HIGH PHEASANTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey Bart. With a new introduction by Colin McKelvie. Foreword by the Editor of The Field.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1995). (1913) 1995 new edition. 8vo (178 x 240mm). Ppxxii,vi,80,vii[shot diagrams]. B/w illustrations. Red boards, gilt shooting scene to upper board, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly bumped, cloth a little faded else very good. Un-numbered out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 500. A new edition, limited to 500 copies. New Foreword by Jonathan Young and Introduction by Colin McKelvie.A new edition, limited to 500 copies. New Foreword by Jonathan Young and Introduction by Colin McKelvie. This edition contains an appendix entitled "Mr. R.W.S. Griffith's diagrams showing shot stringing." Chapters include: The targets, and how they were arranged, why a gun shoots a little high at horizontal birds, and a little low at birds overhead; Patterns and penetrations of guns at various distances when fired horizontally and perpendicularly, with deductions therefrom; Experiments with large shot, the boring of guns with regard to killing high pheasants, on hearing the shot strike the game; The height at which a pheasant can be killed, general remarks on high pheasants, influence of gravitation on the charge of shot; Twenty exceptionally high pheasants, and how they were killed, deductions therefrom; Target-pheasants and how they would have been killed if they had been live birds flying overhead, the stringing of a charge of shot when fired from a gun; The penetration of shot-pellets on live birds at various heights, the difference in the apparent size of a pheasant when seen overhead and hoizontally, how to kill a pheasant overhead, how to kill a pheasant that has passed behind the shooter. .…