page_title: Driven grouse shooting
hierarchical_section_title: Driven grouse shooting
caption_attribution_description: English: Major Sir Reginald Macdonald-Buchanan (right) with a gamekeeper in a hide during a grouse shoot on Mannock Moors (somewhere in the Scottish Highlands) hosted by James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington. orginal description: "August 1922: M McDonald, a member of Lord Woolavington's House Party, with a gamekeeper in a hide during a grouse shoot on Mannock Moors. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)" removed watermark center right
context_page_description: Driven grouse shooting is the hunting of the red grouse, a field sport of the United Kingdom. The grouse-shooting season extends from 12 August, often called the "Glorious Twelfth", to 10 December each year. Large numbers of grouse are driven to fly over men with shotguns, or can be walked up in a line using specially trained dogs to flush the bird. Driven grouse shooting first appeared around 1850 and became popular in the later Victorian era as a fashionable sport for the wealthy. The expanding rail network allowed relatively easy access into the remote upland areas of Britain for the first time and driven grouse shooting developed in tandem with this by providing shooting in a convenient and reliable form. Large numbers of birds are driven over a fixed position providing a regular supply of fast moving targets without the need to seek out the birds. The development of the breech-loading shotgun was also an essential ingredient in the development of the practice as it allowed more rapid reloading in the field matching the availability of target birds.
  Shooting takes place on grouse moors, areas of moorland in Scotland, northern England, and Wales.
context_section_description: Driven grouse shooting is the hunting of the red grouse, a field sport of the United Kingdom. The grouse-shooting season extends from 12 August, often called the "Glorious Twelfth", to 10 December each year. Large numbers of grouse are driven to fly over men with shotguns, or can be walked up in a line using specially trained dogs to flush the bird. Driven grouse shooting first appeared around 1850 and became popular in the later Victorian era as a fashionable sport for the wealthy. The expanding rail network allowed relatively easy access into the remote upland areas of Britain for the first time and driven grouse shooting developed in tandem with this by providing shooting in a convenient and reliable form. Large numbers of birds are driven over a fixed position providing a regular supply of fast moving targets without the need to seek out the birds. The development of the breech-loading shotgun was also an essential ingredient in the development of the practice as it allowed more rapid reloading in the field matching the availability of target birds.
  Shooting takes place on grouse moors, areas of moorland in Scotland, northern England, and Wales. These areas, some 16,763 square kilometres, about 8% of the combined area of England and Scotland, form an artificial habitat. They are managed by regular burning to provide a constant supply of young heather and to remove trees and grass, and by killing predators and mountain hares. British grouse moors are intensively managed, and have been described as not just precluding birds of prey, but also preventing wildness, natural landscapes, and ecotourism.
caption: Gamekeeper (left) with a shooter on a driven grouse shoot in the Scottish Highlands (1922)
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "August 1922:  M McDonald, a member of  Lord Woolavington's House Party, with a gamekeeper in a hide during a grouse shoot on Mannock Moors.  (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "GIMP 2.10.8", "Image DateTime": "2019:02:02 23:38:24", "Image ExifOffset": "348", "Thumbnail ImageWidth": "256", "Thumbnail ImageLength": "188", "Thumbnail BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail PhotometricInterpretation": "6", "Thumbnail SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "682", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7701"}