CLAY PIGEON MARKSMANSHIP. By Percy Stanbury and G.L. Carlisle. Photography by G.L. Carlisle.

(1964) 1968 reprint. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp216. B/w photographs and illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"A worthy successor to their excellent Shotgun Marksmanship ...I know no better introduction to this increasingly popular sport". (Duff Hart-Davis writing in The Sunday Telegraph). A useful book of confirmed popularity which has run through many reprints of several editions. Chapters include: What is clay pigeon shooting; Guns and cartridges; Shotgun handling and shooting; Down-the-line; Skeet; Olympic trench; Single-barrel and double-rise; Sporting clays; The clay shooter's year; Shooting for fun; Appendices on - shooting organisations, a typical programme of main events, records and championship winners, sources of information on clay shooting.