Table of Contents

Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: The pigeon family
Chapter 2: Background information
Chapter 3: Your gun and cartridges
Chapter 4: What kit do you need?
Chapter 5: Pigeon feeding habits through the year
Chapter 6: Pigeon shooting opportunities
Chapter 7: How to shoot pigeons
Chapter 8: A day out pigeon decoying together
Chapter 9: Flight line shooting
Chapter 10: An evening roost shooting together
Chapter 11: Favourite pigeon recipes
Chapter 12: Stories of memorable days

Appendix 1: Pigeon shooting and general licences
Appendix 2: Woodpigeon shooting — how does science help us to do it better?

Associations
Further reading
Will Garfit pigeon shooting prints
Index

About the Author

Will Garfit was born in 1944 in Cambridgeshire, UK, where he still lives. He developed an award-winning (Laurent Perrier, 1988, now the Purdey Award) site of old gravel workings for wildlife and game, which became the subject of the book Will's Shoot in 1993, later Will's Shoot Revisited in 2005. He is well known to readers of the Shooting Gazette for whom he has written a monthly column on pigeon shooting since 1994. As a sporting artist he has been an exhibitor at the Tryon Gallery since 1981 and an illustrator of over 30 shooting and country sports books. He has appeared in the Top Ten Shots in various magazines and has sat on the Countryside Alliance Conservation and BASC Game Shooting committees.

Reviews

In his charming and informative book, Will Garfit charts his lifetime pursuit of pigeon... His gentle, informative text offers examples and gives hints and tips for the novice or the experienced shot seeking extra pointers. It is an invaluable and well-written guide.

Everything you need to know about pigeon shooting - and more besides. One of the best-known and respected names in the sporting world, Will is well placed to write a book such as this... Nicely illustrated too by good photographs and his own sepia paintings.

A lifetime's experience, stuffed with stories of pigeon shooting, makes it a compelling read, and even the instructional pages are laced with anecdote... You certainly don't need to be a pigeon shooter to enjoy it, but by the time you reach the final page you will certainly want to be one.
*Shooting & Conservation Magazine*