This handbook is designed for newcomers to sporting shotgun shooting and its coverage includes: shotgun safety; the basic rules of gun handling; the parts of the shotgun and their function; the law as it relates to shooting; and specific aspects of the sport, such as game shooting, roughshooting and wildfowling. There are also chapters on behaviour in the field, the role of gundogs, the part played by gamekeepers in habitat and game management, and quarry species and their identification.