Introduction

This vintage book contains a complete guide to game shooting, with notes on shooting grouse, pheasants, partridge, quails, woodcocks, snipe, running a covert shoot, breeding and rearing game birds, and practicing your aim. It encompasses a wealth of information that would be of considerable utility to modern sportsmen, and would make for a great addition to collections of hunting literature.

Chapters

The chapters of this book include: Grouse, Pheasants, Quails, Woodcock, Snipe, Rearing Pheasants and Partridges, Moor Management, Distribution and Head-Reading, Partridge Driving, Covert Shooting: As It Should Be, The Art of Shooting-Flying, The Right Shooter’s Gun and Dog, etcetera.

We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on shooting wildfowl.