Guns and Game

Evan G. Mackenzie

• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781473337619
• eBook ISBN: 9781473344273

"Guns and Game" is a comprehensive and timeless handbook on hunting with a gun, with chapters on everything from how to go about learning how to shoot, to breeding game, ethics, and beyond. This fantastic volume will appeal to those with a practical interest in rural sports of this ilk, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Shouting Or Fishing", "The Best Way Of Learning How To Shoot", "The Teaching Of Shooting", "A Modern Shooting School", "Gun-fitting", "The Shooter's Walk", "Style In Shooting", "Form In The Field", "Science And Shooting", "Technical Knowledge In Shooting", "Sporting Ammunition", "The Standard Cartridge", "The Best Cartridge", "Accidents To Guns", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Preface
• I. Shooting or Fishing
• II. The Best Way of Learning how to Shoot
• III. The Teaching of Shooting
• IV. A Modern Shooting School
• V. Gun-Fitting
• VI. The Shooter’s Walk
• VII. Style in Shooting
• VIII. Form in the Field
• IX. Science and Shooting
• X. Technical Knowledge in Shooting
• XI. Sporting Ammunition
• XII. The Standard Cartridge
• XIII. The Best Cartridge
• XIV. Accidents to Guns
• XV. Distribution and Distance
• XVI. Allowances in Aiming
• XVII. The Striking Velocity of Shot
• XVIII. Distances in Wing Shooting
• XIX. Smokeless Powders
• XX. Misfires in Shooting
• XXI. Shooting Expenditure
• XXII. Game Guns
• XXIII. The Latest Improvement in Game Guns
• XXIV. Gunmakers and their Work
• XXV. Game Farms and Game Foods
• XXVI. The Encyclopædia on “Shooting”
• XXVII. Shooting Agencies
• XXVIII. Selection of Shootings
• XXIX. The Involuntary Pull in Single-Trigger Guns
• XXX. Driving of Game
• XXXI. Royal Shooting
• XXXII. Grouse Driving
• XXXIII. Pheasants and Pheasant Shooting
• XXXIV. Pheasants and Foxes
• XXXV. Deer-Stalking
• XXXVI. The Improvement of Deer-Stalking
• XXXVII. The Improvement of Grouse Shooting
• XXXVIII. Keepers’ Work
• XXXIX. Keepers’ Marksmanship
• XL. Gamekeepers’ Gratuities
• XLI. Natural Grouse Food
• XLII. The Sale of Game
• XLIII. Artificial Breeding of Wild Ducks
• XLIV. Seal Shooting
• XLV. Rook Shooting
• XLVI. The Ethics of Big-Game Shooting
• XLVII. English and American Sport
• XLVIII. Claybird Shooting Clubs
• XLIX. Woodcock Shooting
• L. Live Pigeon Shooting
• LI. Air-Guns and Air-Rifles
• LII. Shooting after Lunch
• LIII. The Gunner in America
• LIV. Our Best Game Shots