Well Mr Brown you now know the Minuti but you did not attempt to answer the question, though come forth with rules after the answer was posted. Lets get this straight the person known to be a Lord who owns an Estate consisting of many many thousands of acres including the farms that keep producing money for his coffers, he will run the shoot day the way they want to and I am sure he would tell your good self to go away in very short jerky movements ending with an off at the same time explaining that you could put tour rules where the sun dont shine also if you require any help his Estate Manager or one of his four game keepers would give you a hand.
Well Mr brown I will now put your good self down as a person who is given an answer then attempts to expand on the answer in an effort to give the aura of knowledge, as we all know the blank piece of paper is the hardest to start with.
Well Damascus, we don't shoot driven much on this side of the pond like you still do on yours. And these days as opposed to what's shown in "The Shooting Party", it's seldom the lord of the manor who's inviting friends to a driven shoot. Plenty of those still available in the UK, but the bulk of them are now commercial. While they may well take place on estates, it's now another way for the owner of the estate to make money. And it's how most of us on this side of the pond get to enjoy driven shooting. And most who haven't shot driven might not have been clear about how the whole pegs system works . . . until I and others took the time to explain that while drawing for pegs does take place before the first drive, one only has the peg they draw for that drive. Rotation taking place for subsequent drives, as explained. A commercial shoot owner is going to want to be as fair as he can in terms of making sure everyone has a chance to shoot from the middle pegs before the day's over. He wants all of them to return. And possibly tell friends about what a fine shoot they'll enjoy if they book a couple driven days at the same estate.
But since you look back to the shoots that were more typical of the end of the 19th/early 20th century, then I know you'd really want to address me by my title. It's Colonel. Thank you.
Last edited by L. Brown; 12/27/22 06:18 PM.
