SHOOTING NOTES AND COMMENTS: A BOOK CONTAINING MATTERS OF INTEREST TO SPORTSMEN.

1910 1st edition. 12mo (125 x 187mm). Pp94. Illustrated with 1 photograph & 3 text illustrations, decorative endpapers. Headings & initials printed in red. Red cloth, spine & upper board titled in black. Chute 376.

Published by cartridge-maker Kynoch in Birmingham. It contains not only notes and advice on their own cartridges but much general shooting advice, from gun-law to gundog training and basic trapping. Contributors include Nicholas Everitt, R.H. Housman, "Cornish Chough", G.H., "Jack of all Trades" and Major Arthur Acland Hood. Chapters include: Sporting cartridges; Notes on sporting cartridges; 'Factory Loaded'; The shooter's legal companion; Partridge preservation; Striking velocity of shot; 'High Birds'; Notes on the report and recoil of shot-gun cartridges; Training a retriever; Ballistic paradoxes; Two traps; Burst guns; Miniature rifle shooting.