[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — I do not think
game is as easily disturbed by troops and firing as some of your correspondents imagine. During 1899 I was putting through a party of recruits on the Dymchurch ranges near Hythe, and while firing volleys I noticed a covey of partridges half-way up the range, between the firing point and the targets, taking not the slightest notice of the bullets passing over them. Sending to the fort where I lived for my fowling piece, at the close of the practice I thought I would try to get a brace. But the birds were not at all easy to get near, knowing well the difference between a carbine and a gun. Eventually I got one with a very long shot. In the Phcenix Park, Dublin, where a good deal of firing on field-days goes on, the deer take not the slightest notice of it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
GREY LANCER.
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