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    The Sporting Shooter's Handbook: An Introduction to the Sport
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    The Sporting Shooter's Handbook: An Introduction to the Sport

    By Graham Downing

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    About this ebook

    A complete guide to sporting shooting, written for the novice. The book assumes no previous knowledge of shooting and tackles the entire range of sporting shooting activities.

    The Sporting Shooter's Handbook will help guide anyone interested in an increasingly popular sport which can provide lifelong interest and enjoyment.

    Topics covered:

    • history of shooting;
    • modern sporting gun;
    • safety;
    • the law;
    • game shooting;
    • rough shooting;
    • woodpigeons;
    • wildfowling;
    • gundogs;
    • the support team;
    • shooting and the countryside.

    Based on Graham's previous title, Shooting for Beginners 2nd Ed (9781904057314).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuiller
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9781846892813
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    The Sporting Shooter's Handbook: An Introduction to the Sport
    Author

    Graham Downing

    Graham Downing is a regular contributor to leading UK country sports magazines Shooting Times & Country Magazine, The Field, and Shooting Gazette. He edits Deer, the magazine of the British Deer Society and has contributed to articles in The Daily Telegraph, Country Landowner and BASC.

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