Graham Downing - Books
The Sporting Shooter's Handbook

A complete guide to sporting shooting, written for the novice or those looking to improve their understanding of the sport. The Sporting Shooter's Handbook assumes no previous knowledge of shooting and tackles the entire range of sporting shooting activities, covering the history of shooting, shotguns and cartridges, gun safety, shooting and the law, game shooting, rough shooting, wildfowling, pigeon shooting, gundogs, the support team and the relationship between shooting and the countryside. This handbook will guide anyone interested in this increasingly popular sport, providing lifelong interest and enjoyment.

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The Sporting Shooter's Handbook
Stalking Muntjac

Introduced to Britain from its native China in the nineteenth century, Reeves’s muntjac has spent the past hundred years colonising southern and eastern England. Its phenomenal success has sometimes brought it into sharp conflict with those who make their living in the countryside, with conservationists and road users alike. As a result, and with no natural predators to control their numbers, muntjac must be managed.

To the deer stalker this presents a new sporting opportunity, for though they may be the smallest of our deer species, muntjac are nonetheless a challenging and absorbing quarry to hunt. In this book, Graham Downing has outlined their origin and spread, and explained in detail their natural history before sharing his experiences of muntjac stalking. He covers the pursuit of muntjac on foot, the use of high seats and calls, and even the rare opportunity to stalk barking muntjac by sound alone. For the stalker who is interested in trophies there is advice on the preparation and measuring of heads, while nobody who enjoys locally sourced food, fresh from the countryside, can fail to be enthused by his notes on muntjac cookery.

This is a book about stalking muntjac, but it is also a book designed to improve understanding of this fascinating species and to encourage its responsible and humane management.

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Stalking Muntjac
The Deer Stalking Handbook

A guide to setting out in Britain’s fastest growing shooting sport. The book deals with the choice of stalking rifles, optics and accessories, safety and the law related to deer and deer stalking. There is a detailed guide to Britain’s deer species and sections on both woodland and hill stalking. Finally, the book covers gralloching, butchering and venison preparation.

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The Deer Stalking Handbook