In the Christmas Special Downton showing (may not yet have been show in North America), things kick off with a house party for the grouse shooting and scenes on the moor.
A point I noticed was that during a brief scene the guns were walking from one stand to the next. A few guns were sleeved in canvas slips, which struck me as out of place. Whilst I am fairly sure basic canvas slips were available in the late 1920s, the photos I have seen of shooting at that time have never shown gun slips being used.
In fact I can remember as a boy/young man that shoots I attended in the 1960s/early 70s carrying opened guns between drives was the norm, slips not coming into fashion until the late 1970s/early 1980s.
Tim
