Professional Gundog Training: The Trade Secrets - Hardcover
Contains invaluable information that will be of assistance to every gundog owner
Professional Gundog Training: The Trade Secrets is the long-awaited new gundog training book from the best-selling author Joe Irving [Training Spaniels (978-1853104190), Gundogs: Their Learning Chain (978-1840370331)]. Joe reveals the techniques used by the professional trainers and enables the individual gundog owner to utilise them for their own training programme.
Set out in an easily accessible A-Z format, he covers all aspects of gundog training as well as giving advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs.
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This book, the long-awaited new gundog training book from best selling author Joe Irving, reveals the techniques used by the professional trainers and enables the individual gundog owner to utilise them for their own training programme. Set out in an easily-accessible A-Z format, the author covers all aspects of gundog training as well as giving advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. This book gives invaluable information which will be of assistance to every gundog owner.
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Written in a straightforward A-Z format this is a very handy reference book. --Shooting Gazette
Professional Gundog Training looks set to become a classic in its own right. --Shooting Times
Professional Gundog Training looks set to become a classic in its own right. --Shooting Times
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- PublisherSwan Hill Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 190405790X
- ISBN 13 9781904057901
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages172
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PROFESSIONAL GUNDOG TRAINING: THE TRADE SECRETS. By Joe Irving.
Published by
Swan Hill Press. Wykey, Shrewsbury. 2008.
(2008)
ISBN 10: 190405790X
ISBN 13: 9781904057901
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2006). (2006) 2008 reprint. 4to (196 x 252mm). Ppxviii,172. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use to edges else very good in slightly tanned dust-wrapper. "Covers all aspects of training [with] advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. [A] wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs .of benefit both to the new trainer and to those who are more experienced". Chapters include: The MacSiccar Training Plan; Absconding, learning by association, amateur trainers; Behavioural boundaries, boundaries vs hunting; Car sickness, case hardening, creative imagination, crowd shyness; Dangerous venues; Ears, eye colour - hard; Field trials, first season's experience; Game, game sense, genetic insight, gun shy; Habits, hand training; Inheritance, indiscriminate breeding; Judges and judging; Kennels; Line breeding, lineage, lining ground scent; Mistakes; Neurotic aversion to scent; Out-cross breeding; Prankish gun, predators, preparation for a field trial, professional trainers, professionalism; Quartering; Rabbit pen construction, retrieves; Scent, sheep dogging, dropping to shot, substitute judges; Taking signalled directions at distance, trust your dog; Unmarked retrieves, unseen multiple dummies; Videos, voice; Water - introduction to, retrieving from, whistles, wind; Yapping, yipping, giving tongue. . Seller Inventory # 54008
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PROFESSIONAL GUNDOG TRAINING: THE TRADE SECRETS. By Joe Irving.
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Swan Hill Press. Wykey, Shrewsbury. 2006.
(2006)
ISBN 10: 190405790X
ISBN 13: 9781904057901
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 4to (196 x 252mm). Ppxviii,172. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Top edge slightly spotted else a very good first edition in a slightly tanned dust-wrapper. This book "covers all aspects of training [with] advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. [A] wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs .of benefit both to the new trainer and to those who are more experienced." Chapters include: The MacSiccar Training Plan; Absconding, learning by association, amateur trainers; Behavioural boundaries, boundaries vs hunting; Car sickness, case hardening, creative imagination, crowd shyness; Dangerous venues; Ears, eye colour - hard; Field trials, first season's experience; Game, game sense, genetic insight, gun shy; Habits, hand training; Inheritance, indiscriminate breeding; Judges and judging; Kennels; Line breeding, lineage, lining ground scent; Mistakes; Neurotic aversion to scent; Out-cross breeding; Prankish gun, predators, preparation for a field trial, professional trainers, professionalism; Quartering; Rabbit pen construction, retrieves; Scent, sheep dogging, dropping to shot, substitute judges; Taking signalled directions at distance, trust your dog; Unmarked retrieves, unseen multiple dummies; Videos, voice; Water - introduction to, retrieving from, whistles, wind; Yapping, yipping, giving tongue. . Seller Inventory # 54006
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PROFESSIONAL GUNDOG TRAINING: THE TRADE SECRETS. By Joe Irving.
Published by
Swan Hill Press. Wykey, Shrewsbury. 2008.
(2008)
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2006). (2006) 2011 reprint. 4to (196 x 252mm). Ppxviii,172. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "Covers all aspects of training [with] advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. [A] wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs .of benefit both to the new trainer and to those who are more experienced". Chapters include: The MacSiccar Training Plan; Absconding, learning by association, amateur trainers; Behavioural boundaries, boundaries vs hunting; Car sickness, case hardening, creative imagination, crowd shyness; Dangerous venues; Ears, eye colour - hard; Field trials, first season's experience; Game, game sense, genetic insight, gun shy; Habits, hand training; Inheritance, indiscriminate breeding; Judges and judging; Kennels; Line breeding, lineage, lining ground scent; Mistakes; Neurotic aversion to scent; Out-cross breeding; Prankish gun, predators, preparation for a field trial, professional trainers, professionalism; Quartering; Rabbit pen construction, retrieves; Scent, sheep dogging, dropping to shot, substitute judges; Taking signalled directions at distance, trust your dog; Unmarked retrieves, unseen multiple dummies; Videos, voice; Water - introduction to, retrieving from, whistles, wind; Yapping, yipping, giving tongue. . Seller Inventory # 23030
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