2008
Based on the author's fifty year's experiences of shooting around the world and of having started three pheasant and partridge shoots from scratch, this book encompasses all the great shoots of the world. Amongst those described are: Las Golondrinas, Pinoa Altos and La Flamenca in Spain; Molland and West Molland, Haddeo, Stoke Edith, Castle Hill, Stratfield Saye, Highclere, Drynachan and Ballywater in the UK; a review of the Irish shoots; bird shoots in Kenya; dove in Columbia and Argentina; pheasant in Denmark; wild quail in the US; duck shooting on Long Island; duck and geese in Argentina. A stunning book to whet the appetite of every Shot worldwide.
288 sider, indb.
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The Author
Alex Brant was the founding editor of Harris Publications and the co-founder, editor and publisher of The Hunting Report. He has been a contributor to The Shooting Gazette and also writes for Fieldsports magazine and Scottish Gazette and International Traveller. He ran the driven shoots at Humewood Castle and Shillelagh and has led more than twenty African safaris. He has bird hunted across the globe, from North America to Spain and Africa. He is a graduate from McGill University and now lives on an estate in the Scottish Highlands.
FRA ANMELDELSERNE
"Brant covers shoots from all over the globe, from the quirky-sounding Crooked Wood to the more exotic Buffalo Springs Ranch and Tswalu Game Reserve, and quarry from goose to grouse and guinea-fowl. Most importantly, he has more nous than to judge a shoot on a single day s experience, since circumstances(especially weather) do not allow for a shoot to go perfectly every day. This is a compilation of diverse shoots. Some would undoubtedly challenge the best shots. Others would appeal to the less stellar among us". The Field
This is a book for dreamers' a tour of the shoots that have achieved a legendary status from Molland to Mexico. So while you may never command the financial resources to shoot at Holkham or in Argentina you can at least read about them. And one of the pleasures of Alex Brandt's book is that it doesn't simply rhapsodise about endless streams of high birds, although there are plenty of them, but Brandt also shows that even the best shoots can sometimes fail to reach the expectation.
Except for one shoot 'so bad he would never return' Brandt's opinions are based on a number of visits so they do give a fair assessment and it is fascinating to compare the great names - and get down to some serious day-dreaming." Shooting and Conservation