INDEX 
Punt- or swivel- guns, double, 177 
— — cost of, 178 
— ignition, 210, 211, 212 
_ — loading, 205-19 
— manufacture of, 176, 177 
— materials made of, 176, 177 
— muzzle plug, 231 
— painting, 229 
— patterns of, 207 
— penetration of, 207 
— powder, Capt. Latour’s, 208 
— — Colonel Hawker’s, 208 
— powders for, 208 
— proof marks, 204 
— recoil gearing for, 181, 184-95 
— table of weights and loads, 207 
Recoil ‘‘ back check,” 191 
Recoil gearing for double punt-gun, 181 
Recoil gearing for punt- or swivel- 
guns, 184-95 
Recoil gearing for swivel-gun aboard 
rowing-boat, 188-192 
Recoil or breeching rope for double 
punt-gun, 182 
— rope for punt-guns, 191 
Recoil spring for punt- or swivel-guns 
(Colonel Hawker), 184, 185, 186 
Red-Breasted Goose, 304 
— Merganser, 321 
Red-Necked Grebe, 351 
— Phalarope, 355 
Redshank, 342 
— Spotted, 344 
Reeve, 338 
Ringed Plover, 328 
Rollers for punt, 163 
Rope blocks for punts, 154, 163 
Ropes for punts, 154 
Rudders for gunning-punts, 285-88 
Ruddy Sheldrake, 305 
Ruff, 338 
359 
Sail, simple, for single punt, 156 
— leg-o’-mutton, 159 
— lug, double punt, 158 
Sanderling, 340 
Sandpiper, Common, 339 
— Curlew, 339 
Scaup Duck, 316 
Sclavonian or Horned Grebe, 352 
Scoter, Velvet, 318 
— Common, 318 
— Surf, 319 
Sea-duck shooting, 103, 104 
Sea-punt, 279 
Seat, punter’s, 150 
— shore-shooter’s, 81 
Setting poles, 165 
Sheld-duck, Common, 304 
Sheldrake, Ruddy, 305 
Shooting ’longshore, 82-6 
— pit, construction of, 80, 81 
— sea-ducks, 103, 104 
— shore-birds, 74-5 
— wild birds on foreshores, 59 
— wildfowl, distance-judging, 76 
—wildfowl with punt and gun, 
251-63 
Shore-hut, equipment of, 165 
— birds, habits of, 98, 99 
— — migration of, 110-16 
— — movements of, 97, 106 
— craft, 73 
Shore shooting, ’longshore, 82-6 
— — Hutting, 73-81 
Shot, chilled, 37 
— for punt-guns, 216 
— London Patent, table of sizes 
(Messrs. Walker, Parker & Co.), 
218 
— sizes, adaptability, 39, 218 
— table of sizes (Newcastle standard), 
38 
Shoveler, 310 
