Part 2

I have already tendered my thanks, but I should like publicly to repeat my indebtedness, to those who have lent me the best working dogs in England for models, or have sent me photographs of them and other pictures. These include Mr. Eric Parker, Editor of The County Gentleman, Mr. W. Arkwright, the Hon. Holland Hibbert, Mr. Herbert Mitchell, Mr. C. C. Eversfield, Mr. A. T. Williams, Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale, Mr. B. J. Warwick, the Editor of Bailey, Mr. Allan Brown, and the President of the world’s oldest established, and National, Field Trial Society, namely Col. C. J. Cotes, of Pitchford Hall, who has sent me some photographs of his, and his late father’s, Woodcote pointers and retrievers, including an original importation of 1832, and founder of his present breed of the latter race, and in doing this he has been kind enough to say:—

“I have always considered you to know more about the breaking and breeding of setters than any man living, and that it was entirely through you that the apex of setter breeding was reached about twenty-five years ago, and through your recommendation I obtained the eight setters in 1881 that founded my present breed.”

I am glad to be able to quote this, because my name is little known to younger shooters, although I write many, preferably unsigned, articles upon rural sports and other matters.

G. T. T.-B.

CONTENTS

PAGE ANCIENT ACTIONS 1

ANCIENT PISTOLS TO AUTOMATIC AND ELEPHANT RIFLES 4

ANCIENT AND MIDDLE AGE SHOOTING 13

ON THE CHOICE OF SHOT GUNS 23

SINGLE-TRIGGER DOUBLE GUNS 52

AMMUNITION 56

THE THEORY OF SHOOTING 63

THE PRACTICE OF SHOOTING 69

FORM IN GAME SHOOTING—I 76

FORM IN GAME SHOOTING—II 82

CRACK SHOTS—I 88

CRACK SHOTS—II 94

POINTERS AND SETTERS 101

THE POINTER 126

ENGLISH SETTERS 139

STRENUOUS DOGS AND SPORT IN AMERICA 151

THE IRISH SETTER 160

THE BLACK-AND-TAN SETTER 168

RETRIEVERS AND THEIR BREAKING 176

THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER 191

SPANIELS 195

GROUSE THAT LIE AND GROUSE THAT FLY 204

RED GROUSE 214