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CHAPTER IV 

 SHOOTING AT OULTON BROAD 



In Years gone by The Delusions represented by London Illustrated 

 Papers Shooting to be obtained at the Present Day Punting 

 Sport on Lake Lothian The Snipe Marshes of " Whitecaste " 

 Five Hundred to a Thousand Snipe on Wing at Once A Curious 

 Bet A Visitor's Chance of Sport Redshank Shooting prior to The 

 Wild Birds Protection Act (1880) Eedshanks as Food Habits of 

 Redshanks How and where They nest Their Artfulness in 

 luring One away from their Young Shooting over Decoys A 

 Professional Sportsman .... pages 35-40 



CHAPTER V 

 DECOYS AND HOW TO USE THEM 



Decoys generally "Wakes," how made and used Using Decoys in 

 " Wakes," and how to set Them out The Use of Decoys to Punts- 

 men Tubbing with Decoys Decoying from a Float or Raft 

 Decoying from an Ambush or from Screens Decoying on Land and 

 on Stubbles The Best Gun to use, and Loads Different Kinds of 

 Decoys Stuffed Birds Position of the Birds Ingenious Devices 

 for making Decoys with Dead Birds Floats for Decoys used on 

 Water Swedish Model Different Kinds and Shapes of Floats- 

 How to make Them Canvas Decoys Wooden Decoys and how 

 to paint Them American Decoys worked on a Pivot India- 

 rubber Decoys Collapsible and Metal Decoys A Flapping Decoy 

 Live Decoys An Amusing Incident of Decoying in Spain 

 Trained Decoys in Holland The Huttier System How to place 

 Decoys How to anchor Decoys and the Different Methods of 

 Anchoring Automatic Moveable Decoys An American Patent 

 Decoy Dogs as Decoys The Most Attractively-coloured Dog and 

 how to train It Decoying Lapwings Decoying Ducks on Water 

 with a Dog An Eccentric Dog Decoying Wildfowl with Calls 

 The Language of Wildfowl Calling Lapwing Best Boats for 

 Decoying Purposes Guns Pull of Triggers Weight of Guns The 

 Shots to take and the Shots to refuse Cleaning Guns The 

 Actions of Wildfowl as affected by Decoys When to Shoot How 

 to handle Cripples The Certainty of the Lure . pages 41-64 



