SHOOTING NOTES AND COMMENTS: A BOOK CONTAINING MATTERS OF INTEREST TO SPORTSMEN.

(1910) 1910 reprint. 12mo (125 x 187mm). Pp94. Illustrated with 1 photograph and 3 text illustrations, decorative endpapers. Headings and initials printed in red. Red cloth, spine and upper board titled in black. Chute 376.

Published by cartridge-maker Kynoch in Birmingham. It contains not only notes and advice on their own cartridges but much general shooting advice, from gun-law to gundog training and basic trapping. Contributors include Nicholas Everitt, R.H. Housman, "Cornish Chough," G.H., "Jack of all Trades" and Major Arthur Acland Hood. Chapters include: Sporting cartridges; Notes on sporting cartridges; 'Factory Loaded'; The shooter's legal companion; Partridge preservation; Striking velocity of shot; 'High Birds'; Notes on the report and recoil of shot-gun cartridges; Training a retriever; Ballistic paradoxes; Two traps; Burst guns; Miniature rifle shooting.