76 BROADLAND SPORT 



When the sea is smooth enough a punt, with or without 

 a sail, may be used, and gunners often bring home fifty to a 

 hundred fowl shooting in this style. 



Sometimes enthusiastic shooters hire a tug and go out in 

 her, but it is not a course to be recommended, and the sport 

 must be indifferent unless the shooters are murderous enough 

 to choose seagulls as their quarry. 



The shooting on the beach is at all times poor and in- 

 different, although a collector often picks up good specimens 

 of a valuable nature. Not so long ago an Asiatic plover was 

 killed near the Yarmouth jetty, which was sold to the 

 Norwich Museum for 10 or 12. 



Sailing from Lowestoft in the direction of South wold is a 

 better hunting-ground for sea-shooting than Great Yarmouth. 

 If anyone is desirous of trying their luck they could not do 

 better than hire a sea-going cutter during September or 

 October, so they can lie at anchor all night off Cove Hythe 

 in order to catch the mallard, widgeon and pochard, which 

 use Easton and Benacre Broads as well as the sandbanks in 

 the Roads. Later on in the season Brent geese are migrating 

 as well as many kinds of long-winged fowl, and sport is 

 almost a certainty. During October the duck in this locality 

 can be numbered in their thousands. The trip can also be 

 extended up the Ryburgh and Aldeborough rivers ; the 

 Blackwater and other good punting grounds can also be 

 visited. The cost of yachts at this season of the year is about 

 half what it is in the summer, and with food would not cost 

 each member of the party above 5 per head per week, whilst 

 the fowl shot, if sold, go some way towards paying expenses. 



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