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"THE TWELFTH": GROUSE SHOOTING FROM BUTTS ON AN ENGLISH MOOR
| Shooting driven grouse from butts has been a favourite form of sport since about 1850, but was practised for some fifty years before that. A line of butts is constructed, where possible in depressions in the ground to conceal them from the birds, and in these the shooters take their place, remaining motionless until the driven birds are coming at them, when they throw up their guns and fire |
A DECENT DAY'S SPORT: KEEPERS BRINGING HOME THE "BAG"
| Pheasant shooting in England begins on October 1 and ends on February 1. Careful breeding has produced a type known as "rocketer" which, flying high and fast, provides excellent sport. Beaters drive the birds from the coverts down hill to the guns, and on flat ground the shooters stand far enough from the covert side to allow the birds to attain height and speed |