CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING. By Richard Arnold.

1973 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Ppxiv,160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Not a self-instructor, rather a fascinating history of the sport with much advice on how to go about it yourself. Chapters include: Traps, glass balls and saucers; The perpetual challenge; Mechanical data; Variations on a theme; The gun; Traps; Shooting; Forming a club; The Clay Pigeon Shooting Association. Appendices include: CPSA Rules, definitions and regulations for down-the-line shooting; Rules for skeet (ISU and CPSA); ISU rules for 15-Trap Olympin Trench; Historical. Hurlingham Gun Club Rules; Historical. Official rules of the Inanimate Bird Shooting Association (1893).