About the Book
From the most trusted name in guns and ammunition comes this ultimate reference on shotgunning. the Shooter's Bible Guide to Sporting Shotguns offers everything you need to know about the sport and its gear, from different types of sporting shotguns to helpful accessories.
This Shooter's Bible guide will help new and experienced shooters in making smart equipment purchases that range from shotguns and optics to ammunition and gear. The shooting school section provides instructions for those of us who have had no formal training. For experienced shooters, having current information on hand in one place can be an invaluable resource. And no Shooter's Bible guidebook is complete without a detailed products section showcasing shotguns from all across the market. In the Shooter's Bible Guide to Sporting Shotguns, Alex Brant examines:
Clay guns
Upland guns
Shotguns for waterfowl, deer, and turkey
Cartridges
Accessories and add-ons
Reloading equipment
Clothing and gear
And much more!
With the Shooter's Bible Guide to Sporting Shotguns, you can learn everything you need to know about shotguns!
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About the Author :
Alex Brant is the author of The World's Best Shoots and The Complete Guide to Wing Shooting. He was the founding editor of Harris Publications, the co-founder, editor, and publisher of The Hunting Report, and a former columnist for the UK's Shooting Gazette magazine. He's a current contributor to several magazines, including Sports Afield, Shooting Sportsman, and Gun and Garden, and a past contributor to Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, and the NRA's American Hunter and American Rifleman. When he isn't spending his time between a number of shooting club of which he is a member, or participating in driven shoots across Britain and Spain, six Labs compete for his attention. The author resides in New York State.
Review :
Among contemporaries who write professionally about wingshooting and shotgunning, there are few as widely experienced, as widely traveled and as thoroughly knowledgeable about the sport as Alex Brant. Brant makes that manifest in his new book, Shooter’s Bible Guide to Sporting Shotguns—a well-written, broad-ranging and catholic survey of shotguns, shooting techniques, ammunition and associated accoutrements and where and how to use them in the US and internationally.
Brant, who lives in New York but is better known in Britain, where he has shot and published extensively, was the founding editor of Harris Publications (which published a bevy of shooting periodicals) and the co-founder, editor and publisher of The Hunting Report. He also has authored the books The World’s Best Shoots and The Complete Guide to Wing Shooting.
In 18 chapters comprised of 231 full-color pages, Brant casts a very wide net—covering modern shotgun-shell development and design, the target-shooting sports, shooting techniques, waterfowling, American upland hunting, driven shooting abroad, and guns and gear. There are also chapters on American, British and Italian shotguns, from the most rarified to proven workaday examples affordable to everyone. What distinguishes this survey from other generalist treatments are the author’s insights based on his long experience.
Brant has not only shot birds and clays across the globe, but he also has co-owned and managed formal driven shoots in Scotland and Ireland. Brant, to be clear, is no working-class Joe. Some readers will be nonplussed by references to Purdeys and polo, famous shots he has met and so on. But wingshooters of all stripes, beginners or experienced, will find much to glean in Brant’s well-written prose. And at $20, the book is priced to appeal to everyone. For more information, visit skyhorsepublishing.com.
—VIC VENTERS, Game & Gun Gazette
