The Complete English Wing Shot

About this eBook

Author

Teasdale-Buckell, George Teasdale

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SK: Agriculture: Hunting sports

Subject

Game and game-birds

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61111

Release Date

January 5, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE COMPLETE ENGLISH WING SHOT
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.ANCIENT ACTIONS
6. 6.ANCIENT PISTOLS TO AUTOMATIC AND ELEPHANT RIFLES
7. 7.ANCIENT AND MIDDLE AGE SHOOTING
8. 8.ON THE CHOICE OF SHOT GUNS — Actions of Guns — Ejectors — Safety of Guns — Cross-Eyed Stocks
9. 9.SINGLE-TRIGGER DOUBLE GUNS
10. 10.AMMUNITION
11. 11.THE THEORY OF SHOOTING
12. 12.THE PRACTICE OF SHOOTING
13. 13.FORM IN GAME SHOOTING—I
14. 14.FORM IN GAME SHOOTING—II
15. 15.CRACK SHOTS—I
16. 16.CRACK SHOTS—II
17. 17.POINTERS AND SETTERS — The Uses of Field Trials for Pointers and Setters — The Purchase of Pointers and Setters
18. 18.THE POINTER
19. 19.ENGLISH SETTERS
20. 20.STRENUOUS DOGS AND SPORT IN AMERICA
21. 21.THE IRISH SETTER
22. 22.THE BLACK-AND-TAN SETTER
23. 23.RETRIEVERS AND THEIR BREAKING — Breaking the Retriever — Entering on Game
24. 24.THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER
25. 25.SPANIELS — The Breaking of the Spaniel
26. 26.GROUSE THAT LIE AND GROUSE THAT FLY
27. 27.RED GROUSE
28. 28.METHODS OF SHOOTING THE RED GROUSE
29. 29.THE LATEST METHODS OF PRESERVATION OF PARTRIDGES
30. 30.PARTRIDGE BAGS AND DRIVING
31. 31.VARIETIES AND SPECIES OF THE PHEASANT
32. 32.PHEASANTS
33. 33.BRINGING PHEASANTS TO THE GUNS
34. 34.SHOOTING WILD DUCKS ARTIFICIALLY REARED
35. 35.WILD WILD-DUCK — Flight Shooting — Shore Shooting — The “Gaze” System — Flapper Shooting — Encouraging the Fowl
36. 36.RABBIT SHOOTING
37. 37.HARES
38. 38.SNIPE
39. 39.WOODCOCKS
40. 40.BLACK GAME
41. 41.PIGEON SHOOTING — The Wild Rock Pigeon — The Wood Pigeon
42. 42.DEER IN SCOTLAND
43. 43.BIG GAME
44. 44.A VARIED BAG — Seal Shooting — Capercailzie — The Quail — The Landrail — Teal — The Golden Plover — Roe Deer — The Ptarmigan — The Coot — The Widgeon, or the Whew Bird — Wild Geese — The Pink-footed Goose
45. 45.DISEASES OF GAME BIRDS
46. 46.INDEX

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