Live Trap Pigeon And Glass Ball Shooting

By Marksman

This vintage book comprises a detailed but accessible guide to shooting pigeons, with information on setting up and shooting from traps, when and where to shoot, how to prepare and cook pigeons, and much more. Written in simple, plain language and full of useful tips and simple instructions, this volume is ideal for the novice shooter, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on pigeons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Sep 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473357365

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SHOOTING

PIGEON SHOOTING.

PIGEON SHOOTING, as practised within the Hurlingham enclosure and at some other shooting clubs in town and country, is a very attractive recreation, particularly to those who desire to excel in the art of killing birds on wing. Its patrons may therefore be found amongst sportsmen of every class; and its votaries among those who have acquired fame and reputation in the use of the gun. It would not perhaps be wise to examine with too close a scrutiny the charm it possesses, nor to seek with too much diligence to discover in what that charm consists. Suffice it to say that the spirit of emulation is at the root of it all.

In pigeon-shooting-matches as in matches with the rifle, and indeed in all other popular diversions at which gold and silver cups, stakes and other intrinsically valuable prizes are offered for competition, there is always a keen rivalry.

Pigeon-shooting-matches at the present day are attended by sportsmen of the highest repute and by prize-shooters, and champion prize-shooters from various parts of the world, when the prizes are open to public competition.

Such contests afford the fairest opportunities for the display of calm but quick judgment, combined with that ready precision of the eye and hand, without which perfection in the handling and use of the gun can never be attained. They bring out in the clearest light the exquisite skill of a dead shot, and the faults and failings of a bad one.

None but masters of the art of shooting could perform, under the trying ordeal of the public gaze, the extraordinary feats of skill and precision which from time to time have been displayed at many of the public pigeon-shooting matches. Particularly such feats as those in which the shooter kills a hundred or more birds on wing in quick succession without a single miss. Matches of this kind are however, very trying to the nerves. Many shooters who can do well with 25 or even 50 birds, fail at so many as 100.

An imperative rule at all pigeon-shooting matches is that in which the shooter is required to hold his gun with the butt-end below his shoulder until the bird is on the wing; or rather until after he has given the signal pull!

Those intending to enter the arena of public contests, should accustom themselves to the club rule as to this, and the habit of holding the gun properly will be readily acquired. The difficulty will be, if having been accustomed to hold the