. Complete wildfowler . WORKING TO FOWL : DOUBLE PUNT. SIDE PADDLING TO FOWL : SINGLE PUNT HINTS ON PUNTING TO FOWL 251 and a sport, as far as shooting is concerned, implying no par-ticular skill. The art of calculating distance with the eye cannot be taughthere. There is no fixed rule except that of sighting the punt-gun at a mark, a known distance away on the water, and so calcu-lating from this as you approach fowl. Practice alone can teacha man to judge distance. With regard to a suitable range for apunt-gun, much depends upon circumstances. Seventy yards isa good range. Sixty is better if
. Complete wildfowler . WORKING TO FOWL : DOUBLE PUNT. SIDE PADDLING TO FOWL : SINGLE PUNT HINTS ON PUNTING TO FOWL 251 and a sport, as far as shooting is concerned, implying no par-ticular skill. The art of calculating distance with the eye cannot be taughthere. There is no fixed rule except that of sighting the punt-gun at a mark, a known distance away on the water, and so calcu-lating from this as you approach fowl. Practice alone can teacha man to judge distance. With regard to a suitable range for apunt-gun, much depends upon circumstances. Seventy yards isa good range. Sixty is better if fowl are thick and your shotis not too heavy. Shots may be taken up to a range ofa hundred yards ; but further distances than this are better notattempted. Long shots frighten and scare fowl, and neverkill many. Remember, it is unsportsmanlike to fire long shots,and, moreover, is known to account for the wounding of manybirds which are never retrieved. We may know that a punt-gun firing heavy shot will kill an odd fowl from two to fourhundred yards
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