ON YOUR SHOOT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RUNNING YOUR OWN SHOOT. By Liam Bell.

2015 1st edition. 4to (197 x 253mm). Pp160. Colour photographs. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"Liam Bell is the head gamekeeper at Millichope Park in Shropshire, a traditional family owned and run estate with a renowned high bird shoot. ...He currently writes the popular 'On your Shoot' column in the Shooting Times and sits as one of their panel of experts on the 'Sporting Answers' page." This new book is a practical and useful guide to all aspects of gamekeeping, based on material culled from the author's column in Shooting Times. Chapters include: Stock selection; Catching-up; End of season tidy up; Predator control; Fox control; Squirrel control; Woodland management; Planning new drives; Game crops; Egg production; Incubation; Releasing ex-layers; Small-scale rearing; Release pens; Post-release management of pheasant poults; Partridges; Theft and poaching; Holding game; Getting ready; Running a shoot day; Winter losses; Ducks; Wetland creation; Cost-saving ideas; Work party countdown; How to make a 'dog-gate' in a stock fence; Tax and casual work (RTI); Loading.