INDEX 



359 



Punt- or swivel- guns, double, 177 

 cost of, 178 



— igfnition, 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 gearingfordoublepunt-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 



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, 11 0-16 



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 



