Getting Guns in prime position

When I am on a driven day, I sometimes wonder why drives are driven in a particular way, or why the Guns are in a particular place when, to my eyes, they would be far better somewhere else, or the birds driven slightly differently.

There are so many things to consider when you are putting the pegs out, not least the expected flight path of the birds. I quantify this by saying expected flight path, because when you are pegging out a new drive, or if you have recently taken on a new shoot and don’t quite know where the Guns have