THE BEST SHOT IN ENGLAND.
Earl do Gray, who was shooting with Colonel Tomaline at Stratton Hall, recently, is reputed to be the best shot in England. It is a curious thing that our crack shots are both Greys, the second Grey being Lord Walsingham, who is very little behind his namesake with the prefix “de.” Perhaps the story is not true that Lord de Grey tried to drop a driven partridge down the chimney of his keeper’s cottage, and at last succeeded, but a really true and still better anecdote of him is related. The writer of it was grouse driving in Yorkshire, and Lord de Grey, the past master of gunnery, was in the butt. He had three guns ready for use, and towards him a small covey of five birds came flying. How to kill the lot was the problem. A brace coming and a brace going would be easy to such an adept, but the fifth bird would get away. One of the grouse was a bit in advance and taking a long shot at it Lord de Grey killed it, and without using the
second barrel, dropped gun No, 1, took up gun No. 2, killed two birds coming, then took up gun No. 3, and killed two birds going. Probably there is no other man in England who could have done it. Court Journal
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1736, 12 May 1888, Page 2
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