The Imperfect Shot: Shooting Excuses, Gaffes and Blunders
Language: English
Published by Quiller Press Limited, 2015
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The Imperfect Shot illustrates in words and cartoons, light-hearted errors and ill-judgement of those who have experienced minor faux pas and misdemeanours on the shooting field - and also glorifies those who have got the better of a particular situation. Illustrator(s): Preston, Oliver. Num Pages: 160 pages, Colour illustrations. BIC Classification: WH; WSXT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 281 x 19. Weight in Grams: 712. . 2015. First. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Imperfect Shot: Shooting Excuses, Gaffes and Blunders
- Author
- J. C. Jeremy Hobson
- Publisher
- Quiller Press Limited
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1846892082
- ISBN 13
- 9781846892080
- Illustrator
- Preston, Oliver
The perfect gift for the imperfect Shot!
A very humourous collection of experiences, faux pas and misdemeanours in the shooting field with anecdotes and tales of many light-hearted incidents from throughout the world.
It gives some novel excuses for pickers-up who have failed to find their quarry. In similar vein, during the author's years as a gamekeeper, it was often necessary to think on the hoof and deliver a plausible reason as to why a particular drive didn't go exactly as it should...!
Sometimes the explanations were so outrageous as to be laughable, which often diffused a potentially difficult situation and on occasion caused a comment, such as: "I've never heard that one before... how did you think that one up?" To which the author inevitably replied: "The Gamekeeper's Book of Excuses... page 58!"
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* A wonderful collection of shooting excuses, gaffes and blunders from the sublime to the ridiculous
* Tongue-in-cheek advice is offered to those who have committed the minor faux pas and misdemeanours on the shooting field
* Hilariously and beautifully illustrated by Oliver Preston
* The perfect shooting present
About the author
Jeremy Hobson was, for well over 30 years, employed as a gamekeeper and, for much of the last decade, as shoot captain on a prestigious West Sussex estate as a result of which, he has seen much of what might possibly occur during a shooting day! An author and writer throughout that time, Jeremy s country-based articles have appeared in most of the relevant sporting magazines and he has had published well over 30 books three of which: The Shoot Lunch (978-1846890925); Success with Chickens (978-1846890932) and Sporting Lodges (978-1-846891687), have been for Quiller."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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