On Your Shoot - Liam Bell

On Your Shoot

A Practical Guide to Running Your Own Shoot

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2015
Quiller Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84689-211-0 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.4.2015
Vorwort Joe Dimbleby
Zusatzinfo 80 Halftones, color
Sprache englisch
Maße 189 x 246 mm
Gewicht 48 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Angeln / Jagd
ISBN-10 1-84689-211-2 / 1846892112
ISBN-13 978-1-84689-211-0 / 9781846892110
Zustand Neuware
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