HILL SHOOTING AND UPLAND GAMEKEEPING. By Guy N. Smith. Drawings by Bob Sanders and Anthea Hadley.

1978 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,199, + 1pp ad. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations by Bob Sanders and Anthea Hadley. Orange-red boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Modern trends ...make gamekeeping and shooting for the amateur a very difficult and expensive sport. Often the shoot is many miiles away and the cost of participating is extremely expensive". Guy N. Smith addresses these problems and explains how he overcame them to put together his own shoot. A practical book of great use to anyone setting out to follow the author's example. Chapters include: Establishing a shoot; Corvines and birds of prey; Which species are vermin; The hill people and the seasons; Overall fitness and gamekeeping; Trespassers, poachers and sheep rustlers; Pheasants in the hills; Ducks and woodcock; Pigeons, the nucleus of the hill-shooter's sport; Fox control; Badgers and deer; Legends and folklore; The unexpected, the lure of the hills.