ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2012 ). 2012 1st edition. 4to (195 x 254mm). Pp192. Colour photographs and paintings, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Laminated boards. Fine unread copy in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. "Will Garfit is a renowned pigeon shot and this authoritative book on how to shoot wood pigeons is an explosion of his enthusiasm and passion for the bird and the sport it can produce. For fifty years, Will has been developing his art as a pigeon shooter and this book shares his personal experiences, thoughts and secrets that enable him to shoot consistently good bags. He has an amazing record; when protecting crops over the past ten years, he has averaged over 100 a day on over 600 days. This book explains that this is not just luck but based on the sound principles of good reconnaissance, siting and building of hides, presentation of decoys, and accurate shooting. All are covered in this book, which is written in an engaging style and illustrated by his own watercolours and diagrams. A superb book." Chapters include: The pigeon family; Background information; Your gun and cartridges; What kit do you need?; Pigeon feeding habits through the year; Pigeon shooting opportunities; How to shoot pigeons; A day out pigeon decoying together; Flight line shooting; An evening roost shooting together; Favourite pigeon recipes; Stories of memorable days. Two appendices give, pigeon shooting and general licences, and, woodpigeon shooting, how does science help us do it better? .

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Title: WILL'S PIGEON SHOOTING: SECRETS OF CONSISTENT SUCCESS. By Will Garfit.
Publisher: Quiller Publishing. Wykey, Shropshire. 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 184689123X
ISBN 13: 9781846891236
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Authorative book on how to shoot woodpigeons follows on the success of Will's Shoot (978-0-9482536-4-5), Will's Shoot Revisited (978-1-904057-61-1), and Will's Shooting Ways (978-1-84689- 036-9)

Personal experiences, thoughts, and secrets that enable the author to shoot consistently good bags

How to hunt using the sound principles of good reconnaissance, siting, and building of hides, presentation of decoys, and accurate shooting

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Will Garfit was born in 1944 in Cambridgeshire, UK, where he still lives. He developed an award-winning (Laurent Perrier, 1988, now the Purdey Award) site of old gravel workings for wildlife and game, which became the subject of the book Will's Shoot in 1993, later Will's Shoot Revisited in 2005. He is well known to readers of the Shooting Gazette for whom he has written a monthly column on pigeon shooting since 1994. As a sporting artist he has been an exhibitor at the Tryon Gallery since 1981 and an illustrator of over 30 shooting and country sports books. He has appeared in the Top Ten Shots in various magazines and has sat on the Countryside Alliance Conservation and BASC Game Shooting committees.

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