File:Complete wildfowler (1912) (14752367261).jpg

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
COMING ASHORE
Text Appearing After Image:
DRIFTING BACK TO QUARTERS HINTS ON PUNTING TO FOWL 261 seen the cripples scattering in all directions. Quick up anddispatch the cripples ! This, by the way, is no matter-of-form game, and not so easy as one may be led to believefrom our simple description of it. Crippled ducks in waterare ten times worse to retrieve than a winged partridge ora pheasant in the thickest of cover; and, if the water is theleast bit rough, more than half generally escape. With strong strokes of the pole, the punt shoots up to the dying, the wounded, and the dead, as the gunner busieshimself with the cripple-stopper, shooting what crippledfowl he can. One cripple has taken four shots to bag him,as he scurries off with only his head visible out of water.The shot, being taken at killing range, has proved verydeadly, leaving few cripples, though, despite all skill andevery exertion to gather all the wounded, two or three escape,helped along with the tide. Attention must now be paid to the dead birds, which lie l

Note About Images