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mast and sail, etc., from £30 to £50; B.L. gun, suitable 
size for double punt, complete with recoil apparatus, etc., 
by good maker, from 480 to £100; wooden punt-house (do 
not build, for this purpose, of corrugated iron), from £20 
to £30; extras, 415; punt-carriage, £5. A punt-wagon is 
not included in this estimate. These figures might be exceeded 
if a very large or a double gun was bought, and a punt built 
to certain ‘‘fads”’ regardless of any stipulated price. A new 
good-class single-handed outfit should run 4o to 50 per cent 
less than that given for double-handed. 
We now suggest for the man of moderate means. A good 
second-hand outfit can often be picked up for very much less 
than first cost. If a whole outfit cannot be bought, a gun 
from one quarter, and other gear from another, and so on, 
can generally be purchased, if properly advertised for. 
Following are about the figures one can often buy at:—A 
£60 gun (carefully used ten years) for £25; a punt costing 
£40 (used, say, six years) for £15; a punt-house, £10 (with 
carriage paid) ; a second-hand punt-carriage, £3 10s. ; extras, 
£10. This totals below £65—a considerable difference to first 
cost, which, probably, would be nearly twice as much. 
_ We have up to the present been speaking of first-class 
gear. Now we turn to outfits of punts of amateur manufacture 
and old muzzle-loading guns. These outfits, nowadays, run 
from £10 to £20, complete with all gear, ammunition box, 
tools, etc. Ifa punt is only used in the locality in which one 
resides, a punt-house can be dispensed with, as long as the 
gun and ammunition can be stored under cover. This is the 
cheapest form of punt-shooting, except that carried on by 
professional wildfowl shooters. Some of these chaps have 
good old weapons; others have dangerous ones. They are 
single-handed, except in a very few cases, where two of them 
join in a larger punt and share the spoil. Prices of their 
complete rig (single) vary. The usual figures lie between 
