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    Tips for Pheasant Shooting from Some of the Finest Hunters
    Tips for Pheasant Shooting from Some of the Finest Hunters
    Tips for Pheasant Shooting from Some of the Finest Hunters
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    Tips for Pheasant Shooting from Some of the Finest Hunters

    By Lord Walsingham

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    Contained within the pages of this book is an interesting and insightful guide to pheasant hunting, containing tips and techniques employed in the fields by some of the finest hunters of the time. A book sure to appeal to modern hunters as it would have for those contemporary with the time of its original publication, this antique book has many valuable lessons to teach and constitutes a fine addition to collections of hunting literature. Complete with a number of beautiful illustrations and helpful diagrams, 'Tips for Pheasant Shooting from some of the Finest Hunters' is a great book for both the amateur and seasoned hunter alike. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its significant educational value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on shooting wildfowl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781473357051
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      Tips for Pheasant Shooting from Some of the Finest Hunters - Lord Walsingham

      PHEASANT SHOOTING.

      ALTHOUGH much has been published concerning the nature, habits, and specific differences of various breeds of pheasants, comparatively little has been written about the sport of shooting them, except by the use of pointers, spaniels, and setters, a system which from various causes has now been almost abandoned as ineffective or impracticable.

      The modern system of covert shooting, which sprang into existence when careful preservation and artificial rearing had largely increased the quantity of game available for sport in this country, has scarcely been touched upon except by those who, with apparently a limited experience of its practice, have approached the subject for the most part in a somewhat acrimonious spirit.

      Among notable exceptions the names of J. J. Manley, the author of ‘Notes on Game and Game-shooting,’ Henry Stevenson (‘Birds of Norfolk’), and the late W. Bromley Davenport (‘Sport’) should be mentioned. Mr. Manley counsels ‘moderation in rearing pheasants,’ and regards ‘excessive preservation of game’ as ‘a mistake’; but, although he expresses some preference for ‘rough pheasant shooting’ where there are ‘thick hedges and broad ditches,’ he by no means falls into the popular error of supposing that a pheasant must be always an easy shot, or that ‘battue shooting should be turned into ridicule and made a subject for sneers.’

      Mr. Stevenson discusses the subject in a fair and sensible spirit, and points out that so-called battue shooting is by no means such easy work as is generally imagined.

      Mr. Bromley Davenport criticises in amusing language the fallacies put forward by many of those who speak and write against the ‘battue,’ and describes the great amount of skill and management required to ensure its success, drawing excellent distinctions as to the manner in which each individual sports man should or should not acquit himself in performing his share of the day’s work.

      It was probably about the end of the fifteenth century, or very early in the sixteenth, that firearms came to be used in the pursuit of game. In a book entitled ‘La Chasse, son histoire et sa législation,’ par Ernest Jullien (Paris, 1868), at p. 183 the author writes:—

      L’ordonnance de Mars 1515 (Art. 2) défendait, dans le rayon de deux lieues autour des forêts de la couronne, le port et la détention des, arbalètes, arquebuses, escopettes, filets, &c. Un édit, 1546, interdisait à toutes personnes, gentilshommes ou autres, de parcourir le territoire du royaume avec des armes, et principalement des arquebuses; depuis 1554, notamment, l’usage de l’arquebuse devenait chaque jour plus

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