Full Description
Some time late in the last century, Giles Catchpole and Bryn Parry began to catalogue the varied characters to be found in the shooting field and the results of their researches have been published monthly in The Shooting Gazette.
Now, they have loaded up another game bag's worth of sharply written and wittily observed Shooting Types and unleashed them onto an expectant readership through The Second Barrel.
Here is an extended line of assorted Guns, good and not so good. Some shoot like gods, quite a lot don't. Some own dogs that retrieve what they have shot and some have dogs who chase what they haven't. There is a supporting cast of spouses, partners and significant others — some being supportive and others less so.
And then there are the keepers, beaters, pickers-up, hosts and hostesses without whom the whole undertaking would be utterly impossible and therefore no fun at all.
If you shoot or go shooting you will recognise many of the characters in this book. You may remember them with a sigh of pleasure or a gasp of horror, or something in between.
Who knows, you might even see aspects of yourself here, or if you can't, the person who gave this book to you probably does.
Contents
Hard men
The Boy's Shoot
Gun Errant
Wild Men
The Celebrity Game Chef
Jeremiah
The Grouse Shooter
Small Packages
The Grouse Moor Owner
The Reacher
The Beatkeeper
Less is the New More
The Young Dog
Son of a Gun
The Sporting Divorcee
The Hoover
All Downhill from Here
The Cartridge Cadger
Fruit of the Hedge
Fair Maiden
The Battle Bus
The Historian
The Cripple Stopper
The Partridge Shooter
Teal Appeal
Beaters' Banter
The Gamecart Driver
The Trick Shooters
Paw By Paw In 4 x 4
The Keeper's Wife
The Rural Craftsmen
The Grouse Virgin
All the Gear
The Butcher
The Man Who Knows
The Curse
Driven Shooter
The Bad Loader
The Apopolectic Owner
The Shooting Widow
The Wily Cock
Stocking Filler
What Can You Do?
The Percy Sandwich
The Hangover
Better Safe...
Methuselah
The Mainstay
The Walking Gun
The Threadbare Host
The Hostess with the Mostest
The Landlord
The Forgetful Gun
The Charity Shot
