The Big Book of Game Shooting - With Notes on Grouse, Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Woodcocks, Snipe, Running a Covert Shoot, Breeding and Rearing Game Birds and Practicing Your Aim
The Big Book of Game Shooting - With Notes on Grouse, Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Woodcocks, Snipe, Running a Covert Shoot, Breeding and Rearing Game Birds and Practicing Your Aim

Author: Various

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1473390842

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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. 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.

Karamojo Safari
Karamojo Safari

Author: W. D. M. Bell

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1839740361

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Karamojo Safari, first published in 1949, is a classic story of elephant hunting, safaris, native life, and the wilds of Uganda and Kenya in the late 1800s, at a time when the region (then known as “Karamojo”) was completely unknown to the outside world. Walter Bell (1880-1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter. Famous for being one of the most successful ivory hunters of his time, Bell was an advocate of the importance of shooting accuracy and shot placement with smaller calibre rifles, over the use of heavy large-bore rifles for big African game. He improved his shooting skills by careful dissection and study of the anatomy of the skulls of the elephants he shot. He even perfected the clean shooting of elephants from the extremely difficult position of being diagonally behind the target; this shot became known as the Bell Shot. Although chiefly known for his exploits in Africa, Bell also traveled to North America and New Zealand, sailed windjammers, and saw service in South Africa during the Boer War, and flew in the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa, Greece and France during World War I.