SHOTGUN SHOOTING: TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY. By John Brindle.

1984 1st edition. 4to (194 x 256mm). Ppxiii,265. B/w line illustrations by the author.

An extremely comprehensive manual. Chapters include: Some fundamentals; Shotgun stocks and shooting styles; Patterns, strings and penetrations; Choosing a choke and a load; Guns; Choosing the gun; Cleaning and maintenance; Safety; Miscellanea - triggers, guns for 'learning on', bent barrels, a short-cut to success, shooting glasses, seeing the shot, foot position and the clay target shooter, extra-large shot, clay target shooting - the 'dead gun' problem. Tables include: Weights in pounds of ordinary fixed-breech shotguns for certain recoil velocities with American factory loads; Recoil velocities of gas-operated autoloaders; Stocks and gunmounting; Variations of pattern with distance; British and American shot sizes; shot sizes for competition shooting.