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On Your Shoot - Liam Bell

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9781846892110
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On Your Shoot - Liam Bell

Liam Bell has experienced all the challenges of setting up and running a shoot, from creating the perfect environment, rearing game birds and controlling predators to managing a successful shoot day. Written in a friendly, informative style, On Your Shoot walks you through the tasks required to maintain a shoot of your own, providing practical tips, cost saving ideas and a guide to common pitfalls. A useful addition to every shooting man's library and an invaluable reference tool for gamekeepers, gamekeeping students, members of shooting syndicates and anyone with an interest in running and managing a shoot.

Chapters include:

Stock selection | Catching up | Predator control | Loading
Woodland management | Planning new drives | Game crops
Egg production | Incubation | Releasing ex-layers | Small-scale-rearing | Release pens
Partridges | Theft and poaching | Holding game | Getting ready | Running a shoot day
Winter losses | Duck | Wetland creation | Work parties | Tax and casual work

THE AUTHOR

Liam Bell is the head gamekeeper at Millichope Park in Shropshire, a traditional family owned and run estate with a renowned high bird shoot. He is a regional chairman of the National Gamekeepers’

Reviews: 

'Liam Bell's name will be familiar to Shooting Times readers as our gamekeeping contributor. In this well-designed book featuring friendly and down-to-earth advice on creating and running your own partridge and pheasant shoot. Topics covered include habitat management, gamecrops, stock selection, rearing game and managing a shoot day.' 

'On Your Shoot by Liam Bell collates a wide range of relevant and interesting topics for all game managers, from those helping on a small shoot to those running a large number of shoot days each year, within a private or commercial situation. This is a well written handbook with a great degree of common sense which will be welcomed by all those involved in game management.' 

'If you buy a book with the sub-title: A practical guide to running your own shoot, that is what you expect. And Liam Bell's book does exactly what it says on the cover. From selecting pheasant poults to predator control, growing game crops to dealing with poachers, this book will find a place on the shelves of those who volunteer, or discover it has become their responsibility to make things on a shoot actually work.' 

'The book will be a bible for shooting enthusiasts whether they are running their own shoot or having a day's shooting.' 

'Shooting Times contributor and Millichope Park headkeeper, Liam Bell, covers everything from bird breeding to habitat management.' 

'His hardback book is called On Your Shoot and is full of knowledge, advice and tips from Liam’s long experience. It is billed as an invaluable reference tool for gamekeepers, gamekeeping students, members of shooting syndicates, and others interested in running shoots.' 

'A Comprehensive and practical guide to creating and maintaining a shoot.' 

'An invaluable reference tool for gamekeepers, gamekeeping students, members of shooting syndicates and anyone with an interest in shooting, this guide runs through the tasks required to maintain a shoot of your own, providing practical tips, cost-saving ideas and a guide to common pitfalls. From stock selection, habitat management and predator control, to game crop establishment, holding game and running a shoot day, advice is offered in an informal and easy-to-read style.'