ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2006). (2006) 2008 reprint. 4to (196 x 252mm). Ppxviii,172. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use to edges else very good in slightly tanned dust-wrapper. "Covers all aspects of training [with] advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. [A] wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs .of benefit both to the new trainer and to those who are more experienced". Chapters include: The MacSiccar Training Plan; Absconding, learning by association, amateur trainers; Behavioural boundaries, boundaries vs hunting; Car sickness, case hardening, creative imagination, crowd shyness; Dangerous venues; Ears, eye colour - hard; Field trials, first season's experience; Game, game sense, genetic insight, gun shy; Habits, hand training; Inheritance, indiscriminate breeding; Judges and judging; Kennels; Line breeding, lineage, lining ground scent; Mistakes; Neurotic aversion to scent; Out-cross breeding; Prankish gun, predators, preparation for a field trial, professional trainers, professionalism; Quartering; Rabbit pen construction, retrieves; Scent, sheep dogging, dropping to shot, substitute judges; Taking signalled directions at distance, trust your dog; Unmarked retrieves, unseen multiple dummies; Videos, voice; Water - introduction to, retrieving from, whistles, wind; Yapping, yipping, giving tongue. .

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Title: PROFESSIONAL GUNDOG TRAINING: THE TRADE SECRETS. By Joe Irving.
Publisher: Swan Hill Press. Wykey, Shrewsbury. 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 190405790X
ISBN 13: 9781904057901
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new

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This book, the long-awaited new gundog training book from best selling author Joe Irving, reveals the techniques used by the professional trainers and enables the individual gundog owner to utilise them for their own training programme. Set out in an easily-accessible A-Z format, the author covers all aspects of gundog training as well as giving advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. This book gives invaluable information which will be of assistance to every gundog owner.

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Joe Irving has been training gundogs since acquiring his first Springer Spaniel in 1963. A former child psychiatrist, he discovered that his psychiatric training gave a unique perspective to gundog training. He has used this method to great success since becoming a professional trainer in 1972. He has written several books on gundog training including Training Spaniels (Swan Hill Press) and Gundogs; Their Learning Chain (Swan Hill Press)

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.

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