CONTENTS. Xvii 



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TO PRESERVE GUNS FROM RUSTING WITH SALT 



WATER . 303 



WILDFOWL SHOOTING 305 



LAUNCHING, AND CANOE SHOOTING.. 311 



Hampshire Launching -punt 311 



Different kinds of newly invented Sledges for traversing 



the Oozes 313 



Expulsion of the Old System of Shooting on the Hamp- 

 shire coast, as described by Mr- Gilpin, and given in 



" Rural Sports" 320 



Poole Canoe, with Lessons in every way for Wigeon Shoot- 

 ing, by night and day, at low water, and half flood, &c. 321 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS for Sea-coast Wildfowl Shoot- 

 ing, when afloat 328 



STANCHION OR PUNT- GUN....... 339 



New plan for firing 2lb. (or 2^lb.} of Shot to the best ad- 

 vantage, and, at the same time, easing the recoil of a 

 Swivel-gun 343 



EXPLANATION OF MY PLAN for easing the Recoil of a 

 Punt-gun ; or, a Ship's Swivel* (as used in Merchant- 

 men ; in Boats ; in the " tops" of Men of War ; #c.) 347 



Best mode of Ignition for a Punt-gun 353 



Night Cartridges and Loading 354 



Candle Cartridges 360 



Firing... , 361 



GUNNING-PUNT, safe and proper for the use of a Stanchion- 

 gun 363 



New plan for a Gunning-punt 366 



Shooting with a Stanchion-gun from a Punt-, its Elevation 

 by day or night 374 



* In writing on this subject, 1 have applied the word " carronade ;" and, if im- 

 properly, it was, no doubt, through my " land-lubber" -like misunderstanding, of 

 naval friends to whom I submitted the invention. For ships' swivels, the mode of 

 easing the recoil, I think, may be adapted as here shown ; but for carronades^ it 

 would, I pretfdrne, requite a somewhat different construction. 



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