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On Your Shoot Liam Bell

On Your Shoot By Liam Bell

On Your Shoot by Liam Bell


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Summary

This comprehensive, practical guide covers everything you need to know about creating and maintaining your shooting ground, from breeding gamebirds such as pheasants and partridges to advice on running a successful shoot day.

On Your Shoot Summary

On Your Shoot: A Practical Guide to Running Your Own Shoot by Liam Bell

This comprehensive, practical guide covers everything you need to know about creating and maintaining your shooting ground, from breeding gamebirds such as pheasants and partridges to advice on running a successful shoot day.
A useful addition to every shooting mans library and an invaluable guide for gamekeepers, game-keeping students, shooting syndicates, and anyone who has an interest in how a partridge and pheasant shoot is run.
Topics covered include:
  • Stock selection
  • Habitat management
  • Predator control
  • Egg production and hatching
  • Rearing and releasing game
  • Game crop establishment and holding game

On Your Shoot Reviews

This well-designed book features friendly and down-to-earth advice on creating and running your own partridge and pheasant shoot.
This is a well written handbook with a great degree of common sense which will be welcomed by all those involved in game management.
If you buy a book with the sub-title: A practical guide to running your own shoot, that is what you expect. And Liam Bell s book does exactly what it says on the cover.

About Liam Bell

Liam Bell is the head gamekeeper at Millichope Park in Shropshire, a traditional family owned and run estate with a renowned high bird shoot. He is a regional chairman of the National Gamekeepers' Organisation and a judge for the shooting industry awards. He currently writes the popular 'On your Shoot' column in the Shooting Times and sits as one of their panel of experts on the 'Sporting Answers' page.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Stock selection 2. Catching-up 3. End of season tidy up 4. Predator control 5. Fox control 6. Squirrel control 7. Woodland management 8. Planning new drives 9. Game crops 10. Egg production 11. Incubation 12. Releasing ex-layers 13. Small-scale rearing 14. Release pens 15. Post-release management of pheasant poults 16. Partridges 17. Theft and poaching 18. Holding game 19. Getting ready 20. Running a shoot day 21. Winter losses; Ducks 22. Wetland creation 23. Cost-saving ideas 24. Work party countdown 25. How to make a dog-gate in a stock fence 26. Tax and casual work 27. Loading Index

Additional information

GOR007357405
9781846892110
1846892112
On Your Shoot: A Practical Guide to Running Your Own Shoot by Liam Bell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quiller Publishing Ltd
20150430
160
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - On Your Shoot