Originally Posted by L. Brown
Originally Posted by Shotgunlover
IT was developed for a specialised form of shooting which is not seen outside the UK, namely driven shooting.

No driven shooting outside the UK? They've made it illegal in places like Spain and Hungary??

Actually, as a young guy in Iowa, I participated in driven pheasant shooting. Practiced even more frequently in South Dakota. Differs from driven shooting in the UK in that both the beaters and the guns have shotguns. Works out fine as long as everyone remembers the "blue sky" rule. Occasionally we still do it on a very small scale: A couple hunters with dogs pushing through a field in the direction of a couple blockers with guns at the far end.

A lot of syndicate shooting in UK follows the same lines, commonly termed walk one stand one. The guns on the day ,usually ten or twelve ,are divided into two teams and take turn in beating cover or woodland towards the standing guns. Any birds flying back or to the side thus avoiding the standing guns are fair game for those walking. Partridge driving in Spain and pheasant drives in Hungary mimic that available in Britain. Of course the root of Driven Game shooting in England was the Battue shooting of Germany and brought to England by Prince Albert when he married Queen Victoria.