British sport past and present . GROUSE SHOOTING total the late Sir Frederick Milbank contributed 728 in theeight drives : he was using three guns and had tAvo bags were eclipsed in 1893 by Mr. R. H. RimingtonWilson and his party, nine guns, on Broomhead moor nearSheffield, on 20th August 1893, when 2648 birds were shot:and this total was beaten by Mr. Rimington Wilson and hisparty, nine guns, on 24th August 1894, when the bag totalled2748 grouse. On 28th August 1872, Lord Walsingham, shoot-ing alone on Blubberhouse Moor, killed 842 birds in sixteendrives, using four guns (t
British sport past and present . GROUSE SHOOTING total the late Sir Frederick Milbank contributed 728 in theeight drives : he was using three guns and had tAvo bags were eclipsed in 1893 by Mr. R. H. RimingtonWilson and his party, nine guns, on Broomhead moor nearSheffield, on 20th August 1893, when 2648 birds were shot:and this total was beaten by Mr. Rimington Wilson and hisparty, nine guns, on 24th August 1894, when the bag totalled2748 grouse. On 28th August 1872, Lord Walsingham, shoot-ing alone on Blubberhouse Moor, killed 842 birds in sixteendrives, using four guns (two breech and two muzzle loaders).The total bag for the season on Wemmergill Moor was 17,074grouse killed in 41 days shooting, the average number of gunsper day being about five. The largest bag of driven grouse ever made by one gunwas that by Lord Walsingham on 30th August 1888. Shootingwith four guns and two loaders on Blubberhouse Moor (2221acres), he killed 1070 birds in twenty drives. THE GROUSE-SHOOTERS CALL Come, where the hea
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