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The Complete English Wing Shot

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By George Teasdale Teasdale-Buckell
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A practical manual for wing shooting that blends technical guidance on guns, triggers, and ammunition with fieldcraft, dog work, and game‑preservation debate. It questions traditional lore and corrects misconceptions about bird behaviour, scenting, and rearing diseases, while explaining gun mechanisms, single‑trigger developments, and the choice between ejectors and actions. Drawing on trial experience and field anecdotes, chapters cover shooting technique, equipment selection, kennel management, and natural‑history observations to inform sportsmen about contested topics and everyday practice without repeating elementary instruction.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

H.M. the King as a Boy Frontispiece
 
  From a photograph lent by Eric Parker, Esq.    
 
Col. Thornton’s Pluto (Black) and Juno, by Gilpin, showing Whole-Coloured Pointers similar in formation to those of Sutton Scarsdale to-day Facing page vi
 
  From Daniel’s Rural Sports, 1802.    
 
Warter Priory. Lord Savile shooting 〃 32
 
  From a photograph by Mr. H. Lazenby, York.    
 
With Plenty of Freedom for Good Lateral Swing 〃 63
 
Taking a Step Back with the Left Foot as the Shot is Fired saves the Balance when the Game has passed far Overhead before being shot at 〃 66
 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and Lord Farquhar riding to the Butts on the Bolton Abbey Moors, 1906 〃 69
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales waiting for Grouse, showing the much more Forward Position of the Left Hand than when Shooting 〃 70
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales shooting Grouse at Bolton Abbey, showing the very Forward Position of the Left Hand 〃 72
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
Mr. R. H. Rimington Wilson shooting Grouse, showing the Back Position of the Left Hand 〃 74
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
Warter Priory. Lord Dalhousie 〃 80
 
  From a photograph by Mr. H. Lazenby, York.    
 
At Warter Priory. Lord Lovat in the Dales 〃 84
 
  From a photograph by Mr. H. Lazenby, York.    
 
Mr. B. J. Warwick’s Compton Pride, a Pointer which twice won the Field Trial Champion Stake 〃 101
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
The Celebrated Field Trial Winning Setter, Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale’s Ightfield Duffer 〃 101
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale’s Ightfield Rob Roy pointing, and backed by Pitchford Ranger 〃 106
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. A. Brown & Co., Lanark.    
 
The Famous Field Trial Winner Shamrock belonging to Mr. Arkwright 〃 126
 
  From a photograph by the Owner.    
 
Solomon’s Seal and Sealing Wax trying to get up Higher and feel the Scent 〃 126
 
  From a photograph by the Owner, Mr. Arkwright.    
 
Three of Mr. Arkwright’s Whole-Coloured Pointers: Leader, Despatch, and Largo 〃 127
 
  From photographs by the Owner.    
 
The Spanish Pointer 〃 128
 
  From a painting by G. Stubbs, engraved in Daniel’s Rural Sports, 1802.    
 
Juno, a Fawn-Coloured Pointer, bred by King George IV. It is suggestive of the Greyhound, and like many modern Whole-Coloured Pointers 〃 129
 
  From an engraving by Richard Parr, after a picture by G. H. Laport, in The Sporting Magazine, 1834.    
 
An Early Nineteenth-Century Picture of the Woodcote Pointers, the Property of Col. C. J. Cotes. His Field Trial Winners Pitchford Druce and Pitchford Duke are descended from his Father’s Woodcote Pointers 〃 132
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Champion Field Trial Pitchford Ranger on Lord Home’s Lanark Moors 〃 133
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Champion Field Trial Pitchford Ranger on the Ruabon Hill 〃 133
 
  From a photograph by Mr. Allan Brown, Ruabon Hill.    
 
Field Trial Winner Pitchford Beauty on the Ruabon Hill 〃 134
 
  From a photograph by Mr. Allan Brown, Ruabon Hill.    
 
Field Trial Winner Pitchford Bang 〃 134
 
  From a photograph by Miss Gladstone.    
 
Captain Stirling’s Brag of Keir (Field Trial Winner) 〃 134
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Field Winner Pitchford Duke on the Ruabon Hills 〃 135
 
  From a photograph by Mr. Allan Brown, Ruabon Hill.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Field Winner Pitchford Duke on Lord Home’s Moors in Lanark 〃 135
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
The First of September, by F. C. Turner 〃 139
 
  Showing the character of the black-and-tan setter before the bloodhound cross.    
 
The English Setter, by Reinagle 〃 144
 
  From Scott’s Sportsman’s Repository, 1820.    
 
  With the exception of an ill-drawn hind leg and near fore foot this is the correct formation. The model had the shoulders, head, back, and back ribs, rarely seen now except in hard-working dogs.    
 
Mr. Herbert Mitchell’s Lingfield Beryl, Winner of Firsts six times in seven Field Trial Outings in the Spring of 1906 〃 145
 
  From photographs by the Owner.    
 
Capt. H. Heywood Lonsdale’s Field Trial: Ightfield Dot and Ightfield Rob Roy, with Scot their Breaker 〃 148
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. A. Brown, Lanark.    
 
Ightfield Rob Roy and Ightfield Mac, belonging to Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale 〃 149
 
  The former was victor on Lord Home’s Moors near Lanark, in July 1906, over all English-bred pointers and setters. The latter was winner of the Puppy Stakes at the same time.    
 
  From a photograph by the Author.    
 
Mr. John Cotes’ Imported Labrador, Tip, from an Old Picture at Woodcote 〃 176
 
  The dog was whelped in 1832, and presented by Mr. Portman to his owner. From this dog is descended the field trial winner, Col. C. J. Cotes’ Pitchford Marshal, and his Monk, an intermediate generation. This dog is more like the dogs at Netherby 45 years ago than is the present race of Labradors.    
 
  From a photograph lent by the Owner of the picture.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Pitchford Marshal, several times a Field Trial Winner 〃 177
 
  From a photograph lent by the Owner.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes’ Monk, an Intermediate Link between the Imported Dog Tip, of 1832, and Marshal, now in full vigour. Monk is said to have been very fast 〃 177
 
  From a picture lent by the Owner.    
 
Mr. A. T. Williams and his celebrated Liver-Coloured Field Trial Retriever Don of Gerwn 〃 180
 
  From a photograph presented by Col. J. C. Cotes.    
 
Mr. A. T. Williams’ Don of Gerwn (Liver-Coloured) 〃 181
 
Mr. Lewis Wigan’s Sweep of Glendaruel (Black) 〃 181
 
The Hon. A. Holland Hibbert’s Kennel of Labrador Retrievers, 1901 〃 191
 
  From a photograph presented by the Owner.    
 
The Hon. A. Holland Hibbert’s Labrador Munden Single 〃 192
 
  From a photograph presented by the Owner.    
 
The Hon. A. Holland Hibbert’s Munden Sovereign 〃 192
 
  From a photograph presented by the Owner.    
 
Col. C. J. Cotes and Pitchford Marshal, with his Breaker Harry Downes 〃 193
 
  From a photograph presented by the Owner.    
 
The Hon. A. Holland Hibbert and Munden Single 〃 193
 
  From a photograph presented by the Owner.    
 
Mr. Eversfield’s Field Trial Winning English Springer Spaniels of a Liver-and-White Breed kept for work alone in the Family of the Bougheys of Aqualate for a Hundred Years. 〃 198
 
Red and White Field Trial Welsh Springer Spaniels belonging to Mr. A. T. Williams 〃 199
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
Field Trial English Springer Spaniels of the Liver-and-White (Aqualate) Breed belonging to Mr. C. C. Eversfield 〃 199
 
  From a photograph by Messrs. Bowden Brothers.    
 
Pheasants at Warter Priory. Lord Londesborough at High Cliff 〃 274
 
  From a photograph by Mr. H. Lazenby, York.    
 
A Highland Deer Head of unusually Heavy Beam—a Thirteen Pointer 〃 354
 
  From a photograph by Mrs. Smithson.    
 
A Fine Wildly Typical Nine Point Highland Head of 38–Inch Span 〃 354
 
  From a photograph by Mrs. Smithson.    
 
A Typical Highland Red Deer Imperial Head, Thirteen Points 〃 355
 
  From a photograph by Mrs. Smithson.    
 
A Typical New Zealand Royal Head 〃 355
 
  By permission of the Editor of County Gentleman.    
 
Typical Stag of Ten Points, shot in Kashmir by Col. Smithson 〃 356
 
  From a photograph by Col. Smithson.    
 
Stag of Thirteen Points, shot in Kashmir by Mrs. Smithson 〃 356
 
  From a photograph by Mrs. Smithson.