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  Just found this article on the ''Shooting and Conservation Club site''..which seems to be a contradiction in terms..?
  
  August 12 marks the start of the grouse shooting season. Throughout this period shooters from all over the world head for the moors of Scotland and northern England. The season lasts from August 12 to December 10 on mainland Great Britain and from August 12 to November 30 in Northern Ireland. The grouse are wild and not artificially reared.
  
  Most grouse shooting takes place in a formal setting with birds being driven over the shooters. The Guns are placed in butts (a hide for shooting screened by a turf or stone wall) and the birds are driven towards them by beaters. There is a strict code of conduct governing behaviour on the grouse moor for both safety and etiquette. Grouse shooting can also be undertaken by 'walking up' grouse over pointers, or by flushing the birds with other dogs.
  
  This is a traditional sport which was largely supplanted by formal driven shooting in the mid to late 1800s, but which is seeing a resurgence in popularity, although driven grouse shooting is the only commercially viable means of running a grouse moor
  
  Cheers Bern.
  With the weather taking such a nasty turn and a third of Augusts rainfall expected within the next couple of days together with gale force winds blowing through the channel it would appear that the Grouse drinking season has started bang on time..

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