Breaking a Bird Dog - A Treatise on Training

This vintage book contains a complete guide to training a dog for hunting birds, with chapters on selection and breeding, breaking, psychology, equipment, and much more. Interspersed with personal anecdotes, this highly-readable handbook will appeal to modern hunters, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "e;First Days in the Field"e;, "e;Getting on Game"e;, "e;Gun-Shyness and Retrieving"e;, "e;Hunting Quail and Pheasants"e;, "e;A Successful Pheasant Hunt"e;, "e;Wonderful Work"e;, "e;Steadying to Shot and Wing"e;, "e;A Little Canine Psychology"e;, "e;Further Facts and Anecdotes"e;, "e;Finishing Touches"e;, "e;Things to be Aware Of"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on gun dogs.