Robert Churchill's Game Shooting: A Textbook on the Successful Use of the Modern Shotgun

by MacDonald Hastings

Overview

This edition of the standard textbook on its subject has been revised by Robert Churchill’s biographer. Macdonald Hastings, himself well-known in the shooting field (and other fields as well), has incorporated comments on matters which, since Churchill’s Game Shooting as first published in 1955, required further enlargement or modification. He has also brought the entire work completely up-to-date.
Macdonald Hastings, who collaborated with the author in the writing of the original edition, was Robert Churchill’s own choice to revise the text and this new edition of Churchill’s drill book, as the great gunmaker and coach himself liked to describe it, may be regarded as contemporarily definitive. None who read the first edition will want to miss this second one, in which every point of controversy and prejudice has been underlined with an editorial note to assist the shooting man in improving his own performance.
To those who are still unfamiliar with Churchill’s method of teaching game-shooting, it is important to add that this books is aimed to help not merely the experienced shot who wonders why he is missing, but also the novice handling a gun for the first time. It contains complete and always practical advice on all forms of shot-gun work for everybody.
Those who make good use of this manual will not only be welcome guests in any company but quickly pay the cost of the book out of the saving they make on wasted cartridges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811766708
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Series:	Stackpole Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Robert Churchill, who died in 1958, was the latest, perhaps the last, of the great gunmakers of London. He was as much a legend in his own specialty, in his time and in his way, as that other Churchill whose name he shared.
For nearly fifty years he was the gun expert consulted by the police and gave evidence in almost every important murder trial involving a shooting in this century. He pioneered the identification of bullets in criminal cases and, in the world of sport, introduced the specially designed short-barreled game guns with which he was associated throughout his career.
But Churchill the gunmaker, Churchill the ballistics expert, was only part of the man. He was also the greatest shooting instructor of his day. He was the first to teach the system of shooting moving targets, not by arbitrary calculations of “forward allowance” but by trusting the sureness of the eye and smoothness of the body action to being the gun on to the mark. All who study his method will find that it works.

Macdonald Hastings, Churchill’s friend for twenty years, has revised this new edition of Game Shooting to coincide with the publication of his book on Robert Churchill’s life and cases. He is himself a well-known game shot, and one of the best-known sporting writers of his day.

Table of Contents

Foreword Macdonald Hastings

Preface: Straight Shooting 19

Part 1 Drill

1 The Elements of Gun-Handling 31

2 The First or 'ready' Position 35

3 Feet 38

4 Hands 43

5 Gun-Mounting 47

6 The Position of the Head 54

7 The Theory of Allowance 60

8 Practice in the Field 69

9 Shooting for Women 77

10 Instructions for the Use and Loading of a Pair of Guns 80

Part 2 Field Notes

1 The Rules of Shooting 85

2 Clothes and Accessories 104

3 How to Shoot Grouse 112

4 How to Shoot Partridges 125

5 How to Shoot Pheasants 135

6 How to Shoot Ground Game 147

7 How to Shoot Wildfowl 155

8 Various 163

Part 3 Trap Shooting

How to Shoot Clays 171

Part 4 Gun Know-how

1 Game Guns of Today 183

2 The Components of a Gun 192

3 The Measurements of a Gun 204

4 Cartridges 209

5 The Shooting School 218

6 The Care of a Gun 232

Conclusion 241

Index 249