The Dead Shot or Sportsman's Complete Guide; A Treatise on the Use of the Gun. a Treatise on the Use of the Gun - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... WILD-FOWL SHOOTING. There is no branch of the art of shooting that requires more skill, practice, and knowledge of the habits of birds than that of wild-fowl shooting; not so much on account of any special art in shooting them when fairly within range, if provided with a suitable gun; but because of the natural and habitual cunning and wariness of the birds, and the difficulty of getting at them, though in sight, on the wide open expanse of water, or savanna, their chief resorts. Favourable and advantageous places for pursuing the sport of wild-fowl shooting are tidal rivers flowing into the sea, but running many miles inland, and abounding on each side with broad oozes and savannas, intersected by numerous creeks, rills, fleets, and pools; and surrounded by marshes, fens, and low-lying lands, with sedge, rush, and reed beds. In localities such as these wild-fowl shooting, in almost all its branches, may be enjoyed to the heart's content of every true sportsman: provided they be not too much infested with rabble-gunners, and indiscriminate sportsmen. The experiences of the recent severe winter of 1880--1881, show that as many wild fowl visit our shores now as ever: but the very large flights do not stay with us as they used to do; and they are sometimes (not always) more wary than in years gone by. The reason for this is, the greater persecution and disturbance to which they are subjected: the greater number of amateur gunners and shooters, both on land and water; the latter in boats of every shape and form, firing indiscriminately at everything with wings, regardless of its uselessness; and whether sea-gull, kittiwake, puffin, cormorant, sprat-loon, or other uneatable and useless bird; but upon which neither sportsman nor professional punter would ever ...
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