I enjoyed this book and its approach (regarding the gundog's senses and outlook) and found it easy to dip into and out of. Each chapter is fairly well self contained. there's no rocket science here, but definitely food for thought in understanding our gundog companions. I would recommend this book to anyone training or thinking of training a gundog.

Very disapointed with this book.Old book with no colour pictures, that i could get over but what really disapointed me was that it did not live up to the books title. Complete gundog training manual! should be imcomplete! It dealt more with the history of gundogs and very little with training. Out of 159 pages only 12 or so dealt with basic training.Doesnt even tell you how to teach your dog to sit, or come.

Tom's Book is fabulous. Not only is he a great trainer and dog trial veteran and champion, but I personally have hunted with him and his dogs and it's all true. It works. One of the greatest living wildlife artists and sportsman.

Not a bad read, not a great one either. Pretty old fashioned, no mention of any pitbul crosses (and to those people who say you cant get them now...........yeah, right.) Quite a short read with a few strange quotes of heights and weights of certain breeds that are well off the mark. i.e. if anyone owned a Doberman Pinscher that weighed on average 44lbs, they would get locked up for malnutrition of the poor animal. It should be between 66lb and 94lb on average and a bare minimum of 25in at the shoulder just for bitches. Most of the information about the Doberman and their founder was very innacurate, I've had two up to now and like to think I know a bit about the breed. Some of his information on the other breeds was quite wrong too. Mr Sheardown only had to pick up a book to see his facts were wrong, so this put me off a little on how much he in fact knew about Lurchers. Maybe he would counter argue that these are too much like the kennel club guidelines. As for me, I'm happy with my three lurchers but was expecting to learn a few things during the couple of hours it took me to read the book. And I did. One, he doesn't really know too much about his chosen subject. And two, I paid what I consider a lot of money for very little book.