country houses, and is run hard 
by motoring, golfing, hunting, fishing, and rac- 
ing as recreative occupation in the country. All 
this tells hardly upon the gun trade, which in 
the days of our fathers and grandfathers was in 
a very flourishing condition, not only.in Lon- 
don, but in every provincial centre. These 
things cannot be helped, though they tend to 
restrict the home demand for guns and ammu- 
nition, at the same time that hostile tariffs have 
taken away the export orders that used to pour 
into our gun factories in Birmingham and 
London. Other times and other manners of 
shooting have necessitated other means of pro- 
ducing demand and of supplying it. Still, the 
love of shooting has not generally diminished 
in this country, even though the manner of aes 
and perhaps, the pleasure of it, has altered ma- 
terially. The sporting spirit that made the repu- 
- tation of our country as a nation of sportsmen 
still exists in full strength. Though temporarily 
eclipsed by other amusements and recreations 
fashionable for the moment, it is certain to sur- 
vive them all, and once more occupy the lead- 
ing position it formerly held. That is the 
opinion of those who have seen the rise and fall 
of fashionable sport of various kinds, and there 
is every reason to believe it a true and correct 
one. But, meantime, our gun makers are hay- 
ing a bad time, and we are not surprised that 
the London Chamber of Commerce, recog- 
nizing the fact, should be taking steps to inquire 
into the possibility of a remedy, even though 
until the time comes they may be powerless to 
put remedial measures into operation. Fashion 
is all-powerful in shooting, as in many other 
things, and has to be reckoned with, even by 
our best gun makers, while others may fight in 


