SHOTGUN AND SHOOTER. By G.L. Carlisle and Percy Stanbury.

SHOTGUN AND SHOOTER. By G.L. Carlisle and Percy Stanbury.

YOUR DOG AND YOU: A GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFE WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND. By Joe Inglis.

YOUR DOG AND YOU: A GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFE WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND. By Joe Inglis.

ROUGH SHOOTING. By Mike Swan. Third edition.

(1991) 2009 3rd edition reprint. 4to (197 x 252mm). Pp185. B/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Jonathan Yule, brief bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is a "practical guide to sport with dog and gun and ...a celebration of the simple pleasures of informal shooting. ...A clear and concise guide to all the principal sporting quarry species, to sporting guns and cartridges and to the choice and training of a gundog. [Includes] helpful guidance on shoot management and habitat improvement for game and wildfowl." Foreword by Jonathan Young, editor of Shooting Times. Contents include: Section 1 - Getting Started: Basic woodcraft; Quarry recognition; The roughshooter's dog; Guns and cartridges; Clothes and equipment; Legal and ethical considerations. Section 2 - Quarry and their Pursuit: Pheasants; Partridges; Woodcock; Snipe; Ground game; Wildfowl; Pigeons; Principles of decoying. Section 3 - Managing the Shoot: Conservation and restocking policy; Habitat management; Predation control; Continuing care - leaving a healthy stock, food in winter, joining the crowd.
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Book Code
45968
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Author Swan (Mike).
Book Code 45968
ISBN 1846890101 / 9781846890109.
Book Description Fine new copy in dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 2007
Publisher Quiller.
Place Wykey, Shrewsbury.