The Sporting Gun's Bedside Companion Wyle Cop

The Sporting Gun's Bedside Companion Wyle CopThirty 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

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