Items related to Gun Dogs: Their Learning Chain (Shooting)
This guide to training gundogs for all types of shooting explains clearly how to follow a simple sequence of lessons from the moment a puppy is bought. Sound advice on choosing a dog and preparing it for training is followed by expert information on basic education and early rough-shooting days. Further chapters cover advanced retrieving, hunting and points to look out for when breeding gundogs. Joe Irving became a professional gundog trainer and field trial handler in 1972. In 1979 he won the McNeill Professinal Handler's Cup. He has written regularly for "Sporting Gun", "Shooting News" and "Working Gundog" and is the author of "Training Spaniels".
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Joe Irving has been training gundogs since acquiring his first Springer Spaniel in 1963. He has written a number of books on gundog training including Training Spaniels (1-85310-419-1) and Gundogs: Their Learning Chain (1-84037-033-5). He lives in southwest Scotland.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherA & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0713656565
- ISBN 13 9780713656565
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Gun Dogs: Their Learning Chain
Published by
A & C Black Publishers Ltd. London
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0713656565
ISBN 13: 9780713656565
Used
Soft cover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Scraping at top cover corner and very slight tear at top of spine. Top half of pp. 225-6 missing so listed as poor condition. Blank inside rear cover page missing. How to train any breed of gundog for any kind of shooting, with basic lessons which form a 'learning chain'. From buying a puppy to working it in the field. Illustrations. 231 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60. Seller Inventory # 5852
Buy Used
£ 4.20
Convert currency
Stock Image
Gun Dogs: Their Learning Chain (Shooting)
Published by
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0713656565
ISBN 13: 9780713656565
Used
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8. Seller Inventory # G0713656565I3N00
Buy Used
£ 13.20
Convert currency
Stock Image
Gun Dogs: Their Learning Chain (Shooting)
Published by
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0713656565
ISBN 13: 9780713656565
Used
Paperback
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001969341
Buy Used
£ 9.98
Convert currency
Stock Image
Gun Dogs: Their Learning Chain (Shooting)
Published by
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0713656565
ISBN 13: 9780713656565
Used
Paperback
Quantity: 7
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This guide to training gundogs for all types of shooting explains clearly how to follow a simple sequence of lessons from the moment a puppy is bought. Sound advice on choosing a dog and preparing it for training is followed by expert information on basic education and early rough-shooting days. Further chapters cover advanced retrieving, hunting and points to look out for when breeding gundogs. Joe Irving became a professional gundog trainer and field trial handler in 1972. In 1979 he won the McNeill Professinal Handler's Cup. He has written regularly for Sporting Gun, Shooting News and Working Gundog and is the author of Training Spaniels. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001135654
Buy Used
£ 19.96
Convert currency
Stock Image
GUNDOGS: THEIR LEARNING CHAIN. By Joe Irving.
Published by
A & C Black. London. 1991.
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0713656565
ISBN 13: 9780713656565
Used
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description (Paperback, 1991). (1983) 1991 reprint of 1989 1st paperback edition. 8vo paperback (137 x 216mm). Pp231. B/w photographs & illustrations. Slight signs of use to edges, else clean and intact second-hand paperback. "Joe Irving's .greatly respected handbook on gundogs shows how to train a dog for any type of shooting, by following a series of basic lessons which form a special sequence or learning chain. From buying a puppy to working it in the field, the author describes in detail how to adapt each stage of training to suit individual temperatments and all breeds of gundog - spaniel, labrador, golden retriever, flat-coat, curly-coat, pointer, setter, and even the cross-bred." "I'd recommend the book to anyone interested in training a gundog, whatever the breed." - Derry Argue, Shooting Times. Chapters include: The dog for the job - choice of puppy, purchasing a puppy, diet, kennels or not, house training; Development - preparation for training, chastisement, early days; Basic training - the training ground, sitting at a distance, steadiness to the thrown dummy, dropping to whistle and shot; Introduction to the 'hunters' - the rough-shooter's dog, early rough-shooting days; Advanced retrieving; Cold game - leaving a line, introduction to and retrieving from water, steadiness to game, the check cord, the rabbit pen; Pointers and setters; breeding - sires, brood bitches, the bitch in season, mating, gestation, the whelping box, the bitch in whelp, tails, dew claws, hand rearing; Picking up and beating. . Seller Inventory # 57424
Buy Used
£ 20
Convert currency