THE ABC OF SHOOTING: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO GAME AND ROUGH SHOOTING, PIGEON SHOOTING, WILDFOWLING, DEER-STALKING AND CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING. Edited by Colin Willock.

1975 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 240mm). Pp351. B/w illustrations by Rodger McPhail. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

An excellent all-round guide to game shooting in the UK. Contributions from many good sporting writers with Colin Willock as overall editor. Chapters include: Shotguns, Geoffrey Boothroyd; How to shoot, Tony Jackson; Home loading, David Garrard; Driven pheasants, Tony Jackson; Partridges, C.L. Coles; Rough shooting, Tony Jackson; Grouse and their allies, W.A. Newlands and John Phillips; Growing more game, C.L. Coles; Rearing gamebirds, T.H. Blank; Pigeon shooting, Colin Willock; Wildfowling guns, Geoffrey Boothroyd; The natural history of wildfowl, Jefferey Harrison; Shooting duck, above and below the sea wall, Tony Jackson; Goose shooting, Arthur Cadman; Waders, inland and on the foreshore, Tony Jackson; The (stalking) rifle, Richard Prior; The natural history of the red deer, Lea MacNally; Stalking Highland deer, Lea MacNally; Woodland deer stalking, Richard Prior; Guns for clays, Derek Partridge; Clay shooting, Derek Partridge; Shooting law, Peter Turner. A good book that has been reprinted many times. Well worth a place on any shooter's bookshelf.