Identifier: completewildfowl00dunc (find matches)
Title: Complete wildfowler
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Duncan, Stanley Gull, Cyril Ranger
Subjects: Game and game-birds Shooting
Publisher: New York, Outing pub. co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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DOUBLE PUNT WITH SWIVEL-GUN MOUNTED
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A PROFESSIONAL PUNTER OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT VARIOUS KINDS OF GUNNING-PUNTS 281 far as lines are concerned, is still to be seen produced in newwork—bad points along with the good. And it is at thebad points we are most astonished. Nay, they stick to whathas served one, saying, * If it did for him, it will for me ;and there the matter ends. We cannot make reference to allthe kinds of punts to be found around the British coasts, butwe refer to a few as instances. The qualifications of eachtype of punt cannot be discussed, nor its suitability remarkedupon, beyond stating that they all shoot wildfowl, and theirvariation of type is wider than the natural differences of wild-fowling quarters. The punts of the old punt-shooters of the GreathamMarshes (now reclaimed), on the north side of the Teesmouth, were invariably half-decked, medium length, singleover-side paddling craft. This type still exists on the Tees,though real punting is a thing of the past there now. At theHumber mouth, and o

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