A step-by-step guide to modern shooting etiquette stuffed full of
amusing quotes and anecdotes, which will instruct the Gun on how to be
the perfect guest out shooting -- and hence, how to be asked again.
Inspired by the fact that so many more people are taking up shooting as
adults and may have missed out on the vital apprenticeship in the field
as a child, it encapsulates everything you need to know but no one will
ever tell you out shooting as 'you are expected to know'.
The book covers in a logical way what happens, or should happen: from
the moment you receive a shooting invitation to arriving at the shoot,
shooting safely and courteously, how to hold your own, how to mark up
your birds, what never to say and how to tip the keeper. Much of this
information comes from almost a hundred interviews with beaters,
keepers, flankers, pickers up, shoot organisers, shoot owners, and
grouse moor owning earls and dukes.
Hilarious cartoons by Oliver Preston make this a very entertaining book
on shooting, the perfect gift for any shooting man or woman, either
novice shot or experienced Gun.