The Upland Shooting Life - George Bird Evans
Category: Sport & Recreation
Tags: Sport & Recreation
George Bird Evans is a man to whom upland shooting has been a way of life for fifty years, and his book is both a creed for shooters and a fascinating sharing of the experiences of a true specialist. It is not a book for meat hunters (al-though possession of the game means as much to the author as to the next man), rather it is a book, half how-to, half anecdotal and philosophical, that reveals in rich and intimate detail the unity that makes upland shooting that triad of bird-dog-gun in which no part is complete without the others. George Evans has gunned bobwhites, shoots that gaudy foreigner, the ringneck pheasant, tries his skill with the turkey gobbler, but mostly he and his Old Hemlock setters (he breeds a now distinguished line) haunt the old hill-farm fields grown to briars, the hemlock and rhododendron thickets, and the alder swamps in his Allegheny country for grouse and woodcock. The coverts described in this book are the real coverts gunned in; the comments as to the effect
