YOUR SHOOT: GAMEKEEPERING AND MANAGEMENT. By Ian McCall of the Game Conservancy with drawings by Will Garfit.

1985 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs, drawings by Will Garfit, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

The best modern manual on gamekeeping. Chapters include: A shoot of your own - objectives, considerations, budgeting; Taking stock - catching up pheasants, partridges and mallard forlaying stock, encouraging wildfowl nesting; Predator control (I) - why, when and what, squirrels and corvids; Predator control (II) - rats, mink, feral cats, small ground predators; Crops for game; broodies - raising gamebirds under hens or bantams; Brooder rearing - is restocking necessary?, to rear or buy in, redleg and grey partridges, mallard; Releasing pheasants; Flight ponds and inland duck; Releasing and driving partridges - reasons for releasing and how to do it; Winter management and feeding; Organising the shoot days; Woodland and permanent game habitat; Thanksgiving, clearing-up and reviewing results - gratuities, Keeper's Day and cocks only, equipment hygiene and storage.