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    The Sporting Gun's Bedside Companion

    By Douglas Butler

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    Thirty shooting stories in pursuit of pheasant, mallard, geese, hares, mink, even an old wild goat, these modern tales involve bi-lingual dogs, an ignominious goose, red-letter days and disappointments, days on boglands, grouse moors, smart shoots and estuaries.

    Punt gunning, rough shooting and wildfowling, dawns and dusks and assorted brushes with ecstasy and near-death. Douglas Butler has an ear for a good shooting story and, as an inveterate shooter himself, knows just what curious, unexpected, dramatic things can sometimes happen when out in the fields, woods and marshes with fellow guns and dogs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerlin Unwin Books
    Release dateApr 30, 2017
    ISBN9781910723616
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    The Sporting Gun's Bedside Companion
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    Douglas Butler

    Douglas Butler was a Doctor of Zoology and taught science at Tipperary's Rockwell College. He was a keen sporting sh Douglas Butler was a Doctor of Zoology and taught science at Tipperary's Rockwell College. He was a keen sporting shooter all his life and was a regular contributor to Sporting Shooter. He lived in Country Tipperary with his wife Margaret, and their family, until his death in 2015. ooter all his life and was a regular contributor to Sporting Shooter. He lived in Country Tipperary with his wife Margaret, and their family, until his death in 2015.

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