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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON WILDFOWL SHOOTING. The estuaries on the coast of the British Islands where punting is chiefly carried on are as follows:--In Scotland, Dornoch Firth, Cromarty Frith, and Beauly Firth are about the best, and in hard winters fowl are killed by punters on the Tay and Firth of Forth, but the latter are never such good places as the former. In Scotland punting is not nearly so systematically undertaken by amateurs as it is in England and Ireland, yet a few gunners of our acquaintance do extremely well with their big guns on both the east and west coasts of Scotland. In England punting is in vogue on all parts of the coast, from Berwick round to Carlisle. In the Humber punting is always going on. On the shores of the Wash punt gunners abound, and, what is more, venture afloat in the narrowest and most unsteady of all the crafts used in the pursuit of fowl, whether at home or abroad. The Lynn punts are, however, very fast, and in safe waters most successful They are from 17 to 18 ft. long, and only 20 to 23 in. broad across the floor; across the deck they are from about 2 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 8 in. The Lynn gunners declare that no other punts can compare with these narrow and dangerous floating planks of theirs. But that is always the way--our own things are always superior to those of others. Anyhow, they kill fowl in them well enough when they get the chance, which is the main point. Yarmouth is the next abode of big gunners, who are there always on the watch for birds at sea as well as for rare specimens on the adjacent Norfolk Broads. Then we have Lowestoft and Harwich, and so on to the Essex coast, and that very home of punters, the Blackwater estuary. There is but little shooting at the mouth of the Thames or on the north c...
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