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This vintage book contains a complete guide to game shooting, with notes on shooting grouse, pheasants, partridge, quails, woodcocks, snipe, running a covert shoot, breeding and rearing game birds, and practicing your aim. It encompasses a wealth of information that would be of considerable utility to modern sportsmen, and would make for a great addition to collections of hunting literature. The chapters of this book include: “Grouse”, “Pheasants”, “Quails”, “Woodcock”, “Snipe”, “Rearing Pheasants and Partridges”, “Moor Management”, “Distribution and Head-Reading”, “Partridge Driving”, “Covert Shooting: As It Should Be”, “The Art of Shooting-Flying”, “The Right Shooter’s Gun and Dog”, etcetera. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on shooting wildfowl.

Excerpt from American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting: Describing the Haunts, Habits, and Methods of Hunting and Shooting the American Partridge; Quail, Ruffed Grouse; Pheasant, With Directions for Handling the Gun, Hunting the Dog, and the Art of Shooting on the Wing, Containing a History of the Partridge An Page Foes of the Partridges, Flight of the Partridges, Migration, Wandering Birds, Haunts and Habits of Partridges, and Where Found, Withholding Scent, Late in the Season, Hunting, Hunting Partridges, Firing into Coveys, Wounded Game, Scattering a Covey, How to Bag Wounded Partridges, Towering of a Partridge, The Sportsman Who Never Fails to Hit The Excitable Sportsman, The Reckless Sportsman, The Bad Shot, or Unskilled Sportsman, Miscellaneous Hints, Dress, Boots, Knife, Drinking Cup, Powder, Shot, Accouterments, Caps, Wadding, The Grouse, Spruce Partridge, Canada Grouse, Columbia sharp-tailed Grouse, Prairie Hen, Prairie Chicken, Pinnated Grouse, Franklin's Grouse, Dusky Grouse, Oregon Dusky Grouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This reprint of "American Partridge and Pheasant Shooting" first published in 1877 brings a classic antiquarian sporting book to a contemporary audience. This classic work describes the haunts, habit and methods of hunting and shooting the American partridge, quail, and ruffed grouse. Also included are directions for handling the gun, the dog and the art of wing shooting.