YOUR SHOOT: GAMEKEEPERING AND MANAGEMENT. By Ian McCall of the Game Conservancy with drawings by Will Garfit.

1985 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs, drawings by Will Garfit, bibliography. Laminated boards.

The best modern manual on gamekeeping. Chapters include; a shoot of your own - objectives, considerations, budgeting; taking stock - catching up pheasants, partridges and mallard forlaying stock, encouraging wildfowl nesting; predator control (I) - why, when and what, squirrels and corvids; predator control (II) - rats, mink, feral cats, small ground predators; crops for game; broodies - raising gamebirds under hens or bantams; brooder rearing - is restocking necessary?, to rear or buy in, redleg and grey partridges, mallard; releasing pheasants; flight ponds and inland duck; releasing and driving partridges - reasons for releasing and how to do it; winter management and feeding; organising the shoot days; woodland and permanent game habitat; thanksgiving, clearing-up and reviewing results - gratuities, Keeper's Day and cocks only, equipment hygiene and storage.