A step-by-step guide to modern shooting etiquette stuffed full of amusing quotes and anecdotes, which will instruct the Gun on how to be the perfect guest out shooting - and hence, how to be asked again. With interviews from beaters, keepers, flankers, pickers up, shoot organisers, shoot owners, and grouse moor owning earls and dukes.
Jim Corbett's books on animal hunting: "Man-Eaters of Kumaon", "The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag" and "The Temple Tiger and More Man Easters of Kumaon", are collected here in a single volume.
This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments.
This is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century.
Presented in a handy pocket format, Modern Small Arms offers an overview of small arms development over the past century. Arranged by type, each small arm is illustrated by a colour artwork with a summary of its development and service history and a detailed specifications table giving the technical details of the weapon.