ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). 1983 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 216mm). Pp183. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown boards, spine & upper board titled in black. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. "Solid, practical advice on the care and training of all pointing breeds. This book gives your puppy the right start with sound basics in the first formative weeks of training and then moves on to more advanced lessons, including quartering, staunchness and steadiness to wing and shot". Chapters include: Selecting your dog - choice of breed, picking a puppy, considering a trained dog, feeding, humanising; Choice of housing - your home or a kennel, house training, making or buying a dog run, building a doghouse; Equipment - training-kit list, the check line, the quail call-back pen, electronic training devices; Starting right - the psychological approach, list of commands, first points, the leash and walking to heel, the recall, introduction to the gun, introduction to water; Initial training - observations on steadiness, when to start, the 'whoa' command and stoping to whistle, quartering, retrieving dummies, steadiness to shot; Faults - fear of the gun, hard mouth, retrieve problems and forced training, blinking, flagging on point; Use of birds in training - quail and chukar partridge, pigeons, pheasants, bird planting and release cages; Advanced training - pointing and staunchness, steadiness to wing, retrieving birds, backing another dog, the 'sit' and the 'down', retrieving from water; Hunting your dog - first trips afield, working dogs at a shooting preserve. .

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Title: GUN-DOG TRAINING: POINTING DOGS. By Kenneth C. Roebuck.
Publisher: Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 1983
Publication Date: 1983
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811707148
ISBN 13: 9780811707145
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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A how-to book with no-nonsense language and step-by-step instructions. 100 sequential photos of training techniques.

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Professional trainer Kenneth Roebuck devotes an entire book exclusively to the pointing dogs because he can share form a lifetime of experience enough solid, practical advice on working those breeds for point to fill a full volume.

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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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