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Title: Complete wildfowler
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Duncan, Stanley Gull, Cyril Ranger
Subjects: Game and game-birds Shooting
Publisher: New York, Outing pub. co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Section of hole dug in the mud-flats. colates into the pit a deeper bottom corner should be made tocollect the draining water. This must be kept bailed out, orthe bottom of the hole will become very soft and uncomfort-able. A bundle of straw or coarse grass will make thesituation feel more pleasant, but at all times where waterdrains into a pit the shooter should be prepared to withstanda cold and wet outing. Sunk boxes and tubs are usuallyuncomfortable things to shoot from unless large and roomy,strong and watertight, which means much bailing and labourafter each tide. If the box or tub is to be kept private (apractically impossible measure where shooters are numerous),a strong cover fitted with an iron or brass strap and a lock areindispensable. The cover can by means of a costly rubberjoint be made watertight, but to keep it so means that the
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SHORE-SHOOTING 8i design and workmanship must be sufficiently good to withstandthe action of the atmosphere and water. Usually a watertightcover lasts but for one season, and even then it requires almostdaily attention to see that nothing has been broken or that noone molests it. A good seat is one of the things which add to the comfortof the hutted shore-shooter. It may be arranged from materialfound on the shore, such as an old box or a piece of drifttimber. It is unwise to sit on cold, wet stones, or even themud itself, without some lighter and warmer material laid ontop. The seat should be high enough to place the head ofthe shooter conveniently above the top of the hut, so that hehas a clear view all round. Where rough seats cannot bereadily constructed a folding stool will prove of inestimablevalue. Nothing eases the shooter during a long, tiringwait more than a comfortable seat, especially when the sur-rounding conditions do not permit of a rough one beingavailable. During cold

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